Product Description

Have you got your wits about you?

JK Rowling challenged her fans to use their wits, and now her fans have responded. She's dribbled clues through her interviews, website, and of course the books. Where are the hints and how should we interpret them?

If you're tired of chewing on your quill alone, pondering the possibilities, then join 53 fans from 10 countries, as they investigate cauldronfuls of sly clues, shedding new light on the mysteries hiding within JK Rowling’s pages. Her bubbling brew of characters is becoming thick with suspects:

* What's up with Aunt Petunia?
* Is Gilderoy permanently disabled?
* Is Percy really a git?
* Where is Gran Longbottom’s allegiance?
* How does time travel work?
* Is there still something odd with Mad-Eye?
* Whose side is Snape on?

Through the magic of the Internet community, our authors have been brought together from the Mighty MuggleNet "Chamber of Secrets" and "New Clues" forums to discuss the clues and hints in the Harry Potter septology. Transfigured from Internet posters to new authors, they have written The Plot Thickens...Harry Potter Investigated by Fans for Fans, brimming with new thoughts and theories on what may be one of the best-loved literary epics of all time. Just like Wizarding World Press's Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter, this new book can be a great starting point for those fans who wish to examine the series in depth.

As the plot begins to truly thicken, these author-sleuths have conjured a collection of discussions, character analyses, and theories that will hook up your fireplace flue to the busiest Brain Room outside of the Department of Mysteries. Read fascinating scrolls that delve below the surface of over 60 topics, and peer ahead to what is yet to come. Share in the bouts of speculation. Investigate with your fellow fans as they weave together the threads of this mystery...worry with them over what tragedies still await our beloved Harry.

Wizarding World Press invites you to come, join our discussion, as from one fan to another we respond to JK Rowling's challenge by using our wits to decipher this great mystery. Here is a unique, fun book, and a unique opportunity to experience the magic.

Note: Major spoilers included! Do not read this unless you have read all five Harry Potter books. The Plot Thickens...Harry Potter Investigated by Fans for Fans is a collection of articles by international authors--it is not the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Book 5.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #344762 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 278 pages

Customer Reviews

Interesting, to say the least.
No, not the five stars it probably deserves, mainly because the essays are catalogued in such a way that the subjects get a bit repetitive and you start to thirst for a change (I actually skipped a few Snape essays because I'd read so many so far). Don't get me wrong, i can think of no other way to have catalogued the essays than by subject, this is just my feeling.

Other than that, the essay here were very well picked and it does look like they were picked for basically being thought provoking and intelligent instead of because a certain author has a phD in literacy or a degree in psycho-analysis, or something to that degree.

The main thing this book helps you to do, rather than take on someone elses view on things, is to get your own perspective on how you think things will turn out in the last two books.

Definately worth the money (plus it is quite cheap).

Fascinating read
HP fandom has put an incredible amount of work into this book. It is a collection of the best theories which can be found trawling the fan sites. I wouldn't recommend it for young readers, as some of the theories get pretty complicated. The way JKR's work has inspired so many thousands of (principally) adults readers is evident here. Well worth a read, and can be dipped into as and when you feel like it.