Alejandro's Reviews > The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook: A Complete Reference Guide to Every Spell in the Wizarding World

This charming book will put a spell on you!


WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA

This is one of the best reference books about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter that you can get nowadays in the market!

It's a comprehensive guide to ALL the spells (well, maybe not all, all, but having moren than 240 spells, I can tell you that it's the closest thing that you'll ever find around) used in ALL media about Harry Potter, not only novels (the core seven books along with the theater's adaptation of The Cursed Child) or movies (even there is a spell from a deleted scene from Deathly Hallows, Part 1), but also the video games (regular ones and LEGO versions), the trading card game and even tie-in official books (like Quidditch through the Ages) and JK Rowling's website...

...and the best is that it's updated to date (it was published around middle 2019), therefore including even The Crimes of Grindelwald film...

...so, it's easily the most updated Harry Potter reference book around nowadays (March 2020).


SECTUMSEMPRA

The book is in gorgeous hardcover, fine paper and using an additional purple ink to avoid being merely in black-and-white. Since it's an "unofficial" book, you won't find any picture but besides that, I can assure that the book has a charming (pun intended) presentation.

The book is so complete that you'll find along with the spells, also you'll find a guide to the different kind of woods and cores' materials used for wands.

The spells are in alphabetical order, but divided in three major sections: Spells (including
counter-spells, healing spells, transfigurations, conjurations), Charms, and Curses, Hexes & Jinxes, but also a further section for Enchanted Objects.

You'll have a detailed explanation of each spell, including for what it's used, if required a pronunciation (along with a translation, since many are in Latin), or indicating that it's a non-verbal one, along with a visual graphic showing if it's required certain movement of hand using the wand. Moreover, indicating a "Magic Moment" (a moment when the said spell was used in a book, movie, video game, etc...), and going beyond with notes revealing even more context information about each spell, and even "hand-written" notes (very much like in the way of Half-Blood Prince).

Also, while it's alphabetical (per section), inside of Enchanted Objects, if some objects share a common topic (like The Deathly Hallows or the sports implements for Quidditch), those said objects are found in an easy to grasp entry.

So...

...if you didn't get your invitation letter for a Magical School or you don't want to wait seven years to learn all the spells...

...this book is a "must-have" one for any Harry Potter fan!

You'll be enchanted for it!