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J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, based many magical elements in her fictional universe on real-world mythology and folklore. She has described this derivation as "a way of giving texture to the world". [2] The magic of Harry Potter was the subject of a 2017 British Library exhibition and an
Bill Nighy as Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) Rufus Scrimgeour serves as the Minister for Magic of the United Kingdom from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince until his death in the following book, succeeding Cornelius Fudge. He is described as looking like an old lion with tawny hair and bushy ...
At the center of the university is the library known as the Biblioplex. [7] [8] This library contains both the Hall of Oracles and the Mystical Archive.This archive "is said to contain a copy of every spell ever created in the Multiverse"; [7] this provides a lore explanation for the Mystical Archive cards where "all the uncommons are reprints of Standard-legal instants and sorceries, while ...
The Marauder's Map is a magical map of Hogwarts created by Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter while they were students at the school. In Prisoner of Azkaban, Fred and George Weasley give the map to Harry so he can travel to Hogsmeade through a hidden passageway. The map is a blank piece of parchment when not in use ...
Dot Esports also commented that "mage schools are a common fantasy trope and often appear in popular fiction, from Harry Potter to the College of Winterhold in Skyrim. Strixhaven subverted these expectations by creating a world that was all Magic , with little to no references to other popular media".
The Harry Potter Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game based in the world of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. [1] Created by Wizards of the Coast in August 2001, the game was designed to compete with the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering card games.
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space is a boxed set for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.The boxed set includes three sourcebooks: the Astral Adventurer's Guide (a Spelljammer campaign setting guide), the Light of Xaryxis (an adventure module), and Boo's Astral Menagerie (a bestiary of Wildspace and Astral Sea creatures).
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.