A nice slim volume to keep us happy (by which I mean scared) until the next Last Apprentice Book, Clash of the Demons, comes out (Which it has! Huzzah!)
The majority of this book is made up of three short stories. The first is the eponymous Spook's Tale, the longest of the three. It tells us of an adventure John Gregory had when he left home to become a priest. Along the way he met the Spook he would eventually train with and had to face a bone-snatching boggart and a witch.
Then comes Alice's story of what happened in Attack of the Fiend, when she goes to Pendle alone.
The third tells of how and why Grimalkin became the witch assassin and also offers reasons as to why she's willing to partner in Tom Ward's quest to rid the world of the fiend.
The last bit is filler-- a run down of the major villains we've seen so far and excerpts from the previous books that illustrate their villainry.
This is a great one for fans and the reader is left with some very big (but enigmatic) clues as to what will happen next in the series!
This is a collection of fairy tales from the world of Harry Potter. These are the tales that wizarding children grow up on. A copy of this was rather important during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
They contain all sorts of morals that you usually find in such things and are illustrated by Rowling herself. It doesn't add much to the Harry Potter story, not in the same way Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them did. (If you haven't read it, you should. You'll find out that there's much more to Crookshanks than meets the eye.) But, it is still enjoyable and super-fans will probably really like it. I know I did.
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I liked Beedle the Bard's stories as well, especially the one with the witch who turned into a cackling stump; I thought it was funny.
Tales of Beedle the Bard was definitely a fun read for super-fans... which I am, apparently! :) I was a little late to the world of Harry Potter -- I started reading them all right before Deathly Hallows came out -- but it didn't take long for me to get totally obsessed!
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