Famous author Cornelius Agrippa is born• Event
Agrippa becomes an author who writes about witches and other arcane subjects. He would be “imprisoned by Muggles for his writing, because they thought his books were evil” (FW). Read MoreFamous spell book writer Miranda Goshawk is born• EventFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
•
Books and Literature
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander was a standard reference work devoted to the amazing variety of magical creatures of the world. The book was originally commissioned in 1918 and published in 1927 by Obscurus Books, and has been updated constantly ever since. Read MoreFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is commissioned• Event
Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books commissions the young Newt Scamander to write a guide of magical beasts. The result is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, first published in 1927, a book which has been an approved Hogwarts textbook ever since and gone into 52 editions. Scamander takes at the opportunity… Read MoreFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film screenplay published• Event
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay was published on the same day as the release of the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – 18 November 2016 (WFT). Read MoreFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is first published• Event
Eight years after the book was commissioned and Newt Scamander started travelling the world in search of magical creatures, Obscurus Books publishes the guide. Fifty-two editions of the book have now been published as of the late 1990s, and it has been an approved textbook at Hogwarts since its original… Read MoreFFF: The Fountain of Fair Fortune• Source
“The Fountain of Fair Fortune” is a wizarding world fairy tale, part of the collection Tales of Beedle the Bard. In the story, three witches and a hapless knight are on a quest to find the Fountain of Fair Fortune in its enchanted garden. Once a year, one unfortunate… Read MoreFifi LaFolle• Character
Fif LaFolle was the author of the Enchanted Encounters romance series (WoM). Read MoreFifteenth Century Fiends
•
Books and Literature
Fifteenth Century Fiends is a Dark Magic book (CC1.19). Read MoreFinbar Quigley• Character
Finbar Quigley is the Captain of the Ballycastle Bats quidditch team and plays in the position of Beater (DP1, DP2). If eligible to play for Ireland, he is possibly the same person as the Quigley who a member of the Irish National Team that won the 1994 Quidditch… Read MoreOrtiz O'Flaherty• Character
Ortiz O’Flaherty was an American and the author of Bigfoot’s Last Stand, a book about the Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892 (Pm). Read MoreHedley Fleetwood• Character
Hedley Fleetwood was a wizard whose Patronus took the form of a wooly mammoth. This was notable to Miranda Goshawk, who references him in the Book of Spells, because extinct Patronuses are exceptionally rare. (BoS)… Read MoreFlesh-Eating Trees of the World
•
Books and Literature
Guide to magical (and dangerous) trees. Read MoreHe Flew Like a Madman
•
Books and Literature
He Flew Like a Madman is a biography of the Quidditch player “Dangerous” Dai Llewellyn, written by Quidditch Through the Ages author Kennilworthy Whisp (QA). Read MoreFlourish and Blotts
•
Businesses, merchants, and shops
Flourish and Blotts is a large wizarding bookshop in Diagon Alley. Flourish and Blotts is located “about halfway down Diagon Alley on the left hand side” (JKR/Twitter 8/9/15). Filled with shelves stacked to the ceiling, Flourish and Blotts is the primary – and perhaps only – supplier of textbooks for schoolbooks for Hogwarts (… Read MoreFlying With the Cannons
•
Books and Literature
Flying With the Cannons is a book of interesting facts devoted to the Chudley Cannons Quidditch team, given to Harry by Ron as a Christmas present during their second year (CS12). The book is illustrated with moving photos (GF2, GF22). Read MoreThe fourth, and final, Daily Prophet newsletter is published by Jo Rowling• Event
The last of four Daily Prophet newsletters (DP4) was published on 1 October 1999 for members of the official Harry Potter Fan Club (run by Bloomsbury Books in the UK). Read MoreFowl or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality
•
Books and Literature
The book Fowl or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality was an historical survey of incidents involving hippogriffs. Read MoreFundamental Laws of Magic
•
Books and Literature
The “Fundamental Laws of Magic” are mentioned by Albus Dumbledore in his notes on the story “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart” (WHH), which is one of the Tales of Beedle the Bard (TBB). He credits these laws to the magical theoretician Adalbert Waffling. Read More