Groosham Grange

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Para empezar, la escuela parece el castillo de Frankenstein y se encuentra en una isla llamada "Isla Cadavera", todos los alumnos son taciturnos y extraños, y además todos usan un raro anillo negro.

A school of magic. The main character is friends with a female student and male student. The school has strange teachers that teach the students many forms of magic. Does this sounds like any series you might know? No, I am not talking about the Harry Potter books that we all know an love. I am talking about the Groosham Grange books. These two books were originally published in England in 1988, way before J.K. Rowling created the character Harry Potter. There are an awful lot of similarities, so it makes me wonder if J.K. Rowling read these books and came up with the idea for her series. Hmmm . . . I wonder . . . Rowling has also cited the work of Christian essayist and mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers as an influence on her work, saying "There's a theory – this applies to detective novels, and then Harry, which is not Monroe, Caroline. "How Much Was Rowling Inspired by Tolkien?". GreenBooks. TheOneRing.net . Retrieved 21 May 2006.On the train he meets two other new students, Jill Green and Jeffrey Joseph. Along with Jill (seventh daughter of a seventh daughter) and Jeffrey, David anticipates more mistreatment, and makes a pact with them that they will escape at any cost. After they arrive, they start to learn strange things, are baffled by inexplicable disappearances, very peculiar teachers (including a werewolf and a ghost), assorted frights — and an absence of punishments. I loved the plotline, twists and how everything became clear in the end even when you'd forgotten certain details The Leaky Cauldron and MN Interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling". The Leaky Cauldron. 28 July 2007 . Retrieved 8 February 2022. I decided to read this because i thought it would be a good book that would fit into a hard category. Tere Stouffer (2007). The Complete Idiot's Guide to the World of Harry Potter. Alpha Books. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-59257-599-2.

The quotation on Dumbledore's family tomb, "Where your treasure is, your heart will be also", is from Matthew 6:21, and refers to knowing which things in life are of true value. [6] They're very British books", Rowling revealed to an Open Book conference in October 2007, "So on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones, [but] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric's Hollow, they (…) almost epitomize the whole series." [7] Aeschylus and William Penn [ edit ] PDF / EPUB File Name: Groosham_Grange_-_Anthony_Horowitz.pdf, Groosham_Grange_-_Anthony_Horowitz.epubReturn to Groosham Grange serves as a direct sequel to Groosham Grange and mainly revolves around a plot concerning a secret agent of the Bishop of Bletchley trying to destroy Groosham Grange once and for all. A second sequel was planned, but Horowitz changed his mind after the success of the Harry Potter series. [2] Plot [ edit ]