The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works (original 2002; edition 2003)

by Roger Highfield

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A look at the scientific principles underpinning the magic of Harry Potter reveals some of the true magic behind science.

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Title:	The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works
Authors:	Roger Highfield
Info:	Penguin Books (2003), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 368 pages
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ayeshalis25 | Aug 8, 2023 |

“Animated by Highfield's enthusiasm for the extraordinary, The Science of Harry Potter is an enjoyably indirect survey of modern science.”

fatimatehreem288 | Sep 8, 2022 |

This book starts off slowly talking a lot of science and mathematics and you wonder, is this what it's going to be like throughout. But wait. It does get better. The writer eventually discusses the unique animals in Harry's world (

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sumaira4 | Sep 8, 2022 |

about the story line of harry potter (

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sharyarlis | Sep 7, 2022 |

Who doesn't like Harry Potter? I suppose there must be some such person, but it is hard to criticize a book series that has youngsters eager to gobble up 700 pages, even if they were not as creative and entertaining as they are. If you have read some or all of the books, I'm sure that you noticed all the science they contain. No? Me neither. These are not science books - in fact, they are about as nonscientific as you can get. Yet Roger Highfield claims to have written his own 300 plus pages on the subject. Mr. Highfield is trying (successfully, I might add - I contributed my own fourteen bucks) to cash in on Pottermania. The relationship between his book and the original is extremely tenuous, and I found his excursions to be interesting but not very relevant to his promise to tell "how magic really works". The magic of Harry Potter does not require scientific explanation. (

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To the three witches who enchant me: Julia, Holly and Doris

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I love the Harry Potter books, but maybe not for all the same reasons that you do.

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If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie had not lived, we would still have discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. But if J.K. Rowling had not been born, we would never have known about Harry Potter. That is why Master Potter means so much to me. Science may be special but Harry, as a work of art, is more so. Harry Potter is unique.

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