When I was little my mother bought for me two lore books for the Harry Potter universe

One was Quidditch Through The Ages

The other which I ironically forgotten the name of (ironic because I enjoyed it so much more) was a bestiary that talked about the creatures of the universe. Many that weren't seen in the books.

I remember there was this one creature said to be a wizard family transformed into spider like maneaters by a rival wizard family. Who ate the rivals as payback but realized there was no one left to hold a wand to change them back.

I have fond memories of these books and want to know if anyone here knows what I'm talking about and if they had copies.

Strangely I've never heard anyone speak of these lore guides.

I love the Wizarding World, I love the whimsy and good-fun nature of it all.
I remember being a kid and wanting my letter from Hogwarts, convinced myself that on my 11th birthday I'd get one. To this day I still love the Wizarding World. I almost wish it were real, that there were secret societies practicing the mystical arts, eating the most queer confectioneries and chanting the most bizarre incantations, using their powers for good or for awesome.

I will always treasure getting a taste of what it would be like to walk through the wizarding world when I went to Universal Studios, how rode through Gringotts and visited the shoppes. Oh the shoppes were so much fun. I didn't buy much of anything, just a mug of Butterbeer. I am not a rich woman, even if I was I wouldn't dare give HER a knut more than I have to.

As I type this I am watching the Sorcerer's Stone movie, but I dare not use a reputable streaming service. The VPN is on.

You see I almost wish it were real, because JK Rowling created it and she hates me. If the wizarding world were real it would hunt creatures like me. Because I am a monster, a monster that feeds off of women's rights, identity, and dignity. Things I seek to steal from women, why? Because I'm an evil trans woman of course, and that's all we do.

Of course it isn't, any sane person will tell you that we just want to live our lives in peace as women. But every day it feel like another celebrity, someone I used to look up to, calls us misogynistic mentally ill men who prey on women. Just the other day Sir Charles Barkley called us men, claimed to respect us, but called us men.

They always claim to respect us, always say they'd respect us if we kept to ourselves. That if we simply stayed out of women's spaces and "just be gay", they'll let us have some rights, not right to transition or to use the bathroom. But they'll let us wear a dress! On special occasions! In the privacy of our own homes of course! If it were in public a child might see and get ideas that gender is a spectrum, or in some way fluid.

Why must I love the world she made? When she hates me? When she views me as a monster. You'd think I sucked the estrogen out of cisblood with the way she despises people like me...

Just a week ago she claimed she respected trans people and supported our right to hormone therapy, but I knew it was a lie. I knew she was just saying that to drum up positive publicity for her show. And I was right, because when Dolly Parton died, JK Rowling cried crocodile tears for her and while doing so deadnamed a trans activist, claimed she had seen her birth certificate.

Always claiming to be the victim of the evil transes who must be kept away from women at all costs. Never allowed in spaces, groups, fandoms, or anything of women's. They claim we're the ones being unreasonable, that by not bowing to cis women as our betters we are being misogynists.

I watch my movie in secret, with headphones on, I dare not let anyone know that I enjoy anything might by that demoness. This is my second time writing this manifesto, the first time got deleted when I switched from link to discussion. I really wish I had the first version it had more of my steam, more of my passion.

The bottom line is this, JK Rowling hates me, and if the Wizarding World were real, it'd hate me too. Because JK Made it.

So Hermonie is a Muggle-Born Witch, meaning she is a witch despite coming from a No-Maj family.

When we see her, she is already a learned witch having buried her nose so far into the books that she effortlessly and immediately fixes Harry's glasses upon meeting him. She is shown buried in the art of witchcraft so much so that she sees being expelled from Hogwarts as less preferable than Death.

Given that she came from ordinary humans, how does this work?

Because, her parents didn't know magic existed until they got the letter from Hogwarts. How did they know to go to Diagon Alley to get Hermonie's wizarding supplies? How did they know how to find Diagon Alley? How did they pay for Hermonie's supplies with British Pounds, since they obviously don't have wizard money? Why did they even humor the idea of a Wizard School wanting to teach Hermonie magic instead of writing it off as a joke or scam?

How is it that Hermonie immediately started studying and completely skipped the "Holy shit, magic is real!" phase that should naturally come with all of this?

I mean Harry didn't know any of this either, but he had Hagrid helping him.

Did someone from the school take Hermonie to Diagon Alley and help her? Did they pay for her books? If there's a financial aid program, why didn't it help Ron?

I just have so many questions about what goes into getting a Muggle-Born Magic User ready for Magic School.

I've decided I wanna do that, I saw a service called Undead, but they wanted 2k. Unfortunately I am absolutely broke, so I was wondering if there's like youtube videos or a written guide or something I can use for voice training.

I tried looking into getting a voice therapist but there isn't one in my state and I'm sure my insurance wouldn't cover it anyway.

Thanks in advance.