From the Wizarding Archive

Curated Writing from the World of Harry Potter

By: J.K. Rowling, Evanna Lynch - foreword

Narrated by: Evanna Lynch, Hugh Quarshie, Finlay Robertson, Lara Sawalha

Winner, 2024 Good Housekeeping Kids’ Book Award

If you’ve ever wondered why Squibs are never offered a place at Hogwarts, what happened when Vernon Dursley first met James Potter, or how Dumbledore and McGonagall formed their lifelong friendship, From the Wizarding Archive should go straight to the top of your wish list. Containing 80 articles written by J.K. Rowling for the original Pottermore website and available for the first time in audio, exclusively from Audible, Harry Potter fans everywhere are in for a treat.

If there’s one thing Harry Potter fans have in common (apart from impeccably good taste), it’s questions… so many questions. From the simple details that perplex us all – was Professor Umbridge always that awful? Why don’t wizards just use phones? – to the personal details that bring us closer to J.K. Rowling’s writing process – from her least favourite school subject and its impact on Professor Snape’s career, to the personal significance of King’s Cross and why it’s always where the Hogwarts Express departs – this is a veritable treasure trove of answers.

Narrated by Evanna Lynch, Hugh Quarshie, Finlay Robertson and Lara Sawalha, and with an exclusive foreword by Evanna Lynch, this spellbinding audiobook is essential listening for any Harry Potter aficionado.

The articles in From the Wizarding Archive were originally written by J.K. Rowling for pottermore.com and remain free to read in English on wizardingworld.com. 35 of the 80 articles were originally published across three Pottermore Presents eBooks. This is the first time any of the content has been available in audio format.

Theme music composed by Sara Carvalho.

Available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.

©and ℗ 2024 Pottermore Limited. All Rights Reserved. First published on Pottermore.com between 2012 and 2016.

Simply Magical

What a brilliant experience! This beautiful audiobook is a collection of articles, stories, back stories, lore and extra information about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Highly recommend

Engaging and Interesting

Another layer to add dimension and complexity to the wonderful fantasy world of Harry Potter!!

Great Info... but way to many extra noises!

The four narrators did a fine job with this piece. I understand, this being from the World of Harry Potter, that there must be a large library of sounds to pull from to make things atmospheric. Please TURN THEM DOWN. I listen to audio books on my commute and I would have my car stereo all the way up and still have trouble understanding thr narrator at time! This is no fault of the narrators, because they all were easily understood otherwise!

At long last!

I loved this, at long, long last, so many unanswered questions about things in the Harry Potter books, have been answered, concerning back stories, characters and plot lines and a little more. if you are in fact a diehard HP fan, this book won't disappoint. I'll admit, I skipped over the chapter about wand making and I may go back and go over it eventually, but, it just didn't hold my interest like other things in the book, but, that of course was just me. Over all, it was spelltacular and the narrators top notch. I loved especially listening to Evanna Lynch read she also read her own book and I enjoyed that as well. I personally think, she should consider audio book narration as a job lol. and the other readers, were fantastic as well. For once in a long while, I feel like I did not waste my money on a book. I have thrown away about 8 credits on books that turned out to be duds lately and I wish so much I had those credits back and those books, removed from my library.

wish it was a bit longer, but still good

Not as much new information and in between the scenes snippets as I had hoped but very enjoyable and really loved that it was read in part by Luna. She has a voice full of joy and wonder. maybe we will get more later?

Great Information

I loved all the details and explanations provided in this book. The readers were perfect for this story.

Great content! Obnoxious sound effects.

I really enjoyed the content of this book. As a HP fan, the additional context for characters and locations really added to the broader story. However, the various sound effects and often inappropriate times was distracting and annoying. Quite a few times, I couldn’t hear the narrator clearly due to some random sound that only vaguely fit with the current topic. PLEASE get rid of the sound effects! The Boole would be great without them!

Everything you wanted

I love every word. I love the World of Harry Potter. I’d read more anytime Jo wnts to entice us

Great Rowling stuff, horrible introductions

A must have for Harry Potter Fans. Rowling's articles are fantastic and a must have for fans.

The introductions are entirely different, If you only saw the movies, read the books only once, read them a long time ago or love going down memory lane, the intros are fine. If you've read the books many times, the intros are ANNOYING! the intros are either a rehash of the books regards the content of the article or asking questions that the article answers (why bother?) The rehash intros are like "When Draco first met Harry, he tried to be Harry's friend but quickly found it wasn't going to happen."

To put it simply, the intros are useless fillers that have no purpose other than to get the length of the book to be longer, which is unnecessary. The Rowling material is fantastic and I'd happily buy a Rowling only version with none of the intros.

Lots of great information

I love the list of ministers of magic through the years and other bits of great information not mentioned in most of the storylines. However, there are a few spots that are thin or they don’t go fully into and others are just left blank like who made the chamber secrets is mentioned, but the room of requirement isn’t. Although overall, it’s a nice addition. I just wish it had more of the facts on other missing bits that even this connected bits of information seem to point at but largely skip over for some reason.