I have to say, i'm really disappointed with this. I thought that because it was advertised as being "written" by JK Rowling herself, that it would have some new facts and insights to round out the useless info that so many of us have clung to over the years.

But I put "written" in quotes, because it doesn't actually appear that there is a single bit of new writing or information in this book. It is all quotes and facts from the series.

The laziness in producing this book was particularly glaring to me in a few spots... 1) the main characters, some of their birthdays were listed as month, year or with just a year. Would it have killed her to have put something into canon here instead of leaving it empty? Similarly the pages for the sorting at hogwarts that list the students sorted in Harry's year. She couldn't fill that out with the rest of the names that some of us have been dying to know?

Last thing that stood out that made it clear that JK didn't give two heaps about this book was the drawings for each professor. They were clearly based off of descriptions in the book series. For professors with no physical description, there was no image. Especially when the focus of this book is all in the artwork, you're telling me JK couldn't go describe these people as she imagined them to the artists for inclusion?

My last complaint, there are many pages that are just hard to read, with text sideways and upside down for no apparent reason.

It is a beautiful book and a nice little collector's piece. But overall it is such a disappointment in terms of content for fans who would treasure every little additional shred of wizarding world content that JK would give us.