Set Texts
Books someone was made to study, whether or not they wanted to.
7 volumes
A N.E.W.T.-level Potions textbook. The printed text is unremarkable. The previous owner's handwriting in the margins is the entire plot of the sixth novel.
A standard Hogwarts textbook classifying the magical creatures of the world, and one of the few fictional books you can order tonight and have on your desk tomorrow.
Five English children's novels of the 1930s, in which the Chatwin children holiday in a magic land called Fillory — later revealed to be a real place, and the books a cleaned-up report of how they got there.
The standard history of the wizarding world, on every Hogwarts book list, and the first place Harry ever reads about himself.
A textbook that has to be restrained with a belt, attacks anyone who opens it, and can only be calmed by stroking the spine. Flourish and Blotts keeps the stock in a cage.
A history of the game from the marshes of Queerditch to the modern professional leagues, borrowed from the Hogwarts library and never quite returned on time.
An interactive book that teaches, interrogates, and protects the girl who owns it — a Victorian primer rebuilt with nanotechnology, bound to one child's life.