The Forbidden Forest And Its Magical Beasts
A Survival's Guide by Harry Potter
Dedicated to Padfoot, Prongs, Moony, Fred and George
The Marauders, both First and Second Generation
Introduction
Hello—well this is kind of awkward; I'm not very sure what I should say. Okay, I think I got it. My name is Harry Potter and this is a book I've written to categorize the different creatures living in the Forbidden Forest, so as to help future generations of wizards who so happened to wander in. (I'm not exactly encouraging you to. It's against school rules and all that spaz. But if you somehow find yourself in the forest from means outside your control—like perhaps you have a crazy Dark Lord chasing after you, I don't know—this book might come in handy.
So, where do I begin? It's my Eighth Year (yes I know there's no such thing as an Eighth Year—it's a long story that'll probably take seven books to tell) now and I'm using this book as some sort of procrastination tool. My friend Hermione was the one who convinced me to write this book, and I agree that it would have been very helpful if we had had it before, so here we are. But since she's the one who suggested it, she's the one who would be doing most of the research. I'm sort of just the recorder, though I do include notes I gathered from some of my own personal encounters with the creatures. She's also searching up on a spell that would magically apparate this book to the side of someone who needs it.
Yeah I know. She's a genius.
Anyway—I hope this comes in useful to you.
Harry (Just Harry, please)