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![]() One thing we can be sure of is that there will be fewer ordinary beasts each year, as the relentless march of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation continues. From the poster animals of the conservation movement, polar bears, whales and pandas, to the considerably less attractive candidates in the world’s ugliest animals competition, life on Earth is struggling. I hesitate to call them ordinary as the real world is always more fantastic than the fantastical. However, outside this fictional universe of witchcraft and wizardry, ordinary beasts are struggling, and becoming increasingly hard to find. We hope that at some point Rowling will return to her original series to produce a director’s cut, under less pressure, and maybe even add to the series, through other Potter-universe stories. So we hope that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a success. Meanwhile Rowling deployed page-turning storytelling at its finest and a Dickensian gift for naming characters, despite all the background noise. That the Harry Potter series was such a triumph, while being written under aggressive and intrusive media scrutiny, intense fan speculation and commercial pressure, is truly remarkable. Many will try and emulate Rowling’s success and fail, and only few will succeed. An awful lot of what’s out there is just awful. Many authors try and write a children’s book, and find it much harder than they think. And there is no such thing as ‘just’ children’s writing.
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