I made 4 sets of these for Christmas gifts. It was fun but also a lot of work! I loaded the pictures to my gallery but I am new here and don't know how to get the pictures in this message.  I guess you can go to my gallery to see them for now.  Thanks!







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Trunk
11 ¾ wide 7 ¾ high 7 ¾ deep
Covered with brown leather with faux wood half-round trim, constructed to appear like Harry Potter’s trunk as shown in several of the movies.

The Monster Book of Monsters
7 ¾ tall 6 ½ wide 2 spine 228 pages
BINDING: Hardback of Rabbit Skin with teeth and tentacles made of Polymer Clay
CONTENTS: Magizoology, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Ministry of Magic Classification of Beasts, Hogwarts Care of Magical Creatures Class, Dictionary of Beasts

Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them
4 7/8 x 4 x 5/8 87 pages
BINDING: Hardback of Black Leather
CONTENTS: What is a Beast?, A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts, Magical Beasts in Hiding, Why Magizoology Matters, Ministry of Magic Classifications, An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts

A Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry
4 ½ x 3 11/16 x 7/8 228 pages
BINDING: Hardback with covering of silver metallic material
CONTENTS: Many chapters on various aspects of wizarding life such as government, communication, transportation and food, and a dictionary of magical objects

Advanced Potion Making
4 3/8 x 3 5/8 x ½ 91 pages
BINDING: Hardback with paper covering matching appearance of the book in the movie Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
CONTENTS: Potions at Hogwarts, Encyclopedia of Potions

Magical Theory
4 3/8 x 3 7/16 x ¾ 108 pages
BINDING: Hardback of tan deerskin
CONTENTS: Descriptions of various types of magic such as Arithmancy, Legilimency, Occlumency, Transfiguration and Divination

A History of Magic
3 ½ x 4 1/8 x 11/16 163 pages
BINDING: Hardback with paper covering with red and gold design
CONTENTS: History of the wizarding world including a timeline of magical history

The Standard Book of Spells
4 x 4 1/8 x 5/8 176 pages
BINDING: Soft cover of burgundy leather with designs in gold ink designed from the book Lucius Malfoy took from Ginny Weasley’s cauldron in the bookstore near the beginning of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
CONTENTS: Spell Definitions, Spellbooks, Charms Classes At Hogwarts, Encyclopedia of Spells

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection
3 7/8 x 3 3/16 x ¾ 99 pages
BINDING: Hardback of black leather with embossed and antiqued aluminum skull design on the cover
CONTENTS: Defence Against the Dark Arts Class at Hogwarts, The Dark Arts, Dark Magic spells, Dark Magic Objects, Dark creatures, Lord Voldemort, Death Eaters, Aurors, Dumbledore's Army, The Order of the Phoenix
The Tales of Beedle The Bard
4 1/16 x 3 ½ x 5/8 105 pages
BINDING: Hardback of brown leather with insert of paper
CONTENTS: The Wizard and The Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlock’s Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump, The Tale of the Three Brothers

Quidditch Through The Ages
4 x 3 3/8 x 7/16 92 pages
BINDING: Binding of real leather parchment in medieval ledger binding with brown leather straps and toggle closure
CONTENTS: The Evolution of the Flying Broomstick, Ancient Broom Games, The Game from Queerditch Marsh, The Arrival of the Golden Snitch, Anti-Muggle Precautions, Changes in Quidditch since the Fourteenth Century, Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland, The Spread of Quidditch Worldwide, The Development of the Racing Broom, Quidditch Today

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi
4 x 3 ½ x ¼ 50 pages
BINDING: Soft green leather cover with button closure
CONTENTS: Herbology At Hogwarts, Introduction to Herbology, Five Steps to Proper Plant Care, Equipment, Compost, Medicinal Plants, Growing Wand Wood, Wand Woods and Their Properties, Books About Herbology, Dictionary of Plants

Charm Your Own Cheese
4 ¼ x 3 ½ x ¼ 42 pages
BINDING: Soft pink leather cover with cover design in white ink and white leather tie closure
CONTENTS: Recipes (and in many cases multiple recipes) for Acid Pops, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, Butterbeer, Cauldron Cakes, Chocolate Frogs, Cockroach Clusters, Jelly Slugs, Licorice Wands, Peppermint Toads, Pumpkin Juice, Pumpkin Pasties, Rock Cakes, Spotted Dick, Ton Tongue Toffee, Toothflossing Stringmints, Treacle Fudge and Treacle Tart

I made Christmas gifts for my sons and their girlfriends of Harry's trunk and 12 books, including a Monster Book of Monsters.  







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I listened to the HP books on cassette tape while constructing the books and had more fun with this project than I've had in a long time.

Margie