Bloomsbury to re-release Harry Potter companion books (UPDATED)
 

It has been announced today that Bloomsbury, the British Harry Potter publishers, have plans to re-release Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages. They were originally released in 2002 and 2004 to benefit Comic Relief. A percentage of the price (£1.15 from each £4.99) from the new releases will also go to the charity, which aids those in need in Africa and the United Kingdom.

The new editions are set to be longer, with 128 pages rather than 96, indicating that there may be some new content. So far both books have sold around half a million copies each.

Source: Mugglenet

UPDATE: The books will be released on July 31st this year. Cover art can be seen here.

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The books can be pre-ordered at the following links;

Amazon.co.uk - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Amazon.co.uk - Quidditch Through the Ages

Cool :)

Oooh, I'm excited!
I'm glad they'll continue to benefit Comic Relief.

Awesome. I never got a chance to buy those...hopefully they will be released in the US, so that I can buy them. I wonder if JKR just wrote the new content? I really hope so. :D

Hm, yay, I guess. I'm curious as to what the new content is, but I've a feeling it might just be drawings. So long that bits of the profit are going to charity, I guess it'll work out.

Oh yay!
I had the Quidditch one when it first came out....but I've lost it. :blush:
Now I can replace it with a new one and extra content!

Hm, I already have the books.. If they are longer, I want the new ones.. But if they are for charity again, I won't mind much, I guess.. :/

Thats cool, I'll definitely be buying those books because by the time I started reading the Harry Potter books these books were already off the market and I read Quiddich one at my my highschool library and really liked it and always wanted to read Fantatic Beasts and where to find them, this is my chance and believe me I am taking it and it makes it even sweeter that part of the money I pay for these books shall go to charity.

Oh, cool!

I already have my copy, but if they have more stuff I'm getting them.

OMG! i think i am becoming quite the prophetess! just last night i had a dream that these two would be re-released. (the photo of them on the last page of my copy of GoF may have triggered it but i still dreamt it.) b

I know what my mum is getting me for a late birthday/early crimbo gift (depending on when they are published)

I am also pleased with the percentage going to Comic Relief - alot of other charitable products have a much smaller percentage!

Oooh new material! Hope it's worth buying because I already own both books but it's for charity so I'll probably buy ;)

I think Amazon says they are going to be released at July 31.

And btw, I thought you could still get old editions? I think I got mine only a year ago..

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Maybe this time I can actually buy them >_<

I wish, they will release through here in Southeast Asia.

I want the new copies! I happened to loose my Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them book. :lol:

cool i might have to get that

sooo....new content, huh? We will see....!

Read them at the school library but don't own them :(

I so wish they were released here in the US.. That\'d be amazinggg : O

OMG! I lost mine ages ago but I really hope they come out here in the US as well, just think, it also happens to be our favorite author\'s birthday!!!!

I hope they come out in the US too. I didn\'t get to read these.

I sort of like the Scholastic edition better.

But it\'s great these books get re-released.

I have the originals :D !
They are so awesome: funny and resourceful !!!

What?!
No!
Why do they keep changing everything! What\'s wrong with the originals?
Can\'t you people just leave things the way they were? They perfect that way...
This is making me depressed!

Well, at least I was able to get the originals before they decided to change everything!

Okay, well I guess I\'ll see if i can buy them if they gonna be longer and have more in them...but why can\'t you just do a preprise? Not and entire new cover...

Yes, I\'ve Got The Originals. I\'d Be Interested In Reading The Newer Versions.