Owl feathers, apple cores, and sweet wrappers littered the floor, a number of spellbooks lay higgledy-piggledy among the tangled robes on his bed, and a mess of newspapers sat in a puddle of light on his desk.
The portress tells my mother everything: my sister Silvia heard him screaming from the terrace one day, when his father had sent him headlong down stairs, because he had asked for a few soldi to buy a grammar.
Named after the 15th-century Augustinian monk and alchemist George Ripley, the Ripley Scroll reads almost like a journal and it's essentially a real-life wizard's spellbook.
Books were stacked three deep on the mantelpiece, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese, Enchantment inBaking, and One Minute Feasts - It's Magic!
" Where do you buy spellbooks? " interrupted Riddle, who had taken the heavy money bag without thanking Dumbledore, and was now examining a fat gold Galleon.