This is
perhaps the most interesting month for Hotter Potter Meme, when all the
participants—and they are all book bloggers!—will talk about… books! Because
this month’s prompt is:
“If you had a chance to visit
Flourish and Blotts, what book (only one) would you bring home?”
(Jika kamu berkesempatan mengunjungi toko buku Flourish and
Blotts, buku apa yang akan kamu bawa pulang dari sana? Pilih 1 (satu) buku
saja!)
I have
created several of my own book wishlist, both at Goodreads—for keeping a record
of those good books—as well as in online bookshops like Amazon and The Book
Depository. So, if I were a witch, and Flourish and Blotts has a wishlist feature for
us, I might create one too… :)
Now about
the book I’d like to buy from Flourish and Blotts. From all the books that you
would find in it, I think this one has intrigued me the most:
The Rise and Fall of
the Dark Arts
Here is the Introduction
to give you some nice teaser of it….. :)
“Darker times have always seemed to create
darker energies. When people aren’t happy with their lives, they can become
angry and they can become vengeful. While this does not always happen, it is
easy to see why some people would turn to darker magic in darker times. They
wanted a way out of their current religions or their lives, and so they looked
to create dark magic in order to alleviate their feelings and to make their
lives better. But the truth of dark magic is that it’s not always as evil or as
clear cut as it seems.” [source]
Interesting,
eh?
And to know more
about what this book contains, here are the chapters….
#1 - The
Argument about the Dark Arts
#2 - The
Darker Ages
#3 - The
Fall of the Dark Arts
#4 - Today’s
Dark Arts
Lately I’ve
had a new interest in history; I’ve even bought ‘The History of the Decline and
Fall of Roman Empire’ by Edward Gibbon. It’d be interesting to learn how a
once-biggest civilization in the world could fall. I think, for witches and
wizards, The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts would be as interesting as that;
and what’s more, it’s also important to learn the signs of the Dark Arts rise
and fall, so we could use it to protect ourselves. Dark Arts is an undivided
part of wizardry world anyway, thus all related to them must have an influence
to our world…. if you live in the same world as I do…the wizardry world. Or…ehmmm…is
it? Or is it muggle world? Well, wherever we are, this is definitely a
tantalizing book! *drooling*
