Unauthorized Harry Potter and the art of spying
By: Lynn Boughey, Peter Earnest
Contributors: Earnest, Peter
Publisher: Wise Ink
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9781940014142; 9781940014173
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Criticism and interpretation; Stories, plots; Handbooks, manuals; Espionage; Espionage in literature; Harry Potter (Fictitious character)
Other titles: Harry Potter and the art of spying
Description: "The Harry Potter series is more than just a story about a young wizard who saves the world from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The seven-book saga is an excellent primer on spying, intelligence, and politics. Join spy novelist Lynn Boughey and thirty-six-year CIA veteran and executive director of the International Spy Museum Peter Earnest as they review the spy craft employed and celebrated in J.K. Rowling's bestselling books. From the invisibility cloak to house passwords to Fred and George Weasley's Extendable Ears, [this] is full of spy lessons for the secret-agent-in-training in the Muggle realm. Learn how to break secret codes, gather intelligence, read character's motives, and why Severus Snape is the best double agent ever."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index of Muggle-related references.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Spy craft in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: a chapter-by-chapter review; title: The art of spying in the wizarding and Muggle worlds.