Scholastic Harry Potter Paperback Box Set Fantasy Book Series

Missing Pages

Book 5 is missing about 30 pages (goes from 462 to 495) as well as repeating sections of the book. This is a publishing error, but a chunk of the plot is missing.

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A significant printing error

Year 5 Order of the Phoenix skips from page 366 back to 335 and repeats 30 pages and then jumps from the second page 366 to 399. This is unsatisfactory since a significant part of the story is missing.

Book 3 Printing Issue (Missing & Duplicate pages)

Book 3 has a serious printing issue. Here are the pages bound in the book, in order:

1-148

245-276

213-244

213-435

We didn't discover this until our 9 year old read it and told us there were chapters that were cut off and repeated chapter pictures. She had never read the book before and was quite confused by it all.

We purchased this book set some time ago, but would like a replacement 3rd book.

Katie

July 30, 2026

Highly recommend

Definitely worth the money for this!

Book 7 is Missing Pages

We bought this set a year ago+ for our daughter and just now realized the 7th book is missing about 30 pages. It goes from page 44 to 77 as seen in the pictures. Then from there it goes to page 108 and starts over at 77, where it continues normally to the end of the book. The other 6 books were fine, it's just kind of annoying to find a sloppy manufacturing error like this.

Calidad económica

Las portadas son muy lindas pero el libro se ve y se siente de baja calidad, parece una edición barata y hasta las hojas de sientes de una calidad inferior a lo normal, grises y débiles como hojas de diario. La resistencia del exterior es nula y tienen un olor raro, a simple vista parecen ser de papel reciclado. Por el precio esta bien supongo. Si lo quieres para leer y no quieres gastar de mas esta bien, si es para coleccionar te va a decepcionar.

Beautiful collection!

They look great, but for some reason, after leaving the first book out for some time, it will not fit back into the box

Very good books!

Perfect !

Thank you!!!!

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Happy Shopper

December 30, 2025

Reading Is Fundamental

She's a 13 yr. old reader and this set was a great buy.

Great purchase

This is perfect especially for the price I purchased it at, it is one of the Christmas gifts for my teen son!

Andrew

December 7, 2025

Great books

I was worried it might arrive wrinkled since it was shipped in a polybag, but it came super fast and in perfect condition. Would definitely buy from this seller again 🙏🏻

Pretty good!

Quality is pretty good, spines do get creases pretty easily, but other than that they are nice.Arrived very quickly.The box the books come in is very sturdy.Pretty good price for all 7 books.Love the art on the spines as well. Overall, I’d recommend this boxed set.

Increíble set de Libros

Excelente Set, los libros llegaron bien, y son de buena calidad.

Siempre quise leer las historias directamente de los libros y el momento llegó. Recomendado!

Check for Readable Pages

Be sure to check all your books. A couple of mine had some pages with light ink, but still legible. The Goblet of Fire had about 20 or so pages that were almost completely unreadable they were so light. Great set otherwise just wish they had better quality control on these.

great value was huge disappointment! book 3 chapter 8 jumps pages and then back missing 30 pages

We got these as a gift for my daughter, who is big fan of Harry Potter. she was going through the books really excited but then on the Book 3 (her favorite one), on chapter 8 it jumps from page 148 up to 245 which is chapter 12! and then when reaches 276 comes back 213 and double counting from there. Overall pages 148 to 213 completely missing 65 pages on the story.

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Slightly disappointed

I ordered these as a gift to someone for this coming week and sadly the clear wrapping arrived damaged and the book is scratched. I cannot gift these like this. Such a shame.

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brittany koster

February 26, 2024

Wonderful! Just as photographed

I bought this as a gift for my sister in laws birthday who recently was re watching all the Harry Potter films and told me she had never read even 1 book as a kid. So I got her the entire set, it is in perfect brand new condition I was a bit worried after I started to read some reviews. But my items came fine, arrived overnight at 6am this morning! Very happy with the service and the product itself is excellent. Just like when I was a kid :)

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Paperback set

Loved the spine design!! I was expecting the first spine design (the boring one from scholastic with the diamond shapes) when I bought it so when I opened the package and I saw this I was excited!! (still am) 🤩🤩 I already owned the first set of the scholastic HP books but I was too late when I noticed they got ruined because of something that was spilled near them 🫠 horrendous, so when I saw there was an special for a new set I was “cashing!” 😂 and they arrived super fast… I ordered this on the 1st of November and they arrived today (11.06.2023)!! 💃💃💃 something rare for shipments and PR 🇵🇷.

Wonderful, but MISSING PAGES

I loved reading the series and finished it really fast. But in the 6th book, on page 500, it goes back to page 117 and goes all the way up to page 148. Then it goes back to page 533. It seems that there was around 30 pages missing. I hope the seller will send a replacement to complete the story.

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Best paper back books EVER!!

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Updated* Missing pages and repeating pages

My husband got this for my birthday in December. We originally thought it was a good price because of holiday sales. We were wrong. It’s a low price because the books are not bound correctly. I got all the way to book 4 with no issues. One page into chapter 22 (page 386) and it jumps all the way back to chapter 18 (page 307). Then it doesn’t go back to normal until chapter 20 (page 338) and jumps ahead to chapter 23 (page 419). If you are wanting quality do not order these.

The new set was here within a couple of days and i went through and made sure there were no errors like my previous set. It’s all as it should be and I’m very happy!

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Would absolutely recommend (and have)

I got the paperback set and when I got it it was still in the plastic (as you can see in the photo) and everything seemed packaged very nicely. I was a little worried because there was a tiny gap between the books and the edge of the box (we don't want them sliding around). However (as per the video) you can easily slide them in and out yet they are snug enough not to move around as long as they're all in the box. The first book has a very slight bend on the corner of the back cover but otherwise they are all pretty flawless. Over all I would absolutely recommend this to friends and family, which I already have and at least 2 others are buying it

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Missing Pages in Order of the Phoenix

The book series itself is great. However, I couldn’t read the 5th book, Order of the Phoenix, because the pages are all mixed up.

430 jumps to 463. Then after page 494, it goes back to 463.

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Jess

August 22, 2022

Best 30th Birthday Gift Ever!

My husband got me the series for my 30th birthday.

The shipping was fast! 1 day! The packaging was beautiful and the books are perfect. Definitely recommend! For the price you can’t beat it!

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Who doesn't love Harry Potter!

I never got a chance to read these books as a kid and now as an adult I finally got to them. Been speed reading them and it has been great, however when I got to the sixth book, half of page 113 was missing :'( broke my heart. My theory is that when it was printed the page was cut off. Hopefully no one else ran into this

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Nice

I love it there was a lil minor damage on half blood prince but other than tht it’s great

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Makayla marr

March 17, 2022

AWESOME!!

The books look great! No damage or anything, I’m very happy with my purchase!

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One book was damaged

I'm super excited to read these books. However, book number six looked badly damaged and like it's about to fall apart. All the other books looked pretty good with a few books looking as though they survived some water spilling on them and other signs of use. I am disappointed though about book number six as now I have to purchase a separate copy.

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Brenda Cavero

May 18, 2019

Amazing Book Series

So I finally gave H.P a shot and I am just so into them now, I take them almost everywhere to read. The boxed set came perfectly packaged and all the books are perfect and no pages are missing (which is the first thing I checked when I got the books). Definetely recommend.

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Vincent Vine

December 4, 2016

An Important Part of My Childhood, Which I Still Love Over 15 Years Later

I've been a fan of Harry Potter since about the grade school, back when the only books that had been published yet were the first three, when Potter's popularity was still on the rise, when Christian fundamentalists were still catching on to the horrifying idea that a "witchcraft" story was gaining popularity with children, and grade-school teachers were similarly catching on to Harry Potter being a pretty effective tool for getting kids to develop a liking for books. Indeed, that was how I discovered them: my English teacher somewhere in the 6th-to-8th-grade portion of schooling (where my Catholic school shifted to a high-school-like classroom and teacher shuffle to prepare students for the routines public school would involve) introduced me and several other students who were showing less interest and enthusiasm in the class to the Harry Potter novels, actually lending us her own copies of the first three books to get us reading. By the time the much thicker fourth volume, Goblet of Fire, came out, I was so in love in the series that its intimidating size was far more appealing to me than intimidating, like a larger bowl of rocky road ice cream might look appealing.

In the decade-and-a-half since, I've never let go of my love of Harry Potter, even if I have gone long stretches of time without keeping an active eye on the franchise. Having checked on Audible, this series does not seem to be compatible with Whispersync for Voice no matter where you buy the eBooks as of yet, so audiobook fans who like to read the text while listening may wish to take note of that when deciding whether to buy a physical or eBook versions (this is possibly due to revisions having been made to the text for series consistency in the time since the audiobooks were recorded).

But for the uninitiated, Harry Potter is a series that follows a boy, Harry himself, across a seven-year series of adventures culminating in the return and subsequent war against Lord Voldemort, a terrible Dark wizard who wreaked horrors upon the magical and non-magical communities alike until his unexpected and inexplicable destruction when he killed Harry's parents and then attempted to kill Harry while he was still an infant. Harry, growing up with his non-magical ("Muggle") aunt and uncle, who cruelly neglect and emotionally abuse him, receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when he turns eleven, whereupon he discovers that not only is there a burgeoning community of witches and wizards living and hiding in plain sight in a seemingly-ordinary 1990s British society, but that he is famous among the magical community. They call him the "Boy Who Lived," the cause of Voldemort's disappearance and the end of his reign of terror. But as Harry enters the magical world and begins to learn about this new side of his life and the wonders of magic, he gets drawn into a series of perilous events that lead him closer and closer to his eventual destiny with each passing book, gradually revealing more of the truth behind what happened on the night Harry's parents were murdered and what led to it, among other things.

Harry Potter is a fantastic series. One might be tempted to think it's overblown or over-rated by its enthusiasts. One would, in fact, be forgiven for taking that impression almost exclusively from the movies; they're enjoyable enough in their own right, but suffer problems of less-than-amazing adaptation and fluctuations in creative vision that make the film series feel somewhat disjointed and less-thoughtful than the books they're based on, and have the added problem of the younger actors and actresses often taking a few films to develop the skills to portray their characters naturally (an occupational hazard of a fantasy epic that relies on child actors, really). The Harry Potter novels, meanwhile, provide an arguably smoother introduction and, subsequently, a more fleshed-out experience in Harry's world, with the earlier, shorter books providing a comfortable and more "episodic" early portion that's great for allowing readers to get their feet wet, becoming gradually more involved and complex until the build-up culminates with the fourth and fifth novels, where the story goes all-in on characterization and worldbuilding detail, presuming the writer to be fully invested by that point, and keeping that level of maturity and intensity right up to the ending of the final volume.

It would be remiss of me to call this series perfect, don't mistake the five-star rating for that. J.K. Rowling certainly has her weaknesses as a writer, and it could be accurately said that the novels suffer from a bit of a bloating problem that surfaced around Book Five, where Rowling clearly had more power to say "no" to her editors (incidentally, this is also the point at which the American text just gives up at hiding away a lot of the Britishisms in narration and dialogue, and I will say the books are at least better for that much). This is a clear Your Mileage May Vary kind of point. I personally enjoy the tangential worldbuilding that comes out of it, and consider it worth whatever "bloat" occurs as a result. But then, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is my favorite of the seven novels, and even for some avowed fans of Harry Potter, that book was too long and spent a little too much time on certain things. There's really no way to tell whether that will be a problem for you until you get there and either like it or don't like it. But what problems the Potter novels have are, in the grand scheme, just niggles. It all comes together in a really great way and in spite of the flaws, it's a really great series of books worthy of the classification of "epic."

But one thing that might surprise people unfamiliar with Potter is that this is not a fantasy action-adventure series. It's more of a mystery series coated in a gooey chocolate fantasy syrup. Harry Potter himself tends to fill the role of a combination Frodo Baggins figure and up-and-coming detective character, and the most important plot points are, regardless of who figures out or explains a given part of things, presented as mysteries. Action sequences occur and can be quite intense, particularly in later volumes, but this is not the story of a big, super-cool hero slaying dragons; it's a story of circumstance, figuring out the circumstance, and then reacting to the circumstance. Some readers seem annoyed by the fact that eleven-year-old Harry never matures in this series to a point where by the end of magical high school he's capable of going head-to-head in a duel with a Dark Lord with decades of extensive magical knowledge under his belt, but that is simply not the angle that this series goes for. My comparison of Harry to Frodo Baggins was not an idle-name-drop. Harry's role in this story is very deliberately that of the hero who stands strong against adversity but ultimately triumphs through low-key action behind the scenes of a conflict in which number other, more powerful or more experienced combatants command the bulk of the Dark Lord's attention. And, like Frodo (and his progenitor, Bilbo), sometimes Harry is helped by sheer circumstance, the timely and skillful intervention of one of his friends, or a combination of his own efforts plus those things. The series does give us a fairly clear picture of what an action-centric lead character in this universe might look like, and I think that's where a fair portion of reader disappointment with Harry's more subdued take on heroics comes from, but he is an eleven-year-old who eventually becomes a seventeen-year-old over the course of the story, contending with a villain who has fifty-plus-year lead on experience over him. I think I would have raised an eyebrow had Harry ever bested Voldemort in a straight-up magical fight.

As with everything, this series is something you should read for yourself if you're unsure. There's probably a copy available at your local library if you don't live in a particularly strict area with a stick up its rear about fantasy novels with magic in them. I recommend giving them a shot, and if Book One doesn't jive with you at first, sticking with it at least until the end of Book Two. This is a series that improves as it moves forward, each book adding new layers to the existing world by pacing its narrative in the same way a child might learn more and more about the real world as he or she grows into an adult, which is a large part of Harry Potter's effectiveness as a coming-of-age story. The reader, in a figurative sense, grows with Harry, as many of the original readers grew with Harry alongside the release of each subsequent book. This is as much a narrative tool as a consequence of readers aging as they read the books, because with very rare exceptions scattered through the series, the narrative is locked firmly into whatever it is that Harry Potter himself is seeing, hearing, saying, feeling, or thinking, and the reader's understanding of events and the world around him is often limited to what he knows or notices at any given time.

As for the separate editions of these books. I can't voice for the "Complete Collection" eBook specifically, since I bought the eBooks individually on Pottermore, but assuming the formatting for the Complete Collection is identical, then the digital set relevant to this review is well-put-together and smoothly formatted, just about the best way you'll ever experience Harry Potter digitally without buying the iBooks-and-iOS-exclusive Enhanced Edition eBooks available on Pottermore, which feature animated illustrations and the like. If you have an iPad or iPhone, that is the edition I recommend for digital consumption, but for standard Kindle and Android users, or people who like reading eBooks on PC, this collection and its individual-eBook versions aren't inferior to physical books in any sense other than not having a special font for chapter headings; the U.S. editions of the eBooks even contain the iconic chapter title illustrations, although not the original American cover art (the minimalist cover art of the eBooks makes for a smoother transition between colored screens and black-and-white e-readers, though).

The hardcover collection is one that I can't vouch for as a set, but having owned and read through the series in hardcover in the past, what I can vouch for is that the American hardcover editions are very nice to own. The box set for Hardcover may lack the text revision of the eBooks and more recent paperback printings, however, and while the chapter artwork and font for titles is something I prefer over the U.K. editions, it should be acknowledged that the American hardcovers are of a slightly cheaper construction than the U.K. editions, although also, paradoxically, they have a higher page count due to Scholastic's formatting choices (there are fewer words per page compared to the U.K. versions, and Order of the Phoenix has the formatting oddity of being the only book in the series with narrower margins and line-spacing, due to its much higher word count). Having researched this set, it should be acknowledged that the "trunk" is made of cardboard, so don't expect, you know, an extremely durable box or anything. It's just a stylized container for a box set.

As for the paperback box set, the purchase that prompted this review? It's fantastic. The American version with the characters riding a dragon, specifically: I'm seeing a lot of user pictures in this review second for completely different sets, and it seems there's a motley assortment of mixed sets in the marketplace listings, too. The box itself is quite sturdy and adorned with beautiful artwork by the cover illustrator, Mary GrandPré, depicting a scene from later in the series that puts me in the mind of the old R.A. Salvatore "Cleric Quintet" omnibus cover art (which features a similar scene by what I assume is coincidence). The paperback volumes themselves are of a nice quality that makes them both more durable and less stiff-feeling than some smaller, cheaper mass-market paperbacks, and they even feature raised lettering for the front cover titling, although the paper and print quality are noticeably lesser than the hardcover editions, feeling at a casual touch like the pages would be easier to damage both by bending and by splashing a few drops of a drink in the book's general direction, not up to the quality of some of the better-made paperback novels that I own. Even so, these are paperbacks that should be taken care of and kept for posterity rather than tossed about like a cheapy grocery store throwaway novel that you picked up on a whim during a food-shopping trip, though the thickness of books four through seven may make it difficult to avoid bending the spines.

Having checked certain passages in the books, I can also confirm that the paperback boxed set, bought new, should contained the revised editions of the text, as well, for as minor as those changes are to the overall experience (again, they're really just consistency tweaks).