Magic in North America

What is interesting to me about this book is that, to me, it can exist in the fictional Wizard World and essays in our own world. These are essays written by JK Rowling to give us some information about the country's history to connect and prepare us for the films. This is where it gets a bit of a blur in the context of fictional and reality.The films can be seen as "Documents" as this is how Newt refers to them (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2017 version) and that more animals would be revealed the more these documents are publicly shown.

The fact the films are documents with the essays to prepare us for them, I think that "Magic in North America" is in fact a book that exists in the fictional world. JK herself said that she does exist in some manor in her world as well and, I think, she wrote the in-universe take on the Harry Potter books we read (which would also be authored by Rita Skeeter). With this furthermore showing JK Rowling (as a character) wrote a book called Magic in North America and we got simply excerpts from it.

"The History of" is simply the narrative's documentation view on the book like "Get ready to know the history of magic in North America" and simply that.

So in some ways it is, presumably a textbook as well in Ilvermorny.

• Magic In America

What was the point of J.K. writing those text/articles prior to the first Fantastic Beasts movies? I mean, I liked getting all that information, but what was it for? Nothing of that was used/mentioned in the movie aside from Rappaport's Law.

• Isolt's story and how she found it Ilvermorny, why? We don't get on mention of her in the movie and the one scene where they mentioned the school in the movie was cut.

• Wizarding Schools

What was the point of her revealing those wizarding schools before the first Fantastic Beasts movie? She only gave us shallow information about them, even with Ilvermorny we only got the origin story. I know there was a theory that the schools were hints about where which Fantastic Beasts movie would take place, but that when out of the window because the third movie was supposed to take place partly in Brazil but now apparently is in China.

As nice as it was to find out more about the wizarding world outside of the U.K. those articles were shallow in knowledge, useless, and set in the past. I would much rather she had wrote set in the present time at the very least.