Hello, I enjoyed creating this cake, since i got to go a little more crazy and have free range on the school books and i got to make dobby aswell, which was alot of fun! Please give credit where credit is dew if anyone wants to use my cake for ideas or inspiration please do, I enjoy the thought that my cake inspired some one to create some hing fun, but please be nice when posting on here and mention where you got the idea from. Thank you! All of the potions books were 1/4 sheets, each a different flavour, and carved and covered in fondant with airbrush detail. as you can imagine the monster book of monsters took the longest at 3 hours roughly, whist the others only took about an hour and a half. the sorting hat was about 9 inches tall, covered in brown fondant and air brshed for a more worn effect. Now my Little Dobby, the customer got a nice surprise since they thought that dobby was only going to be a few inches high sitting on one of the books, but instead i made him alot bigger and went for about 10 inches whilst in the sitting down position, there was no way i was going to have him standing up on those spindly little legs, it also wasn't i there budget any way he was made using a small oval of styrofoam for his head which i covered in fondant and then added fondant facial features, and the same for the body, this way his structures was light and easy to support. I hope this helps and makes you want to get out your cake pans and drink some butterbeer! Enjoy!