The company Botnik Studios – which identifies itself on Twitter as a “Human-machine creative force” – has provided some rather interesting reading material for the holiday season, none of it written by an actual human. Instead, the text, titled Harry Potter And the Portrait Of What Looked Like A Large Pile Of Ash, was written by a computer with knowledge of all seven of J.K. Rowling’s Potter books. The result features characters like Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but is considerably more ridiculous than anything from the real novels. Here is a passage as an example: