JKRowling Announces... POTTERMORE

[jfrcoates]

http://www.youtube.com/JKRowlingAnnounces

Gosh! I wonder what this is going to be about!

[seyla]

SO MANY OWLS.



http://www.pottermore.com/

[ArcT]

Everyone is fond of owls.

[CMR]

Enough is enough. 7 books, 8 films. No more please.

[jfrcoates]

10 books if you count the supplementary works* JK wrote and released, and for some reason, no one ever does seem to count Aberforth... I mean the supplementary works.

Current speculation would indicate a Harry Potter encyclopedia.



* Tales of Beedle the Bard, Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

[ArcT]

If anything, that proves CMR's point even better

[Neptune]

So uh, Pottermore is online reading HP with extra content with fans.

So it's not more books.

[missy]

From what I"ve read its actually a RP type thing with additional content. May be a forum community as well not sure at this point but there will be more relaesed on July 31.

[jfrcoates]

And fanfiction I'd imagine.

They'll probably need a lot of moderators to prune the Harry/Draco stories back.

[sorenowlsean]

Everyone is fond of owls.

(Except for mice and shrews)


Also, I am excited to see what this pans out to be, if only for the extra information she has been "hoarding away"

[redbaron12190]

Beta testing begins July 31 and they're letting the first million visitors register early! Hurray!

[Lyrael]

I registered when the news come out...She said that she will provide infos and pieces of writing such as deleted chapters, starting from the first book and then coming to the others.

I suppose they will be mostly stuff all Potter fans already know but it's always nice to hear from the author. Anyway, if only there will be a line about Sirius, it would be worthy of it!^^
*the Sirius lover can't wait for that, crossing fingers*

[seyla]

Those who can find the magic quill get early access! StarBat101 is my username!

[CMR]

[thewolfstar]

I think I'll wait 'til october for pottermore, not in a hurry.

[Neptune]

Mine's ErisedShadow127. WooooowoooOOooOo.

[ArG]

I'm so excited about this! I have some friends from cross country that got in early bird so they already have an active accout! sooo jealous!

[thewolfstar]

I know it's been months but...

OMG Pottermore is now OPEN! *ultimate fangirl squel*

Just got to wait for my validation email now....

[Rachel]

I'm in, but... I dunno, I don't really care about the whole 'experience' thing, I'd be happy with just a website with all the extra stuff that JKR has written about the series.

[dannyyyy]

I got my pottermore email months ago, played it for a bit, then got bored.

It was nowhere near as great as I'd hoped.

[seyla]

I agree. I was so excited to get in but once I was sorted (Ravenclaw!), there was nothing interesting to do - no motivation to keep signing in. They need to release the other books' 'secrets' and should have included some sort of quidditch activity.

[Neptune]

Agreed. I was sorted into Slytherin though (WTF?)

[Rachel]

Hufflepuff

[missy]

I played it for about a month finished the first book and haven't been back. Kind of boring without much to do. I sucked at potions. Hoping MyHogwarts opens soon!

[thewolfstar]

Got into Hufflepuff (at least that would've been my 2nd preference). Yes I admit there's not much to do now but I loved those two hardcore days I spent on it, especially Rowling's new info! Duelling's a good way to waste a few minutes when you're bored and I like the challenge of potions (even if it's annoyingly so) but I really think we need another way to earn galleons - it makes me relucant to buy ingredients to practise and get fully used to potions. And yes something like Quidditch is needed, and being able to chat with your friends would be better.

I heard the next book would be in some time this year so hopefully more stuff will pop up soon!