Fail potions and find frog cards in [POTTERMORE]

Sara Lynn

So POTTERMORE has been announced.

We've been waiting about a week for JK Rowling to announce what this special new thing was. Was it a book? Was it a book? And more importantly, was it a book?

It's not a book.

BUT, it sounds kind of cool anyway. It's super vague but what is understood that it's like an interactive walk through the story with a special character you create. He or she will get sorted, go through classes, get points, and follow Harry through the story. That is what I understand so far.

from The Guardian

Starting with the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Pottermore will allow its users to navigate their way through the story, with all-new illustrations and interactive "moments". Users start out by choosing a magical username, and as they move through the chapters of the book they will be sorted into houses – Rowling herself has written a "vast pool" of questions to direct users to their correct home – choose wands, shop on Diagon Alley and experience life at Hogwarts, just like Harry. Points can be won for houses by casting spells and mixing potions, users will be able to comment and add their own drawings and content – and Rowling herself will be dropping in "as a normal punter" now and then.

"If you are not sorted into Gryffindor, if you go into one of the other three houses, you will effectively get an extra quarter of a chapter. You will go off into your own common room, meet your own prefect, and find out what the true nature of the house is. In the main novel you only see the houses through the eyes of the heroes. So it's not a terrible thing to be in Slytherin," said the author, who admitted it was "a little frightening" how easily she slipped back into writing about Potter. "It's exactly like an ex-boyfriend ... I've never cried for a man as I cried for Harry Potter. Now we're casually dating and we have been for two years."

I am pretty excited, coming from someone who used to shamelessly roleplay on a Harry Potter MUSH.

SO HEY WHO ELSE IS GONNA DO THIS WITH ME

(submit an email isn't working for me right now, but we can find out about early entry on July 31)

Campion

When I finished reading Harry Potter I was kind of sad that I could not continue my adventure in Hogwart's, so I will probably read along with this.

godmode

Still waiting on that last movie.

Futore

The only new Harry Potter media I have wanted was started when someone here wrote up a potential movie trailer for a movie about the original Order of the Phoenix fighting Voldemort the first time around.

A well written action movie about that would be dope and I want it so bad

lostwords

I was actually late for work waiting for the site to go live at 7 am. Was expecting an mmo like wow. This seems cool, take my email address, damn you

Brolo

Hogwarts-simulator-in-all-but-name Academagia now has a demo out! And dear lord, this game is every bit as in-depth as Kieron described in his awesome impressions article. I was laughing out loud at the endlessness of character creation, not to mention some of the skills. Greengrocery? How important is greengrocery to a young wizard? Just how bad is the dining hall food? Should I put the points in gossip instead? Or a familiar? A rat? A cat? A bat?

It’s utterly bewildering. Spellbinding, even. Everything about Academagia screams labour of love, and you should almost certainly check it out for that reason alone. The demo lets you play for half an hour, which is probably only enough time for your face to begin to unscrunch itself from the balled up paper-bag expression this game will reduce it to in moments. And if you look at the official site, you’ll see the developers are adding even more adventures, items, locations, skills, abilities and actions every single month.

I think a few of you are going to fall head over heels in love with this one. Kieron actually ended his impressions by saying that it’s far too much of a specialist product to not have a demo, but now there’s a demo! So, yeah. Take a look. And here’s a four part video tutorial to ease you gently into the game’s muggy waters. You could definitely go fumbling through the game yourself (as I had some success doing (by “some” I mean I got mauled by a lion on my first day at school and caught fire the following Wednesday)), but if you’re after something more organised, these are what you want.

http://www.academagia.com/admissions.html

In the meantime we can entertain outselves with Academagia.

careboy

That is good.

TrippyJing

Eh, why not?

Ringo

Cannot wait to get into Slytherin

I'll lie to get into Slytherin

Brolo

Ringo wrote: »

Cannot wait to get into Slytherin

I'll lie to get into Slytherin

sorry

you're hufflepuff

Peccavi

anything but hufflepuff anything but hufflepuff anything but hufflepuff

HUFFLEPUFF

Dammit

Futore

whoa, Rolo. Let's not be too mean

Futore

one of my favorite things about the first movie was how the Sorting Hat would yell Hufflepuff

Peccavi

Dammit, rolo

Brolo

He wasn't much of a fighter, or particularly clever. The kind of useless side character best glossed over.

But he was a loyal hufflepuff 'friend'.

King Riptor

This is the site where Rowling is going to post little back-story tidbits right?

Because it sounds cool but in the example I read she said one of them would focus on how the Dursleys met (I assume it was at the British equivalent of a clan rally.) and frankly I don't think a single person in the workd cares how two child abusers met and fell in love due to shared bigotry.

Bedigunz

Hufflepuff seems like the fat kid that you 'just want to be friends with'

then you go off and bang a Gryffindor or Slytherin (The MBA students of Hogwarts)

Ravenclaws are the larper kids

Hunter

So it's like a Harry Potter MMO

jaziek

Bedigunz wrote: »

Hufflepuff seems like the fat kid that you 'just want to be friends with'

then you go off and bang a Gryffindor or Slytherin (The MBA students of Hogwarts)

Ravenclaws are the larper kids

You're wrong. Ravenclaw is the best house.

Brolo

Bedigunz wrote: »

Hufflepuff seems like the fat kid that you 'just want to be friends with'

then you go off and bang a Gryffindor or Slytherin (The MBA students of Hogwarts)

Ravenclaws are the larper kids

ravenclaws are the math and chem nerds

gryffindors are the jocks

slytherins are the trust fund kids

hufflepuff is the chubby girl that never got asked to prom

Hunter

Hufflepuff rides the short broom to Hogwarts to learn how to be the janitors, grounds keepers, and servants of the wizard world.

Gatsby

With every consecutive post, I realise I fit more and more into Hufflepuff.

Tam

well I'm a

oh who am I kidding I'm a Hufflepuff

Indie Winter

this is basically echo bazaar but in the Harry Potter universe

I mean, it's good, I'll definitely play it

but it's not incredibly original

Indie Winter

also I'm definitely ravenclaw

I mean

come on

Garlic Bread

you guys are forgetting that Cedric Diggory was a Hufflepuff and he was played by R Pat so obv Hufflepuff is awesome

Gatsby

Goddammit Keith you ain't helping our case!

Bedigunz

I don't know if this was obvious or anything, but I just realized that each horcrux was destroyed by different person.

Tam

I.H.N.I.W.T.R. wrote: »

also I'm definitely ravenclaw

I mean

come on

yeah the mascot maybe

Indie Winter

Luna Lovegood, people

Tam

I would like to beeeeeee

Nymphadora Tonks

Bedigunz

There are occasional cool people in the houses, but as a whole, you should push to be in Gryffindor or Slytherin. Otherwise you fall into wizarding obscurity

Brolo

http://www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_hogwarts.htm

The sorting hat says...
Ravenclaw!




76 Gryffindor

84 Ravenclaw

65 Hufflepuff

59 Slytherin


that's right bitches

Bedigunz

The sorting hat says...
Gryffindor!




76 Gryffindor

69 Ravenclaw

60 Hufflepuff

75 Slytherin


eat it. I'm exactly where I need to be in terms of success in the Wizarding World

Tam

also Ravenclaw here

Local H Jay

i once smashed a goose egg on the sidewalk, is that enough to get me into slytherin?

Tam

why the hell would you want to be in sly-
oh I probably the same reason I want to be Sith

King Riptor

Bedigunz wrote: »

I don't know if this was obvious or anything, but I just realized that each horcrux was destroyed by different person.

Harry killed the book
Ron cried the pendant to death
Neville killed the snake
Voldemort killed Harry

Who smashed the ring ,goblet and tiara. Dumbledore was preoccupied with the hallow but did he destroy the ring?

mrmr

pretty sure it was Dumbledore breaking the ring, I think Crabbe/Goyle accidentally burned the Tiara with fiendfire, and Hermione just went and "oops, found a bassilisk fang" and destroyed the goblet.

Not 100% tho.

Macro9

Will this Pottermore be free?

Macro9

Who wants to play with my snake?