It’s been a few days—okay, fine, weeks—okay, fine, months (since December)—since I’ve visited Pottermore. Since there hasn’t been any updates since then, there hasn’t been a need. But then I notice this small, almost unnoticeable post on my news feed on Facebook from Pottermore. It was posted yesterday at 5:00 a.m. (my time–CDT). It reads…
If you follow @fictionrow on Twitter or “Like” /fictionrow on Facebook, you’ll hopefully remember that about a month ago I tweeted and posted that this website needed to remain on hiatus until April. April is here now, and I’m (tentatively) ready to come back! I don’t want to bore you with the details surrounding the…
One month it has been since I last posted anything to this website. Sure, this website has endured much longer hiatuses than this, but I can’t stay away. I miss writing too much. Granted, I did write so often in December that, at times, I felt a tad bit overwhelmed. January certainly wasn’t relaxing, though. The One Act Play that I assisted in…
Happy New Year! 2014 was an incredible year! During this year, we saw the second and third installments of Goblet of Fire on Pottermore, as well as Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince in their entirety, plus a series of Daily Prophet articles (and a new Harry Potter story) surrounding the 2014 Quidditch World Cup.…
Despite my grumblings when Pottermore doesn’t quite meet my expectations, I must say that it has been a pretty awesome past twelve days of Pottermore Christmas. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed getting up early (mostly) every morning to report on each new moment over the past twelve days. And now, we’ve come to the final day: what…
Did they think we wouldn’t notice? Did they think we would forget? Did they think we wouldn’t care? Today Pottermore released the highly anticipated article about Draco Malfoy. Actually, that sentence should say “re-released”, and did you notice that I didn’t include the word “new” before “article”? That’s right, folks, we’ve seen this article before. Way back…
Finally, after days with nothing new to report, we’ve been given a new six-paragraph article by J.K. Rowling about the zombie-like creatures that attack Dumbledore and Harry Potter in the cave at the end of Half-Blood Prince called Inferi, which is also the answer to today’s riddle (from the Pottermore Insider) below: Today’s moment is almost too…
It appears as though my theory from a few days ago is wrong. The weekend has come and still we were given a new moment without any new content from J.K. Rowling. In hindsight, it was a foolish theory, because J.K. Rowling is obviously going to release the content that she already has on the days…
One of Voldemort’s memories that Dumbledore shows Harry in the pensieve in the Half-Blood Prince book, but not in the movie, featured a very rich witch named Hepzibah Smith. The significance of this character is that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) presumably poisons her after the encounter in the memory, where she shows Tom (trying to show off) Salazar Slytherin’s…
Another day without new content from J.K. Rowling. We’re now at a point in these twelve days of Christmas where we’ve had more new moments than new articles from Jo; we were ahead in the beginning and yesterday we broke even. However, I’ve chosen to not be irritated by this today. Instead, I’ve chosen to…