Two days. Two long days we went without new content from J.K. Rowling. In all fairness, though, we were given five articles in three days, so I suppose two days without new articles were meant to follow. However, today, on day six of Pottermore’s “Twelve Days of Christmas” campaign, we are given the sixth moment from Half-Blood…
And you thought yesterday’s moment was lackluster. Not only does today’s moment not have any new content from J.K. Rowling, it also doesn’t have anything to collect. Double-click to zoom in and hover your mouse over the box in Riddle’s hands. That’s it. You’re done. However, if you looked at the Pottermore Insider first, which…
It looks like I’m wrong yet again! Yesterday I posted that, because we were granted new content three days in a row, I thought that maybe this would be a recurring theme—that we would receive new content every day of the 12 Days of Christmas. Perhaps I spoke too soon and jinxed it? (Do jinxes work that…
In 2011, after years of reading the Harry Potter books and watching the movies, years of visiting “fansites” like The Leaky Cauldron and listening to their podcast, PotterCast, years of writing for a fan website of my own, I decided to attend a then relatively new convention called LeakyCon in Orlando, Florida. Only knowing a…
A few days after Pottermore announced its “12 Days of Christmas” campaign, I came across an article within “muggle media” (which is a term that I’ve started using lately to refer to “non-fandom” media—websites that aren’t solely focused on a few fictional fandoms, like this one is) sharing that announcement. The article was probably touting…
Pottermore’s 12 Days of Christmas Gifts continues with more new content about potions and cauldrons from J.K. Rowling! It would seem that I was wrong in my original guess that the gifts on each of these twelve days wouldn’t always include new content from J.K. Rowling, but rather new content one day and other collectibles the next. It’s a good…
A little over a year ago, I called Google’s Middle-Earth Map experiment “mundane“. But now, that is no longer the case. What started as a portion of Middle-Earth featuring three, then six, semi-explorable locations from The Hobbit storyline (except for The Trollshaws and Rivendell, nothing from The Lord of the Rings) has expanded significantly into a full…
Three hours and twenty minutes ago, another new moment from Half-Blood Prince found its way onto Pottermore. In order to access it, like yesterday’s moment, you need to solve a riddle. Today, the riddle is as easy as yesterday’s, and the password is even easier. Here’s the riddle: It’s obviously Diagon Alley, and entering those two words…
It is currently 7:30 in the morning, United States Central Time. The first moment from Half-Blood Prince (from chapter two, it is called “Spinner’s End, Cokeworth”) was just released half an hour ago. In order to view it, however, you need to solve the riddle and enter the password. Here is the riddle, in picture form,…
Never have I been more disappointed at news regarding new content on Pottermore. Read on, and you’ll see why. Misleading Muggle Media gets it wrong yet again Once again, the “muggle news media” is going on and on about “new Harry Potter stories”, and this time, the headlines are even more misleading than they have been…