J.K. “Jo” Rowling never ceases to disappoint. Adding to the series of Daily Prophet reports by Ginny Potter, giving us play-by-play analysis of every match during the Quidditch World Cup, Jo has now penned a gossip column by our favorite notorious journalist, Rita Skeeter. Her article gives us an insight into what Harry, Hermione, and Ron are doing now (in 2014—three years before the Epilogue), what they look like now (Harry is graying and Ron is balding), as well as gives an update on the lives of those who were also members of Dumbledore’s Army back when they attended Hogwarts.
Rita’s article is on the one hand funny (oftentimes hilarious), and on the other hand a commentary (and criticism) on gossip columnists in the muggle world. Spreading rumors, giving wild speculation, and at times being downright cruel. The full text can be found on Pottermore.com in the Daily Prophet section. This means that you do not need to be totally caught up with the Pottermore “moments” to be able to read this article, as you do with some of Jo’s new content on Pottermore. You can simply log in, click on “Daily Prophet” on the map, then click on the article.
If, perhaps, you don’t remember your username or password because you haven’t visited Pottermore in a while (I haven’t had that problem because I tend to check in every so often to see whether the last moments of Goblet of Fire have been released—they haven’t), you should remedy that, shouldn’t you? If can’t log in right now (or if Pottermore is down, which happened earlier today), the full text can be found on FictionRow’s brand-new tumblr. (I had a Tumblr associated with this website before, but I started to use it as a personal Tumblr and reblog things that weren’t really fandom related, so I changed the name and created a new one.) The link will always be at the right.
As I read Rita’s article for the first time, I also live-tweeted my reactions to the article on FictionRow’s twitter under the hashtag #HarryPotterIsBack. If you click that hashtag to the left, you’ll see all the tweets that I posted using that hashtag, but I forgot to use it for the first few tweets. I’ll embed them below.
As you can see from ALL THE RETWEETS, @jk_rowling gave HP fans a mighty gift today. I am going to read it NOW and live tweet my reactions. — FictionRow.com (@fictionrow) July 8, 2014
“controversial American wizarding band The Bent-Winged Snitches”? DO YOU THINK WE CAN INVITE THEM TO COME TO @LeakyCon?! PLEASE?! — FictionRow.com (@fictionrow) July 8, 2014
“Bridging Charms”? This just goes to show us that we didn’t learn EVERY spell/charm there is to learn from the books. THERE ARE OTHERS. — FictionRow.com (@fictionrow) July 8, 2014
Once again, you can read the rest of my reaction tweets right here: #HarryPotterIsBack by @fictionrow.
We should be seeing more articles from the Daily Prophet again on July 9th as Japan and the USA play for third and fourth places, and on July 11th as Brazil and Bulgaria play for first and second places. Until then!
