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.…
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…
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…
Decisions, decisions, decisions. When Telltale’s Game of Thrones video game was first announced, I thought, “Do I want to preorder it on Steam on my computer and download it to play it on the day that it’s released? Or should I wait a week and get download it on my PlayStation 3 (since there was a week delay…
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…
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…
Really? Honestly? Seriously? I was already pretty emotional just with the anticipation for The Battle of the Five Armies, then the release of the audio track for this song happened, and then Billy Boyd had to go and make a music video? Do you get that I am running out of metaphors to describe the exaggerated flow…
Dolores Jane Umbridge. Thestrals. Sybill Trelawney. Azkaban. The Ministers for Magic. We learned more about these characters, places, creatures and more in the latest release on Pottermore today. Other online news sources have been hyping the Professor Umbridge backstory in particular, probably because her character is the most fitting for Halloween. Why the words “new Harry…
About a month ago, J.K. (“Jo”) Rowling revealed her patronus on Twitter. It’s not a phoenix as many might have suspected. Instead, she told the world that her patronus is… a pine marten. .@acciowandspells It’s a pine marten. — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 10, 2014 Jo has also revealed in a previous interview that she…