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07-16-2011, 06:22 AM
| | New detailed Pottermore Hogwarts Sorting, usernames, registration, wand info released
Brand-new details on Pottermore were released today at a panel discussion at a Harry Potter fan convention in Florida. Amongst the new information were: that members who join will be given an option of usernames to choose from - they can not create their own; they will be given an alloted number of Galleons with which to purchase items, including a wand from Ollivander's (of which there are 33,000 wand combinations); the fact that fanfiction will not be allowed on the site; and how the design of the seven Harry Potter-book layout will be like. More information on that can be read below. This project was started over 2 years ago and was created to give back to the readers of Harry Potter. It is the “Same story. With one addition. You.” POTTERMORE’s main initiative is to bring to life the most special moments of the series and give the reader a completely unique and new experience as they read in tandem with the site. Rowling has also written and is still writing thousands of words of new content in relation to the history of the characters, the world, and everything in between to be discovered as you read the books. Much of this new and scrumptious information is just bits that were left out of the books and have been sitting, gathering dust in Jo’s old HP notes.
It all starts with your registration. You fill out some information to begin, and the next page will tell you if you are indeed magical. It will then let you choose from 5 different usernames. They don’t allow you to make up your own username for child safety reasons. You then get sorted into your house by some dirty old hat. There is a large pool of questions that Rowling, herself, wrote, that will determine your house. Once you are sorted into either Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin, you will get a good page or two of brand new information about the history of your house.
Your homepage branches out into the seven books and includes décor befitting of your house. When you begin a book, it shows each chapter as a dot on that branch. While you are reading the book, there are interactive illustrations and animations that go along with the story. Each illustration was painstakingly designed directly from the books with every detail ever mentioned in them. They then had to be approved by Rowling and touched up until they were just how she had imagined them.
As you read, you “discover” new content. We got a sneak-peek at the history of Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. The page that we saw explained how they were named, and also how they met and fell in love, etc. We also saw a bit of background on Professor McGonagall, which involved a somewhat tragic childhood and a Muggle…
Going through the books in this way, you can also turn on lights, collect items and objects, and you also have money. You have a virtual bank account in Gringotts. You need this money because you will need to buy all of your schoolbooks and supplies from Diagon Alley. You can buy your own pet to take to school, but the first thing to get is of course, your wand. In Ollivander’s, you will be chosen by one of a possible 33,000 different wand combinations, after all, “the wand chooses the wizard.”
You then arrive at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry. In your menu you will find your Favorites, Friends, Illustrations, Spells, Potions and Trunk. Your house commonroom is a sort of chat room, and also has your points for wizard dueling among a few other things. The Great Hall is nearly the same as the commonrooms, but it also includes all of the house points and updates from everyone.
There will be no fan-fiction on this site.
“It is not an encyclopedia, although much of the content is encyclopedic in nature.” It will be launched in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, with Japanese soon to come. It will begin a beta phase on July 31st to a lucky one million, and the official launch will be in October. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will be the only book available in October, with Chamber of Secrets to come early 2012. You can enter your email on www.pottermore.com to receive updates and learn how to qualify for beta testing.
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07-16-2011, 06:31 AM
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| Hinkypunk
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: At the close.
Posts: 12,424
Graduated Diagon Alley Employee:
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| Lady Lem|DJ Melfoy|Braedeus ♥ Stumble|Bebé Melón|B2|Andee & Melsse|Melephone My friend tweeted about this earlier when she was at the panel at LeakyCon! I AM PSYCHED.
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07-16-2011, 06:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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this is gonna be awesome !!!
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07-16-2011, 06:42 AM
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| Wizarding World RPG Admin Minister for Magic
DoM & MO
Alley Proprietor Romanian Longhorn
Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Paths
Posts: 39,343
Hogwarts RPG Name: Anna Walles Hufflepuff Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Sage Ransom-Kruus Slytherin Sixth Year Ministry RPG Name:
Charles Hollingberry Minister's Office Ministry RPG Name:
Airey Flamsteed Mysteries Diagon Alley Employee:
Zachaël Lufkin Owl Post x12 x12
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Wow, now this sounds like something fantastic. I was a little let down when I first heard the announcement, but now I am looking forward to the site's launch
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07-16-2011, 06:44 AM
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| Billywig
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: America
Posts: 3,404
Hogwarts RPG Name: Willow Essence Evergreen Fifth Year Ministry RPG Name:
Dimitri Vladameer International Cooperation |
So. Freaking. Excited.
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07-16-2011, 06:44 AM
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| Fire Slug
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: HOME
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just saw harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2! it epic
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07-16-2011, 06:51 AM
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| Plimpy
Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The TARDIS
Posts: 15,339
Hogwarts RPG Name: Cassidy Euston x1
| don't blink | you will be upgraded | silence will fall | exterminate
Sounds so awesome! A bit confused at why fanfiction was mentioned at all, and confused with a few other things, but I'm still uber excited!
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07-16-2011, 07:11 AM
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| Snidget
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: New England
Posts: 2,704
Hogwarts RPG Name: Kaylee Strap First Year | Dragon..Dragon..Draco.. | | Sirius Lee Black
Dyyyyyyiiiing with excitement! It sounds amazing and magical!
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07-16-2011, 07:11 AM
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| Crumple-Horned Snorkack
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal *sighs*(GMT-8)
Posts: 111,152
Hogwarts RPG Name: Giselle Barrington Slytherin Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Sable Ileana Armstrong Gryffindor Seventh Year Ministry RPG Name:
Skye Tamerlane Accidents & Catastrophes Ministry RPG Name:
Jemma McCrae Minister's Office x5 x3
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This just makes me all the more excited. (And see? DH2 totally isn't the end. We have Pottermore to look forward to. )
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07-16-2011, 07:14 AM
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| Billywig
Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: The OC
Posts: 3,786
Hogwarts RPG Name: Jenny Takahashi Fifth Year Ministry RPG Name:
Damian van Ryden Magical Creatures | Moooooooo. :) || Have a supermegafoxyawesomehot Christmas.
Wow. This is better than I thought it would be.
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07-16-2011, 07:14 AM
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| Dugbog
Join Date: May 2011 Location: Texas
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I had my doubts about this at first, but now it sounds completely awesome. It's a great way for the series to live on after the movies. I hope the sorting hat takes our choice into account. I really want to be in Gryffindor, but I feel I may technically fit more in Ravenclaw.
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07-16-2011, 07:16 AM
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| Red Cap
Join Date: May 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia USA
Posts: 70
Hogwarts RPG Name: Paisley Renea Summers First Year |
It is great to have more details of what exactly Pottermore will be. I think it is going to be fantastic. Those one million people who get to test it starting July 31 will be so lucky. I'll be ready and waiting for the release in October!
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07-16-2011, 07:32 AM
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| MO & DMLE Blast-Ended Skrewt
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Dragonstone
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Lyric Bayliss-Black Slytherin Fourth Year Ministry RPG Name:
Marilyn Romalotti Minister's Office Ministry RPG Name:
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Omg, it's like Rowling's version of SnitchSeeker.
I cannot wait!!
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07-16-2011, 07:39 AM
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| Gnome
Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia.
Posts: 255
Hogwarts RPG Name: Lauren Daphne Morgan Fifth Year Ministry RPG Name:
Leo Alexander White |
Sounds incredible!! Cannot wait |
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07-16-2011, 07:40 AM
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| Streeler
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 222
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I can hardly wait. I'm looking forward to Pottermore.
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07-16-2011, 07:40 AM
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| Ashwinder
Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA
Posts: 13,555
| Ultimate Potterite Original original
This is fantastic!
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07-16-2011, 07:50 AM
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| Murtlap
Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Turkey!
Posts: 63
Hogwarts RPG Name: Alex James Willor Third Year |
Thought it would be just animations and writings but now it is kind of Online Game I think I love it! Cannot wait to use those spells |
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07-16-2011, 08:13 AM
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| Imp
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: India
Posts: 404
Hogwarts RPG Name: Lily potter First Year Ministry RPG Name:
ginny potter Department of Mysteries |
brilliant.............
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07-16-2011, 08:17 AM
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| Bundimun
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 20
Hogwarts RPG Name: Josh Walters First Year |
Nifty. Just signed up. This definitely gives me something to look forward to now the movies are over.
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07-16-2011, 09:24 AM
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| Flobberworm
Join Date: Jun 2011
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I was so depressed by the end of the movies, but now with this information about Pottermore, it cheered me up!
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07-16-2011, 10:10 AM
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| Streeler
Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: UK
Posts: 227
Hogwarts RPG Name: Mia Roberts First Year |
Pottermore is going to be so good!
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07-16-2011, 11:11 AM
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| SS100 Triumphant Mooncalf
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: -SH [GMT]
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Amelia "Amy" Mae Samson Seventh Year Ministry RPG Name:
Erin Fulmer Minister's Office x3
| Dude. The Pensevies aint got nothing on you. Aslan is the God
WOOT
But I'm still really confused by the concept..it might take a while to deal with, because I don't really like reading e-books....
AH WELL
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07-16-2011, 11:21 AM
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| Red Cap
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 77
Hogwarts RPG Name: Caretrix Peverell First Year |
I was thinking the exact same thing! Haha! SO EXCITED!!!!!! Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Marilyn Omg, it's like Rowling's version of SnitchSeeker.
I cannot wait!! |
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07-16-2011, 11:31 AM
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| Dugbog
Join Date: May 2011 Location: Texas
Posts: 97
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Originally Posted by city_girl_95 WOOT
But I'm still really confused by the concept..it might take a while to deal with, because I don't really like reading e-books....
AH WELL It's not an ebook, you read your copy of the book, and while doing so, you explore Pottermore to see all the illustrations, encyclopedia entries, and stuff like that. Hopefully that makes more sense.
I'm hoping I make the beta. I signed up on the first day. I wonder how many have signed up total. Will the first 1 million that signed up get access? Or will they be randomly chosen?
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07-16-2011, 11:36 AM
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| Doxy
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Florida
Posts: 6,438
| My Cherie Amour
thank goodness there will not be any fan fiction.....!!! Everything else sounds good to me, though!
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