JK gets festive with her website
 

karen_ginger has PMed me the following information -- J.K.Rowling has updated her website. It now has a festive Christmassy feel to it:

Thanks to Karen for the tip!

Where is the marble? It doesn't seem to be there anymore for me..

Anyone ever noticed in the fansite section that Frank Longbottom (on top) and Percy Weasley (far right behind the scroll -- click on the trophy to open the scroll and you can see the full name) have awards?

Oh and it looks like she only gives out 3 fansite awards a year if you look at the way it's laid out.

ooh cool! it looks lovely

i cant see anything :(
Thanks though! :D

I'm not getting a marble either...hmm, the Christmas tree seems to be in the trophy room, you can see its lights reflecting in the big fan site trophy. And did you notice the cute calendar in the "Extras"-section? It has a door open for December 1st and there's a blue thing inside the little door, but you can't click on it ... but I think we might be getting treats there some of these days!!! I'll check the calendar every day from now on!!

Yes, I have noticed it today! It looks really nice. Maybe a few days later there will be some clues about HBP !

Well I'd rather she keeps on track with the book than spend time updating her website! Even though I like the website ^_^

the marbal was next to the pen for me and i clicked on it and gor something new about Dragons....

What calenar? Is it in the 'mug' section?

An advent calender in Extra Stuff. In the background.

Cool!

Cute!! :)

Oh and I don't see any mable next to a pen... You'd think it'd work for everyone. :/

Hmm Im puzzled about the Marble too...because I cant see it anywhere...Hmf!

Anyways great thanks to Scotti!!!

Ok after what I have been able to figure out about the Marble and the dragon drawing, well I think its the one many of us have already clicked on when the wind blew and knocked over the pencils...I think Im right, because in my scrapbook I have a drawing of dragons...

How cute does her website look? The update makes me love the Christmas season even more.

I wonder if the lack of updates in her rumors section about a possible January announcement for the HBP release date means that it's true??

Uh yeah that might be the case! Uhhhh!

ANd yeah the look is great! :lol:

Aww tis nice to see that the whole christmas thing has kicked off everywhere - they might as well just make it a month long celebration!!

The tree is very cool though...

i hope that maby she will update nearer to christmas and give us something i mean she did for halloween

Yeah that would be nice...*hint to JK*

I think that the Advent Calender is a hint to when she will next open up the DND Door.

Because before when the dart board was in the DND Door there was a diagram of that in the Extra section also

Bellatrix Black got a trophy too.

Actually, she's done four sites this year, The Lexicon, Godric's Hollow, Immertius, and Mugglenet.

I love her site so much, and now I'm into the Christmas season, I feel like decorating now! I know this will sound pathetic, since the latest update was a month ago, but I dunno where the pebbles are, and it's been driving me mad lately! So, help, thanks, lol!

I've noticed this as well! Could it be a clue towards the door?

It looks like there are only 24 days on the calendar. It says the door will open on December 20 and 21st.

Maybe it's a clue to future books. Peter might do something that is worth getting a trophy for. Perhaps saving Harry's live from Voldemort?

Anyone know what the drawing in the snow is? If you look out the window you can see that there is a picture of something.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...rChristmas.jpg

yeah......I wonder that too,or it just a decoration or something?oh........I dunno........

Yeah, that's generally the traditional amount, at least on British Advent Calendars as it's only a countdown to Christmas Day.

I'm still not seeing the calendar thing and how did you work out the 20/21 day thing.

There are 2 awards for Riddle, one for Frank Longbottom and Percy Weasley...there's none on there for Pettigrew...

Instinct tells me those things in the window (outside, I think you mean) are trees covered by snow but the shape does sort of look like a wolf/dog.

I think I must've been on the website while she was or whoever was doing it, was updating because I see stuff now on there that I didn`t see yesterday.

um it kinda looks like dobby it u look upside down to the left

The picture in the snow seems to be blocked by the vase of hollyberries. I think they need to be removed before we know what the drawing is.

I think I got Peter mixed up with Frank. My bad. It makes me wonder what Bellatrix got an award for. I think one of Riddle's was for the "capture" of the Heir. The other.....I have no idea. I'm sure Frank's is for his work as an Auror.

James also has quite a few.

I don't know what it could be. At first I thought it was a bird.

Hmm... I don't see anything different, but I did notice that on the links page, there are moving pictures of what looks like the beach. I never saw that before.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...teChistmas.jpg

Look to the far right and you can see the calendar. It looks like a big house. I started with the first single door and counted that as 1. Then I went down the list and counted the rest till I got to 24. If you look on doors 20 and 21 you can see that there open.

So, I'm thinking that that's when she's planning on opening the door. Just a guess, but I'm pretty sure that's what it means. Or maybe that's when she's going to update.

Has anyone found if you can do anything with all the new xmas things?

or do we just have to...wait?

No, the very top door is the 24th, two doors are open at the bottom, because it has been two days into December(well now 4). As the month progresses more doors will open, by the 24th all doors will be open.

Hopefully we'll get a Christmas surprise on the 25th and/or maybe a New Year's, I love her site so much.

I think the figure in the window looks like a really fat Blast-Ended Skrewt from the cover of GoF, lol. Maybe the vase will move soon and we can see it fully.

That wasn't on the UK version of the site yet!

BTW your theory about the numbers is a bit off. Advent calendars don't have the doors running in numerical order -- the numbers are scattered all over the place so that ones open could be numbers 1 and 2 etc..

To me it looks like 1 and 2 are open.

I just noticed the little sweeties in the doors. Why hasn't she eaten them like a normal person?!

Yeah four are open now to cooresppond with 4 days having passed in December.

Well that makes since. Gosh, there goes my theory. And I was getting excited too. Well, I still think she might give us a update on Christmas or near it.

Why can't I ever be right about anything?

Did you know that if you stay on the first page for a while things get knocked over? What's that all about? Did I miss something along the way?

Also, What marble are you talking about? Because I can see one.

That's because Peeves flies by and knocks stuff over.

There is no marble anymore.