I Heart Pottermore: August 2011

Monday, August 8, 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Unofficial Pottermore Preview

These pictures are very early drafts of Pottermore. The actual would most likely be different from these. But they're still exciting! Aren't they?

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Day 7 registration has finally been closed and the Magical Quill challenge has ended. So what now?

If you're one of the lucky million who found the Magical Quill, you are now waiting for your welcome mail. For the die-hard Potter community, we're holding our breaths on who's lucky enough to be the first batch to enter Pottermore.

According to Pottermore.com, "You may have to wait a few weeks for your Welcome email to arrive as we can’t let everyone into the Beta site at the same time." This means that early access account holders will only be able to access Pottermore per batch. Pottermore further provides in their Terms and Conditions that "We will allocate places for early access to registrants on a ‘first come, first served’ basis provided that there will be a limit on the allocation of places by language. "

You still get early access before October, but it doesn't automatically mean you'll automatically get it first before everyone else.

If you weren't so lucky to be front in line, I'd be keeping you posted with all the Pottermore information I can get. For now, you can have fun speculating and dreaming about Pottermore. Which magical place are you most looking forward to visit? What house do you think you'll be in? There's gonna be a house cup, what's your strategy to get those house points?

I found this detailed personality quiz that can tell you which house you're "suppposed" to belong. For the mean time, you can also share your Pottermore excitement with other fans in the Mugglenet forum, it's a warm and helpful community.

Keep a lookout. I'll be posting Pottermore previews here soon.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Magical Quill Challenge is Now Closed

Day 6 registration is now closed. The clue was up for around 2 hours, possibly the longest time to date. There are various speculations why this was so, but the most reasonable was that there weren't just that much people online registering. Most avid Harry Potter fans have already registered during the earlier days of the challenge, hence the lack of traffic. This was reflected in the traffic statistics and activities of other Harry Potter fansites and forums.

If ever you missed today's clue and you haven't registered your Pottermore account yet, you've still got one LAST chance until October. The final clue (Day 7) will be released between 12:30am and 3:00am BST on Saturday 6 August.

To know what time it is in London (BST time zone), click here. If you live in a different time zone, here's a time zone converter.

Best of luck!

Day 6: Catch the magical quill!

NOTE: This link won't work after August 5 or

the Magical Quill Challenge Day 6 is over.

The clue for Day 6 is:

How many chapters are there in HARRY POTTER and the Half-Blood Prince?

Multiply this number by 14.

The answer is 30 chapters, times 14, it's 420.

Quick now! Go to www.quill.pottermore.com/420

The Magical Quill Challenge

The Magical Quill is located in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It detects the birth of a magical child and writes his or her name down in a large book. Every year, Professor McGonagall checks the book and sends owls to the children who are turning eleven, to inform them that they have a place at Hogwarts.

The lucky few who locate The Magical Quill during The Magical Quill challenge (which will run from 31 July to 6 August 2011) will have the chance to register for Pottermore early and gain access to the site before it opens to all in October 2011.

Here are some things that might help you on your hunt for the magical quill:

The Magical Quill Challenge runs for 7 days only. Each day corresponds to the book that the clue will be about. For example, day 1 clue will be about book 1, day 2 about book 2, and so on.
Days 1-3 will be hard questions, Days 4-7 will be easy questions.
All answers have been in numbers and you are always asked to multiply to multiples of 7. This also has a pattern. For example for day 3, you will be asked to multiply to 21 (7 x 3), for day 4 the multiple is 28 (7 x 4), and so on.
The time when the clue will be released is announced at Pottermore Insider, however there has also been an observed pattern that the next clue is released an hour after the last clue was released.
the clue on Day 6 will be released between 1:30pm and 4.00pm BST on Friday, August 5.
the final clue (Day 7) will be released between 12:30am and 3:00am BST on Saturday, August 6.
Follow @hp_batsignal. When the clue is up, it is automatically tweeted. And the next tweet will be the answer for the clue.
Sometimes, waiting for the clue means continually refreshing and keeping watch at Pottermore. There's another way that allows you to work on something else and a pop-up notification will appear once the clue is up. Here's how: On your Google Chrome browser, add the Auto Refresh Plus extension. Set the refresh interval to your desired time like 15 seconds. Go to the advance features and options and enable "Page Monitor", select "Popup Notification once FIND the target " and set your target to something like "Day 7." The notification will appear even when Chrome is minimized. Now you can focus yourself with other things and let Pottermore worry about itself.

What is Pottermore?

Pottermore is a unique online reading experience created by J.K. Rowling and built around the Harry Potter books. Share and participate in the stories, showcase your own Potter-related creativity, and discover additional information about the world of Harry Potter from the author herself.

Also, Pottermore will be the only place can exclusively purchase and download the digital audio books and, for the first time, the eBooks, with the complete series available in a range of popular language editions.

To learn more, you can read the About page of Pottermore.

Here are a list of official Pottermore websites: