I actually did a presentation about this in class but I thought that it was newsworthy enough to include in my blog. I am a huge Harry Potter fan and since this website opens up to the public by October 31st, I figured it would be worth a mention.
Pottermore is an interactive website that brings the Harry Potter book to life with animated inserts to the book while you read and actual game play that goes along with each chapter and book of the series.
When you first enter the site, your first task would be to answer a few questions that would let you be sorted by the sorting hat in to your house.
The website also provides tasks that needs to be completed by the reader/player to be able to continue with the series. For example, you have to earn money to place in to gringotts bank so that you can purchase books and robes for your year at Hogwarts. You can also purchase your own specialized wand. The shopping will take place in a virtual Diagon Ally. Readers will also learn spell as they go along and progress through the books.
The website also includes Character bios that are not available in the book or anywhere else for that matter (ex. how Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon met and fell in love and Professor McGonagall’s childhood)
The website also offers the Exclusivity of eBook purchases for the entire Harry Potter series. This will give the website traffic for many years to come seeing as it is also the only exclusive place to purchase future works for the series if Rowling decides to write a continuation.
The site will also serve as its own social media site because it includes online chats within the houses called the common room and online chats that span all the houses called the great hall.
Below is a video from author J.K. Rowling herself explaining what to expect from Pottermore that leaves you wanting more.
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