Diagon Alley - Pottermore
Diagon Alley is when it gets exciting and more interactive. Your first objective is to find your school shopping list, then you’re off to Diagon Alley where you must open an account and retrieve your galleons. After all, how are you going to buy your supplies if you don’t have money? Continue reading
You can probably tell by now that I’m a huge Harry Potter geek. Finally received my Pottermore welcome email today after weeks of waiting! I was one of the million who got a spot on the beta. We’re to help them by giving feedback about our experience on the site. I’ll be posting some screen caps on here
As someone who devoured the books, it’s only normal that I got excited when J.K. Rowling announced Pottermore, a “unique online Harry Potter experience” enabling millions of fans to interact with her books online. And, with the revelation that she’ll be sharing many more backstories and information about the world of Harry Potter, I promptly signed up to receive an email in October when the site was open to all! Like many fans, I didn’t want this magical world to end. This was my childhood. I grew up with these characters. And, in a weird way, they were my friends. Continue reading
An Entertainment Weekly reader who started reading Harry Potter in the first grade said it well:
I prefer to think of ‘the end’ this way: Harry will only truly have left this world when none here are loyal to him.
Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity… Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.