Pottermore: A Brief Review From Entertainment Weekly

Aug - 17 2011 | Anna Peel | 2 comments

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The staff at Entertainment Weekly magazine recently got their chance to try Pottermore, the an online experience for Harry Potter fans to enjoy know that the movie franchise is over. Its said to be an “interactive experience” that’s still in beta(and yes I just checked the website) so most fans won’t be able to join until the middle of fall. So if you’re still anticipating the day its open to the public, lets find out what EW has said about this cool website:

First things first, for those who were worried that this would be just the skeletal frame of a game used to sell audiobooks or ebooks or plush sorting hats or whatever: it’s not. Even though the site is currently limited to material relating to the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, there’s still more than enough to make your entire afternoon disappear like a temporus suckus spell. You begin your journey by going through various interactive tableaux representing scenes from the book: the arrival of the Hogwarts letters, platform 9 3/4, Diagon Alley. For the most part, there’s not terribly much to do with these at first, other than zooming in and clicking on objects to learn their history and grab some collectible items for your trunk. However, there is actually a decent amount of textual content—including character backgrounds and location histories—that was purportedly written by Rowling herself, and the author promises to reveal a number of other story lines she wrote that never managed to make it into the books themselves.

Pottermore sounds really awesome! My only issue with the whole Pottermore website is that why would they have an exclusive beta stage that’s available exclusively to a select group of fans. Is it a trick that makes it seem more enticing for fans to want to join or are they using it a testing mode to work out the site’s problems before it actually launches. I think its kind of unfair that they only allowed certain people to join early but hey, that’s just my opinion! What do you think about Pottermore and have you been one of the lucky few to get early access?

Article source from Entertainment Weekly


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Anna Peel is a professional freelance writer who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Much of her work can be found on various websites including CheapToday and Wasabi Media Group. She also writes for her own shopping blog Shop In Chic.

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  1. Just_Me says:
    August 17, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    I got in on the 4th day of the trivia challenge. However, I have not received an e-mail to enter the website yet. Still waiting! I think it’s fair and is possibly a bit of both the beta process and a way to intrigue more fans. :)

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  2. Britt says:
    August 18, 2011 at 12:09 am

    I got early access, just waiting for my welcome email. I don’t really think it’s unfair, it was easy enough to get in if you were dedicated enough, they did give 7 chances to get in, and it was a very easy process…just had to be on the site at the right time.

    I can see it being a way to just increase interest in the site, but I think it does have a lot to do with just testing the site. Even the early access people don’t all get in right away, and some may not get in very much before everybody else. It does seem like they are working on the site…or it’s already crashing from the amount of people on it, because I’ve checked it a few times and it’s gone down.

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