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A tweet came through earlier from the Pottermore Twitter account saying that the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets section is currently in the works for the interactive Pottermore website.

The Pottermore Insider was also updated:

We’re currently working on book two, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and it’s looking great. We’ll give you more information over the coming weeks, so keep an eye on the Insider and @Pottermore for the latest details.

This is great news for those of you who have already completed the Philosopher’s Stone section. No word on when it will be done, but as soon as we know, we’ll let you know!

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 According to the Pottermore Insider, the Pottermore Shop has been updated to offer the Harry Potter e-books to our fellow fans who read in French, German, Italian, and Spanish:

 Les livres electroniques Harry Potter sont désormais disponibles dans le Pottermore Shop. Pour la première fois, vous pouvez télécharger les livres electroniques Harry Potter en français, depuis n’importe ou dans le monde et sur tout support. 

Gli eBook di Harry Potter sono ora disponibili nella versione italiana sul nostro Pottermore Shop. Per la prima volta, si possono scaricare gli eBooks di Harry Potter in italiano da qualsiasi parte del mondo, e leggerli su qualsiasi dispositivo di lettura.

Die Harry Potter eBücher und digitalen Hörbücher sind jetzt im Pottermore Shop erhältlich. Erstmalig können Sie weltweit die deutsche Version der Harry Potter eBücher und digitalen Hörbücher herunterladen und auf einem elektronischen Lesegerät abrufen bzw. über ein Gerät, mit denen Sie MP3-Dateien abspielen können, anhören. 

Los libros digitales de Harry Potter ya están disponibles en Español (Castellano), visíten nuestra Pottermore Shop. Por la primera vez será possible descargar los libros digitales de Harry Potter, estés donde estés, y podrás leerlos en cualquier aparato.

Not only that…The Pottermore site can now be explored in French, German, Italian and Spanish!

Click here for more information.

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JK Rowling’s new interactive Harry Potter website, Pottermore, is now open to the public!

Beta testing began last fall, and after many upgrades, everyone else who didn’t get a beta account can now access the website.

From the Pottermore Insider:

Get ready to begin your Pottermore journey, because Pottermore.com is now opening to everyone.

Over the coming days, we’ll be inviting new users onto Pottermore.com. We’re expecting to be really busy to start with and plan to activate new registrations in a steady stream. This means that you may not get access to Pottermore immediately after you sign up but we will get you exploring the site as quickly possible.

After you’ve signed up, you’ll get sorted into one of the four Hogwarts houses, have a wand choose you, and discover exclusive new writing from J.K. Rowling.

We’ll be adding lots of exciting new features over the coming weeks and months, so make sure you return regularly to explore and discover all the changes as Pottermore grows.

Have fun and good luck!

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The Pottermore Shop is now open!  So if you want to be able to take the Harry Potter e-books with you wherever you go, now you can!  The Pottermore Shop also sells the audiobooks.  And the prices aren’t too bad.

Harry Potter e-books 1 through 3 are $7.99 and the audiobooks are $29.99.  Harry Potter e-books 4 through 7 are $9.99 and the audiobooks are $44.99.  And if you can buy the entire package you get a 10% discount, making the e-book package $57.54 and the audiobook package $242.94.

Check out the Pottermore Shop right here!

UPDATE: The e-books are now available on Nook here!

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 According to the Pottermore Insider Blog dated today (March 26), pottermore.com is back online for the Beta users with a couple of changes.  One of them is sound has been added.  Another is every house point you earn now has a greater effect on the total for your house.  The Facebook connect button has been temporarily disabled: and the Gateway (the login) has a different look.  Improvements are being made and new ideas will be tried for those features.

It is still planned for pottermore.com to be available to the public in early April. 

For more information, click here.

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After months of build up to the opening of JK Rowling’s new interactive website, Pottermore, a reporter from The Guardian has received a response from the website telling her that the site is not expected to be available to the public in the immediate future.

The reporter, Shoshana Kessler, was unlucky enough to have been on holiday during the beta tester sign ups for Pottermore, so missed her opportunity.  As a huge Harry Potter fan, she impatiently waited for her chance to access the site when it was to open to the public.  In October, word came that the site was extending their beta testing.  Since that date, nothing new has been mentioned about when the site will actually open to the public.

So, Shoshana contacted the site runners about this and received the following response:

“We have decided to further extend the beta period so we can improve Pottermore before giving more people access. This means the site will not be opening to new users in the immediate future.”

So, the only thing I can say Potter fans, is to have more patience.  Hopefully this is indicative of even greater things for Pottermore.  What ‘immediate’ means is anyone’s guess…it can mean they don’t mean to open it next week…or next month.  Your guess is as good as mine.  So, until then, pick up your dog-eared Harry Potter books (or, in my case, my worn out audiobooks) and read them again.  Catch things you didn’t catch the first (or 20th!) time.

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We previously told you that the Pottermore Insider Blog had stated that Pottermore will open to the public towards the end of October.  Well, here it is the end of October, so I’m sure many of you are wondering when that’s going to happen (I know I was myself just this morning).

The Insider Blog has done another update to let everyone know that they’re going to extend the beta testing a bitlonger.  The site is also going to be down for a few days beginning November 2nd.

They thank everyone for their patience with this process.  They want to make Pottermore is the best experience ever and that can’t be done if some work still needs to done.

They didn’t give us a time frame, but as soon as we hear something we’ll let you know.

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The Pottermore Insider Blog has given us another update, this time about how they developed the Slythin and Hufflepuff house crests for Pottermore.  If you didn’t get to see how they made the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw house crests, check out our previous post here.

This time they tell us that the Hufflepuff crest was the most difficult to make.  The reason for this was because there isn’t a lot of information on the Hufflepuff house.  They also wanted to show the badger, the Hufflepuff animal, as tenacious and hard working, like those that belong to Hufflepuff house.

In the first crest you can see the badger almost resting on a bed of leaves, but the team felt this version looked too approachable and inactive. The drawing in which the badger is facing forwards didn’t look enough like a traditional crest and also made the animal appear too gentle. It was finally decided that the badger that was the most faithful to the Hufflepuff house qualities was the one on all fours, posed as if defending its territory and warning off others.

For Slytherin, they used many different styles of snakes because they didn’t want the crest to have a particular type of snake. The coil of the snake was important as well, as they wanted to make it look natural, but active.

For the final version of the Hufflepuff crest, they made the yellow a bit muted to make the badger stand out more.

The Slytherin crest coloring was a bit more detailed with the snake receiving many different patterns.

In the end, because they wanted to stay true to the house colours of green and silver, the team set to work designing a snake that looked like it had been created by a silversmith. They felt this brought the whole crest to life, especially when combined with the green ripples in the background, designed to accentuate the water element.

The Hufflepuff crest was finished with a strong vibrant yellow and patterned leaves to symbolise the earth element. The badger looks as if it is already hard at work, with its stance showing that it’s ready for action. (A piece of trivia to note: the head of the Atomhawk Design team was sorted into Hufflepuff on Pottermore and says he is very proud of his crest!).

Some of the Pottermore Slytherin community have already noticed that theirs is the only animal looking to the left, while the other house crests have animals looking to the right. This was a decision that came about during the final stages of design, when the crests were all placed together.

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For those of you who were lucky enough to be beta testers for Pottermore, the Pottermore Insider Blog has announced that a detailed survey is now available for you to complete.

The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.

Go here to do the survey!

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The Pottermore Insider Blog gave an update today describing how they went about making the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor crests used on Pottermore.  They used the original artwork and J.K. Rowling’s descriptions to inspire the emblems.

Here’s part of the process for Ravenclaw’s process:

The artists started by talking about the best way to include the natural elements of fire, earth, water and air into each house; what the best positions and expressions for the animals would be; and the most effective way to include the house colours in the final designs.

Their main aim all the way through the process was to make the crests into symbols that Sorted Pottermore users would be proud to display as a token of their Pottermore identity.

To start with, three versions were sketched for each house crest. The team then looked at each variation to make absolutely sure the details and attributes of each house were clearly represented. The design they felt was the strongest out of the three was selected to go through to the next stage of the process, which involved adding colour to the designs.

For Ravenclaw, the artists tried to stay true to the form of an eagle but they found it didn’t work at times; the centre sketch, for example, was thought to look too much like a gull.

For Gryffindor, this is what they did:

As the lion is another symbol often found in popular culture, the team again needed to focus on creating a recognisable one for the Gryffindor house crest. For all four of the crests the facial expressions of the animals were used to symbolise house traits (in this case courage and chivalry). As you can see in the sketches above, the artists were trying to capture the expression of a lion waiting to attack, as well as one that was mid-roar.

After the initial sketches were examined it was decided that the head of the lion, with its strong face and striking mane, was the best design as the crest showing the body seemed to take away from the lion’s powerful features.

Ravenclaw’s crest was the only house that the team did not create a number of different color options. The first color scheme they chose is the one they kept. However, Gryffindor’s crest used a few different themes, including some with fire and a twitching tail. In the end, they stuck with red flames and did away with the twitching tail.

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