Pottermore gives users a sneak peek
Eager Harry Potter fans got another peek at the Pottermore website 鈥� scheduled to open early this month 鈥� through a video released by the site.聽
Pottermore is the official website of Harry Potter and will be the only venue at which Potter e-books will be sold. The website will also have many interactive components, through which users can be "Sorted" into Hogwarts houses, fight duels with other users, create potions, and access never-before-seen backstories about the Harry Potter universe written by author J.K. Rowling.
The promotional video released by Pottermore shows the screen on which the Sorting into a Hogwarts house would take place, a screen depicting Platform 9 戮, various challenges, including catching a Snitch and brewing a potion that will cure boils, and the 鈥渆xplore chapter feature,鈥� which allows users to click on various features of a scene.聽
In a section called 鈥淭he Cupboard Under the Stairs鈥� (the title of one of the chapters in the first Harry Potter book 鈥淗arry Potter and the Sorcerer鈥檚 Stone鈥�), new content appeared in the video titled 鈥淰ernon and Petunia Dursley鈥� which gave new insight into the relationship between Harry Potter's profoundly Muggle aunt and uncle. 鈥淗e had a perfectly correct car, and wanted to do completely ordinary things,鈥� the excerpt reads. 鈥淎nd by the time he had taken her on a series of dull dates, during which he talked mainly about himself and his predictable ideas on the world, Petunia was dreaming of the moment when he would place a ring on her finger.鈥�
Check out the new video below:
Molly Driscoll is a Monitor contributor.
