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Shortly before the Harry Potter saga came to an end on movie screens a year ago, fans were teased with more adventures about the young wizard through a website called Pottermore (www.pottermore.com).
One million fans who were able to solve riddles and find a Magical Quill have had a chance to try out Pottermore for nearly a year. Everyone else had to wait until it opened to the public this spring. Even then, much of the attention was on the fact that Pottermore was making e-book versions of the Harry Potter novels available for the first time.
The free website takes you through the novels chapter by chapter as if you're playing a game. Starting with "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," you're given images and summaries of key plots and characters. You must look for picture frames and other items along the way to access certain content and move on to the next chapter. Miss one, and you might find yourself unable to brew a potion later on.
As Harry is ready to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, you even get your own wand, customized to your height, eye color and personality traits, such as your biggest fear.
Later, the Sorting Hat will place you in one of the four houses at Hogwarts based on how you answer questions designed by author J.K. Rowling. You and others in your assigned house compete with others in periodic House Cup tournaments. The Slytherin house won the inaugural round and got early access to new content as its prize.
Along the way, Pottermore offers new tales from Rowling and insights into her thinking behind characters and plotlines. You also get excerpts from the books and information on people, places and things.
Pottermore is focused on the reading experience, so there are no clips from the movies. The site so far has only the first book and the first four chapters of the second one, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." The others will be added over time.
Though adults should find much to like, it's clear that kids are a big part of the target audience. During the wand selection, for instance, you're asked whether you consider yourself short, average or tall — "for your age."
You can add friends to your Pottermore network, the way you have friends on Facebook, but you must already know that friend's username. You can't look for friends by entering their email addresses. That hinders Pottermore's community experience, as you have no way of knowing whether any of your friends are already on the site. But it also helps keep kids and strangers apart.
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