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Pottermore - A New Hope
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Article by: Lauren Malfoy For those of you who clocked out of Pottermore two weeks after you got in, I don’t blame you. Let’s face it, Pottermore has been ridiculous. It took almost half a year longer than originally anticipated in order for the site to open to the public and even once it did, you could never escape the site crashes. The potion making would always be glitchy and dueling was nonexistent. Technically, Pottermore has been a disappointment to the Harry Potter fandom for almost a year now. Yet where it lacks, it makes up for now with interesting new content. |
As you login, the site does not crash anymore, Pottermore no longer demands that you leave, now welcoming the millions of users it couldn’t handle before. While potion making has remained pretty much the same, where you need to coax the potion into formation, dueling now reigns supreme with garnering house points.
While those features were supposed to be present since the site’s beta period last fall, Pottermore has added new content to find in its chapters. You’ll need to look for several books: Curses and Counter Curses, The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 1, A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration, One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, and The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection. The contents not nearly as amazing or new to Harry Potter fans as compared to the information on Minerva McGonagall, but it is fascinating. Most of the information from the books is based in magical theory, as you could tell by the titles. Maybe it’s just because I’m overly obsessed and enjoy studying magical theory of the Harry Potter world, but I found the content to be fascinating and insightful.
And now with the first House Cup already awarded to Slytherin, something even better is on the horizon. Book 2 is already partially released to all Pottermore users!! You can go on right now and explore the first 4 chapters of Chamber of Secrets. To the naked eye, yeah, 4 chapters and some new book snippets is not a whole lot to explore compared to how long we’ve waited for any new content. However, I enjoyed the first 4 chapters of book 2 more than I did the vast majority of book 1. It’s a lot more interactive with mini quests like flinging some garden gnomes over the wall of the Weasley garden and keeping a cake floating in the air for a few seconds. It’s easy enough so that I was done with these “quests” after the second or third trial, but entertaining enough where I still go back to the moment in the Weasley garden over and over again.
This new trifle of Book 2 definitely gets me excited to see the rest of Book 2. From what I’ve experienced, I won’t give up on Pottermore just yet.
Lauren Malfoy
P.S. If any of y'all are brave enough to duel me, I'm SnidgetLumos129 on Pottermore ;)