The first POA chapters were unlocked a few days ago for me. They seemed pretty rushed, and I was disappointed that we couldn't pick out out own extracurricular classes and got stuck with Care of Magical Creatures and Divination instead.

Nothing really new as far as information goes. The animation seemed to be really bad in these chapters, though the illustrations themselves were fine.

 

I just happened to come across it today.

Yeah nothing since PS had a really polished feeling. It's not like they can't afford the money to pay real programmers and artists. I think the spell and potion brewing is a joke.

Honestly I am amazed there isn't a mmorpg in the potterverse.

I only play this for the additional info.

 

I'd been thinking about modding a certain strategy game to this effect, but decided not to - putting magic into numbers is a task best left to more... industrious fellas than myself.

Pottermore... played up and until the ~5 chapter peek into CoS. Didn't like the brewing or dueling so I dropped it. Way I figure, someone or the other will end up copy-pasting all the lore into a wiki, and as such save me the trouble of slogging through the books.

 

While looking up something about Harry Potter, I found out that a few extra chapters of PoA have been released on Pottermore.

I don't even know if anyone still plays, but wanted to let everyone know.

I'll update my post if there is anything interesting.

 

I cant see any new chapters, just the first 7 that have been open for weeks and I mentioned last page.

 

Apparently Sony thought MMORPG is good idea and they released Pottermore on Playstation Home, although looking at the gameplay on youtube there is nothing impresive.

 

Update on pottermore.com

8 new chapters on PoA.

 

One of the best bits she's released IMO:

Spoiler

Hogwarts portraits are able to talk and move around from picture to picture. They behave like their subjects. However, the degree to which they can interact with the people looking at them depends not on the skill of the painter, but on the power of the witch or wizard painted.

When a magical portrait is taken, the witch or wizard artist will naturally use enchantments to ensure that the painting will be able to move in the usual way. The portrait will be able to use some of the subject’s favourite phrases and imitate their general demeanour. Thus, Sir Cadogan’s portrait is forever challenging people to a fight, falling off its horse and behaving in a fairly unbalanced way, which is how the subject appeared to the poor wizard who had to paint him, while the portrait of the Fat Lady continues to indulge her love of good food, drink and tip-top security long after her living model passed away.

However, neither of these portraits would be capable of having a particularly in-depth discussion about more complex aspects of their lives: they are literally and metaphorically two-dimensional. They are only representations of the living subjects as seen by the artist.

Some magical portraits are capable of considerably more interaction with the living world. Traditionally, a headmaster or headmistress is painted before their death. Once the portrait is completed, the headmaster or headmistress in question keeps it under lock and key, regularly visiting it in its cupboard (if so desired) to teach it to act and behave exactly like themselves, and imparting all kinds of useful memories and pieces of knowledge that may then be shared through the centuries with their successors in office.

The depth of knowledge and insight contained in some of the headmasters’ and headmistresses’ portraits is unknown to any but the incumbents of the office and the few students who have realised, over the centuries, that the portraits’ apparent sleepiness when visitors arrive in the office is not necessarily genuine.

 

Thats actually really interesting. I never considered them being two dimensional humans literally and figuratively.l

 

1) What in the bits following that had ANYTHING to do with a witch or wizard's 'power'?

2) That was a rather stupid, roundabout explanation. It would've been so much easier to just say magical portraits are imbued with magic that captures snippets of memory and automatically mimics personality.

 

It kind of did say that...it just added details about how much each portrait can say. The Fat Lady's portrait still acts like the Fat Lady, but she won't be able to tell you about her life or advise you like Dumbledore's would. Whether that's because Dumbledore had the chance to talk to it more often, or because he was a more skilled wizard, or both, it's still interesting. Even if they have to educate their portrait, the more skilled wizard's portrait would still, presumably, be receiving a better education/would presumably be left with more interesting things to say.

 

Now, what if a meddling Headmaster put binders on your power because he feared your potential, and you get a portrait taken before the meddling old coot kicks it? Will the portrait become more powerful on the eve of your 16th (or 18th) birthday when you learn about how you're the heir of merlin/santa/the founders/etc. or will it be stuck at your old power level?

 

That was bad and you should feel bad.

But it all depends on your magical core, creature inheritance, the number of soul bonds, the number of life debts and the number of familiar bonds.

 

And on Draco, your veela mate.

 

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

Update to finish PoA. Also whole new setup for the site.

Some good original content on wereolves and secret keepers. The bit on time turners was billshit, only 25 people dead my arse, everyone would be dead.

 

Summarise it for us?

 

Werewolves: Very similar to a real wolf, most people would assume it is a real wolf unless close enough to have their face bitten off. A slightly shorter muzzel, smaller more human looking pupils, a tufted tail.

Muggle can be werewlves but the vast majority die after an attack so most werewolves are wizards.

There are several potions that have been developed to help them most famour wolfsbane, but no cure. Silver powder mixed with diteny can stop the bleeding of a wound but not cure you. Most people who are bitten "hide" it, so attempts to control the outbreaks by registering them, even for their own good, doesnt work, as no one wants to rock up to the ministry to sign up.



Time Turners: (This is BS) Through long term study it has been found that any period of time travel over 5 hours is almost impossible. There have been people who have done more, but bad shit always happened. One lady went back 5 centuries and basially fucked the time line. When she got back she aged 5 centuries in a couple of days and died and "Un did" 25 people from existance, the decendents of thouse people she meet in the past, but thats total BS, because even one small change 500 years ago we would all be gone and replaced with something different. Rowling admits the time turner was a stupid idea as it was a massive dues ex, so she destroyed them all in OOTP on purpose and also had Dumbledore say that you cant really change time on large scales, just tweak it.

Also Hermione was the only Hogwarts student to ever get one (WTF?), apparently no one in the history of Hogwarts had a lot on their plate before her.


Secret keeper: Very ancient spell, one secret in one person, IMPOSSIBLE to get the secret my torture or imperious, it must be a willing person giving the secret (Although how this explains the paper slip in OOTP I dont know. When that person dies everyone who knows the secret becomes an original secret kepper to give to who they want.

Most people dont want to be a secret keeper as it is dangerous and people will still try to torture it out of you.

There are more bits but I havent finished the chapter yet.

 

I don't think this has been posted here. Remus Lupin's biography.

That same Tumblr also has more Pottermore information.

 

The werewolf part was interesting - I finally caught up to it.

The last paragraph had me shaking my head.

Werewolf and Human children are always human and not werewolf.
It is implied that werewolf children are werewolves.
That kinda makes sense as a rule.


But...
Rowling actually has (somewhat and only now) accounted for Metis, but that brings a lot of unwanted questions.

Emphasis mine.
I mean - what the actual fuck?