Over the past few weeks Harry Potter fans have been wondering what ‘Pottermore’ is all about. A website launched which gave no further details, only owls, but it was made clear that Pottermore was not a new Harry Potter book.

Well today a big revealing took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington, central London, and Rowling said the site would be an online experience to read, interact with and share the Harry Potter stories. She also revealed the details in a YouTube announcement.

The Telegraph have quotes from Rowling regarding what Pottermore actually involves, and why it came about:

She said: ”I wanted to give something back to the fans that have followed Harry so devotedly over the years, and to bring the stories to a new digital generation. ”I hope fans and those new to Harry will have as much fun helping to shape Pottermore as I have.

”Just as I have contributed to the website, everyone else will be able to join in by submitting their own comments, drawings and other content in a safe and friendly environment – Pottermore has been designed as a place to share the stories with your friends as you journey through the site.”

Fans will be able to work their way through the books and follow Harry to Hogwarts where they are sorted into one of the school’s rival houses and become student wizards themselves. The website, which is part social-networking forum and part computer game, allows fans to access material cut from the original books and read insights from the author along the way. Rowling said the idea partly came because of the demand for eBooks of the novels.

She said: ”I wanted to pull it back to reading, I wanted to pull it back to the literary experience, the story experience and this is what emerged.” She said some of the material for the website had been ”literally” dug out of boxes. She said: ”The world has kind of out-stripped me in the sense that back in 1998 I knew I was generating a lot more material than would ever appear in the books. ”To me at the time I thought ‘Who would ever want to know the significance of all these different wand woods?’ ”This was all in my head. So at that time the only way I could imagine ever putting that material out there was in the form of a printed book.”

She added fans might still see the publication of a Harry Potter encyclopedia, with all profits going to charity, but she would not publish another novel. She said: ”This was about the give-back. The technology now existed to do something outside the books and the films for existing fans.”

Fans will be able to register from today for an online challenge on the website on July 31 with one million people who successfully beat the challenge being invited to join Pottermore early. The website will open to all in October.

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It’s been 3 years since Harry Potter author J.K Rowling completed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and fans are now eagerly awaiting the movie adaptations this November and July 2011. While many expected Deathly Hallows to be the last book, Rowling recently revealed in an interview that she could definitely write more books as she has all the characters and their futures in her head, but she’s done. For now.

From CNN:

“I could definitely write an eighth, ninth, tenth,” the celebrated author, 45, told Oprah Winfrey during an interview. “I’m not going to say I won’t. I don’t think I will … I feel I am done, but you never know.”

As a fan of the books and the movies I wouldn’t be against more stories from Rowling. There would obviously be a demand for it, and she could easily pick off from where Deathly Hallows left off 19 years after Hogwarts. She could potentially start a whole new saga with Harry’s children, or continue with Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults facing a new threat to the Wizarding World. J.K Rowling obviously knows which direction she would go with future books, but as she said, she’s “done” for now. Maybe in another 10 years?

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J.K. Rowling recently spoke to the BBC about her regret that she never told her mother about Harry Potter before she died.

“I started writing Harry six months before she died. That’s obviously a real regret, because I never told her I was even writing it. She never knew anything about Harry Potter at all.”

The success of Harry Potter has made Rowling the first and only billionaire author so far. The books have sold more than 375 million copies worldwide and the films have made $1,411,122,875 so far with 2 (possibly 3) more to go.

Moral of the story: Always tell your loved ones that you are working on something that will make you richer than The Queen of England before it’s too late!

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There’s a new interview with Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs over at ComingSoon.net. In it, he talks about watching the kids grow up, being able to work with his idols, begging JK Rowling to bring his character back for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and not being recognized on the street without his platinum blonde hair!

CS: What was it like to pick up the final “Harry Potter” book when it came out and not know what was in there, especially for you?

Isaacs: I’m not quite strong enough to pick up a book of that weight. I had a couple of people to help me, and a winch. The secret can be out now. Before it came out I wasn’t quite sure – there was a point where I wasn’t sure I was going to do anymore because there wasn’t much for me to do in number five and I wasn’t in number six. I met Jo Rowling for the first time at a big awards dinner. I went over and basically fell to my knees and said “Get me out of prison, I beg you.” She looked over her shoulder and looked back at me mouthing “You’re out. Chapter One.” And that was it, that’s all I had to know, and I signed up immediately.

CS: Do you know when you start?

Isaacs: I think I start February next year, but I’m not sure. Dan’s [Radcliffe] got to go to Broadway first and wow them with all of his… with all of him. [Laughs]

Check out the rest of the interview HERE.

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J.K. Rowling has written and is auctioning off for charity an 800-word prequel to the fabulous Harry Potter series!

WTF?

Yes, unfortunately I DID say an 800-word prequel, not an 800-page prequel. (Sorry to everyone who just had a mild heart-attack!) And it’s squeezed onto the front and back of an A5 sheet of paper (slightly bigger than a postcard). Jo was asked to take part in the charity event, which will benefit the writers’ association English PEN and Dyslexia Action charities, along with twelve other authors and illustrators.

The short story will be viewable online and at the Waterstones stores (UK) starting tomorrow, June 11. All postcards will be featured in a book, which is available for pre-order here.

Does this mean that Jo has a prequel in mind for us? Alas, no. She finished off the short story with the words “From the prequel I am not working on — but that was fun!” Damn!

(Preview from Jo’s card, featuring the above mentioned last line! Click on the pic for a larger view.)

At least we still have three more movies to look forward to, as well as a Harry Potter Encyclopedia (written by Jo, once THIS is all over!). Principle photography on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is finally over, and post-production work – including editing and CGI work – is well under way! Stay tuned for the HBP trailer, which should be online in the coming month (hopefully)!

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