Pottermore Revealed!

After a week of teasing, JK Rowling today announced the nature of the newly established Pottermore website. This Autumn, fans will be able to read all seven Harry Potter novels online, write their own fiction, interact with key moments in each adventure and discuss the magical saga with others and Rowling herself. It seems the website is intended to be something of a Potter social network, where users make their own avatars who can interact with other 'students' and participate in role-play style games under the guidance of perhaps the most famous author of our generation. Rowling has said that she has written over 18,000 words worth of new material based on the characters, locations and events of the books so that can serve as a supplement to the franchise and a healthy filler to last us a good while before she starts work on the inevitable eighth novel (warning: that won't be anytime soon...). For the first time, we will also be able to buy the novels for digital reading on devices like the iPad and Amazon Kindle, and it's likely there will be some interactive content involved there too. Pottermore will launch this October, but keep an eye on the site as there may well be a chance to enter the world of the Boy Who Lived before everyone else later in the Summer!