Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Pottermore~ 1st of September 2011 3pm Thursday~

oh my god. let me tell  u that life has been apsolutely fantastic since Pottermore came into my life, for sure! Last Thursday night my friend Tilly got her Pottermore email. Yes i was excited and happy for her, but also slightly deflated and jealous that i hadn't got mine. Of course since we get 3 emails from pottermore in total (The first saying the early registration has begun, the 2nd confirming that you will be apart of the early pottermore selection {only 1 million are aloud on before the sites actual opening in october, to help shape with website and the experience} called Beta Testers {Beta is the system/website that created Pottermore} and the 3rd email i was awaiting which would tell me that i could enter pottermore officially.) this was all very exciting as i took part in the 7 day challenge to get in early. I had gotten the magic quill on the first day and my first email within hours of Tilly getting hers. So i expected to get my email early the next morning of when tilly got her 3rd email. On the Friday (the day after Tilly got hers) there wasn't too much talk at school because Tilly couldn't get past a particular part of the site (Pottermore is shaped around the books of harry potter with interactive images and moments from each chapter all surrounded around the first book at the moment.) she was stuck on Diagon Alley (In pottermore there are 3 moments of each chapter highlighting the main plot of the chapter with images and colour. You experience things as harry does in the book. For instance you get sorted when harry is sorted in the book {chapter 7} ) this may not make sense to all of you, but if your a harry potter fan and if ur already on pottermore you understand completely. Before i continue i have here a website that shows you J.K Rowling's announcement of Pottermore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5DOKOt7ZF4

So, as i was saying. At the end of school on Friday tilly wanted me to come home with her to show me pottermore, i said that i was probably getting my email and so i walked home. I was going to read harry potter on the walk home because Jenny had gone to buy ice-cream and so i walked alone. I realised then that i could check my emails from my mobile which alerted me whenever i got emails with a little purple light that flashed. Sure enough as i took deep breathes and my heart raced (No exageration) and i saw my notifications. One word. One magical, fabulous word: Pottermore. I had an email from pottermore. I read it, and i literally squealed. I would have jumped up and down if i wasn't in public. I literally ran home except when my legs started to hurt from hurtling down the hill. When i got home i went straight to dad (mum had left that day for a weekend away with friends) and yelled "AHH! I GOT MY POTTERMORE EMAIL" basically i took some screen grabs of the moment saying i got my email early that morning (4.35am) and then pleaded to go on Pottermore on my dad's extravgent work computer whose screen was the size of our tv. He said i could and i told all my friends on facebook and Tilly ofcourse who then went on pottermore and attempted to get past Diagon alley. I got through everything rather fast and excitedly. I helped tilly get past the glitch. I bought all my school books, and a cat (Siamese Cat) and last on my list for school supplies was my wand from ollivanders. ARG!!! so exciting i was actually getting a wand! And i had to answer all these awesome questions and then i got my wand!!! Sycamore and unicorn core 12 and a quarter inches slightly springy!!! It's soo cool and i really want to actually make my wand. (I'll show pictures later) anyway, as i continued through the story for hours and hours (literally, it was getting dark) i was highly anticipating being sorted. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin. I didn't mind really, though my least favourite was slytherin. I would be the first of my friends to be sorted as Tilly and I were (and still are at the moment) the only one of our friends to have gotten in to Pottermore, and TIlly was a couple of chapters behind me because of the diagon alley huccup. Whenever i did tests on the internet made by harry p fans i always got Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff and saw made a combo and was none as a Ravenpuff. I was really scared and excited. Then a film of J.K Rowling appeared before me telling me to answer the questions truthfully and carefully because once the sorting hat had made it's decision, it was final. I answered all the questions and i was sorted into... RAVENCLAW!!! I was soo excited. Tilly was like 'wow' and i was 'AHHH!' and then i got a welcome letter from my house written by ravenclaw prefect, it's really long and amazingly detailed telling me ravenclaws are smart, interesting, quirky and creative YAY!! Then my life was complete. I have a house and a wand and im on pottermore WOOT WOOT:) and then tilly was sorted into Gryffindor! We were both very suprised where we were sorted but have major house pride. It's amazing making potions and spells and seeing ravenclaw commonroom on pottermore. I have made so many friends and ravenclaw are in the lead on the school leaderboard for the house cup. Then i had to have dinner, and came back on 15 minutes later to finish the book. J.K Rowling popped back up congratulating me for finishing. Chamber of secrets hasnt come out yet... and wont till next year! :( but i can go back over the chapters and explore all the things i missed.
BEST THING EVER
I LOVE POTTERMORE<3



xox