Pottermore!!!

[marguerite_26]

Can someone explain to me (in small words because I have not had my coffee yet) what they believe Pottermore is going to be about?

JKR Announces Pottermore

Can I get excited yet or do I need to keep clutching my pearls and hoping this is going to be cool?

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[hermette.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. I started crying as soon as I heard Jo's voice on that video. Who said over-invested?

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

*pets*

I still haven't see 7th movie... have no one to see 8th movie with... I'm trying not to get crazy over it but I'm so invested. shit.

*hugs*

JKR I will eat up your table scraps. *clicks every owl in site sight*

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

I started crying as soon as I heard Jo's voice on that video.

+1

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering for a few weeks now!

From what she said, I guess it's just a place where she could share the behind the scenes stories about the things that makes up the Harry Potter universe - like an interactive encyclopaedia of sorts.

ETA: It's probably a HP fandom community too. :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

An interactive encyclopaedia of 'horded' stuff? Like:

BY THE WAY DRACO'S MIDDLE NAME IS CASSIOPIA???

As much as that shit is annoying when it messes with your head canon, one thing it does is KEEP FANDOM ALIVE with new ideas and new things to talk about.

I hate that her interviews said stuff like 'Teddy is not a werewolf' (because I happen to like wolfy!Teddy but facts at least give us more and more to build on!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Maggie, it's nothing to be excited over. An interactive game. Some McGonagall background. And supposedly 180,000 words of new content not in a book. I could give a fuck about any of this. Really disappointed.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

lol - I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not. :/

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling it's going to be "cleaned-up" fanfiction and fanart. No slash there, I'm afraid. ;)

It surely will change canon discussions. *iz afraid of this*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

No slash there, I'm afraid.
LOL - *puts away my pom poms*

but seriously - I think we all know that it not going to be 'click this owl to find out that missing scene with Harry and Draco stuck in the broom closet'

(clearly SOMEONE FROM FANDOM needs to build a potterwhore.com to provide this)

but new facts... idek... I think it could be good for fandom. HP fandom is certainly thriving but a shot in the arm of new things to talk about? new facts to get plot bunnies hoping?

Not a bad thing, in my books.

[chrodoara.livejournal.com]

Its basically an interactive ebook, extra info about the Harry Potter world and people and a sorta RPG where we all can be students of Hogwarts and get sorted and all that lot. Im still kinda excited about the whole thing even though the announcement didnt really live up to its hype~

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think the whole thing is marketing genius and I'm very interested in it from THAT perspective. LOL. But also I'm pretty grabby hands about the ~extra info.

though that might not live up to its hype too.

I gotta admire JKR for milking this for all it's worth knowing how to keep the franchise alive and fresh.

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

IDEK. I'm watching the first movie and pretending not to cry.

*no emotional investment here, not at all*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

I can't watch the first movies... they are too adorable and cheesy and then I feel the guilt for slathering up their olderselves and shoving them in the room of requirement for filthy sex.

[ariannagray.livejournal.com]

What I think it is going to be: A place for canon compliant fanart, a community for the fans maybe incorporating some kind of game (I read something about the possibility of being sorted, getting a wand...), some new background stories from JKR and, of course, a shop.

Honestly, I just think they are trying to keep the franchise alive, now that the last film is about to hit the cinemas.

Btw. the guys from the-leaky-couldron.org have been tweeting quite a bit about it: https://twitter.com/#!/leaky
And if you check out "2. About Pottermore" you can find a not very specific definition of the website: http://www.pottermore.com/en/terms-and-conditions

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! awesome. :)

Oh... being sorted... that would be cool. Every attempt I've ever made at being sorted resulted in me being told I was a squib and unsortable!!! OH THE TRAUMA!!

Honestly, I just think they are trying to keep the franchise alive, now that the last film is about to hit the cinemas.
Most certainly!!! But we benefit from it (I hope) as we have a stake in the franchise being alive == fandom being alive.

While fandom is doing ~fine. There is a lot to be said for new info/new stuff to talk about in general giving us a good shot in the arm. (even if it's just to inspire us to write fic about how those new facts ARE SO WRONG.

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

JK Rowling Projects = TEH KEWL

Seriously, I cannot wait. If she read the Edinburgh phone book, I'd think it was cool.

Yes, I'm a geek. :P

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

HAHAH! That's hilarious. Please JKR post your grocery list every week and we will squee. LOL

[maya231.livejournal.com]

I love the paper art in the announcement.

I was reading yesterday that it might be a scavenger hunt with real wands and quills as prizes, but the announcement sounds like it will be a place to keep the HP hypeexcitement going and be a centralized marketing place for ebooks, etc. It may mean JKR is more interested in staying with HP and playing with the backstory she's been "hoarding" than moving on to something new. JKR=HP fan!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

JKR=HP fan!

hee!!! YAY!!! Yup, I agree it just sounds like she's just not ready to leave, though in the process she's essentially creating a new way of experiencing a book post-publishing. sort of a dvd-extra type of thing where you push up sale after everything is said and done but giving little 'gifts' to fans. :)

and I loved the paper art too. gorgeous.

[snegurochka_lee]

I'm just glad it's not Facebook for HP fen, like some were worried it would be. :/

*cheers the new writing* I totally agree with you that it will be awesome to have new views from her on the characters, in terms of giving us fresh material to fic/art it up with, but also being a bit scared, because, ugh, don't mess with our fanon, yo. :)

And it is smart of her to keep things going. Even in LJ circles, I've seen Kids These Days saying things like they only got into HP after the 6th movie, and still haven't read books 1-5, and stuff. o_O. If she can get a new generation back into the canon, that would be awesome!

♥

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

ugh!!! I hadn't heard about the facebook idea. :/ DNW!

But new words are cool. even if they aren't of direct interest... it's still nice to have something to be excited about. :) I love adrenaline rushes. Woot!

I really hope Kids These Days will fall in love with fandom and TURN TO THE BOOKS. It's all about the BOOKS YOU CRAZY KIDS. :/

[anna-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Hi Rita!! It looks to me that it will be both a place of more canon/backstory, which will be good for fandom (plot bunnies, debates, more to go on in many cases with side characters), and also a place for AU. If fans like us are shaping the stories, that means we are getting to pick backstory, and it seems she must have a place for different permutations of things.

Like, if Pottermore opens Fabian Prewett's backstory, 500 people will write it, and then 1,000 more can write a fic set in any one of those versions of backstory. That is what I think it will be, with JKR herself writing some of the backstories.

There will be romance, I am sure, and zero explicit anything, but I wonder if slash of the pg level will be allowed if het is. I mean, simply relationship getting together stories, or past loves.... yes, I would guess that gay love and pining would have to be as welcome as het.

I don't think it's any different than what we already do, lol! But we'd be great at building it. I hope some of us participate; we have so much experience building out characters and new plots with canon as our guide.

And hi!!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Hi Anna!!! *glomps* lovely to see you around - I see you've been writing! good for you!

And yeah - I think this might be kinda cool. Might be .. nothing much of interest but idek - I still think it's pretty cool to learn bits and bobs of characters.

but I wonder if slash of the pg level will be allowed if het is.
I doubt it. Maybe if canon has character as gay, but taking a 'portrayed as straight' character and portraying them as gay would likely not be acceptable in that type of forum. :/

[venivincere]

I'm really sad, actually... because I know that a couple years ago I would have been so invested in this, but now... I'm not. Whatever it turns out to be, I hope it's good and what everyone would want it to be, but I get this niggling feeling in the back of my head that the ship has already sailed and run her course. It may sail again, but briefly, and will be attacked by pirates almost immediately. :-( I miss my enthusiasm for HP. It was such a driving and creative force in my life. Merlin's doing it for me now, but I forsee a time when that gets old, too, and something new will take its place. Not for awhile yet, though, I hope.

/sad

[lilyginny27.livejournal.com]

Well, I was going to comment, but you said everything I planned to say about it. LOL! So.... iawtc. :D

On that note, I don't WANT to get invested in another of her Potter endeavors. Yes, I love the universe she created, but I'm kinda burnt out on it and need to move on with my life. If she's such a prolific writer, why doesn't she herself move on and show she can do something outside of this universe? It's not like she needs the money continuing it would generate. I feel like I should start calling her our generation's Harper Lee.



Merlin makes me happy in the still blond/still black hair doing it sort of way, but without all the 'oh my god pedophile perv guilt' associated with it. LOL!

[ineffably-roma.livejournal.com]

OMG Maggie Let's Dance and Twirl and throw Confetti!!!

Okay.....I'm a bit excited. LOL

Canon is not dead, which is a good thing for fandom. It was beginning to echo...

[faithwood.livejournal.com]

CAN I DANCE WITH YOU GUYS?

*picks you and twirls you around*

It was beginning to echo...

YES. OH YES.

[http://users.livejournal.com/maybelater__/]

it sounds kinda boring. Like it's just an officially sponsored internet forum.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

yes, but an officially sponsored internet forum with more stories and info and tidbits from JKR which for me ... means canon isn't dead yet. :D

[joan-waterhouse.livejournal.com]

I can't seem to concentrate on thinking about what it actually is over the noise of IT'S NOT OVER YET! in my head. :D

Sounds like a sort of text based role playing game thingy. But I don't know, really.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

YAYAY!!!!

IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT OVER YET!

hee. I'm just happy it's got everyone talking. :)