Screengrab from What's going on with Harry Potter and his friends? Rowling published a new short story with updates on the lives of the main characters of the past seven books on her fan site. Pottermore was also aware that the readership for this content goes beyond Pottermore users, and an eBook short format reaches this general audience.Harry Potter fans woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning.

Additionally, there are significant advantages to reading content on an eBook platform compared to a website - such as the ability to resume reading the at the exact place you last stopped. For some, the convenience of having thematically linked writing available in a low-priced, attractively packaged eBook short is appealing. At Pottermore, we were aware that some readers didn’t have the ability to access the content they wanted, in a way that suits them. 'As Rowling suggests, there was a demand for this electronic format.

Pottermore underwent a revamp earlier this year ahead of the release of new writing to support the forthcoming film, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - itself based on a short book Rowling published alongside her seven Harry Potter novels in 2001 - but with the result that some writing was no longer as easy to locate as on the original website.Ī Pottermore spokesperson told The Telegraph: The author replied: “We had many, many requests to make the extra writing available in this format.” Another prompted Rowling to response after asking: “why would y'all make info already available for free on pottermore into ebooks?” One posted on Twitter: “is it me, or is there not that much new info in the HP shorts that isn't already on Pottermore for free?”.

Readers were quick to notice the lack of new information in the books after their release. While the other “original” chapters from Rowling on Professor Slughorn, the man who gave Lord Voldemort his lethal secret and Animagi, those humans who can transform into animals, don’t exist on Pottermore, they are not full of entirely new information, either - zealous fans have compiled similar accounts from previous Rowling and Pottermore publications on sites such as the Harry Potter Wiki page. The majority of the chapter on Hogwarts teacher, and later headteacher, Professor McGonagall, can still be found on the Pottermore website, with just 660 words written anew by the author. However, although Pottermore promised “original, never-seen-before” writing from Rowling would comprise certain chapters, there is little that fans have not known before.

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