So I've just watched J.K Rowling's announcement and boy am I excited! 
 
I've been a huge fan of the books since they were launched (11 years ago already mind you) and have not turned back soon. Constantly re-reading, listening to and watching anything to do with Harry Potter! This announcement comes as somewhat of a surprise as well as somewhat of a relief that J.K is re-visiting the Harry Potter universe but not as we know or would expect!   

If you don't know what I'm on about head HERE or HERE to find out more!

i heard about this last week a few days after having camped overnight for midnight tickets for the 8th movie. mind you, i did so with 2 other friends and we got balcony tickets to the best theater in the state and balcony is top premier seating for those 21 and older. it's definitely worth it. lol but i saw a post on twitter about this and told my friends. we started speculating that it would be either a whole new series of stories either telling of the magic war years before or of tales beyond the years of harry's days with his kids and then other's or even a whole new storyline with all new people. didn't expect something like this though. real interested to find out what all secrets will finally be shared. did sortof expect the ebooks stuff though. was rumored to be happening for the last few months so good thing it's finally happening.

I like HP and all... But I dunno.

@Rolyatkcinmai: dunno what? not feelin the whole i'm gonna add in more info to the story that i've been holding back all this time deal?

I like HP and all... But I dunno.

It doesn't explain what it really is though.

@Rolyatkcinmai: dunno what? not feelin the whole i'm gonna add in more info to the story that i've been holding back all this time deal?

This seema like a cool thing for the fans.

If you like the potter movies and live in Norway you might wanna go to oslo soon. One of the best theatres in oslo just announced the Harry Potterton. They're gonna show all the movies in a rowwith 20 minute breaks between them.
Thats 21 hours of potter!
L

I really didn't think anyone gave a shit about Harry Potter anymore. I must just be getting old...

An entire weeks build up for what is, in essence, an official wiki.

If I was a fan, I'd be pissed. But I'm not, and I find the entire series basically horseshit, so it doesn't bother me. Shame for the fanbase though. Why something decent can't have a fanbase like these (fairly poorly written) books, I don't know. It's a shame, makes me a little sad about literature, and it's state in the world.

And then Twilight happened, and that got way way worse.

But seriously - a wiki. Wow.

So is it like an MMO, I'm confused

@Tylea002 said:

(fairly poorly written)

Really now, if you don't like the books fine but as an avid reader that is BS those books are engaging and some of the Most Well Written books put out there, the books themselves even matured as the original readers did it got progressively darker and the characters went with it, you can hate em but Poorly written they are not.

This seema like a cool thing for the fans. If you like the potter movies and live in Norway you might wanna go to oslo soon. One of the best theatres in oslo just announced the Harry Potterton. They're gonna show all the movies in a rowwith 20 minute breaks between them. Thats 21 hours of potter! L

Man, I read those books a shitload of times when they each came out. Now I listen to them on audiobook (with Stephen Fry) when I work, and it's pretty neat. Some of the magic (punned!?) has gone, but that's to be expected. Not sure about this whole thing, though. It's basically a glorified Wiki-site right?

It's a shame it's just an interactive website. A Harry Potter MMO would be awesome if they did it right.

I'm bummed it's not a new book...I kinda feel this is a blow to people who have been working on HP wikis up to this point. Who knows...I'll check it out when it opens.

It sounds like the Call of Duty Elite of books. Poorly explained and not really anything new.

While it's not surprising that it's more Harry Potter, I'm a little surprised it's not that aftermath book she mentioned once or twice about where all the different characters ended up after the last book.

Interactive website?

Mjeh.

I don't believe. Then again  I'm not truly a Potter fan either.

Most people I know stopped caring about Harry Potter around the time the 4th movie came out. 
 
Looking back on it, my frantic reading of the books some 4 years ago seems quite shitty now that I've started reading much better books.

Most people I know stopped caring about Harry Potter around the time the 4th movie came out.  Looking back on it my frantic reading of the books some 4 years ago seems quite shitty now that I've started reading much better books.

Here's hoping she'll finally tie up all the loose ends she promised to reveal in the last book and never did. 

Figured she was announcing a spin off book. Interactive website? WTF?

@ShaggE said:

Here's hoping she'll finally tie up all the loose ends she promised to reveal in the last book and never did.

Which ones? : D

I clicked on the title of this thread expecting a Harry Potter/Paramore musical fusion

@Aronman789 said:

Most people I know stopped caring about Harry Potter around the time the 4th movie came out.  Looking back on it my frantic reading of the books some 4 years ago seems quite shitty now that I've started reading much better books.

This. Although it is a very good childrens series.

Hermione should be topless.
 
What. That's a perfectly valid point to make in any conversation.

 They're gonna show all the movies in a rowwith 20 minute breaks between them. Thats 21 hours of potter! L

So... it really is a just a fancied up wiki?

Only the first four books are ... good? They're ok. After that she got her fame and realized she could write anything at all and sell it. Potter 5 is so bad, it's almost unreadable. I understand your character is going through adolescence. But fucking capslock? Page after page of it?

@ShaggE said:

Here's hoping she'll finally tie up all the loose ends she promised to reveal in the last book and never did.

Which ones? : D

@DeeGee said:

@ShaggE said:

Here's hoping she'll finally tie up all the loose ends she promised to reveal in the last book and never did.

Which ones? : D

Oh god, I don't even remember offhand, haha. 

I just wanted a new book.

@ShaggE said:

@DeeGee said:

@ShaggE said:

Here's hoping she'll finally tie up all the loose ends she promised to reveal in the last book and never did.

Which ones? : D

Oh god, I don't even remember offhand, haha. 

There weren't any. Those were just huge plot holes.

I haven't read the books ,  I like the movies .... but why all the bashing? Is she really that bad a writer? Or is it fame hate? What I have seen seems decent enough

I don't understand the bashing either. Sure the later books got darker and got increasingly more convoluted, but they were brilliantly written at least. JK is a good author, well, she became one. The first three or so books are actually hard to read, it feels like something I'd find on a slash fiction website, it terms of writing skill.

@Ragdrazi said:

@DeeGee: Brilliantly written? Book 5 was brilliantly written? Capslock Harry was a brilliant literary choice? Yes, I ABSOLUTELY THINK YOU ARE CORRECT! AND SO I'M GOING TO KEEP ON WRITING LIKE THIS. RWARG! I AM A BRILLIANT WRITER!!!!

RAWR LET'S FOCUS ON ONE THING FOR WHEN A CHARACTER IS SHOUTING AND NOT THE REST OF THE BOOK!!!21Q11SHIFT+ONE

J K Rowling is fanfic writer who got lucky.

@Ragdrazi said:

@DeeGee: RWARG! MAKING A CHOICE AS GLARINGLY BAD AS TO HAVE YOUR MAIN CHARACTER SPEAK IN CAPSLOCK FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME REALLY IS INDICATIVE OF THE OVERALL QUALITY OF THE WRITING IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES AS A WHOLE. EVEN YOU YOURSELF POINT OUT THE PLOT CONTRIVANCES. WHAT'S LEFT? CHARACTER? AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT IN THIS THREAD ALREADY, SEVERAL IMPORTANT CHARACTER MOMENTS SEEMED TO HAVE NO POINT OR PURPOSE WITHIN THE STORY. THAT'S NOT BRILLIANT WRITING. SO NOT NARRATIVE OR CHARACTER. SO DESCRIPTION? I THINK YOU AND I CAN BOTH AGREE THERE SHE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN AVERAGE. SO WHY DEFEND HER, RWARG?

SHE'S SMOKIN' HOT, DAWG

I wish I had half the money JK Rowling has. Fuck.