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Pottermore! Harry Porter has made an appearance after being away for 7 years.In a new book by author JK Rowling,the new Harry is all grown up with a couple of silver lines in his jet black hair and he also has a cut on his cheek.But have no fear,Harry looks the
same especially with the trade mark round glasses still present.The new book was published on the site Pottermore.com on tuesday,and as you can imagine,crashed the site!
The new story finds Harry and his wife, Ginny, attending the Quidditch World Cup, accompanied by the married pair of Ron and Hermione.
Harry, we learn, is still called "the Chosen One" by the wizarding world because of his dual encounters with the dark lord Voldemort: the first as a baby, and the last in the final battle of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He is 34, starting to go gray, and still wearing the same rounded glasses of his youth. He brings his two sons, James and Albus, to visit the players and their mother, who is reporting on the matches.
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| JK Rowling new Harry Porter Book. Image by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty |
Ron and Hermione are still married. Ron's hair is thinning and he has left the Ministry of Magic to work with his brother George at the family owned joke shop. Hermione, Rowling reminds, is still the "femme fatale" of the group. Hermione has ascended the ranks at the Ministry of Magic and she and Ron have two children.
There are even a brief appearances of a few important minor characters. Victor Krum—the man who competed against Potter in quidditch and almost seduced Hermione in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire—is now playing again in the World Cup. Neville Longbottom is married, and so is Luna Lovegood, who is still the manic-pixie dream girl of the Potter universe.Bill Weasley is married to Fleur Delacour.
J.K. Rowling published her new short story about the Harry Potter universe this morning on her fan website Pottermore. In 2011, J.K. Rowling launched Pottermore as a way to say thank you to her fans. In the introductory video, Rowling declared it "an online reading experience unlike any other." It was also the only place to purchase e-books and audio books. Rowling says the idea behind the site was that the digital generation could experience the books and participate in the story behind the written word.
The site was interactive, built for one of the biggest fan-bases in literature. The Harry Potter books were the best-selling book series in history selling between 400 and 450 million copies. The movies became the highest grossing series ever to be produced raking in $7.7billion dollars!! wow!! The launch of Pottermore allowed J.K. Rowling to maintain control over electronic purchases, but she also promised that she would "be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter." Here, three years later, is a piece of that story..