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I feel like the first website that ever really gave me a good understanding of what digital story telling was was definitely the website, Pottermore.com. For those who have no idea what that even means, Pottermore is a digital story telling website that focuses on the unknown parts of the Harry Potter series by re-telling the iconic tale in an interactive, visually stimulating way. I had read most of the Harry Potter books when I was younger so when I had heard about the launch of the Pottermore website, I and my sisters practically had ourselves simultaneous conniptions. It was completely nerve-tingling the first time visiting the website. Before the site had only been open to a certain number of people globally who had, I guess, auditioned or had pleaded for an exclusive Pottermore insider position. Course I and my sister’s weren’t as fortunate to land ourselves an elite position, but on August 4th, 2009, J.K. Rowling had announced she was opening the site up to everyone, after almost six months of being initially released.
Pottermore.com is really quite great, you’re able to sort yourself into your own Hogwarts house, collect magical objects, cast and learn spells, all while learning interactively about the insides of the Harry Potter stories. I remember logging in almost everyday, multiple times even to see how I was doing in my house and the game or what else I could be doing to improve my character’s ranks. I got really obsessed for a while there, slowly though, with more homework and responsibilities falling in my lap, I had to pull away from my Pottermore obsession. Now I really only visit the website to see if it still remembers my account, thankfully it does. Even after all this time… which is why I recommend you now to visit, maybe sign up an account, and witness the excellence of the digital story telling masterpiece that is Pottermore.com.
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