Go to the site to see this article, there are pictures that I didn't feel like horsing around with trying to host somewhere.
Erin • 3 hours ago
I want the old site back. This new one seems cheap and it's not easy to navigate. I didn't get to completely go through all the illustrations either and I'm very disappointed it's gone.
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Tals KeyOak • 8 hours ago
If JKR really believes in the Magic she writes about, what she hoped to create for all to feel, she will certainly direct those in charge to revisit this whole new PotterMore decision. If she Is now more interested in money over Magic...... well then... what we have is what we'll get.
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Miss Padfoot • 9 hours ago
The original Pottermore was touted as an interactive experience, along with new background info. It was a whimsical, magical place where you could find people from all walks of life, spanning generations and continents. I came for the new content and stayed for the new friends. Some people say that the chatting and gaming got out of hand, the trolls certainly did get out of hand, but it was still enjoyable, despite its faults.
The creators of the website were clearly surprised by the masses descending on their site (Though I wonder why if they did their marketing homework) and that has been a major problem from the beginning. Deleting the comments was the fist "improvement", and yes, it drastically cut back on trolling. If I amputate my leg, I won't feel a rusted nail in my toe any more, either... yet I'd still recommend removing the nail and treating the wound, instead...
Now they have deleted everything except a few random pieces of Moment artwork and original writing - and even those are very hard to find, because they are drowned in movie stills, the worst quotes they could find (without even proper sources, sometimes), and lots of advertising. It's frustrating to navigate, even for an avid reader like me, without any sort if navigation or index, and gets boring very quickly. on the old Pottermore, one could spend hours doing different things, interacting with the website and other users, now it seems sterile and unimaginative. Who cares what the people creating the website thought about colour-coding pages, if there is essentially nothing contained IN those pages? The website in its current format could have been added to the preexisting one and been a great success. Instead, Pottermore has flummoxed and alienated millions of fans for the sake of more movie publicity.
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Pandoxia • 10 hours ago
I dont even know where to login anymore...-_-
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SomebunnyRandom Pandoxia • 9 hours ago
There is no place to log in. Pottermore says they will eventually return the ability to make accounts, although whether this means we will all have to get new usernames and be resorted remains to be seen. :/
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Eileen Souza • 12 hours ago
I'm an old old Pottermore user and I miss the old site. I loved the fact that it was so interactive and you really felt like you were participating. I looked at the new site yesterday and was horrfied--all that fun is gone. Now it's more like reading product descriptions on any commercial site.
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Joyce Eileen Souza • 9 hours ago
I totally agree. I am also an old user but also a mother of two children who love the old Pottermore site as well. My daughter was upset that she never got to finish the interactive moments. Please bring back the original content! I was sorely disappointed in what I found on the new site. What made it special for fans is gone. They could do so much better.
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Amanda • 13 hours ago
My 9 year old was really getting into Pottermore. She loved finding the beans and frog cards and can't believe it's all just gone! How can they just scrap it all and replace it with something so ordinary? Does anyone know of anything similar my daughter could play instead, she's really disappointed.
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Sahand • 18 hours ago
You're absolutely right
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Jeffrey M Oman • a day ago
updating the ORIGINAL Pottermore, working out bugs, adding new immersive INTERACTIVE content seems most logical, and that is why it no longer exists. It is a fansite at best, a bootleg book at worst. i loved the art of the old site, and most of all the INTERACTIVE elements, which have gotten much better. it should have been developed further along the ORIGINAL mission statement and concept. Make it an app that charges a fee per book, i would have bought all 7!! at once, in a heartbeat... I buy all the books (like creature shop, magical places, etc) so I don't need a website giving a cursory glance of some of the content found in those books. Millions visit the studio tour and the theme park, which has gotten so popular that it has been expanded and cloned.. Clearly there is a desire for the immersion & interaction of those experiences, so does it not follow that there should be a digital immersive, interactive location in cyber space to give the fans what they GLADLY pay for on a daily basis in England, U.S. (2 locations), and Japan? Would it not stand to reason that an immersive interactive cyber space would draw this kind of attention? Especially if it is EXPANDED and UPDATED --maybe a version of Pottermore for Playstation that is an App for tablets, phones, and computers?
Instead Pottermore becomes Potterless, taking an action that makes me think that the OLD Pottermore is like Defense Against the Dark Arts with Lupin, meanwhile the "new" Pottermore/Potterless is like Defense Against the Dark Arts with Umbridge.
All the time and money it took to pave "paradise and put up a parking lot"
could have gone to improvements and additions to the original Pottermore.
I SOOOOOOOO hope someone has cached all the original files and will put up a secret Dumbledore's Army version of the original site as it was, which is still heaps better than the current snooze-fest #Potterless
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Eileen Souza Jeffrey M Oman • 11 hours ago
I agree
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RandomChickwholovesharry • a day ago
I wish they kept the old one and added things to it rather than shut it down completely I wasn't finished with all the games and the interactive version of the story and I dont like the layout of the new one!! this is so damn annoying! I mean come on let us have fun and learn while on Pottermore!!
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Ichinisa Nekoii • a day ago
i hate this new pottermore, if i want to read information about harry potter theres a lot of fansites that arrange information in a more convenient way, while i didnt use the other site that much i will definitely not use this one, there was magic in it, there was a sense of being in a community, i do hope it doesnt stay like this for long
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Ryan Marcey • a day ago
Honestly though, most of those old things took forever to get to an even barely functioning state and the average user of the site just made an account to blast through the first chapters, get a wand and sorting and never looked at the site again. From what I could tell, very few people used the site continuously and if they did come back, they just came back for the new writings, if they could even remember the silly name they were given that included random numbers for some reason. All the quizzes are apparently coming back and from what I remember that's what the majority of people were even excited for int he first place, plus the new info. I really can't see how people were excited by wizard duelling over and over again using the only spell that worked, or waiting 3 hours for a potion to brew just to come back and mis-click once because flash lagged and lose all their ingredients.Now it will just be a hub for the new info, plus act as a sort of wiki, and the features that were actually used ont he site will eventually return, plus a Patronus quiz. It may be an unpopular opinion among die-hard fans that continued to use Pottermoe, but for those that are even just slightly less interested than fanatic status, this is a much more intuitive and enjoyable experience.
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Mary Misasi Ryan Marcey • a day ago
I agree. I wasn't really into the old setup because I felt it was more about games and activities which unlocked content. I couldn't get through some of the games and such because I am not very skilled in it so for the most part I got sorted and barely ever came back. I like that this new site is going to bring back the sorting, wand assignment, and add a patronus test. I also like the combination of wiki information and JK Rowling writings. I love learning new things which means this site is perfect for me.
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CharmSeeker24822 • a day ago
I'm very sad that the old Pottermore got taken away. I miss my wand, my house, the potions classes, the dueling, the exploration, EVERYTHING about the old site. Sure, they're bringing in a Patronus Quiz, but that doesn't even START to replace what they've taken away. We were a community that bonded over the friendly rivalry between houses, joined forces to find everything we could in the explore the book sections, commiserated over how difficult some of the potions were, they've taken all that away. And now I can't even find anything on the new site. The old site was easier to navigate, it was FUN. It was MAGICAL. This new site just . . . isn't. I want my account back. I want my House. I want my wand. I was a Hufflepuff. I had a 10 3/4 in Hornbeam wand with a Unicorn Hair core. I'm not a fan of this 'update'. I really don't want to go back on Pottermore anymore. They took all the magic out of it.
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Silverdoe25 • a day ago
I think this whole thing came down to money. Sony had huge dollar signs in their eyes at original development, thinking that Pottermore was going to be some kind of cash cow for their new e-reader. But they came into the game way too late. So when profits didn't appear, their support and backing dried up. It then became a rush to get the book moments out ASAP and abandon ship. The site just didn't live up to original plan or expectation. I will admit I quickly went anytime new moments appeared, savoring all the wonderful artwork and new info. But I certainly wasn't hanging around dueling or brewing potions (real life; real job) or chatting in the anonymous common room. I just don't think the site fulfilled whatever its original vision was. I was sorely disappointed by the limited moments in the longest books. I think I'm still missing JKR's original web site more...
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EmeraldSilver • a day ago
My personal opinion on this matter can be boiled down to a single word: RUDE.
Give me my account back!
I want my Hazel wand with its Dragon core and 12 ½ inches back!
I am a Slytherin and I am upset. This is not a drill. Siriously. Bring it back.
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Meganne • a day ago
I HATE the new pottermore!
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JanEllie Morr • a day ago
THEY GOT RID OF THE SORTING HAT???? As a 52 year old woman I waited with my heart in my throat to find out what I already knew in my heart - GRYFFINDOR! I turned to my husband with tears in my eyes, "I knew it."
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Leah • a day ago
The changes honestly make mugglenet by far better
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Laura Haley • a day ago
I may not have played on Pottermore much because I got busy with my life, but I completely agree with this article. It's literally nothing more than a fansite now with a lot of annoying articles that sound like something that would be posted by BuzzFeed. I would guess about 80% of Potterheads are extremely unhappy with the change. Yeah, we may get sorting and wand choosing back eventually, but it's never going to be as interactive as it was before. It's downgraded to something like the Harry Potter wiki, which is pretty sad. Which is why I decided to join HexRPG, which was similar to Pottermore minus having to go through the storylines. You can go to classes and get points for doing homework. You get sorted. There's also roleplaying threads.
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veronikahwanders • a day ago
They should have done a mix of the two. This one is easier for Jo to put up new info and for fans to quickly read new stuff without having to discover them and such, but the older one was what made Pottermore, Pottermore. You know? It was magical. It made me connect with my inner potterhead deeper and it was thanks to it that I found my Hogwarts house and dammit if I say that wasn't like a door being opened to me!
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Linwe • a day ago
I'm kind of in the minority because I couldn't stand the old site. I enjoyed the Sorting (which is apparently coming back) but I hated having to play through all the interactive aspects to get to JKR's new writing/background for characters. The last time I even bothered was around Book 3...after that I would wait until someone else copied and pasted the new info onto a different site. Now I don't have to sign in, and I can get to the new writing without playing anything.
I never really cared about House cups or earning points or anything like that either. I'm sure the new site has glitches (haven't been on it much) but there's already a ton more info about James's family than there was on the old site. Like the author said, the only reason to go is the new info, but that was the only reason I ever went to the old site too. But the old site made it nearly impossible to do only that.
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Kathleen Gaylynn • a day ago
i think the new site has some good stuff, but why couldn't that be integrated into the old site. Have both. i miss the old site.
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Astra Holt • a day ago
It looks like just another HP fan site, no different from any other. It used to be a magical place. I am sad.
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Vicky McKinley • a day ago
I think it is terrible and completely redundant to other news and fan sites. And, there seems to be much more of a profit motive (more "suggestions" about things you might like to buy embedded in the content). Let's start a movement to bring back the original Pottermore!!!
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Rachel Dvorak • a day ago
I'm starting to feel like the Pottermore team is 'damned if they do, damned if they don't'. I can't count the number of times I heard fans complain about the old Pottermore site. "It's too glitchy", "the games are for little kids", "I don't like having to search for chocolate frog cards during the serious moments", "It needs to be more mature". They change that, and now everyone's complaining again. I understand some of the complaints, languages especially. And, I agree that they need better organization. But, let's be honest, the main reason most people went on Pottermore was 1. to get a wand/get sorted (those tests will be returning. It says so very clearly in the Pottermore welcome message) and 2. To read the new info by JKR. It seems like the team took those two popular aspects of the site and started to focus the entire site around those things. Also, this way, JK Rowling does have more freedom to release what she wants when she wants to release it. She doesn't have to wait for the graphic arts team to flesh out the moment before new backstories are introduced, she doesn't have to follow the order of the seven books. Now, could this new site stand some improvement? Absolutely! They definitely need better organization of the information. I also am really hoping the listicles will go away when they get more original content from JKR or news about the movies/play. I also hope that the movie stills go away in favor of new artwork based solely on the descriptions from the book. But, let's not be so quick to scream for the old site back before we even really give the new one a chance. No doubt, they'll fix a lot of the issues and, soon, we'll all be enjoying the new format. Just give it a chance! It might surprise you!
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Leia Shorney • a day ago
I read the article that introduces the new website. And they want to know what we think about it. So lets tell them!
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James • a day ago
So my fiance and I just re-watched the Harry Potter series, and after all these years we were like "Okay, we're finally gonna join Pottermore!" Then, wow... literally the day I decide to register is the day Pottermore updated.
We now have this idea that J.K Rowling had a prophesy that foretold of our coming and that she would need to change Pottermore to prevent us from joining it.
"*WHEEZE* THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH GAYS WHO ARE INTERTWINED SHALL FINISH THE HARRY POTTER SERIES ONCE MOOORE, *WHEEZE* AAAND AFTERWARDS THEY SHALL ATTEMPT TO JOIN POTTERMOOOOOOOORE, ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT IT IS NO MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE *WHEEZE*"
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HA! James • a day ago
Sucks to suck bro!
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Kira • a day ago
Is it just me, or has Pottermore removed the sign-in feature as well? I can't seem to access my account at all!!!
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Michelle C. Kira • a day ago
Yes, the sign in feature and the book inspired pages have all been removed, as well as the Potions class, and spell casting activities. It's been completely overhauled.
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Alvie Michelle C. • a day ago
But if you read it it says it will be bringing the sorting hat back so we can find out what house we belong to, give wands back, and they will be adding patronuses
. so maybe once they start bringing some more interactive stuff again this new site wont suck as bad. heres hoping atleast.
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Laura Haley Alvie • a day ago
I believe the three things you named are literally the only semi interactive things we'll be getting. I could be wrong, but it seems like it's just going to be mainly stuff for reading.
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Anon • a day ago
Pottermore need to catagorize things. It's a big mess as it is now. There's also writings missing from the old site. The QWC reports aren't on there and neither is some other pieces. It all feels incomplete and rushed. They need to do some major work on the current format. They also need to draw a line between book and movie content. The two don't mesh because they're different canons.
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Isabeau • a day ago
Pottermore was an important part of many who still are emotionally invested in HP, and who loved the special feeling that you got interacting with all of the different sections, being able to delve deep and feel like you could still live the joy that only HP brings. But now...It's like we've been told we're not important.
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Clorissa Rene' Brown • a day ago
I'm extremely disappointed in the new site. Really hoping for some improvements.
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Stephanie Nostwick • a day ago
Do you guys remember universal's old site? The message boards for each of the houses? That was better than Pottermore, in my opinion. Also, the old Harry Potter Lexicon was a favorite of mine. . .
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Steelsheen • 2 days ago
this article pretty much nailed everything I felt about the redesign of the site. Yeah I appreciate that it's accessible on mobile now but there's so much that it seemed to have lost. I hope they're working on converting the interactive elements and re-incorporate them back in some form, because now Pottermore is a far cry of its former self, and looks like a bland version of Buzzfeed or Nerdist.
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Se' • 2 days ago
I don't like it!! It's not interactive like the old Pottermore. You were able to collect items, earn points for your house and all. Now it's just a bunch of reading. While it's cool to be able to learn a lot more about the characters and other elements of the series, I like the interactive part of the old Pottermore site. I'll still read everything in the site though lol
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Kacie H. • 2 days ago
I really enjoyed having the special login name I got in the beta. I liked going through the stories again when new content was added. I liked being sorted and having a house page that only Gryffindors could see. I enjoyed the art and content. I do not like the redesign on the New Pottermore. I hate that my profile is just gone. I got lucky by going on the site right before they deleted everything and being able to print out the certificate with my previous info on it. I am so sad that the magic of the community is gone. I don't even enjoy finding the new info on New Pottermore, it is mixed in and not easy to locate.
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md1979 • 2 days ago
I find the new site beyond disappointing. As other commentators have noted - the magic is gone. It was fun to log into the old pottermore under your site nickname and explore the world of HP. I loved the book walk throughs especially. I read the books a few years ago, and discovering each 'moment' was why I came to the site. And finding the random beans and frog cards was amusing and fun! I only got to book 4 in the walk through and I absolutely loved the nuggets of new writing from JKR that were discoverable through the moments. Now it makes me kind of sad that I won't be able to read those new tidbits.
The new site is terribly generic - and the LISTS! Please, someone, make them stop!!! Why on earth would you copy buzzfeed?! Most HP fans love the originality of the books... aping the format of another website is borderline insulting,
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HowlMidnight • 2 days ago
It's a sad day for me. Pottermore membership meant something to me, and I'm not a child by any means. I stayed up late and answered questions to get that membership when it first came out. Being sorted in Ravenclaw and getting my wand has meaning to me, but now it's all gone. I have no profile in Pottermore. I didn't need my user name to get in, it's like I didn't exist to Pottermore community anymore.
I'm in shock and sad at the loss of Pottermore. It's no longer special or meaningful.
I do enjoy the new info from JKR, but not liking the movies mixed in, not liking the format, just not liking it....
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YBereneth HowlMidnight • a day ago
It's not like you or me don't exist to Pottermore community anymore, it's more like the Pottermore community stopped existing at all.
When I saw the new page I soon started to feel like Voldemort finally managed to close Hogwarts - or at least exspell all Muggle borns.
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Kate/Kili • 2 days ago
Absolutely correct; I loved Pottermore as it was, though I stopped potion-brewing and dueling years ago. There's no magic to this new design. :(
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Mike Trimm • 2 days ago
Yeah I really hate the redesign. It's hard to use, over simplistic, and the games were fun. The new site has no order, is full of chaos, and quite frankly, I hate the mix between the movies (which butchered the books) and the books.
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Alive285 • 2 days ago
I feel the same way about this redesign as I did about J.K. Rowling's official website's post-Potter redesign. The MAGIC - what made it so unique - is gone.
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Mama_Slytherin • 2 days ago
Personally I like it. I could do without the list things, but the rest of it I like. For one, it seems more driven by JKR and less by Sony or anyone else. It is mobile compatable, which for someone like me whose laptop has gone to electronic heaven, is great. They have said they will bring back sorting and wands too. Personally, I never had time for potions and all that and the glitches were annoying at best, curse inducing at worst (is that why my laptop broke? Too many curses muttered at it?). Personally I found the safety net of protecting identity got in the way of any real community building on the old Pottermore. And as the rest of the books came out we got less moments and less interaction. I feel like JKR has a stronger hand in this new site and I'm excited to see what it evolves into.
But let's be honest - we all just want the old JKR site back with the door and the messy desk. ;)
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katie • 2 days ago
They need to organise everything properly like the old pottermore was simple. You knew where you were in the story, now if you search for any of the books you're given a page of mix matched content and not even in chronological order from both the books and movies, which just confuses things further. As for the little articles their writing, as nice as they are to read they don't belong on Pottermore. I don't want this to be Buzzfeed if I want to read that kinds of thing i'll go to Buzzfeed. Give us all the little magical things back, I actually enjoyed finding weird and wonderful flavoured Beans and Chocolate Frog Cards.
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