JK Rowling’s website is www.jkrowling.com . There’s some fun stuff. Take a look, then let’s trade discoveries.
That’s a cool site. I solved one puzzle - obviously meant to be the easiest one. Here’s a hint:
Go to “Extra Stuff”, and use the eraser on the “blank” sheet of paper. That’ll tell you what you need to do.
There’s clearly a lot more stuff on there, though. And what’s the deal with the damn bugs?
I haven’t gotten the bugs to do anything yet, except the one involved in the spoiler above. They react to you by leaving, but nothing else. More content is to be added later certainly (some people actually found the URL for the room behind the “Do Not Disturb” door, and it was unfinished), and who knows what more things will be added.
This is a VERY neat site, with lots of cool little bits fo info to find, and all of it nicely presented. I don’t want to spoil any of the fun of exploring.
Check out her rumors section. Very entertaining.
Rumor: “Voldemort is Harry’s real father/grandfather/close relative of some description”
JK’s response: “No, no, no, no, no. You lot have been watching much too much Star Wars.”
And after reading this response I’m curious as to what Crookshanks is. Anybody with more info than me have a clue?
Okay, I figured out a couple more puzzles on my own and poked around online to find out the other one - apparently there are only four fully functional things right now. Here are hints to the rest:
In the links section, click on the “?” book and move it.
In the fan sites section, the two medals on the front of the bottom shelf are moveable.
This one isn’t a hint so much as a blatant giveaway - type “MAGIC” into the cell phone on the desk and hit send. That’s the one I had to look up.
Obviously, there should be more added in the future.
OK, one more post and I’m done for the night. She says somewhere that “patience is the key”. On the main desk page, and in the mystery locked door room, if you turn the lights off and wait for a while, Peeves will drop by and make some mischief.
Crookshanks is part Kneazle. Kneazles are magical catlike creatures found on p. 24 of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. One of their special abilities is detecting suspicious or untrustworthy people.
I get a different butterfly on the main page when I enter after having been off the net. Hey, so I erase the page and get the diagram, but don’t see anything to do beyond that. Am I missing a manipulable feature, or is the utility of the diagram still a mystery?
As you poke around the rest of the site, you’ll see the four ingredients scattered around. You can click on each one and “collect” it. When you’ve collected all four, you’ll get your prize. The flask, for instance, is on the links page.
Now this quite fascinates me, because I’ve clicked on the spider and the quill, but I see neither the leaves or the flask, despite your note that the flask is on the links page.
I did see the flask on the links page… the leaves are on the corkboard under a pin on the Extra Stuff section
The items depicted on the “blank” page seem to have disappeared from their spots without fanfare–I may have clicked them or run the cursor over them without apparent effect. I clicked a spider on the desktop and got more special effects plus the bonus for the scrapbook, so presumably it was the last ingredient I’d needed. I have four items in the scrapbook, which consensus dictates is the present total.
BTW, fun effects such as the window and desk darkening at night, and Peeves blows through all the potkeyed sites after about 5 minutes, with lights off if there’s a switch.
Does anyone know where I could find a transcription of the secret revealed…
When I type MAGIC into the cell phone?
In the transcript, Harry said where the stone was located, but it was actually in another vault. Why the discrepancy?
I assume because this was an early draft, and she went in a different direction instead.
Right. In the early version that you’ve uncovered, (not putting a spoiler thingy here, because who cares, really?) the Stone was in Harry’s parents’ vault, which would have implied that they somehow got it from its original owner. In the published version, of course, it was in a separate vault, so Harry’s parents weren’t necessarily involved at all.
Just a quick bump.
The site has been updated today.
I’m not seeing it. Hint?
The only difference in the site that I can see sofar is that the butterfly on the front page is a different color (yellow instead of blue).