Harry Potter On The Net
Send an OWL, buy a wand, and get the recipe for Butter Beer
by corneliaAugust 26, 2004
Here are seven sites for readers and wizards of all ages.
1. Warner Brothers official Harry Potter Site
After being greeted by the gray faces of Hagrid, Snade, and Dumbledore, click on the marauder map. As the shrunken head warns you, “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” Click one of Harry Potter’s favorite places, the quidditch patch, or go off grounds for back to school shopping at a Diagon Alley. Shopping builds up a thirst so stop by the Leaking Cauldron for a bottle of butter beer. You’ll want to bring your own glass to this place and as the shrunken head warns “if you get the Pea soup, make sure you eat it before it eats you.” As you sip on a cold butter beer, scan the latest issue of the Daily Prophet. Next stop, the Wizard Shop, that Slytherin tie and scarf set is perfect for someone I know. Try your hand at games of Quidditch, Wild Hippogriffs, or click on the hand for more fun.
http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/main/homepage/intro.html
2. Scholastic’s Harry Potter
That hooting, flying owl, Hedwig, has a letter for you. Look, a Wizard’s Challenge. How many questions can you get right in a row? Before you try, click on the golden squares for a short review of Harry Potter’s school days from first to fifth year. Then click on About Books for discussions and a pronunciation guide. How do you say Tarantallegra?
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp
3. The Harry Potter Lexicon
Every reader needs a lexicon or dictionary and this one is more update than most. It features cover art for the five current books, plus two volumes required at Hogswarts: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, as well as a preview of the future sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Click and read through a virtual Hogwart’s library, which includes the Encyclopedia of Spells, Magic and Magical Theory, a Wizard’s Atlas, Wizarding Through the Ages, and the Encyclopedia of Potions.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html
4. Harry Potter Books from Bloomsbury the UK publishers
Beneath the bright, fanciful book cover, click on Harry as he flies by on his nimbus. Don’t just pass notes in class, get your messages such as “You slytherin toad rat” across in loud, shrieking audio with a howler. Meet J. K. Rowling, the author and creator of Harry Potter. Then join the Bloomsbury Web Club to get an owl (a birthday e-mail) from J.K. Rowling. Before you take off on your broom, click on You Recommend for a book list of fun must reads.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/
5.Alvians Master Wand Maker Shop
Click on the door to enter a virtual store of authentic magic wands for the wizard in us all. Tour the store and browse wands handcrafted from the finest yew, oak, holly, maple, willow, walnut, rosewood, and mahogany, each with a collector's box and velvet satchel. Scroll the left hand menu for a chance to win your own magic wand. Check out famous wands or shop for other wizard wares. Grab a Scarlet Hawk or Sienna Storm from the broom closet for your next quidditch match. Open up the Magic Trunk to find a vanishing tin and a wizard flip book.
http://www.alivans.com/
6. Harry Potter Time
Follow the sign to Hogsmeade for a Butter Beer recipe straight from the Three Broomsticks. Click on The Quibbler’s (the magic world’s Inquirer) for the latest scoop on who will play Rita Skeeter in the next Harry Potter movie. Click on the Hogwart crest and brush up on “The Science of Harry Potter," a three-credit honors seminar at Frostburg State University. The younger set can enroll in the Urban Academy of Arcane Knowledge, “an ideal place for a wannabe witch or wizard in Manitowoc to spend part of their summer.” http://www.harrypottertime.com/
7. Everything Harry Potter
Three stars for the oldest Harry Potter site online. Knock on the large double doors to the Hogwart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Then enter the squares labeled with house names for a list of their motto, colors, mascot and residents. Complete your lessons square by square with games, quidditch, activities, pronunciation, the meaning of names, charms and spells, food, cartoons, and more.
http://www.eharry.org
1. Warner Brothers official Harry Potter Site
After being greeted by the gray faces of Hagrid, Snade, and Dumbledore, click on the marauder map. As the shrunken head warns you, “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” Click one of Harry Potter’s favorite places, the quidditch patch, or go off grounds for back to school shopping at a Diagon Alley. Shopping builds up a thirst so stop by the Leaking Cauldron for a bottle of butter beer. You’ll want to bring your own glass to this place and as the shrunken head warns “if you get the Pea soup, make sure you eat it before it eats you.” As you sip on a cold butter beer, scan the latest issue of the Daily Prophet. Next stop, the Wizard Shop, that Slytherin tie and scarf set is perfect for someone I know. Try your hand at games of Quidditch, Wild Hippogriffs, or click on the hand for more fun.
http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/main/homepage/intro.html
2. Scholastic’s Harry Potter
That hooting, flying owl, Hedwig, has a letter for you. Look, a Wizard’s Challenge. How many questions can you get right in a row? Before you try, click on the golden squares for a short review of Harry Potter’s school days from first to fifth year. Then click on About Books for discussions and a pronunciation guide. How do you say Tarantallegra?
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp
3. The Harry Potter Lexicon
Every reader needs a lexicon or dictionary and this one is more update than most. It features cover art for the five current books, plus two volumes required at Hogswarts: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, as well as a preview of the future sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Click and read through a virtual Hogwart’s library, which includes the Encyclopedia of Spells, Magic and Magical Theory, a Wizard’s Atlas, Wizarding Through the Ages, and the Encyclopedia of Potions.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html
4. Harry Potter Books from Bloomsbury the UK publishers
Beneath the bright, fanciful book cover, click on Harry as he flies by on his nimbus. Don’t just pass notes in class, get your messages such as “You slytherin toad rat” across in loud, shrieking audio with a howler. Meet J. K. Rowling, the author and creator of Harry Potter. Then join the Bloomsbury Web Club to get an owl (a birthday e-mail) from J.K. Rowling. Before you take off on your broom, click on You Recommend for a book list of fun must reads.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/
5.Alvians Master Wand Maker Shop
Click on the door to enter a virtual store of authentic magic wands for the wizard in us all. Tour the store and browse wands handcrafted from the finest yew, oak, holly, maple, willow, walnut, rosewood, and mahogany, each with a collector's box and velvet satchel. Scroll the left hand menu for a chance to win your own magic wand. Check out famous wands or shop for other wizard wares. Grab a Scarlet Hawk or Sienna Storm from the broom closet for your next quidditch match. Open up the Magic Trunk to find a vanishing tin and a wizard flip book.
http://www.alivans.com/
6. Harry Potter Time
Follow the sign to Hogsmeade for a Butter Beer recipe straight from the Three Broomsticks. Click on The Quibbler’s (the magic world’s Inquirer) for the latest scoop on who will play Rita Skeeter in the next Harry Potter movie. Click on the Hogwart crest and brush up on “The Science of Harry Potter," a three-credit honors seminar at Frostburg State University. The younger set can enroll in the Urban Academy of Arcane Knowledge, “an ideal place for a wannabe witch or wizard in Manitowoc to spend part of their summer.” http://www.harrypottertime.com/
7. Everything Harry Potter
Three stars for the oldest Harry Potter site online. Knock on the large double doors to the Hogwart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Then enter the squares labeled with house names for a list of their motto, colors, mascot and residents. Complete your lessons square by square with games, quidditch, activities, pronunciation, the meaning of names, charms and spells, food, cartoons, and more.
http://www.eharry.org
Cornelia Amiri's short stories and articles have appeared in more than a dozen print and on-line magazines. She has three published, Celic Romance Novels with Awe-Struck E-Books: The Fox Prince, Danger Is Sweet, and One Heart One Way.
