The lineage of Harry Potter can be traced all the way back to the Middle Ages in Gloucestershire, JK Rowling has announced.
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“Potter is a not uncommon Muggle surname, and the family did not make the so-called “Sacred Twenty-Eight” for this reason; the anonymous compiler of that supposedly definitive list of pure-bloods suspected that they had sprung from what he considered to be tainted blood”.
The site also features a “Pottermore correspondent”, who will be “dedicated to reporting on all the latest updates going on in the Wizarding World”, which one would assume includes the upcoming Harry Potter stage play, and the Potter spin-off film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell, the youngest of the three brothers who cheated Death.
But by far the most intriguing tidbit Rowling revealed was the origin of Harry’s invisibility cloak.
But many seemed simply pleased to have more Potter, with one Facebook fan invoking the series’ mantra of looking for the light, even in the darkest of times: “Though Pottermore has changed, don’t let that force you to leave behind the magic”.
“It was, Iolanthe explained to Hardwin, a tradition in her family that the possession of this cloak remained a secret, and her new husband respected her wishes”. Two Potters have sat on the Wizengamot, the wizarding high court of law. According to the report by Time, fans took to the internet to express their disappointment and unhappiness over the new changes. First was Ralston Potter, a Statue of Secrecy Supporter, a law which hides the wizarding community from Muggles or non-magical people from the wizarding world.
Potterheads can read online how the Potter family continued to live in the West of England for several generations, from the eccentric Linfred Potter’s mysterious medical cures in the twelfth century to the moment James Potter married muggle-born girl Lily, and we meet the bespectacled boy, Harry.
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While some embraced the newly-designed Pottermore website, others were not so keen to join the bandwagon.
