Pottermore Opens the Chamber of Secrets

The Chamber of Secrets is Now Open to Everyone!
On Pottermore, that is.
In the books you have to know how to speak Parseltongue, of course.

If you need help knowing what to do, this page has tips:
A Finders Guide to Pottermore Chamber of Secrets
For a clue about the Weasley Letters at the Burrow, go here:
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TIP: On my computer, I had better luck slinging the gnomes in Internet Explorer because everything was slower. They were spinning faster in Firefox so it was trickier to release them at the right moment, and they also popped up faster so they're harder to click. The only trick I can tell you is to release the gnome as they are facing the stump so the trajectory makes them fly away.

Interesting stuff about the Malfoy family - sounds as if they perhaps married with a few half-bloods through the centuries. There's also a little tidbit about what Lucius did to redeem himself after Deathly Hallows:


This is only a partial quote:

. . . From the imposition of the Statute of Secrecy onwards, no Malfoy has married a Muggle or Muggle-born. The family has, however, eschewed the somewhat dangerous practice of inter-marrying within such a small pool of pure-bloods that they become enfeebled or unstable, unlike a small minority of fanatic families such as the Gaunts and Lestranges, and many a half-blood appears on the Malfoy family tree.

Notable Malfoys of past generations include the fourteenth-century Nicholas Malfoy, who is believed to have dispatched many a fractious Muggle tenant under the guise of the Black Death, though escaping censure by the Wizards' Council; Septimus Malfoy, who was greatly influential at the Ministry in the late eighteenth century, many claiming that Minister for Magic Unctuous Osbert was little more than his puppet; and Abraxas Malfoy, who was widely believed to be part of the shady plot that saw the first Muggle-born Minister (Nobby Leach) leave his post prematurely in 1968 (nothing was ever proven against Malfoy).

Abraxas’s son, Lucius, achieved notoriety as one of Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters, though he successfully evaded prison after both Lord Voldemort's attempted coups. On the first occasion, he claimed to have been acting under the Imperius Curse (though many claimed he called in favours from high-placed Ministry officials); on the second occasion, he provided evidence against fellow Death Eaters and helped ensure the capture of many of Lord Voldemort's followers who had fled into hiding.