First Chapters of Prisoner of Azkaban Now on Pottermore

The first chapters of the third Harry Potter book, Prisoner of Azkaban, are available on Pottermore, Rowling's interactive website.

Pottermore Insider reminds readers:

You will need to have collected the items from your second-year shopping list - which you can find in Chapter Four, Moment One of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - and to have completed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on Pottermore.com.

According to Snitchseeker:

Rowling herself added five new exclusive pieces of content for the seven chapters, including deeper back stories on Aunt Marge, Professor Kettleburn, Sir Cadogan, the Knight Bus, and boggarts.

Click Here to Enter Pottermore ~ registration is required in order to view the website.
Books and Merchandise are available at the Pottermore Shop

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:

Pottermore Update: Chamber of Secrets

Pottermore is the new interactive website from the J. K. Rowling empire, and through it readers can explore the world of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (or Philosopher's Stone, for those in the UK). Now the CEO of Pottermore, Charlie Redmayne, has announced that soon fans will be able to access new screens and information about Book Two: Chamber of Secrets:
From Bookseller, Via Snitchseeker

Redmayne added that the release of book two, The Chamber of Secrets, was still "weeks away", but that the site would be adding new interactive elements and community tools over the next few weeks. "It's a fantastic experience, but not yet as good as its going to be. We are working on book two now, I'm very pleased with some of the pages I've seen, and it will be coming as soon as possible." Remayne said Pottermore would ratchet up its marketing activities around the launch of book two.

The CEO also gave a detailed update about ebook sales so far:

Charlie Redmayne said sales at the online shop, which went live on 27th March, had been driven first by pent-up demand, with the sales value high because of the number of Harry Potter fans buying the e-book bundle, priced at £38.64, a discount of 14% on the cost of buying the seven titles individually.
Redmayne said the sales had been above budget, and continued to outpace expectations. He had earlier revealed that more than £1m of Potter e-books had been sold in the first three days.
"Over the past two weeks we've seen sales settle down, but they remain very significant, and way beyond what we originally budgeted for." He added that sales of the physical copies of the seven titles had also increased, and that because of the site's light-touch Digital Rights Management, piracy had diminished.

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