Harry Potter At Home
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:19 am
Greetings Muggles!
I may/may not have posted about this previously. If you go to https://www.wizardingworld.com/ (formerly Pottermore) you can click the link to "Harry Potter at Home" and listen to various celebrities read all of the chapters of Sorcerer's Stone (Philosopher's Stone in the UK). You'll have to register where you will then be sorted into your house by the Sorting Hat and receive your wand. Remember, the wand chooses the wizard. If you were already registered in Pottermore, all your pertinent wizarding information was already transferred into the new website. Like magic. ;-)
Although I've known about this since it launched, I just started listening today. The readers are actors from the Potter films, Fantastic Beasts, other UK and US actors/celebrities. Whoopi Goldberg, David Beckham, and Alec Baldwin are actually readers but I'm not there yet.
First 4 chapter readers were: Daniel Radcliffe, Noma Dumezweni, Eddie Redmayne, and Stephen Fry.
Wow! What a treat it is so far!
A word about Chapter 4 read by Stephen Fry. This is the chapter where Harry's Hogwarts Letter arrives in the post, soon followed by hundreds of more letters delivered by owls. The family flees to a hideaway where we are introduced to Rubeus Hagrid (Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts) and if you were listening to it for the first time (not knowing who the reader was), you would swear it was Robbie Coltrane. Fry has Hagrid's voice, tone, and accent down perfectly! Smiled all the way through it!
If you've never read the Potter series or haven't seen the films, you can sit back in a comfy chair, close your eyes and let the readers take you away to Hogwarts. Best to do this on a cloudy day or dark night. I can almost promise you'll like it. If you're already a Potterhead, you will love it.
It's brilliant! ;-)
Enjoy,
J-G Proud Ravenclaw
I may/may not have posted about this previously. If you go to https://www.wizardingworld.com/ (formerly Pottermore) you can click the link to "Harry Potter at Home" and listen to various celebrities read all of the chapters of Sorcerer's Stone (Philosopher's Stone in the UK). You'll have to register where you will then be sorted into your house by the Sorting Hat and receive your wand. Remember, the wand chooses the wizard. If you were already registered in Pottermore, all your pertinent wizarding information was already transferred into the new website. Like magic. ;-)
Although I've known about this since it launched, I just started listening today. The readers are actors from the Potter films, Fantastic Beasts, other UK and US actors/celebrities. Whoopi Goldberg, David Beckham, and Alec Baldwin are actually readers but I'm not there yet.
First 4 chapter readers were: Daniel Radcliffe, Noma Dumezweni, Eddie Redmayne, and Stephen Fry.
Wow! What a treat it is so far!
A word about Chapter 4 read by Stephen Fry. This is the chapter where Harry's Hogwarts Letter arrives in the post, soon followed by hundreds of more letters delivered by owls. The family flees to a hideaway where we are introduced to Rubeus Hagrid (Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts) and if you were listening to it for the first time (not knowing who the reader was), you would swear it was Robbie Coltrane. Fry has Hagrid's voice, tone, and accent down perfectly! Smiled all the way through it!
If you've never read the Potter series or haven't seen the films, you can sit back in a comfy chair, close your eyes and let the readers take you away to Hogwarts. Best to do this on a cloudy day or dark night. I can almost promise you'll like it. If you're already a Potterhead, you will love it.
It's brilliant! ;-)
Enjoy,
J-G Proud Ravenclaw