The Pottermore insider blog has been updated with some new information, including letting fans know that general registration will open at the end of October, some access may be quick, others may need to wait some weeks or months. Additionally the Pottermore Shop will open in the first half of 2012. They also answered some new Frequently Asked Questions:

As a Beta user, how am I helping to shape the Pottermore experience?

We’re tweaking different parts of the site based on how you’re interacting with it and the feedback you’re currently giving us. We’ll also be sending out a Beta survey to all Beta participants to help us decide which features to enhance and which to simplify.

The site isn’t always available, or can be very slow. Why is this?

As with most new sites, we’ve been experiencing technical challenges as more people begin to use Pottermore. These are usually quickly resolved as they arise, but can affect site performance or availability for short periods. We will continue to let you know, here on the Insider, if the site is unavailable for an extended period of time. We’d like to thank you for your patience.

When will I be able to duel again?

This area of the site has proved to be even more popular than we anticipated and we want to make sure that it will be able cope with the large number of users we expect before turning it back on.

We know people are keen for Wizard’s Duel to return and we’ll let you know, via the Insider, the moment it’s available.

I’m not in the Beta. When will Pottermore be available to me?

We expect to open registration to everyone from the end of October. Registering means that you’ll be able to create a Pottermore account and select a username. You won’t have immediate access to the site as we’ll be enabling people in phases.

Once you’ve registered, we’ll send you a Welcome email to let you know when your Pottermore account has been activated. This may arrive quickly but please note it could also take a number of weeks or months, depending on demand.

 

MTV has released a first look of Emma Watson in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The video also has a brief interview with Emma.

“I feel incredible about it. I feel like I’ve been waiting for ‘Perks,’ ” Watson said. “I was waiting for this story, for this script, for this moment, for these people to do it with me. I’m so glad I didn’t do anything that I didn’t care about.”
“I don’t think there will be one teenager who will watch this and not have one story or one moment that they don’t deeply feel they can relate to,” Watson said.

The Pottermore Insider blog has been updated to let fans know that all one million welcome emails for Pottermore Beta Testing have been sent out! This means we are a lot closer to Pottermore being open to the general public, so if you weren’t one of the lucky one million, never fear, you will be able to enjoy Pottermore soon.

Earlier today, we sent out the one-millionth Welcome email – which means that everyone who successfully registered for the Beta should now have access to Pottermore.

We’re expecting the site to be extremely busy over the next 24 hours as people log in and explore Pottermore for the first time. As such, you may have to wait to sign in but please keep trying if you aren’t able to gain entry straight away.

Fans who get the WB Insider newsletter will already have read about the sweepstakes to win a trip for four to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter’s A Celebration of Harry Potter this November.  For those of you that haven’t the details are as follows:

Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize Winner and Three (3) Guests will receive the following:
- Travel airfare to and from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Universal in Orlando, Florida *
- Hotel accommodations for 3 days/4 nights, two (2) hotel rooms provided
- Four (4) Park-to-Park Tickets for 3 days
- Four (4) Reservations to Autograph Sessions
- Four (4) Reservations to Sunday Night Event with Cast
- Four (4) Reservations to QA Sessions
- Four (4) Admissions to the Nighttime Gala Event
- One (1) Harry Potter Blu-ray Collection (For Grand Prize Winner only)

*If Grand Prize Winner should reside in the State of Florida and within close proximity to Orlando, the airfare may be substituted by Sponsor, in its sole discretion, for ground transportation.

To enter and win you must be at least 13 years old, live in the USA and be a member of the WB Insider Rewards program, full rules may be read here.

Fans in the UK will get a special treat if they go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II this weekend. This weekend, for one weekend only, a cinema visit to see ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two’ just got even more rewarding. As a special celebration of the film event of a generation, UK cinemagoers who see the film at participating cinemas between September 30th and the 2nd of October will get a free limited edition lenticular (3D) poster from the cinema box office when they collect their ticket. Posters will be available strictly on a first come first served basis on all tickets purchased to see this film during the qualifying period. Terms and conditions and a full list of participating cinemas can be found here: http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/poster/

The poster may be seen below:

Thanks to ThinkJam who emailed on behalf of WB for the news.

This past Thursday James and Oliver Phelps received honorary membership to UCD Law Soc in Dublin. They made a little speech and answered a bunch of fan questions all of which may be read at this page.  You can also view a bunch of photos over at this Facebook page.

Q: Ever laughed on set?
USUAL ANSWER…RUPERT!!!
James: It was Order of the Phoenix…the bit where The Room od Requirement is discovered..and the camera pans over the cast…Rupert goes: (covers mouth and makes su ppressed laughter sound) and then i went (suppressed laughter).

Q:Are you on Pottermore?
Oliver: I tried to register…(laughter)..will try again.

Q:Do you plan on continuing acting?
James:well, we are both in talks at the minute for separate projects. (communal awwww!) we were afraid we’d kill each other… and we have different interests..

Q:If you could take any object from the wizarding world? what would it be?
O: Portkey…waiting in airports queues is horrible..
J: Hermione’s Handbag…(LAUGHTER) not the handbag..just that you can shove as much stuff as you want in..

Q: How has it changed your lives?
J: we get to travel alot..they let us,Tom and some friends into the Louvre after hours..it was like us (makes thumbs up pose) with the Mona Lisa!

Q: Who is the mechanical head outside Weasley’s Wizard Weezes based on?
O: James…

Thanks to Danaholics Anonymous