Wonderbook: Book of Spells review: Inter-house unity
I’ve been unwittingly preparing for this review for eight months, since I joined Pottermore on the day it launched for the public.
Pottermore is an official, browser-based supplement to the Harry Potter series, inspired by social networks. Each member has a profile and travels through the Harry Potter books in a series of active illustrations, collecting trinkets, learning more about the characters and events, and earning points for whichever house they are sorted into. There is a set of spell-casting and potion-concocting minigames that eventually lead to the House Cup celebration, where the house with the most points wins. Pottermore now has more than 4 million members worldwide, and yes, even as a woman in my mid-20s I think this whole thing is perfectly normal and necessary.
When I learned there was a new badge for finding Miranda Goshawk’s Book of Spells in the Restricted Section on Pottermore, I was excited (again, totally normal). My heart pumped half a beat faster, my cheeks flushed and I smiled, for Merlin’s sake. I was filled with joy at the prospect of uncovering secrets about a fictional book within the universe of an already fictional book, and I reveled in it. It wasn’t until I discovered the tome, which played a quirky promo for Sony’s Wonderbook: Book of Spells, that I finally understood how this related to my professional life.
If I could be excited for Book of Spells within Pottermore, I should give the actual PlayStation Move game the same chance.
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