I was thinking about something along those lines too, like the spoilers forum we'll have here so she doesn't have to use the Dark Mark everywhere but I don't know if it is possible. Maybe it is, we can hope right? :p

the site doesn't have an archive with the birthdays and witch/wizard of the month... that would be nice.
we have those at MuggleNet, however it would be nice to have it directly from the source. :)

Has anyone else figured out what the secret behind the changing watch face is? It happens when Peeves blows across the desk. The dial flashes and changes into a new face with 12 hands [ like the one Dumbledore carries, interestingly enough ] one at a time.

Dumbledore's watch always reminds me of a horoscope with the transiting planets in motion. Dumbledore is an astronomer, and might be able to keep time from knowing the positions of the planets.

Or maybe it's like Mrs Weasley's clock and each hand is someone Dumbledore is keeping track of, Hagrid and Harry, for example.

Maybe, that's a cool theory :tu:

That's what I thought too. Hmm, but aside from Hagrid and Harry, who else can we think of who would be on the clock?

EDIT: 300th post! :rotfl:

Hi guys, I haven't been around in a while, but just checking: last time I kept up with this thread (about 2 months ago) there were 7 easter eggs, have any new ones been found by chance?

I always assumed the "coin sound" was just the sound of the cup being put on the surface it is on. Maybe there is something in the cup though. On a closer examination of the cup, it looks like it's an empty cup that has green stains on the sides. Maybe it's tea leaves and so it's a 'tea cup' not a 'coffee cup'. The cup also looks like it's got a brown stain on the bottom (or maybe it's a reflection of something above the cup).

I don't know if this has been mentioned either but I just took a look at the Wizard of the Month. After a while, the picture of Mungo Bonham would shut his eyes tightly and emit some kind of yellow light or glow from his hands. What do you think that is about?

He's a healer, so the glow is probably just magic. And he shuts his eyes because he's concentrating.

maybe Snape too if true :eyebrows:
Cheers
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You can see on the extras page its definately a mug (which can be use for tea or coffee), I'd say the brown marks are tea stains and the green sludge is tealeaves. The chinking china noise sounds like a teaspoon in a mug to me, but I don't think it has any significance other than being a generic mug sound effect for cosmetic purposes.



They look like they supposed to be healing hands to me. Which raises a question - Is it just artistic license from light maker, or did Jo ask them to make him do that? If its cannon (which isn't clear) it could suggest that healers can do some kind of wandless healing magic (I wonder if it would be innate or if they learn it?).

Oh I didn't think of that. Guess I was thinking but not making the connection. I always imagined Healers to use their wands to heal rather than their hands though. Maybe Mr. Mungo Bonham is exceptionally gifted in healing and managed to acquire these marvellous "light" healing skills... Hmm...

Not to offend anyone by bringing in a sensitive topic such as religion, but if the light emitted from the hands have healing power, it reminds of a bit of Jesus and him being the Light of the world, the Light that saves and heals the world... This could be something to think about. After all, Jo is a Christian too.

Nope, only those seven for now.

Messy Jo, with her gum wrappers everywhere....I always thought the green stuff in her mug was mold. Ha!

:rotfl: Thats a good one.I do wish we will get something new soon. P.S Does anyone know when the book cover will be out?

Probably not until the day of the release. We didn't get to see the cover of OotP until they hit the shelves either.

For OOTP, the cover art was released several months before the book came out. If similiar to OOTP, we should see the cover art soon.
Another thing, on both Amazon and the Bloomsbury poster the color purple is used. I wonder if this is a clue. I would not be surprised is the book is purple, because it is the color of royalty.

thank you:)

It's about time for another easter egg though, or some sort of update. It's like the rational part of me understands that she has her hands full with a new baby, but the irrational, id part of me that needs new information is like "But I want an update NOW!" :rotfl:

Two knuts on the Ides of March, if not sooner. ;)

I know how you feel - I feel the same way too! Well, at least Jo promised some 'tweaks' to the site. Maybe she's still working them out? And maybe there's already another Easter Egg but we haven't discovered it yet.

Bizarre faces - they are back! What do you think about that?

I don't see a face. :huh:

Me neither! :huh:

Nor me :(.

Me niether. [ sensing a pattern here... ]

I see it but I'm afraid it is due to some serious wishful thinking on our part.

I see it too now! Hmm, its really faint so its probably jusy coincidence.

:lol: So do I! Heehee. Quite clearly now.

I can see a face, but I really don't think it means anything. You can go outside your house and see "faces" in every cloud, rock and piece of wood, so I don't think we should attach too much importance to it.

Now I see it! Interesting, very interesting.

Wow. He has a huge bonker.

Well it's better than her smoking :D

If the 'face' is significant, then you'd think that it would be a bit more clear :huh:

Faces on the desk, faces in the clouds, faces in the pictures....seems to be something in common we are seeing.

I don't remember faces in the clouds o.o

In the "Do Not Disturb" room, I see a dementor's face, a baby's face and a picture of someone in the clouds that float past the window.

Inkblobs. Time to change the name of the thread again. :rotfl:

Ok, now I know I'm loosing it. Is the sky a lighter shade of blue in the room with the door?

Can you show us some screenshots?

Go back to page 13, post 386, of this thread. That's where I first posted what I see in the clouds. Then read the next few pages and they show some screenshots of what they see also. I am somewhat "computer challenged" and haven't been able to do those screen shots and then draw on them very well yet.

HA! That makes me laugh.

Bonker..... *shaking head, still laughing to self*

I see a face, too. Here, I've enhanced the contrast from the previously posted picture.

See it now?

I can see 2 faces there.



Not that I think JK put them there on purpose...

I see wood grain.

I see myself holding the stone.....er, nevermind.

This is kind of fun. Yeah, like looking at clouds or inkblots. Often times I can't see any shapes until someone else points them out. Sort of like looking through another's eyes for a bit. Quite cool.

I'm beginnig to think we won't be getting an update until at least late March or early April. Wonder if Mackenzie is sleeping through the night yet? My sons were over six weeks old before they finally slept through a good portion of the night. A good portion being only five hours, but my husband and I were overjoyed. :D

it's different with different kids. Mine both slept 9 hours solid at the age of 7 days (ain't I lucky?). But I hope JKR has help, both family and hired, to ensure that she can get some sleep at night. Still, it is a lot of work, and her mind might not be on the site updates. A book in print is almost as much a baby as a real one, you have to read proofs, answer the phone calls about design and other issues, and so on. Your time is less your own then when you just write at your own pace.

Face in Wood
 

Hope these help!

I see lots of wood grain. I really think that we're taking finding clues a little too far, although i congratulate all the effort that people put in to finding the 'faces'.

You're not loosing it (this time!). The window shows both night and day, based I think on the clock on your computer.

Good point. I suppose we'd better just be patient then (like we have a choice!).

Good to know. ;) I know it changes from night to day and back but I've never seen it dawning (and that's what it looked like it was doing). Ready to change your mind? :eyebrows:

Try This one HaHA
 

I think Jean Piaget would be turning over in his grave if you weren't having a hard time seeing them HaHa. Abstract thinking comes with time. It kinda like getting taller, you don't realize things have changed, just that they have. Try these. Notice Dobby's head. Now look at just half of it. Looks like a bird with beak? There are a few "beaked" friends in HP, so not sure which one it could be. Notice that the "other half" of Dobby mirrors the first half. Colors are inverted for that. Ingore the other yellow tracing, just goofing around with it. SD

Ok not sure what you mean by games, I'm fairly new to the JK site and not a huge computer wiz!! also could you tell me where you found the candy to get the second clue?

I have some abstract thinking ability although i admit not much. it's one of the many reasons i don't do art ( as well as the fact that i can't draw :p). What i was trying to say, is that if we see faces in all these places, are they really significant if they are not at least slightly obvious? I get the feeling that the clues are hidden but plain to see when you find their hiding spot. Get what i mean?


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Thanks for the help! I'm very new at all this :blush:

Okay I see the faces... But I don't think they are really that important are they? They don't seem to be familiar or resemble any of the characters. It maybe a a coincidence. After all, sometimes we are so intent on finding clues that we end up overanalysing every little thing that we see on the page.

This is random, but I've always wondered why, in the Extras section, "SQUIBS" and "WANDS" are in all capital letters.

I think that's because those sections were added and the caps draw attention to them. Or someone could get anagram happy with the capital letters!

That's what I think too.

For anyone that is interested in an easy way to kill tons of time:

If you go to this site:

http://www.jkrowling.com/f7b3qash/level_0.swf

You can then right-click and zoom in on JKR's website. You can hold down the left mouse button after zooming and drag the screen around to see it all.

Easier than taking screen-shots and zooming in on those for those so inclined. :D

Nice, I haven't seen that yet.

Coooooool...Thanks F&G :tu:

Very Kewl! Thanks a bunch!

no worries, we were all there once ;)

That's what I thought at first, but then why wasn't Owls capitalized? It was added the most recently.

I don't think it has any *deeper meaning* like anagrams or anything... I was just wondering why it's like that. Oh well.

This is kind of fun! Observing the dreaked door up-close-and -personal :D You know this is also really good for the 'faces'.

That is very fun!

Anyone think that perhaps we'll see an update of some sort on St. Patrick's day? Sigh.

I justs heard on tv that the new cover art from HBP will be on the Today Show tomorrow morning.

Awesome :cool: ****, that means I have to get up.. what time is the Today Show on anyway? And what station?

It's NBC's morning show. And the weather forecast being what it is, I'll be right here watching it.
It will no doubt be about .05 nanoseconds before Mugglenet and Leakey Cauldron post it.

Whiz, how reliable is this? Wouldn't you think Jo would do it throught the site first?
Curious
:tu: :huh: :tu:

Yes. I was startled to say the least. If my husband hadn't heard it, too, I would think I was dreaming.

It was between the news and opening of Jay Leno's tonight show, they were doing the promos for tomorrow morning and listed some of the features on the Today Show, including the cover art for the new Harry Potter book.

Maybe we were both dreaming. :D

You can all kill me in the morning when nothing happens. :whistle:

Not trying to doubt Whiz, but you know rumors and the Potterverse, we do have to practise Constant Vigilance, in any case, will be watching :D
Cheers
:tu: :cool: :tu:

I'd be the first to doubt it. Like you, I can't understand why it wouldn't be on her site first.

Mabye scholastic is paying for the publicity? Anyway, the more I think about it, the less sure I am that I heard it right. But I'm turning in anyway so I can get up to watch. :agree:

No publisher needs to pay the author of the book for the right to announce a cover illustration. Many publishers don't allow their authors any say at all regarding cover design.

They can, if they want to, allow the author to give it out first though.

I think Rowling will show the UK (Bloomsbury) edition on her website, and not the US (Scholastic) one. :)

I wonder if Mary GrandPre read the book before drawing the cover? She read OOTP before drawing the cover, so maybe it's the same this time. I hope so because it'll give us (at last!) some new things to talk about :D

I just set a program for the Today show. I would be somewhat surprised if the cover art first appears on t.v. However, I believe Warner Bros. does own NBC. The Today show had far more coverage of the HP movies and book releases than any other morning program. I still have some of it on tape. Scholastic and Warner Brothers, of course, have close ties.

It's ok, Whiz. I'll still respect you in the morning. :p



While roaming around the Leaky Cauldron's news archives, I came across the announcement about GrandPre doing the artwork for OotP. I was expecting another "official" announcement about her doing HBP. Kind of surprised we haven't heard anything. Guess we're supposed to assume....

Yes, I'm dying to see that artwork. What fun everyone had trying to figure out what the last cover art was supposed to represent. I can hardly wait. :tu:


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Just heard!!!!!

It's true it's true it's true!!!!

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!!!!!

Warner does not own NBC. GE owns NBC with a small percentage owned by Vivendi Universal, and it is called NBC Universal. And even if Warner did own NBC it wouldn't have any influence over any matters concerning the books which are published by Scholastic in America and Bloomsbury in the UK.

But it is good to know that the story about the cover art is true. I'll set my tape. :tu:

I just saw it. I won't say thing to spoil the contents, but its very green.. :rotfl:

It's Green!!!:clap:

*delete* :whistle:

Hope they show the back cover. We had so much fun with OotP, trying to guess who Tonks was and about the doors and shadows.

Uh oh, I'm in spoiler trouble already.

But it's definitely green.

got it stand by for brittish version

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/i...bloomsbury.html

Please pardon my ignorance.



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I'm off to finally get a good look at the covers. Had to get the kids off to school. Oh, happy days!!!

Well, JK's site hasn't changed for the event.

It's a common misconception that Warner has input in the publishing end of the business. They are very separate business with competing interests.

I've been on a one-person crusade to correct that knowledge. :D

Corbin Dallas, is that picture really the cover? What did you mean by 'stand-in'? Well, whatever it is, the book on the book cover looks pretty cool, I must say.

Here's the other version. The green one. :)

just to clear up any confusion, the one with the book is the british adult version, and the green one is the American version.

WHOA! Okay. The covers just came out some time ago. THEY ARE SO COOL! All of them, except the UK Adult Cover, have Harry and Dumbledore on them. I like the Fiery look the UK Children's version has. But the Green US Version looks so good too!

I am almost screaming with delight at this news! The only thing that's stopping me is that it's 12:40am where I am and my whole family is asleep... Now I simply cannot wait for HBP! :D:D:D

All this excitement...where are the site updates???

No site updates, but we got the covers thru tv. Actually I'm not sure how this talk ended up here. :rolleyes:

No site updates, to my knowledge. It just that the covers have been released, and everyone is excited. There is a long discussion already about the covers.

I know that...my concern is that a bit of information this large should have at least gotten a nod on the site, and we're already overdue.

what keys?

What do you mean by keys? The one on top of JKR's desktop leads to the fansite award section of the site. :huh: