Links: the bookcase
Page editor: Belinda Hobbs
Click on the Eyeglasses "Links" Portkey: (formerly a pen)
it brings you to a library bookshelf...
The eyeglasses Portkey drops into a cup in the lower left corner. Click
on it to return to the desktop.
The books that fly in and settle onto the shelf are links to other websites
important to Jo or about the Harry Potter universe. Click on them to open
the book and read about the specific site. Click the window on the left
hand page to Apparate to the site.
The moth is ticklish, and is an orange (formerly blue) butterfly during
the day and brown at night.
Birds fly in the paintings. Watch them take flight in the painting
on the right and then emerge in the painting on the left!
Some books on the shelves have titles of real books that Jo has said
are special to her. Others are made-up fantasic titles.
Slide the book with the question mark over to reveal a
key.
Use the key to open the chest on the shelf at the right for
the scrapbook extra: Page of doodlings (page 2) Sorting hat, (you'll have
to click on the bubble).
On March 9, 2006 a new book appeared in the middle of the bottom shelf
titled "Ancient Runes Made Easy".
Click on the book, it opens to reveal a key to the Rune tiles strewn in
the Rubbish Bin screen. (see a Transcript
here.)
Collect the potion bottle (flask, flagon) for the secret
Potion
recipe #1.
PEEVES: snuffs
out the candle and swings the hanging bookmark. After March 9, 2006
he knocks down the painting on the left to reveal a clue to working one
of the scrapbook extras.
What's on the bookshelf?
(Question marks indicate our best guess at the probable titles)
Version 1 - As it appeared
when the site launched on May 15, 2004
on the upper shelf:
on the lower shelf:
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Short Stories (no author)
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(blue book) Tales? -
E. Nesbit
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Manx Mouse -
Paul Gallico
-
The MS Society
Scotland (link)
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?Wizard's Book - Jo Rowling?? (little blue and yellow)
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Book of Spells - ?author (pink & burgundy)
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Publishers (link)
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Short Stories
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Witches and ? (skinny red book)
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?Wizard's Book - Jo Rowling?? (little blue and yellow)
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Grimble - Clement Freud
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Book of Spells (tan)
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Magical Studies? (leaning)
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(tiny red leaning)
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stacked, top to bottom:
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Spell potions? (red)
-
Katherine Mansfield
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Book of Spells - ?author (pink & burgundy)
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Book of Spells (tan)(upside down)
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Spell potions? - (?author Tim?)(red)
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Magical Studies?
-
Fairy Tails?
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Emma -
Jane
Austen
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the van - Roddy
Doyle
-
Writers & Artists Yearbook
-
Sense and Sensibility -
Jane
Austen
Version 2 - The bookcase decorated for Christmas, December 2004 and 2005.
Version 3 - February 23, 2006
The bottom shelf was rearranged to add a link to Cage Bed information.
The Emma
book and the Writers & Artists Yearbook on each side of the
Roddy Doyle
The Van book were moved to the left next
to the Publishers Links (blue book) replacing a brown book called Short
Stories.
Version 4 - March 9, 2006
The Clement Freud Grimble book in the center of the bottom shelf
was replaced with
Ancient Runes Made Easy.
This new book is clickable and gives a key to the rune tiles that appear
in the Rubbish bin section.
Version 5 - August 3, 2006
A new book CHLG - The Children's Voice is added to the top of the stack of books on the bottom shelf. This new book is clickable and provides information and links to The Children's High Level Group, the charity JKR helped found.
Version 6 - December 11, 2006
The Christmas decorations are the same as the first two years, except the snowman snow-globe is moved. It is especially evident in this section that the site has been gradually getting "darker" with deeper shadows and the candle flame shrinking.
Version 7 - June 27, 2007
A new clickable book was added to the bottom shelf entitled "Missing Madeleine".
It replaced the Writers and Artists Yearbook and the small red book.
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