What is your favorite Wizarding World supplementary material? And why?

[TeafortheSoul]

What is your favorite Wizarding World supplementary material?
And why?

Now that the Wizarding World has expanded so much, you surely have opinions about which new supplementary material is best! Are you a Fantastic Beasts fan? Is Pottermore your jam? How about Hogwarts Mystery or some of the other, older games? There's so much in the expanded universe of our Wizarding World, so let us know your favorites here! The poll is multiple choice, so if you pick more than one option, be sure to tell us why when you post!

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[freaky1974]

Various Youtube channels that have theories about many things in the books, it really gets you thinking

[Quiddyitch]

PS1 game was OG the best

[Kash]

I miss the old video games. Those were some fun times. Can't believe I'd forgotten about them until I saw the poll.

[RonRon.]

I also loved the Ps1 games!

[SoftBear]

Most definitly the old games of a broad varaity of consoles, I even bought some old hardware to be able to play them again recently, cd's and all. Its an incredible nostalgia trip, and I dont feel dissapointed in them either, they aged very well !

[Potterhead1987]

I love the extra writing material on Pottermore ( now called Wizarding World.) It's a great way to get more detail into the Wizarding World. With that being said, I do really miss exploring the art moments that it originally had on the site.

[Vortep]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the movie is such a delight. I vote for it. The following two movies were just mediocre.

[Shesays]

I love the Cursed Child. It's not my favorite Harry Potter piece, but there's something about it that speaks to me

[renmarie]

I really enjoyed the supplementary reading materials that were birthed out of the HP franchise. I remember reading them in my Gran's yard as a kid and just thought it was so cool! I hadn't seen many series do that before.

[Badgefoot]

I still go on Wizarding World to reread some articles from the JK Rowling Archive, but I preferred it back when it was Pottermore, which I found to be much more fan-friendly. The design was more in-line with the book series and the interactive activities were a lot of fun. I loved the art for all the book scenes the site depicted.
And Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts, and Beedle were awesome bonus material of the book series. They give good answers to aspects of the Wizarding World a lot of fans wonder about.

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Originally Posted by Potterhead1987

I love the extra writing material on Pottermore ( now called Wizarding World.) It's a great way to get more detail into the Wizarding World. With that being said, I do really miss exploring the art moments that it originally had on the site.

Yeah, I miss the old Pottermore art too. Solid renderings of scenes from the books.

[Noah Jupe]

I chose the Crimes of Grindelwald because- personally I prefer that aspect of the wizarding world over what was originally displayed to the rest of us (harry potter.)

[StonecoldMcNasty]

I'll never forget how cool it was to get Fantastic Beasts and Quidditch Through The Ages back in the day, it just felt like such a cool glimpse into that world, and in such a neat way. Now, though, I mean there's nothing else for me that compares to Hogwarts Legacy. I cannot get enough of just walking through the world of that game. It gives me goosebumps constantly, and more than once has made me a little emotional.

[Evanryan]

Fantastic Beasts , The Wizarding World App & The games & Tales of Beedle the Bard.

[Sokolva]

My favorite supplemental materials has always been the official websites that J.K. Rowling created for her fans, with the earliest a defunct website released in 2000 at the announcement of the first movie. The first website was very much an early 2000s Pottermore, and had a sorting hat quiz, a wand ceremony, and many interactive games. I don't believe it saved your account back then, or at least I didn't know how to do so, but I remember always being sorted into Gryffindor except for when I messed around with other answers to see how to get different results. I also have a dim but strangely vivid memory that my wand from that time was the very same wand I ended up receiving both in Pottermore, and again when the switch was made to Wizarding World: A Holly wand, with Dragon heartstring core! Perhaps not so strange if we consider that J.K. Rowling created and wrote the tests very intentionally, but each quiz was quite different and yet gave me this same result very persistently, as though trying to tell me something!

I think that the Ceremonies that allow us to engage with this world, which were created and legitimized by J.K. Rowling herself, are such a special facet of the Harry Potter fandom and its development in a time when cyber and web driven content, or "born digital storytelling" is blossoming into its own. To have a creator who didn't grow up during the internet age embrace her fans who did, and whom were growing with Harry and wanting their own place at Hogwarts, is incredibly special.

[FawkesThePhoenixx]

I love everything that teach us more about the universe : the 3 books of the Hogwarts' library & Pottermore! I also miss JKR's old official website... and the old video games!

Maybe JKR's old official website is what I miss the most... it was such an amazing website!

[slythief2000]

the cursed child has its good parts is all i can say.

[thestralyew19]

My favorite supplementary Harry Potter item is the Hogwarts Legacy game.

[justjing]

I love Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them

[Jwillbiteyou]

I loveddddd the Lego Harry Potter games when I was little, and I still do!

[SebastianKing]

I'm a gamer so I love all of the old video games, Quidditch World Cup especially. The new Hogwarts Legacy game was incredible though!! I did 4 full playthroughs, with each of the 4 houses.

[pink2278]

I like Pottermore and the mobile games.

[Raistlin]

It's a bit silly, but I'm really fond of the HM story and characters, even if I have to deal with typical mobile shenanigans.

[DigitalOctane]

I'm gonna have to say the Fantastic Beasts book. I'm also gonna say they did that a disservice with the films and that makes me sad.

[RavenLeigh]

I love seeing the poll results! I put Fantastic Beasts because it was such an exciting expansion to the magic world. I also loved Pottermore so I get why that is high up there.

[SebastianDon]

Really enjoyed fantastic beasts and where to find them. made me feel like I was a student at Hogwarts learning about the new world I was in