Just came back from visiting chapters 1-4 of Chamber of Secrets on Pottermore. Apparently Chapters 5-11 will be available soon. I'm still grinning from the new info from J.K. Rowling, so for now I'm not going to sour my good mood by checking whatever mess they've made out of the Spanish translation.
There's a recurring theme of the tensions between pure-blood supremacists and the muggle world in the entries about muggle technology and on Draco and his family, which is fitting with the importance of this in book two. Also, help, I've forgotten if the terms pure-blood and muggle should be capitalised or not. You're not helping with your red squiggly lines, Firefox spelling check. If the word 'muggle' is good enough for Oxford Dictionary it is good enough for you.

Also, currently reading last Artemis Fowl book 'The Last Guardian', which came out yesterday (yay, Kindle). Pretty epic so far, I hope it doesn't cop out.

Feel free to talk about childhood loves you haven't let go of in the comments! C.S. Lewis used to say that growing up is not about replacing all the things you liked as a child with things you can only appreciate now as an adult, but rather about adding to them. The clue is in the word 'grow'. Otherwise it would be called 'changing up'.

For some reason Mugglenet has a malicious site warning. Perhaps the upsurge of visitors due to the recent announcement has attracted hackers.

Here's the press release about J K Rowling's new book:
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/39061

It will be published by Little, Brown (rather than Scholastic and Bloomsbury as her previous books) in both print and e-book form. It will be for adults and the title and publication date haven't been announced yet.

J.K. Rowling said:

"Although I've enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world. The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry's success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life."

I gotta admit, when I found out I gasped loudly, flailed, and laughed at myself for a while. I miss her writing.

PS. The old desk at her website is gone! Seems  jkrowling.com is going to be re-vamped. I hope all the old info won't be deleted, though. Good I backed-up the scrapbook stuff just in case.