What’s your Patronus? The ‘Harry Potter’ website Pottermore will tell you
No more shall Harry Potter fans traverse the globe wondering, “What is my Patronus?” Could you be a duck, a doe or even a mink? Discover the true you with the official Patronus assigner.
J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website, dedicated to the all-encompassing universe that is “Harry Potter,” introduced a new feature Thursday that allows registered users to determine their Patronus type.
Introduced in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” the Patronus Charm is used as a defensive spell that invokes a wizard’s personal protector in the form of an animal.
Part of the magic involved with the Pottermore Patronus experience is the continued involvement of creator J.K. Rowling in the process.
Users are asked to make a series of rapid choices from cryptic prompts written by the author to discover which animal is their protector. During the process, they are taken through a 3-D-rendered forest until they’re finally granted an ethereal guardian of their very own.
“We are so delighted to be bringing J.K. Rowling’s most famous spell magically to life on Pottermore,” Susan L. Jurevics, CEO of Pottermore said in a statement about the site’s new Patronus experience. It’s been fantastic working with J.K. Rowling and our creative and development teams to realise her vision, using the latest technology to create this little piece of magic for our site.”
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Rowling tweeted about the new Patronus test, sharing that when she originally wrote the questions, she took the test and discovered she was a pine marten.
However, when the best-selling author revisited the finalized version of the quiz last week, she got a new Patronus: a crane.
Once users have discovered their Patronus, it is added to their official Pottermore profile, making the experience distinctly different from your average online quiz that can be manipulated for desired results.
This aspect of the Patronus experience echoes Pottermore’s sorting hat, which sorts you into the house it deems fit, a decision that stays with the user’s profile for as long as they use it.
Pottermore’s Patronus experience is now available online for registered users.
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