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The writings, posted at 1400 GMT each day from Tuesday to
Friday, are meant to set the scene for the highly anticipated
"Harry Potter" spin-off movie called "Fantastic Beasts and Where
to Find Them", which is due for release in November.
Tuesday's offering, entitled "Fourteenth Century - Seventeenth
Century", takes readers "back through the centuries to reveal
the beginnings of the North American magical community and how
witches and wizards used magic before they adopted wands,"
Pottermore said.
Wednesday's piece will look at "the dangers faced by witches and
wizards in the New World" and Thursday's will reveal "why the
Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) took
steps to move the magical community deeper underground".
Friday will take readers to the "Roaring Twenties", when the new
movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" starring Oscar
winner Eddie Redmayne is due to begin.
"These stories will give you some idea of how the wizarding
world on this continent evolved over the years, and of the names
and events that lay the foundation for the arrival of 'Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them'," Pottermore told Rowling fans.
In the movie Redmayne plays "magizoologist" Newt Scamander, "who
stops in New York following his travels to find and document
magical creatures", according to Warner Bros.
A "magizoologist", in Rowling's make-believe universe, is
somebody who studies magical creatures.
The story is set in 1926 - decades before Rowling's fictional
boy wizard Harry Potter begins his adventures at Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The film, based on Rowling's "Harry Potter" accompanying volume
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", marks the
best-selling author's screen writing debut.
(Reporting By Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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