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Oh yes, the entrance to the common room is concealed in a stack of large barrels in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor. We are the only house at Hogwarts that also has a repelling device for would-be intruders. If the wrong lid is tapped, or if the rhythm of the tapping is wrong, the illegal entrant is doused in vinegar. You will hear other houses boast of their security arrangements, but it so happens that in more than a thousand years, the Hufflepuff common room and dormitories have never been seen by outsiders.

Like badgers, we know exactly how to lie low — and how to defend ourselves. It is round and earthy and low-ceilinged; it always feels sunny, and its circular windows have a view of rippling grass and dandelions. There is a lot of burnished copper about the place, and many plants, which either hang from the ceiling or sit on the windowsills.

Our Head of house, Professor Pomona Sprout, is Head of Herbology, and she brings the most interesting specimens some of which dance and talk to decorate our room — one reason why Hufflepuffs are often very good at Herbology.

Our overstuffed sofas and chairs are upholstered in yellow and black, and our dormitories are reached through round doors in the walls of the common room.

Copper lamps cast a warm light over our four-posters, all of which are covered in patchwork quilts, and copper bed warmers hang on the walls, should you have cold feet. Our house ghost is the friendliest of them all: the Fat Friar. I must say, I hope some of you are good Quidditch players.

You should sleep comfortably. And once again: congratulations on becoming a member of the friendliest, most decent and most tenacious house of them all. Our emblem is the eagle, which soars where others cannot climb; our house colours are blue and bronze, and our common room is found at the top of Ravenclaw Tower, behind a door with an enchanted knocker.

The arched windows set into the walls of our circular common room look down at the school grounds: the lake, the Forbidden Forest, the Quidditch pitch and the Herbology gardens.

No other house in the school has such stunning views. Without wishing to boast, this is the house where the cleverest witches and wizards live. Our founder, Rowena Ravenclaw, prized learning above all else — and so do we. The door to our common room lies at the top of a tall, winding staircase.

It has no handle, but an enchanted bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. When you rap on the door, this knocker will ask you a question, and if you can answer it correctly, you are allowed in.

This simple barrier has kept out everyone but Ravenclaws for nearly a thousand years. Another cool thing about Ravenclaw is that our people are the most individual — some might even call them eccentrics. Ravenclaw house has an illustrious history. Most of the greatest wizarding inventors and innovators were in our house, including Perpetua Fancourt, the inventor of the lunascope, Laverne de Montmorency, a great pioneer of love potions, and Ignatia Wildsmith, the inventor of Floo powder.

There was also Minister Lorcan McLaird, who was a quite brilliant wizard, but preferred to communicate by puffing smoke out of the end of his wand. Well, I did say we produce eccentrics.

In fact, we are also the house that gave the wizarding world Uric the Oddball, who used a jellyfish for a hat. The Gryffindors are OK. Oh yes, our house ghost is the Grey Lady. Our dormitories are in turrets off the main tower; our four-poster beds are covered in sky blue silk eiderdowns and the sound of the wind whistling around the windows is very relaxing. And once again: well done on becoming a member of the cleverest, quirkiest and most interesting house at Hogwarts.

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Categories Pottermore. And now that the new site has been launched, some of them have mixed feelings about the end result. Lets just say the website is nothing like it used to be earlier. The interactive format has been taken off to introduce a more news portal-like interface. Yes, so those of you who played all the games on the previous Pottermore site that means house points, collecting gold coins and so on it has all been in vain. There will be no more of clicking on objects on the site leading to new discoveries.

But what is good about the site is that it leads you to a lot more writing and you can actually access all of it without having to complete a level. The new home page comes with a message, "Welcome to the new Pottermore, there's so much to tell you. Yes, while one is initially saddened that all the games are gone, the makers of the site make up for it with so many back stories.

But where has the old site gone? The Pottermore Correspondent, it seems, has all the answers. They said, "What is this shiny new website? Where did the old one go? Which dragon did Harry Potter battle in the first test of the Triwizard Tournament?

Do the Pottermore staff work in a castle? The correspondent also says that the Sorting Hat will be brought back so that fans can be sorted into houses once again? While the news section will have stories and articles on the site that's where we will be informed about the return of the Sorting Hat, if this new correspondent is to be believed. There is also more about Draco Malfoy.