Harry Potter is Reading you, Harry Potter!
Cooper Bailey – 14th May 2020
Never got around to reading Harry Potter and don’t want to actually read a book? Harry Potter at Home has you sorted! But what is Harry Potter at Home? It can be found on wizardingworld.com, which is a place for fans and future fans of the Harry Potter book series written by J.K. Rowling. With a bunch of games and new content exclusive to the website, there’s bound to be something on the site for every type of fan, whether you’re a casual reader of a full-blown Potterhead.
Harry Potter at Home is a program that was launched by the website during the current COVID-19 pandemic and was an initiative by Rowling and her team to spread the joy of Harry Potter, more specifically the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.
This trailer was posted on Wizarding World’s various social media platforms teasing the event…
and right at the end, the perfect reader pops up and starts reading chapter one. None other than the boy who lived himself, the man who played Harry Potter for over 10 years, Daniel Radcliffe.
Radcliffe is the first in an exciting line-up of stars to read a chapter from the first Harry Potter book and takes you through meeting the Dursleys and a package being dropped off for them during the middle of the night.
The next two chapters are already out on the site as well with Noma Dumezweni, the actress who played Hermione Granger in the Broadway and London showings of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child taking you through chapter two and Eddie Redmayne, star of his own series set in the wizarding world, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Redmayne takes you through chapter three of the story.
There are plenty of famous faces to come in this reading as they go through all seventeen chapters of the original book. You can check out the first three chapters at https://www.wizardingworld.com/
