The L.O.O.N. Official Guide to www.jkrowling.com

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

***The League of Obsessed Nitpickers (L.O.O.N.)  Official Guide to 
www.jkrowling.com***

[Note: This guide lists the features of JKR's website.  It does not 
give hints or solutions to the puzzles contained on the website, nor 
does it list or discuss the new information about the HP series that 
JKR has given us.]

>MAIN PAGE

The main page is JKR's desk.  On it are several portkeys which take 
you to other parts of her office, several other items which can be 
opened and read, and a few other things.  The portkeys and the 
readable items all make a tinkling sound when you pass the cursor 
over them.  When you click on a portkey, it will transport you to 
another part of JKR's office (each one is detailed below).  

The portkeys make a nice swooshing sound.  There are background 
sounds (which you can hear anywhere in the office) of a barking dog 
(who always barks when a portkey is being used), and what sounds like 
occasional cars passing by and honking horns, and maybe a doorbell.  
Each part of JKR's office has a resident bug which flies away when 
you move the cursor over it, and lots of spider webs.

If you hang around long enough, you will hear a windy sound which 
indicates that Peeves is visiting the section of the office you are 
in.  On the Main Page, Peeves will knock over the pen holder, the 
watch will turn to a wizard's watch, and a doxy will fly across the 
desk.

PORTKEYS
*Coffee Cup – takes you to EXTRA STUFF (bulletin board)
*Pen – takes you to LINKS (bookshelf)
*Key – takes you to FAN SITES (shelf with trophies)
*Hairband – takes you to a screen with no name (door with Do Not 
Disturb sign)

READABLE ITEMS
(The readable items make various paper and book-related noises when 
you open and close them.)
*Newspaper – opens to the News section
*Tabloid – opens to the Rumors section.  This section includes 
advertisements for various wizard businesses: The Quibbler (Fudge 
Forced to Flee!), a Celestine Warbeck concert (no muggles allowed, 
alas), Borgin & Burkes, an Muggle-Deterring Gate, and Magi-Me-More
*Scrapbook – when you solve a puzzle, the goodie you receive stays 
here
*Index File – flips over to Wizard of the Month.  Click on this for 
details.
*FAQs – clicking on the paperclips makes the paper clips form a 
question mark with a metallic sound, and several envelopes and 
feathers appear on the desk.  Click on any envelope to get the FAQs.  
Note that although there are 3 envelopes, the FAQs actually include 4 
sections.
*Calendar – gives you JKR's biography.  Lots of cool pictures, 
including one where JKR's eyes blink

OTHER THINGS
*Cell phone – You can click on the keys and make numbers appear with 
cell phone noises.  Sometimes it will ring and JKR will say hello to 
you.
*Butterfly – sometimes blue, sometimes yellow
*Spider
*Light Switch (computer monitor switch?) – turns the light on and off
*Notepad with welcome message
*Watch – keeps the actual time on your computer's clock
*Miscellaneous items – JKR's wedding photo, floppy diskettes, lots of 
gum wrappers, keyboard, papers with scribblings

>EXTRA STUFF
Clicking on the coffee (tea?) cup on the right side of the screen 
brings you to JKR's bulletin board..  The coffee cup will land with a 
clunk to the left of the bulletin board when you first arrive.  Click 
on that cup to get back to the Main Page.  The resident bug is a fly.

The bulletin board has lots of interesting items on it, including a 
piece of paper which lists the Extra Stuff items (Edits, Characters, 
and Miscellaneous), a lot of business cards (mostly for car services, 
but one for her agent, Christopher Little), a picture of JKR's 
husband, a seemingly blank piece of paper, a shopping list, a picture 
of a dog, a classified ad from the Manchester Evening News for a 
volume of Wizards Spells, a drawing of an owl, a drawing that looks 
like it might be the Hogwart's crest, a note to call Fiddy (JKR's 
assistant) before tea, some leaves, and several papers with 
scribblings (one about the various houses of Hogwarts).

There is also a pen on a string, what looks like an eraser (rubber), 
and radio which you can turn on and off.  If you turn the radio on, 
you can hear it everywhere in the office.  Eventually, someone will 
come along and turn it off.  After a while, you will hear someone 
cough and then turn it on again.

When Peeves comes by, the pen on the string swings, the tack holding 
the STREET CARS card come out and the card falls down.

>LINKS
Clicking on the pen in the lower right brings you to JKR's 
bookshelf.  The pen will land with a clunk to the in the cup when you 
first arrive.  Click on that pen to get back to the Main Page.  The 
resident bug is a butterfly.

There are two shelves of books, and you can see little bits of two 
more shelves.  Some of the books open to tell you about various 
things associated with the HP books or JKR's other interests.  The 
linking books are: Christopher Little Literary Agency, Press and 
Publishers, the Warners Brothers Harry Potter Web Site (the only link 
which actually takes you to another website), One Parent Families, 
the MS Society of Scotland, and a list of all of JKR's publishers.  
There is also a book with a question mark on it, several books of 
Wizard Spells and other magical topics, two books by Roddy Doyle (The 
Commitments and The Van), World Mythology, three books of Fairy Tales 
(one by E. Nesbit), Children's Stories, Short Stories, two Dorothy 
Sayers books, The Little White Horse (JKR's favorite book as a 
child), I Capture the Castle, three Jane Austen books (Sense and 
Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice), the Writers and Artists 
Yearbook, Manx Mouse by Paul Gallico (sp?), Katherine Mansfield and 
Grimble by Clement Freud.

There are also some pictures (note that the birds are flying), an 
inkwell, a locked box, a candle, and a bookmark.

When Peeves comes by, the bookmark flutters and the candle goes out.

>FAN SITES
Clicking on the gold key in the middle of the desk you to JKR's 
trophy shelf.  A parchment will fall on the right and the key will 
fall on the left (each with a slight thud) and hang from the shelf 
when you first arrive.  Click on that key to get back to the Main 
Page.  The resident bug is a spider.

There a two shelves (and part of a third) of trophies and several 
parchments.  Pulling the tassle which says "ABOUT" in the upper left 
reveals a parchment which tells you about the fan sites award.  
Clicking on the Latest Winner trophy opens the parchment, which tells 
you about the fan site which is the current winner.

There are first and second place ribbons, two oval medals with 
question marks, three empty oval boxes, a non-working (at the moment) 
archive trophy, a feather, a trophies for Bellatrix Black (Villainess 
of the Year?), Harry Potter (well, someone whose name starts with HA, 
anyway), Lily Evans, Percy Weasley (Most Pompous?), Sirius Black, 
Frank Longbottom, and two each for James Potter and Tom Riddle.

When Peeves comes by, the ribbons flutter and the first place ribbon 
falls off the shelf.

>?
Clicking on the hairband next to the key brings you to a mysterious 
part of the office identified only with a question mark.  The 
hairband lands with a slight thud on the table on the left, next to a 
vase with some daffodils in it.  

There is a window on the left with either a day or night scene 
(depending on the time on your computer's clock?) and some wind 
chimes.  You can see clouds roll by, the wind chimes blow, birds 
flying during the day and shooting stars at night.  There is an oval 
mirror on the right, in which you can see two closed doors, and open 
doorway, and a burning candle.  In the middle is a large door with a 
Do Not Disturb sign.  If you move the cursor over the door handle, it 
moves up and down.  There's also a light switch which you can use to 
turn the lights on and off.

When Peeves comes by, he writes on the mirror and knocks over the 
vase.

--Joywitch M. Curmudgeon, Founder and Chief LOON-a-tic