Day 2 of Pottermore’s 12 days of Christmas shares new info on The Leaky Cauldron and Florean Fortescue!

Day 2 of Pottermore’s 12 days of Christmas gave fans another riddle from J.K. Rowling to solve stating;

"Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes is a marvellous place
Full of jokes and potions by the box and the case.
The premises are stuffed with people, ready to pop
But on what magical street can you find this fun shop?"

The answer to this riddle of course was "Diagon Alley". When entering this answer fans were brought to Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. After clicking around for the extra content you'll find a short story on The Leaky Cauldron and Florean Fortescue.

Fans will know that the Leaky Cauldron is a popular wizarding pub and inn in London, England and is the entrance to Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley. Florean Fortescue was the owner of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour in Diagon Alley.

Look inside the full article to read the extra content released by author J.K. Rowling on these two items.


Below you can read excerpts of the new material. For the full material head over to Pottermore and solve the riddle!


The Leaky Cauldron: 

"The Leaky Cauldron faced one of its most difficult challenges in the late nineteenth century, with the creation of Charing Cross Road, which ought to have flattened it completely. The Minister for Magic of the day, the tediously long-winded Faris Spavin, gave a melancholy speech in the Wizengamot explaining why the Leaky Cauldron could not, this time, be saved.  

When Spavin sat down seven hours later, having finished his speech, he was presented with a note from his secretary explaining that the wizarding community had rallied, performed a mass of Memory Charms (some say, to this day, that the Imperius Curse was used on several Muggle town planners, though this has never been proven) and that the Leaky Cauldron had been accommodated in the revised plans for the new road. Certainly, the Muggle architects involved never did understand why they had left a gap in their plans for buildings, nor why that gap was not visible to the naked eye."

Florean Fortescue:

"I originally planned Florean to be the conduit for clues that I needed to give Harry during his quest for the Hallows, which is why I established an acquaintance fairly early on.  

The problem was that when I came to write the key parts of Deathly Hallows I decided that Phineas Nigellus Black was a much more satisfactory means of conveying clues. Florean's information on the diadem also felt redundant, as I could give the reader everything he or she needed by interviewing the Grey Lady.  

All in all, I seemed to have had him kidnapped and killed for no reason. He is not the first wizard whom Voldemort murdered because he knew too much (or too little), but he is the only one I feel guilty about, because it was all my fault."

What do you think about these new bits of information? Are you liking these Christmas gifts from Rowling so far?

In case you missed it;

Day 1: Cokeworth, England.

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