The INSIDER Summary:
- Twenty years ago, J.K. Rowling published «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.»
- Today, to celebrate the book’s 20th anniversary, Facebook created a fun Easter Egg.
- If you post or comment Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin, the house names will show up in their respective colors.
- You’ll also see an animated wand pop up and shoot out confetti.
On June 26, 1997, J.K. Rowling graced the world with «Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone» (or Sorcerer’s Stone, for those of us in the US).
Twenty years later to the day, Facebook is celebrating the anniversary of the book’s publication with a fun Easter Egg.
Here’s how to find it: Just post or comment a Hogwarts house name on Facebook — Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin — and it will show up in the color of the house (red, yellow, blue, and green, respectively), along with a wand that shoots out some magical confetti and swirls.
To see the wand animate again, click on the word you typed. The effect also appears when you post or comment «Harry Potter.» The Easter Egg works on both desktop and mobile.
So far, it seems like these are the only words that trigger the Easter Egg. I tried typing in a few other characters’ names to no avail. Commenting «Remus Lupin,» for example, sadly did not result in an animated werewolf popping up on my screen.
Still, for the Harry Potter nerds out there (myself very much included), it’s a fun way to celebrate J.K. Rowling and the series that changed childhoods everywhere around the world twenty years ago.
