HPANA [SEP] inception
HPANA
The Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator, or HPANA, as it is better known, is a "Harry Potter" fansite created in 2002 to monitor news on the Internet about J. K. Rowling's series of novels about the eponymous wizard.
History.
HPANA is operated by its founder, software developer Jeff Guillaume, and a volunteer staff who monitor and post news items, attend events in order to cover them for the site, and moderate the forums. Like other "Harry Potter" fan sites, HPANA
. More than 10,000 people attended the free event, played games and watched live stage performances while they waited for the midnight book debut.
Rowling in 2011 introduced a companion web site to her books, Pottermore, by working with HPANA and other fan sites to release clues for fans to discover the name of the new project. In November 2011, HPANA went offline due to lack of funding. Three years later, the site returned in limited form with access to its news archive.
History Podcast.
The site began