Book Buzz: Pottermore fans to get 12 Christmas treats

Harry Potter

fans are getting an early Christmas gift. 12 of them, actually.

J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website will be releasing "festive surprises" from Dec. 12-23 according to the site's official blog. The will be released each day at 8:00 a.m. ET. Pottermore members will have to head to the site and answer rhyming riddles in order to "unwrap" the surprises.

Contrary to media reports the surprises are not 12 new Potter stories from J.K. Rowling. They are "new potions and Moments in addition to several new entries by J.K. Rowling." The blog posted this statement in order to "set the record straight":

Just to put everyone straight on the misleading media reports of 'Twelve New Stories for Christmas'. As true Potter fans worked out straight away, our 12 days of festive surprises and accompanying rhyming riddles refer to new potions and Moments in addition to several new entries by J.K. Rowling that will be posted on pottermore.com between 12th and 23rd December. Sorry to disappoint fans, but there will not be a set of 12 new short stories, one for each day of Christmas. Even Pottermore wouldn't be that generous.

The first surprise will be released Friday on the site.