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We can confirm that the Pottermore Magical Quill Challenge Clue #6 will be released between 1:30pm and 4.00pm BST (British Standard Time), today, August 5th, 2011. Clue #6 will be posted earlier in the morning, compared to the previous two clues, for those of you in the U.S and North America. On the other hand you won’t have to spend all day at the computer waiting for a chance to get in!

For those of you in the United States here are the conversion times once again:

U.S Eastern Time: 8:30 am – 11:00 am

U.S Central Time: 7:30am – 10:00am

U.S Pacific Time: 5:30am – 8:00am

Possible Clue answers from the book

We’ve collected what we think are some of the important numbers from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which Clue #6 will be based on. We can’t guarantee the clue will come from this list, but it might!

The Room of Requirement is on the 7th floor

There are 4 heads of houses

Voldemort believed 7 to be the most powerful magical number

Voldemort created 6 Horcruxes, the 7th part residing in his regenerated body

Dumbledore believes that Nagini the snake is the 6th Horcrux

4 Horcruxes remain

Dumbledore asks the Dursleys to allow Harry to return until he turns 17

At Quidditch Keeper tryout, McLaggen saves 4 penalties out of 5

At Quidditch Keeper tryout, Ron saves 5 penalties out of 5

Harry sees the first signature of The Half Blood Prince in Chapter 9

Tom Riddle is first invited to Hogwarts in Chapter 13

Snape kills Dumbledore in Chapter 27

Everyone realizes Dumbledore is dead in Chapter 28

Dumbledore’s funeral is Chapter 30

How to enter

The clues open up at fixed times, either at the top of the hour, or the half hour.

Once the clue is posted on Pottermore.Com, take a breath! You will have a decent amount of time to find the Magical Quill and get registered.

The clue will be related to the 6th book and you’ll likely have to multiply it by the number 14.

Once you have that number, append it to the end of the following URL: http://quill.pottermoreinsider.com/

For example, yesterday’s answer was “252″, so to find the quill, you needed to type http://quill.pottermoreinsider.com/252 into your browser and then find the quill on the page it takes you to.

Search hard for the quill and take your time. It can be hidden anywhere, it was even hidden in an ad at the top of the page yesterday that took almost 1 minute to appear!