Off Duty: Harry Potter on the iPhone

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Yes we're all grown-ups, but even the most serious of business users likes to unwind and get caught up in the world of make believe. Now you can, thanks to a Harry Potter wizard's wand-based iPhone app.

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Calling all Harry Potter fans. You can now pretend you're the wizard himself thanks to an iPhone and iPod Touch app released today by Warner Bros.

The Harry Potter Spells app transforms your device into a magic wand, meaning you can have a duel. With yourself or a friend (via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi) depending on whether you're feeling sociable or not.

Some 14 spells are available at launch. The users have to master them before they can use them in a duel. The app also adds a bit more of a role play element by inviting the user to Hogwarts, letting them visit Ollivanders wand shop and being placed into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin thanks to the Sorting Hat.

Users are awarded house points for their efforts, which they can also post to Facebook if they so choose.

The app was developed by MikoishiTM, costs 2.99 and is available now from the Apple App Store.

Maggie Holland
Maggie Holland

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.