Snakey Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday to Minerva Lovegood!!!

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BIRTHDAY WISHES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

POPPY PLUOT!

Care of Magical Creatures Homework Assignment

Hello Students:

This week we will be working with Magical Creatures.  You will have a three part assignment.  Please post all answers on your weekly blog.

Part One:  Please Describe and Explain 5 items that you would use for the care of Magical Creatures.  ie: mittens for handling of poisonous plants, goggles etc.  There are no wrong answers as long as they can describe how the object is used.  You will received 5 points for each described item and 5 points if you post an original photo of everyday items found around your home to represent each item.  (originality marker rules applies for photos)

Part Two:  Complete the following quiz about House Elves. 5 points for each correct answer.

1.  Please describe the physical appearance of a house elf.
2. Kreacher is the house elf of which wizarding family?
3. What is Hermione Granger making for the house elves?
4. How do you free a house elf?
5.  What does S.P.E.W. stand for?


Part Three: Bonus/Extra Credit assignment.  For a bonus assignment, knit or crochet a SPEW project that will be sent to our lovely Ms. Mooney as part of this year's S.P.E.W project.  You will receive 25 points for your completed project.

Have fun and have a great week!

Dueling Club Round 1

I am delighted to announce the patterns for Round 1 of Dueling Club this term.  Please follow the links below to the relevant pattern page in Ravelry...

Knit Division pattern

Crochet Division pattern

Good luck duelists, and may the best students win.  Just remember that unforgiveable curses are not allowed.  We don't want any of the duels to result in a death, so simple stun and disarm charms would be best at this early stage of the tournament.  In fact, some of you may find a simple Knit charm to be useful!

House Points

Following the first week of this term at Hogwarts, the House Points have been tabulated.  Since the Houses are uneven in number, the points will be a percentage rather than a number.  Without further ado, the House rankings are:

Gryffindor - 100%

Hufflepuff - 100%

Ravenclaw - 100%

Slytherin - 100%

Nice work!  I hope all the Houses will do as well during this week.
 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

EMMA WIGWORTHY and

LIZZIE WYCHWOOD!

Transfiguration

Hello, Hogwarts students! Welcome to Transfiguration! Your assignment for this week will be all about turning one object into something else. :) It is simple enough to understand how the assignment works, though will require a bit of creativity (which shouldn't be too hard for this student body, I'm sure!). In the list below, you will find items from the Harry Potter world. Your job will be to create your own version of these items. (Don't worry if they don't look exactly like they do in the movies or on other places on the Web!) Start with posting your originality marker, and then the items you use to create the object before (w/your marker) and then the picture of after you construct it (again, w/your marker). For example, say that the item on the list is a Fanged Frisbee. Your first picture would be the items you use to construct it. (i.e., paper plates and a piece of paper), the second picture will be after the spell is cast (i.e., the paper plate attached to the fangs I drew, cut out, and taped to the paper plates). It can be as simple or elaborate as you want, just try to make it look like the item, and not something that is a drawn picture or two pieces of paper pasted together, where it takes more imagination to see the end result. ;) Scale size does not matter (it can be life-size or the right size for a doll), and yes, items you knit or crochet are completely eligible! Just don't forget your "Before Spell Casting" picture. :) Simple enough? Ok, time to get creative! Here are your items:

Bowtruckle
Rememberall
Golden Snitch
Hagrid's Rock Cakes
Decoy Detonator
Nose-Biting Teacup
Spectrespecs
Time Turner

Each finished object (if it is entirely if your own making and your own pictures) will earn your house 5 points. If you use Internet images instead, for whatever reason, that finished object will only earn your house 3 points.

Have fun creating!!!

Charms Extra Credit: If you also post a spell in between the before and after pictures, telling us what you used to create your FO, you will earn your house 2 bonus points per spell!

(Remember that while you are not required to do the weekly homework, you will earn extra house points for your house if your weekly posting includes the homework!)

Deadline: Post your homework by Saturday, April 10th, at midnight, PST to get house point credit!