Hello! Cyn seems to have lost this in a pile of things, so please excuse anything that's out of date. However, some of our lovely prefects have worked hard on this edition of the Owl Post, so it would be a waste to not send it out. It has some great information, so pay attention! So without further ado, we present the current volume of the Gryffindor Owl Post. (Oh, and if you get multiple copies, I'm really sorry. *nods* Just delete the extras)
1.1 Letter from Prof. Hatshepsut Nahyan
2.1 Contest Winners
2.2 Gryfftoberfest
2.3 Fat Lady Hunt
2.3 October Awards
3.1 November Den Challenge
4.1 Paw Print
5.1 The Squibbler
6.1 QUIDDITCH!!!
7.1 Gryffitionary
8.1 Prose and Cons November Challenge
Welcome to the November issue of the Owl Post!! I hope you all are enjoying fall here at Hogwarts. It's so beautiful. A tad chilly, but still lovely none the less. This is quite a big issue, so happy reading! To start us off, here is a letter from our head of house:
"I would first like to say with saddness that Jonathan Rico, one of our esteemed prefects has decided to take a sabbatical by going to research the effects of the contract/binding spell. While he is away Professor Joshua Lorris will be taking over SUN in his stead. Please don't bombard him with questions you know there is no answer to. *G*
We are combining both of the first year dens into one. The new den will be the Desert Kitten den and with keep the name we will pass out the password to that den to all the members. Running that den will be Mirabella Nevlómë with the help of Jade Packer (new JP!), Jessie Barren, and Lizzie Watson. Aelita-Chan will now run the Savanna den.
Now for some bad news:
Someone thought it would be a funny prank and let off a series of spells in the common room. As a result everyone is now a first year. Which means that you will not be able to get into your dens until we are able to fix it. It will take a couple of days tops to put everyone back into their respective dens and years. Please bare with us while we hunt down said person and lock them in the tower and then fix this mess.
If anyone other than first years have a problem getting into their den or not being able to do what they were able to do yesterday please email me at hatshepsut @ gmail.com and I will take care of it.
I have recently received over 90 error emails concerning email accounts. I have gone through and deleted about 60 of them so far. I would ask that every Gryffindor member look through their account and make sure that your email that you have listed in your profile is a correct and active one. I will be going through again in about a couple of days to a week and deleting more. This also may be the reason why you have not received anything from your den leader or fellow Gryffindor member.
Update your profiles.
Prof. Hatshepsut Nahyan
Gryffindor Head of House"
Gryfftoberfest was a raving success. Here are the winners of the contests!
Most Creative: Julie Garnet
Scarriest: Amanda Hensgen (Hershey's Kiss) and Molly Grabau (Pirate)
Funniest: Julie Garnet
Silliest: Athena Paulus (Alice in Wonderland)
Winning Picture: Rachel Baudelaire
Best Overall Costume: Julie Garnet (jello)
Song Parodies:
1. Julie Garnet
2. Jade Thaerd
3. Tie between Gwyd Aerlyn and Molly Grabau
Evil Brew:
1. Jade Thaerd
2. Julie Garnet
3. Silver Dragon
Boris' New Pal:
1. Jade Thaerd
2. Molly Grabau
3. Jessica Summers & Emilor MacKinnon
Sir Nick's Deathday Story:
1. Gwyd Aerlyn
2. Julie Garnet
3. Katie Potter
Gryff Acrostic:
1. Athena Paulus
2. Angelina Bell
3. Katie Potter
-Pumpkin Carving-
Funniest: Corrine
Scariest: Corrine
Most Original: Kate Illume
Best Overall: Kate Illume
Overall Gryfftoberfest:
1. Julie Garnet
2. Jade Thaerd
3. Molly Grabau
We also had the Fat Lady Hunt going on in the dens. The winners of that are:
Savanna - came a respectable 4th place
Desert Kitten - came an even more respectable 3rd place
Jungle Cub - receive the silver medal
And the winners are Mountain Den!!
This month, the Gryffindor Awards Committee didn't have a difficult time deciding who deserved an award--quite a rare occurence for us!
So, without further ado, I would like to present Miss Molly Grabau with the Golden Snitch Award for her enthusiasm and participation in everything under the sun that Gryffindor and HOL have to offer. Congratulations Molly:D
Wylie Weasley is hosting this month's Den Challenge:
"Hangman Den Challenge.
Ok this month the SPD needed a rest from our busy busy times through the Gryfftoberfest celebrations. The office is still is disarray through all the submissions, so I happily volunteered to run this months challenge simply so that I could get out of that office. I was going to sneak into the owl post office, but Aire threw me out after I kept trying to edit all the boring bits from that wonderful owl post.
Anyway enough about me, and on to Novembers very unique Den challenge, this is a top of the range den challenge, this challenge would be sold in top stores like Harvey Nick’s, and Jenner’s, it’s that top quality. This month we are going to play a game of hangman! Yes you heard right, Hangman!
The way this very simple game will work is (in other words the instructions/rules);
(1) There is a name of a film or book, you have to find out by guessing letters, now I don’t want to make this too simple so I’m not going to tell you whether it is a book or a film, but it is one of them or maybe even both. (I’m not really sure )
(2) Each den will have their own hangman thread in their den which I’ll kindly set up for you, and in this thread you will have the list of the body parts you have, which are the following:
1x head
2 x Legs
2 x Arms
2 x Feet
1 x Face
1 x Body
On top of this in that thread you will also have this;
**** ** *** ****** - because I’m stupid I’ll use stars instead of underlines!
(3) To make a guess, at a letter, you have to complete a challenge; there will be a range in difficulty of the challenges. There will be 26 challenges in total, so as you can make a guess at every letter. Obviously you do not need to complete every challenge to make a guess at the Hangman book/film. It is up to the den the letter they guess after they have completed a challenge.
(4) However as in the real game of hangman, if you make a wrong guess you will lose a body part, and this will be done by body parts simply disappearing from your thread. 9 wrong guesses and you are out of the competition.
(5) To make your final guess, you have to complete a specific challenge, so first PM Wylie Weasley saying you would like to make your final guess, I will send you the challenge, and then you email your guess and completed challenge to SPD@gryff.net with Hang Man in the subject line. Once you have done this there is no withdrawing or changing your mind, only one guess is allowed.
(6) There is a deadline of November 29th to be met.
(7) Competitions will be posted at Wylie's discreation; there will be a section in each den dedicated to hang man where new challenges will be posted. Each challenge will have its own rules which will be posted so read them carefully.
(8) There would be 5 rubies for each person that participates in a den
5 extra rubies for the participating members of third place den
10 extra rubies for the participating members of second place den
15 extra rubies for the participating members of third place den
(9) The den leader is the judge of who is classified as a participating student, and the den leader should PM Wylie Weasley the list for their den by the 30th November for their den members (including themselves) to receive the rubies.
Challenges, and den thread will be set up later today by myself and posted for your den pleasure.
Enjoy the Month of November "
Paw Print (http://pawprint.gryff.net) is looking for a new layout for the month of November. It should be "autumn" in theme, though, it certainly doesn't need to. You can do whatever you want for the layout and just because we don't use it this time, doesn't mean we won't ever use it. Again the layouts are from Gryffindor students only (since we can't give the other house members rubies). 5 rubies per submission, no more than 3 submissions per month, winning layout gets an additional 5 rubies. Layouts must be hosted on your own site or a free site, so that the Paw Print staff may view and vote.
The Squibbler (http://www.hol.org.uk/squibbler/) has put out a new issue. The current issue - brilliant, investigative journalism as you are used to from The Squibbler - had been put on hold by a disillusionment charm for more than one week. We suspect the Magical Office of Law in the Wizengamot Administration Services in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in the Ministry of Magic to be responsible for this, as they were not too happy with our exclusive news about the next Head of Gryffindor in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But our staff-internal aurors have sorted this out for you.
They are also looking for someone to be The Squibbler Head of Sales. The job information is in the annoucements section of the HOL forum.
As announced by Moriane Lee:
"GUESS WHAT? GUESS? COME ON I KNOW YOU WANT TO GUESS!!!
*cough*
Despite the powers of the HQT, which includes Prof. Rictusempra's Rake of Pain, Talya Mamush's Rubber Chicken, the evil posters of PoT carried by the Huff chasers to distract the keeper (not to mention the juice in their back pockets), Kel's seizure inducing seeker skills and Ron's boring hands of skillfulness... *cough*
It was nothing against Juli's almighty whip skills coupled with WATER BALLOONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION from her and Lily, coupled with Missa's backhand with a tennis racket, Cyn's caffienated flexing flourishes in a muscle suit, Mira's PoT dance of distraction (on a broom no less!), Alentia's N00B PRISM POWAHS and of course, how can we forget about those lovely legs and red cocktail dress of Mr. Seven Ashitaka?
And so...
GRYFFINDOR PREVAILED WITH A 110-30 WIN OVER THE BASHING BADGERS!!!
Highlights include Seven's wardrobe malfunction (causing both Lilly and Missa to lose the quaffle as he flew over them followed by a player pile-up ala spam) the Rake of Pain getting all three of our chasers WITHIN MILISECONDS (so that's why it's called that) Juli and her excessive use of her whip earning her the title of MOST VIOLENT I MEAN VALUABLE PLAYER and Fern somersaulting into a group of Hufflepuff cheerleaders.
You know what this means right?
BADGER BURGER TIME!!!"
The staff of the OP is extremely proud of our team and offers a heartly YEA SQUEE CONGRATS.
Prof. Hatshepsut Nahyan just announced the arrival of the Gryffitionary. I would like to welcome to the esteemed catalog of Gryffindor knowledge:
http://www.gryff.net/Gryfftionary/index.htm
Did you ever see a word and wonder what it meant? Have you ever been left with a feeling of not fitting into a conversation because you had no idea what they were saying? Well, now you won't ever have that feeling again. All you will need to do is take out your trusty Gryfftionary and hunt down that word and viola! You are hip and educated. You can even pull out a word from it and make them feel not in the know.
So go on take a look. Try to stump your friends with Gryff words. Don't be the only one without a Gryfftionary! Brought to you by past and present Gryffindor members.
Mirabella Nevlómë is bringing us the Prose and Cons November Challenge:
At first glance, November seems to be a really boring month. Of course, there is Thanksgiving, where we all gorge ourselves on turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pies until we fall asleep, but other than that, what does November have to offer? I’ll tell you what.
There are celebrations of Samhain in the northern hemisphere and Beltaine in the southern. Australia has the Melbourne Cup, while Britain and New Zealand celebrate Guy Fawkes Day. November has also become the official month for NaNoWriMo (or the National Novel Writing Month) and is also the month where one can celebrate the greatness that is the moustache. So really, November is not a bad month!
So for this month, the P&C will be another open challenge of sorts. Did you participate in any above activities or something not mentioned? Share your experience, real or fictional. Feel like writing an ode to the moustache or turkey, go ahead! Have pictorial evidence? Even better! Just follow the requirements below and have fun!
1. For short or long stories - more than 200 words, but less than 1,000.
2. Poetry, haiku - 2 or more stanzas required.
3. Photos, pictures - any medium is allowed; dimensions of 600x600 preferred, but a maximum of 800x800 is allowed. Please do not exceed this or your picture will not be used. Also, please have your pics/photos already uploaded to a server/website, like photobucket, and send me the link of the picture.
Please email all entries to creativequill@gmail.com before November 23rd. All submissions are 5 points each and no more than 2 submissions per category. Deadline is non-extendable, so please get them in on time!"
Enjoy the rest of November!