This past evening featured the first weekend pickup of the season; on an autumnally cloudy night with depressing weather, people from every house (including a confirmed Squib) flew onto the pitch. In fact, no fewer than nine people showed up to play! We began with two games of Creaothceann... the Sc...

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My personal theory is that the Pensieve that Professor Snape showed Harry Potter - in which Snape's reasons for his actions are 'revealed' to be undying love for Harry's mother - was altered by Snape (and that Snape's actual motivations were somewhat different than what he showed Harry). We spend mo...

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Pickups began for the year on this warm, early October evening. Five people suited up to play, representing each house - and we began with two games of the popular 'everyone can score on every question' variant of Xany (once on the normal Quidditch set and once on the special Cascade set). Then it w...

As we get deeper into fall, Halloween - a favourite festive day of the wizarding world - is almost at hand! Respond to this topic with at least 50 words about doing something for Halloween... but make sure that each word in your response contains at least one letter that can be found in the word "HA...

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As September turns to October, it is almost time for the first pickup of the new school year. The pickup will be in just under a week, on... Wednesday, October 2 at 3 AM HOL! (This is the evening of Tuesday, October 1 in US time zones). Just like last year, we will plan on having our pickups alterna...

[OUT OF CHARACTER] HOL is a place that helped me further refine the Slytherin traits that I valued... and one of the last few places where I could refer to such traits by name. That said, I met all sorts of great people from all four houses over the years - and enjoyed all sorts of adventures along ...

As much fun as I've been happening visiting the various booths of the fair, I was distracted by the dungeon snakes hissing at me in Parseltongue - a language that I really want to bring back to this school! But even there I collected a nice little potion (I'm waiting to open it until the end of the ...

hope you had a great one!

Weekdays: -almost never available on weekdays before midnight HOL -available for pickups starting between 2 and 5 AM HOL most days (starting around 3 or 4 AM HOL is preferred) Weekends: -strongly prefer to start after 6 PM HOL, but can do earlier if necessary -available for pickups starting as late ...

We're deep enough into September that it's time to think about when we want to have Quidditch pickups for the new school year! In order to help with the scheduling, please reply to this thread by saying which days of the week and times of day (use HOL time, which is the same as the time in London) w...

Everyone knows that when the month shifts over to September, it's time to return to Hogwarts! Respond to this topic with at least 50 words about returning to school... but without using any of the letters in the word "SCHOOL" in your writing! The deadline is October 20 at 11:59 PM HOL ; completing t...

The Quidditch booth is giving out toy Golden Snitches, which look like the real thing but fly much slower. This allows the taker to familiarise themself with the motion of the Golden Snitch without being distracted by the speed of the real thing. Also, the slow motion of the toy Snitch allows everyo...

I decided to leave a large container of chocolate powder, crushed from Honeydukes chocolate, for the next taker. It is well known that chocolate is delicious and can ward off the effects of Dementors, but it is less well known that in powder form it can improve almost any other food or drink! For ex...

The Race for the Quods is now over! Every last Quod has been caught, and while there has been a strange incident with a Golden Snitch, a motorbike, and a couple of brooms, it has been decided to wait until the fall to track down that Snitch. As for now, the winners of the Snitch tournament are: Aria...

I was expecting my team, the Baltimore Ravens, to crash and burn this year [despite preseason, which does not matter] but so far, unlike just about every other team I'm following, they're actually doing well!

In general terms (of course, vagaries of Muggle life may change things around), my availability looks as follows: -On weekdays (Mon-Fri) I will be unavailable before midnight HOL time. I will nearly always be able to start a match sometime between 4 and 6 AM HOL (technically the next day in HOL time...

The area just to the left of the viaduct should be marked with the colour green and some indication to show that this is where the Slytherin dungeons are: after all, this is the best place to see the lake! Similarly, I would mark the clock tower with blue and the central tower with red to reflect Ra...