* How many goal attempts will there be? - 68
* Will the first question of the Quaffle game have a number in it? - no
* How many 'All Chasers' situations will there be? - 5

It was a cold, bright Sunday on the Quidditch pitch - was it fall or winter? Regardless, we still somehow managed to have fun with pickups - with most of the houses, including Squibs, showing up for the occasion. We began with two rounds of Xany, and then everyone was asked to name a colour. Some pe...

Noting that the last two month prompts were consecutive chapter titles in the first Harry Potter book, I figured I might do the same thing one more time! The Mirror of Erised is named after the word 'desire' spelled backwards, so your challenge will involve a bit of backwards writing too! For this m...

Everyone involved has earned full HOOTs for this!

December 2019 HOLLERS Newsletter House Cup Standings As of 11:59 PM HOL on November 30, 2019, the House Cup standings are as below. We're entering into the home stretch of the term, though, so things can change as people complete their fall term classes! https://i.imgur.com/US77aOE.png House News B...

It was 5:07 AM and I was tossing and turning in my bed. Today would be my first Quidditch match as captain and we would be without our Keeper as he was in the hospital wing after eating a pound of doxy eggs ! I only spent 3 1/2 seconds worrying before realizing that I most likely had the match under...

Right after the clock struck midnight on a clear Tuesday (yes, Tuesday was the first day in recorded history associated with Quidditch), a few of us gathered onto the pitch for some quick rounds. There was a bit of a dispute over what to play first, but we settled on several rounds of Xany racing to...

"Writing Under Constraint" is a subforum of the Creative Outlet that features constrained writing challenges. Each month I will post a challenge prompt for you to write about. The amount you have to write will be shorter than most other challenges on HOL, but there will be a twist! You might have to...

You have a little over a week to earn HOOTs for November in the following places: November Challenges Consecutive Sudoku Hashi Slitherlink November Creative Outlet Constrained writing challenge (in the Writing Under Constraint subforum): Quidditch Other Creative Outlet challenges (in the Main Creati...

so glad you had a great birthday!

Right after every house finished their first regular season game, we only needed to wait a single day for the next pickups. And so, on a cold, dreary November evening we took to the pitch as usual! We began with three rounds of Xany: two on the regular set and one on the Cascade set. Then everyone p...

I'd assume that you are a candle!

I turn up once every minute, twice every moment, but never in a thousand years. What am I?

In baseball, the saying I remember is "It is easier to fire one manager than 25 players" - and the truth is the manager tends to take quite a bit of the blame when the team has an off season. Often, the manager may very well be hamstrung by decisions that the team's owner makes... but, of course, ow...

It was a tournament we ran a year and a half ago to give people more chances to catch Snitches outside of regular season games. It ended in April 2018 and Prof. Scarlet Leslie-Lewis was the undefeated champion. We may very well have another Snitch tournament within the next year though; they are alw...

Even though some clocks may have been changed, that didn't stop people from flying out to the pitch for pickups, including representation from all four houses! We began with two rounds of Xany: one round with the regular set and one round with the Cascade set. And I am pleased to report that everyon...

It is now November, which is the month in which the Quidditch season begins! In honor of the new Quidditch season, respond to this topic with at least 50 words about something involving Quidditch... but make sure that each sentence of your story contains at least one "Quidditch answer" that is the c...

And that's the end of the month! Both of you have earned full HOOTs for your HALLOWEEN-infused writing.

Ever since “SLAPS” (Saturday Late Afternoon Pickup Sessions) were folded into Quidditch Board activities, we have tried to organise Quidditch pickups in two different types of time slots: weekends in the evening hours HOL time and weeknights in the hours after midnight HOL time. Although the weeknig...

This past night featured another round of pickups, complete with a player who had never played before! We began with three rounds of Xany, designed to get as many people to score as possible... the first two were on the regular set and the last one was on the special Cascade set. But then it was tim...

And the deadline has passed! Both of you have been awarded full hoots for your SCHOOL-less writing.