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Thank you for this, it means so much. And I'm in wonderful company.

We all love to take an extended tour around our favourite fictional worlds, maybe stopping for tea with Sherlock Holmes, shopping at Diagon Alley and finishing the day with a game of croquet courtesy of the Queen of Hearts. But what if we had to carry some kind of a travel document (a page turner’s ...

To a pot or vessel of brass over a medium fire, add a pint of witches’ tears, two feathers fresh-pulled from a cockatrice’s tail, six pea-sized stones of three-day-old hail from a mountaintop… -Garth Nix, Frogkisser! Thus begins a very important recipe that sends an intrepid hero off on a quest. It...

Hi Poppy! Welcome to HOL. My first suggestion is to check the deadlines on any classes you've signed up for. For classes with deadlines that have already gone by, message your professor or student teacher and ask politely if you can make up enough work to pass the class. They should understand as lo...

May’s #gamesroom gathering will be in around 2 weeks on May 19th, 5 until 8 PM HOL-time! It’ll be a fun packed day on IRC - make sure you stick around for a couple of hours after we’re done to catch Quidditch Pick-ups as well. In April, we were on the hunt for spies, treasure and elusive words. In o...

Oh man. This article was pure gold (particularly the entire Quidditch Commentator section) It did leave out my favourite funny moment though: Ron: "Only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum, Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since." Harry: "Yeah, well, passing over Fred's left...

Due to unforeseen and highly magical circumstances, the last prompt in April has been transmogrified into the first prompt of May A curious footnote on a tax form.... From Frogkisser ! by Garth Nix no court shall sit without a unicorn, true mirror or oathbound seer to discern the truth of things spo...

This month we’re on the hunt for ingredients for an incredibly important lip balm as we read Garth Nix’s Frogkisser!. Join us for a funny, fanciful and thought provoking quest through a very diverse (if ‘slightly’ dangerous) land. Responsible robbers, right minded sorcerers, otters, frogs, royal dog...

She very rarely cried, but being brave all the time took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together. Here we’ll be discussing the prologue and chapters 1 through 9 of ‘Frogkisser!’ With the exception of the matriarch of the royal dogs, Anya doesn't rea...

But I suppose you were expecting someone more . . . er . . . traditional, my suspicious newt? Here we’ll be discussing chapters 10 through 18 of ‘Frogkisser!’ We’re used to so called ‘Twisted Fairy Tales’ confounding our expectations of the roles people will play and how legendary stories actually ...

the water had the consistency of oatmeal and it smelled worse than the main canal, if that was possible. Here we’ll be discussing chapters 19 through 28 of ‘Frogkisser!’ These chapters include a truly disgusting boat ride through the capital city. Did you enjoy these sections or were you too busy c...

What do you mean, someone else? Here we’ll be discussing the remaining chapters of ‘Frogkisser!’, including the epilogue. You can also use this thread to talk about the book as a whole now you’ve finished it. We’ve reached the end of Anya’s story (at least for now). Not all the loose ends have been...

Well done, you guys. It was a blast. Thank you for your hard work.

I actually disagree with most people who are suggesting tall or mid-height: I think the prince would be quite short for a man. There’s just something about him having been transformed into a frog that makes me think a smaller person would survive the transformation better (having read Garth Nix’s ‘F...

The Violet dusk of June, And May’s Rosie flowers, February’s Misty blues, And April’s sudden showers Autumn’s Ruby leaves, And Summer’s golden Dawn, In the branches of an Ash tree, A Ren, hopping on the lawn. From a far off star that burns, Through nature, to the calendar on the wall, Names are ever...

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Hi Annabella! Unfortunately only Hufflepuff admins can handle account validations so there really isn't anything to do but wait some more for them to have time to attend to it. You've done the right thing in asking Rorey. I really do sympathise with wanting to finally get into your own CR - I hope i...

Happy birthday, Kendra! I hope it continues to be otterly magical. (...no, my otter puns have not improved since last year. Not in the slightest.)

Fasten your seatbelts and make sure your tray tables are stowed in the upright position as this weeks prompt is.... An unusual item on an airplane safety card From Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Any sighting of an Inferius, or encounter with same, should be reported to the Mi...