I did as a matter of fact visit a couple such places. One was a townhouse in my birthtown which had been kept exactly as it had been when the last occupant died - a very old lady from the aristocracy who had no heirs so she left her money to be spent keeping this house in order and viewable by the p...

Happy birthday Alex! Hope your day was filled with happiness and joy!

Hello, I am Gail Allen. I am a fourth year here at HOL as well as a Head Student. However, I don't think my needs for my first day at school would be all that different from what most people need, though perhaps by having been here at Hogwars for some years I might have a better idea of what I need:...

December has been a busy month and yet people find time to excel at their homework and other activities around HOL. Give a huge round of applause for our December Top Point earner! Winner: Torii Taylor - 498 points Ravenclaw: Torii Taylor - 498 points Gryffindor: Sky Alton - 420 points Hufflepuff: S...

First of all we would like to say a massive THANK YOU! to everyone who participated in this! I have seen the many wonderful gifts being sent in from all of you and I can only say that I am proud to see how awesome you've all been in thinking up gifts for each other. It's wonderful to see and it warm...

The Drabble Babble Challenge Drabble (n.) = "an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length" One theme will be announced per issue. Participants will then write a small piece of fiction (or non-fiction) about that theme. What's the catch? The submission must be a drabble!...

Alte is accepting submissions once again for our February issue!
Why not submit a bingo story or two?

February Issue Deadline: FRIDAY, 31st of January

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https://i.postimg.cc/XJmHgpsg/secre-elf-done-size.png [Picture shows an elf operating a gift-making machine and contains the words "Secret Elf"] "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..." December is here! And to me that means a month of baking cookies, crafting all kinds of decorations to...

Do you want to bring joy to the members of HOL in forms of small gifts this December? The elves would love to hear from you. So fill out this form to get started! Sign ups will close on the 9th of December and on the 10th you will get a pm with the name of the person you will be giving a gift to. So...

Thank you all so much! I had a great day! Went to a lovely restaurant for dinner and then a movie afterwards.

And Sky - the decorations are lovely, but true story: yesterday at work one of the tables in my classroom at school was missing. I now know who to blame

I am watching it right now. I am already half way through the 3rd season and though I do find it hard to change actors it does fit better with the change in age and the voices are still quite similar which was one of my biggest fears.

We are excited to once again bring to you, the tradition of recognizing the Top Points Winner each month! We will share information both on who from each house earned most points as well as who among the professors earned the most. And of course, who earned the most overall that month. So, we presen...

Alte is accepting submissions once again for our December issue!
Why not submit a bingo story or two?

December Issue Deadline: SATURDAY, 30th of November

The Drabble Babble Challenge Drabble (n.) = "an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length" One theme will be announced per issue. Participants will then write a small piece of fiction (or non-fiction) about that theme. What's the catch? The submission must be a drabble!...

Happy Birthday Dario! Hope you've had a great day!

HOL is first and foremost a wonderful community, where people from different cultures and different backgrounds can come together and learn from one another and build friendships with people they would never have met otherwise. Here it does not matter where you come from, how old you are or what you...

The last movie I watched was "Coach Carter", which was a really inspiring movie about a basketball coach who managed to both turn his team into a very successful one on the court, but also managed to get the players' grades up by insisting that they were students first and athletes second and winnin...