The next pickup of the year will be in a week and a half (still in #quidditch):

Saturday, February 3 at 5:30 PM HOL!!!!!

As per Assignment Four , we will play a counting game in this thread! ( Bus is the way snakes refer to the buzzing sound made by busbira - which is the Parseltongue for 'bee/bumblebee/yellow buzz'. In particular, Bus is NOT the equivalent of the English word 'bus'.) The rules of this game are as fol...

Recall the prompt for this part of Assignment 3 : I showed Basl a few more images; he described each of them with a sentence in Parseltongue. The images are linked below (with small English language descriptions directly underneath serving the role of alt text), along with how Basl described each of...

Recall the prompt for this part of Assignment 2 : I showed Basl a few more images; he described each of them with a sentence in Parseltongue. The images are linked below (with small English language descriptions directly underneath serving the role of alt text), along with how Basl described each of...

We had great turnout last Saturday, but at the same time I know at least one or two people who were interested in playing were unable to make it! If you are interested in playing in the next two pickups, especially if you weren't able to make the last time out, please let me know your availability o...

The professional sports teams I follow the most are the ones based out of Baltimore: I've been an Orioles fan for as long as I can remember (so much disappointment - especially 1989 as well as the years of losing after 1997) and also support the Ravens - everyone seems to be optimistic that this is ...

I have dropped you from this course as per your request.

happy birthday!

The next pickup of the year will be in a little less than a month (we will be using #quidditch as usual):

Saturday, January 6 at 5:30 PM HOL!!!!!

The following Parseltongue words have been discovered in the previous lessons by students' careful interactions with various snakes. They are separated out by the assignment they were discovered in - and listed in alphabetical order by English translation; of course, the discoverer of each word is n...

I have a standard recipe for butterbeer that is mostly cream soda and tastes delicious (and I think fits what Harry Potter, Winky, etc actually drank), but... it's very different from the others I've seen made in the Muggle world! That said, ten years ago when studying in England the local famer's m...

This year, the Quidditch Committee plans on having pickup games not tied to House teams to keep the spirit of Quidditch alive! These pickups will include some or all of the games featured HERE but might also have some other twists thrown in. We expect to hold a pickup approximately once a month, but...

hope you had a great birthday!

"What types of broom games will we be playing in pickups this year?" There are four "standard" games we play in pickups these days. In alphabetical order, they are as follows: Creaothceann, Modern Quaffle, Quodpot, and Xany. Although all of these games have been played before, they may be new to som...

happy birthday!

quoting myself from 2016... I'm glad that the class is now offered regularly even though, strictly speaking, I never got to take it! But I'll wish that two classes that I saw at the beginning of my time here (but didn't feel ready to take at the time) returned... the Broom Race class taught by Tarma...

hope you have an amazing birthday!

The first pickup of the year will be in one week's time (we will be using #quidditch as usual):

Sunday, November 26 at 9 PM HOL!!!!!


Stay tuned for more details...

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!