This was a fun part of the book, when the clues started coming in fast and furious, with some more character development happening. Who is this McDermott person? I was starting to suspect a couple of people of being more (or less) than they appear to be? It's sort of fun to read of the London of tha...

Question: Where do I send my completed homework? Answer: Send your homework to the address which shows up on the Class Assignment page. This is the assignment 1 page -- click . As it says there "Send your homework to charms @ cosmoschaise.co.uk ... " ( <--- I put a couple of spaces in the email addr...

This is great -- I was surprised to start accumulating clues in this story. My first experience of mystery stories was Rex Stout, followed closely by Agatha Christie, so I was sort of accustomed to having the clues doled out so we have a chance to solve it ourself along with whoever is the actual de...

I'm jumping ahead to this post, because I'm just so wow about the story. Thank you, Amy, for finding this book! It's a quick read, at least it is a quick read for me, because once I got past the establishing chapters, the story was so swift and didn't drag anywhere. Amy had written, in the post for ...

Yay, I got the book from the library via an Interlibrary Loan! This is entirely different and not at all what I was expecting. What a cast of characters introduced in these first chapters! Here's Sophie and she has a story which is tragic but is gritting through. And Billy who is alert and gets int...

In April our Monthly Book discussion goes from March's present-day luxurious department store in the here and now to an unknown time in the great city of Kelior in the Kingdom of Numis, a land where magic is controlled by the rulers of of that country. Od Magic , by Patricia McKillip , contains wisd...

Useful advice when setting out on an adventure

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

I received a notification from USPS that a package (a book) for which I've been waiting for months to come out (and for years to be written) was in my mailbox. So I dropped everything and went to my mailbox. ... There was a package in there, from Amazon Fulfillment Services ... and I wondered - 'but...

There is another topic in here, asking how to heat a castle . Depending on the methods used, magic or otherwise, the question of cold toes arises. What kind of footwear does one wear on one's feet -- and they probably wouldn't show under those black robes -- so what does one wear? If the castle is s...

I'm about to post another topic of 'being cold' in the castle, and things that people can do about staying warm. But, no one wrote any brilliant ideas in here of what they would do, to keep the castle warm? Are you a witch (or wizard) or not?! :ph34r: One idea that I had was the notion of invisible ...

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A little while ago, it was announced that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child would be going Down Under! Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, have today confirmed the record-breaking production will open in early 2019 ...

Image is from picture of black t-shirt
-- At top, with Harry Potter font and in gold - "My Patronus is a"
-- image of Chewbacca, roaring, done in a silvery 'patronus' style
-- at bottom, Star Wars font and in gold - "WOOKIEE" "

Title of the book: Where the Sidewalk Ends Author: Shel Silverstein Series: no Genres: poetry, childrens, classic, fiction Short summary of the story: This is a collection of rather awesome poems and drawings. The author has illustrated his poems with drawings and sometimes the drawings incorporate ...

Something you would find on a signpost in a fantasy setting

from Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip

Od, it insisted, in neat black letters, School of Magic.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Cody! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OVGbAFy36xM/hqdefault.jpg image shows a suited-up Iron Man, albeit helmet off, reclining in what appears to be the bottom curve of a large letter "O", with a box (of doughnuts?), and taking off sunglasses to look at something Have a doughnut!

Your questions for the Hufflepuff vs Slytherin match on March 9th:

*Which team will get the fifth question? * Hufflepuff
*How many questions will contain "book 5?" * six
*Will the last word of the last question begin with a vowel? * no

Earning 20 Hoots are:

Arianna Stonewater
Astor Arensin
Invild Ogden
Maxim Trevelyan
Professor Scarlet Leslie-Lewis
Siobhan Sullivan
Will Lestrange

Here's the way through the maze!

Question: I am new in the school and would like to take Charms, but I cannot click on it from the main Class signup page to join. Can I still take it? If so, how? Answer: Charms is still open for sign-up -- but not from the Class page . If you are wanting to join Charms, please send me an HOL Messag...

How do I sign up for it? <_< <_< <_< <_< You do not sign up, Cheyenne. Just show up and play. The games we play will be explained, with words, ahead of time, and then we have a warm-up 'explanatory' game of each too. What do I have to do then seeing I don't have to sign up? Get on IRC and go to #qu...