Sounds good Raven. Hey, do you want to read one of the Harry Potter books so that we're ready to answer questions in the challenge. We know that they're not going to be easy. Do you have any preferences. We don't have anyone on 4 or 5. We have Raventheonly one 1, I'm on 2, Ladygrim's on 3, but we can have doubles. Just let me know!
oh yea unless you didnt get the memo...
Challenge update - Please Read
Ok, under current confusion and people calling for a new challenge, I'm not sure what action to take as prefect other then continue with the one we have until people say not to and post a finalised challenge idea ready to announce to other Houses. Therefore, I am going to make the challenge we have now clearer until then just in case we decide to go through with it.
TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT:
Task 1) A Potion/Charm. Each House can choose to 'make' a potion or charm for ONE of the following options:
*Love
*Protection
*Sleeping
*Good Luck
*Good Health
*Money
Now, for this task each House must research and list all of the ingrediants they would use for the potion/charm that they choose and why they have chosen them, then write the directions, the supposed outcome and any possible side effects.
Task 2) 'Question/Answer' Round - 8 questions in total, 2 submitted from each House. When answering, only answer the questions from the other Houses hence each House shall answer 6 questions.
Task 3) The Creative Writing Challenge - This is the one where people are getting confused. As I have no choice and time is running out, I shall narrow it down and incorporate Rogue's idea. It will be a short piece (2 paragraphs max) from the viewpoint of a prominent House member e.g. Gryff can use Harry, Slyth can use Draco, Huff's can use Cedric and Raven's can use Cho - or any other member the House so wishes, they can even use their Head's e.g. Snape. The story will be about the Tournament itself and how the chosen character thinks it's going, will go, will end up like, any suspicions, regrets, gossip etc basically anything. It's wide open to allow for creativity, as long as it's sounds like the character would say and think those things and it's about the Tournament.
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Now, if people decide not to go ahead with this that's fine. However, if anyone wants to change task 3 for example to this new idea of a fanart challenge or a theory challenge for example then please say so.
As for the the worry about the other Houses taking long to come up with questions, as far as I can see they are already thinking of some BUT just in case, I made the Q & A Round Task 2 so we can post the official announcement and at least start working on the other two tasks while the questions are being submitted, then later I, eezy or the Heads can announce the Task 2 questions. That way the challenge goes ahead without any further delay.
this is the third task....we need probably to assign 2 or 3 people to one of each of them considering we dont have alot of active members....any ideas for the first task we need to work on first. i say love potion >🙂 have some kind of taboo on it like if you do not succeed in "wooing" the other person it...idk kills you or turns you into a blast ended skrewt or something clever like that. we need to get on it!!! deadlines are in about 2-3 weeks!
http://www.darkmark.com/c.c?l=potions&t=Potions%20List heres a good one too...if you scroll down it has all these different typed of potions and they key ingredients in them all
NOTE: this site is also a really really great place for all slytherins to come together...really good stuff
heres also a very interesting note:
Notes
Snape’s potion ingredients are not made up. Asphodel is,
according to Greek mythology, the flower of Hades and the
dead that is sacred to Persephone. Wormwood is a bitter
extract used to make both liquors and narcotic poisons. In the
Middle Ages people actually believed that bezoars,
indigestible masses of hair and such found in the stomachs of
animals, were antidotes. And monkshood (also known as
wolfsbane or aconite) was used medicinally in medieval
Europe.
Fang is an example of how Rowling’s characters can have
deceiving appearances: “[Fang] bounded straight at Ron and
started licking his ears. Like Hagrid, Fang was clearly not as
fierce as he looked.”