Hey Huffelpuffs!
Just wanted to ask how you were doing with the challenge. I'm asking all the Houses about it to see with we need an extension with the deadline. The extension wouldn't be too drastic, maybe 2 days more??? I'm asking on behalf of the Slytherin's who aren't on at the moment. Would a deadline help you???
yay!!!!!!!!....ok APG can you try to write the next paragraph we'll just go back and forth writing them cause I lost ideas after that I was hoping someone else would have some....its good so far with the 3 paragraphs we have but I was thinking if we could at least get 6 since the max is 8 and I bet the other houses will have 8 so if we can get that it would be great...
Jessie, just to let you know, you don't have to try and fit the story into 8 paragraphs. I talked to the Slytherin's about it, and they agree that this might be difficult.
Make the story as long as you need to, but at the same time don't try to write a novel. Make the story good and make sure the ideas and storylines are clearly expressed so that the reader isn't left wondering anything.
But don't worry about trying to condense it to 8 paragraphs. Have fun with it and make it as long as it needs to be to get the point across.
Task
A Day In The Life Of A HufflepuffIt was a day just like any other day when Jessie woke up. There was some sort of weather outside, there was talk abound, and as she stepped into the Hufflepuff common room there was a smell of something in the air. Since she was a Hufflepuff no one really cared nor knew anything about her or her house, even the Hufflepuffs really didn’t know. They were all too interested in what the Gryffindors, house of the great Harry Potter, or Slytherins, house of the bad-asses, were doing. People even cared more about those nerds in Ravenclaw. No one cared what motivated Hufflepuffs to get up and live everyday. Could it be the mockery from the other houses, who thought that Hufflepuff was the house for the witches and wizards that were almost muggle? Or the constant feeling of neglection from the rest of the school. Well on this fine day Jessie decided it was her mission in life to find out what made Hufflepuff so damn special.
Jessie made her way over to the skool libary hopping she might find sumthing there but after half an hour of looking through thick dusty BORING old books Jessie stomach started rumbling for food. She made her way to the main hall where she took a place at the Hufflepuff table next to APG an annoying first year who had nearly burnt the hole table last week trying to turn her pancakes into fire breathing rabbits. Today she was pking her wand into her porrige but the only affect was the milk going off and making quite a bad smell. Well I definatly not going to find the answer the answer here she thought to herself miserably. So after a hurried breakfast she made her way back to the hufflepuff common room to see if maybe another hufflepuff could help her in her quest for the day.
As Jessie sat on the only couch not completely covered with homework she glanced around looking for the one person she thought could help in her search, Hobbit_Dude. Just then her fellow prefect came stumbling into the common room. “Hey!” she walked over to him.
“Hey...is something wrong?”
“Does something have to be wrong for me to talk to you?”
“Well no...I guess-“
”Yea you might want to keep and eye on APG...but I was wondering if you had any idea what makes Hufflepuff so special?”
“Why?”
“Well its sort of a project Im working on”
“Like homework?”
“Well um no” Jessie looked up at Hobbit and noticed he seemed more interested in watching a flies progress across the room rather than listen to her explain how this isn’t work. “Yea you know it actually is homework...sort of an extra credit project...so um can you help?”
He didn’t avert his eyes from the fly but answered anyway, “Well I’m gonna go eat but I’ll get back to you on that” He left the common room leaving Jessie staring after him with a lack of words.
Well thats what we got so far 😄 & YAY extention 😱 I think we need it 😄
As Hobbit left APG skipped into the common room happily her hair a rather gross orange colour. Spotting Jessie APG happily skipped over!
"Hey Jessie. What are you doing? Can I help? Isn't it just wonderful here? Can I hang out with you? Do you think my hair is a bit odd?"
Not knowing what question to answer first Jessie just sat a stared at APG for a while before saying "Uh yeah you can help me..."
"Oh Great I promise you wont regret it. Ill just go put my stuff away", and with that she ran up the stairs to her dormitry.
Jessie already could feel herself regreting it but her face lightned up when Hobbit entered the common room.
"Here are some books..Dunno if they will help", he said flopping down onto a sofa and getting himself comfy.
Jessie looked through some of the books. The House founders, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and A Hogwarts a History Jessie groand. Great not only will these books NOT help but they will bore me to death she thought before turning and saying to Hobbit.
"Thanks...This Will be a uh....real help"
I wrote a lot...a lot is good tho so now I think we have 6 paragraphs yay thats good!...
Jessie sat staring at the covers of the books for awhile not wanting to make Hobbit seem useless even though she had already gone through these books in the library. Hobbit didn’t seem to get the message that she didn’t need his support of sitting across the room making paper air planes. She finally opened the books and started flipping through pages. She looked up at the clock after what seemed like thirty minutes of mind numbing page flipping and realized she had reached a grand total of three minutes of mind numbing page flipping.
Just then APG came bounding down the stairs into the common room.
“I’m back!” APG hopped over the back of the sofa in an attempt to sit next to Jessie but ended up on the floor. By then everyone in the room had started laughing at the oddball.
“Are you ok?” Jessie helped APG onto the sofa
“Yea I’m fine, how are you? Do you still need help? Cause I can help, what do you need help with?” she stared at Jessie smiling and not blinking.
“Um I’m trying to find what’s so special about Hufflepuff”
“Well your not going to find anything in these books”
“Well I figured that since I looked through them and-“
”You have to look other places”
“Like where?”
“Well first place I would look is the sorting hats song...that’s got loads of information about the houses”
“Well I don’t know it off the top of my head”
“O well you must remember parts of it”
“No really I don’t...” Just then APG looked off into space.
“I gotta go” she jumped up and raced across the room on her way out she bumped into Hobbit.
“Hey watch where your going! Hey get back here!”
“Hobbit don’t be hard on the newbie”
Hobbit just srugged and sat back down glaring at where APG bumped into him. Jessie sighed and tried remebering the hogwarts song. She didn't know how this was going to help her but she had no other way to find out.
"what are you thinking about?", Hobbit asked looking at Jessie Curiously.
"Just trying to remeber the Sorting Hat song"
"Your not really taking that ...first years advise are you?"
"Well You don't seem to be a big help at the moment"
"No need to get angry"
"Whatever. Maybe there isn't anything special abouth Hufflepuffs.Maybe we are just a bunch of dummys", and with that Jessie got up and left the common room angriyl leaving Hobbit looking very confused.
Jessie didn't know why it upset her so much but it did. She found a nice place in the grounds where she just sat and thought about everything.
hobbit was looking for jessie when he found her laying in te ground
'erm... sorry jess, u know, i didnt meant to upset u..'
'well, m sorry i was just-' when jessie was gonna finish that scentence APG arrived.
'jessie! hey did the sorting hat song helped u in any way? did it??'
'APG, sorry but i cant remember the sorting hat song'
'is ok jess Ill find it just wait here' APG went runnig to the libary
'oh my god!, that girl is driving me crazy!!' jess said, hobbit was impressed that jessie who had always been a good smart rules lover girl, would use that scentence'
'um... jess, r u ok?'
'yeah.. yeah... Im fine, now let's get out of here before APG comes back'
'ok...hahaha...'
when hobbit and jessie were walking through the great hall, rto and rg appeared
'oh look rto, is the two losers from hufflepuff' rg told rto
'u better watch ure mouth rg, rto might b a prefect but u arent!' jessie said to rg
'who do u think u r, u dummy prefect! cant understand y Proffesor Rogue (rogue's the headmaster) made u prefect! said RG
'You asked for it-'when hobbit was gonna end that scentence Rphoe said
'don't make a scene hobbit come on, and u too jessie'
when them three were leaving rphoe said
'oh and bfore i forget 10 points from slytherin' rg looked furious, and jessie and hobbit were laughing at her
Yes we have 8 paragraphs...thats good and we have 3 days left counting today...I'll try to finish it today...then everyone can look at it and make any corrections they have...maybe some of the other Hufflepuffs will come back and at least say if they like it...Im glad it turned out that only the people who helped with the story got in the story...Even though it was just the three of us writing I think it turned out very well...I hope next time we can get more people involved...
ok Im trying to finish but my dads blaring the frikin TV so damn loud I cant think...hopefully I'll have it done tomorrow...I think we'll have a grand total of 10 paragraphs...and on my computer so far its 3 full pages Im going onto the fourth...so the issue isnt how long it is now...just if its good which I think it is
Ok now please change it if you think its too random...
It was now dinner time and Jessie still had not found out what made Hufflepuff so special. She had decided to take a break and go eat before she continued to search. Dinner was extremely uneventful and filled with thoughts of Jessie’s unfinished task, she wasn’t the type of person to give up. Just then APG hurried in smacking into several students on her path to the seat next to Jessie.
“Guess what!” Damn that girl has too much energy for anyone’s own good. “I think I came up with a theory”
“Ok well can I eat before you go into it?”
“O yea sure!” APG didn’t start eating just sat there tapping her fingers impatiently looking around the room like it pained her to sit in one spot for too long. After about 20 seconds of that she decided her time was better spent staring at Jessie as if she could use her mind to make her full. APG didn’t have to use her mind after a few glances over and seeing APG staring at her Jessie decided she better go before her young friend exploded. Over in the common room APG had a moldy old piece paper spread out on the table.
“Look! Isn’t it great!” APG was beaming like this paper was the best thing in the world.
“Um well it’s...uh what is it?”
“It’s one of the sorting hats songs from a really long time ago!” The look on Jessie’s face obviously didn’t affect APG at all for she didn’t loose any of her enthusiasm.
“Ok well what does it say about Hufflepuff?”
“It says that our house founder took all the rest!”
“Riiiight so it shows that we’re just the left over” This however did seem to affect APG.
“Well I didn’t think of it like that”
“How else could you think of it?”
“I don’t know...I’ll go back to the library there has to be something else” APG went running from the room.
“That girl won’t give up...and neither will I”
“That’s your answer!” a voice out of the corner made Jessie jump and scream. Then from out of the darkness came Hobbit.
“What the hell are you doing sitting in the corner?!”
“The darkness comforts me”
“OK”
“But that’s your answer you figured it out, perseverance”
“What?”
“Hufflepuffs don’t give up no matter what”
“And they’re very loyal friends” APG was muttering loud enough for Hobbit and Jessie to hear her across the room.
“Hey I found a better song...It says Hufflepuffs are very loyal friends”
“Well we found out that Hufflepuffs don’t give up” Hobbit replied.
“Well we’re just jam packed with great features...like a Dell Laptop which are on sale at the moment don’t ya know.”
“Really?”
“Yep”
“Wow!”
So with that the Hufflepuffs went to their local Dell store and purchased a nice new Dell Laptop with Pentium 4 processor even though they had no idea what that means. They were jubilant until they got back to school and realized that electronics don’t work there, which Jessie should have known having read Hogwarts A History.
Heres the whole thing!
Note: RougePW25 is the Head Master
It was a day just like any other day when Jessie woke up. There was some sort of weather outside, there was talk abound, and as she stepped into the Hufflepuff common room there was a smell of something in the air. Since she was a Hufflepuff no one really cared nor knew anything about her or her house, even the Hufflepuffs really didn’t know. They were all too interested in what the Gryffindors, house of the great Harry Potter, or Slytherins, house of the bad-asses, were doing. People even cared more about those nerds in Ravenclaw. No one cared what motivated Hufflepuffs to get up and live everyday. Could it be the mockery from the other houses, who thought that Hufflepuff was the house for the witches and wizards that were almost muggle? Or the constant feeling of neglection from the rest of the school. Well on this fine day Jessie decided it was her mission in life to find out what made Hufflepuff so damn special.
Jessie made her way over to the school library hoping she might find something there. After half an hour of looking through thick dusty boring old books her stomach started rumbling for food. She made her way to the great hall where she took a seat at the Hufflepuff table next to APG, an annoying first year who had nearly burnt the whole table last week trying to turn her pancakes into fire breathing rabbits. Today she was poking her wand into her porridge but the only affect was the milk going off and making quite a bad smell. “Well I’m definitely not going to find the answer to my search here” she thought to herself miserably. So after a hurried breakfast she made her way back to the Hufflepuff common room to see if another Hufflepuff could help her in her quest for the day.
As Jessie sat on the only couch not completely covered with homework she glanced around looking for the one person she thought could help in her search, Hobbit_Dude. Just then her fellow prefect came stumbling into the common room. “Hey!” she walked over to him.
“Hey...is something wrong?”
“Does something have to be wrong for me to talk to you?”
“Well no...I guess-“
”Yea you might want to keep and eye on APG...but I was wondering if you had any idea what makes Hufflepuff so special?”
“Why?”
“Well its sort of a project Im working on”
“Like homework?”
“Well um no” Jessie looked up at Hobbit and noticed he seemed more interested in watching a flies progress across the room rather than listen to her explain how this isn’t work. “Yea you know it actually is homework...sort of an extra credit project...so um can you help?”
He didn’t avert his eyes from the fly but answered anyway, “Well I’m gonna go eat but I’ll get back to you on that” He left the common room leaving Jessie staring after him with a lack of words.
As Hobbit left APG skipped into the common room happily her hair a rather gross orange color. Spotting Jessie APG happily skipped over!
"Hey Jessie. What are you doing? Can I help? Isn't it just wonderful here? Can I hang out with you? Do you think my hair is a bit odd?"
Not knowing what question to answer first Jessie just sat a stared at APG for a while before saying "Uh yeah you can help me..."
"Oh Great I promise you wont regret it. Ill just go put my stuff away", and with that she ran up the stairs to her dormitory.
Jessie already could feel herself regretting it but her face lightened up when Hobbit entered the common room.
"Here are some books..Dunno if they will help", he said flopping down onto a sofa and getting himself comfy.
Jessie looked through some of the books. The House founders, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and A Hogwarts a History Jessie groaned. Great not only will these books not help but they’ll bore me to death she thought before turning and saying to Hobbit.
"Thanks...This Will be a uh....real help"
Jessie sat staring at the covers of the books for awhile not wanting to make Hobbit seem useless even though she had already gone through these books in the library. Hobbit didn’t seem to get the message that she didn’t need his support of sitting across the room making paper air planes. She finally opened the books and started flipping through pages. She looked up at the clock after what seemed like thirty minutes of mind numbing page flipping and realized she had reached a grand total of three minutes of mind numbing page flipping.
Just then APG came bounding down the stairs into the common room.
“I’m back!” APG hopped over the back of the sofa in an attempt to sit next to Jessie but ended up on the floor. By then everyone in the room had started laughing at the oddball.
“Are you ok?” Jessie helped APG onto the sofa
“Yea I’m fine, how are you? Do you still need help? Cause I can help, what do you need help with?” she stared at Jessie smiling and not blinking.
“Um I’m trying to find what’s so special about Hufflepuff”
“Well your not going to find anything in these books”
“Well I figured that since I looked through them and-“
”You have to look other places”
“Like where?”
“Well first place I would look is the sorting hats song...that’s got loads of information about the houses”
“Well I don’t know it off the top of my head”
“O well you must remember parts of it”
“No really I don’t...” Just then APG looked off into space.
“I gotta go” she jumped up and raced across the room on her way out she bumped into Hobbit.
“Hey watch where your going! Hey get back here!”
“Hobbit don’t be hard on the newbie”
Hobbit just srugged and sat back down glaring at where APG bumped into him. Jessie sighed and tried remebering the hogwarts song. She didn't know how this was going to help her but she had no other way to find out.
"What are you thinking about?", Hobbit asked looking at Jessie curiously.
"Just trying to remeber the Sorting Hat song"
"Your not really taking that ...first years advise are you?"
"Well You don't seem to be a big help at the moment"
"No need to get angry"
"Whatever. Maybe there isn't anything special abouth Hufflepuffs.Maybe we are just a bunch of dummies,” and with that Jessie got up and left the common room angrily leaving Hobbit looking very confused. Jessie didn't know why it upset her so much but it did. She found a nice place in the grounds where she just sat and thought about everything.
Hobbit was looking for Jessie when he found her laying on the grounds.
“Erm...sorry Jess, you know, I didn’t meant to upset you”
“Well, I’m sorry I was just-“ just as Jessie was about to finish the sentence APG arrived.
“Jessie! Hey did the sorting hat song help you in anyway? Did it?”
“APG, sorry but I can’t remember the song”
“It’s ok Jess, I’ll find it just wait here.” With that APG went running to the library.
“Oh my god! That girl is driving me crazy!” Jess said. Hobbit was impressed that Jessie, who had always been a good smart rule lover girl, would use that sentence.
“Um...Jess, are you ok?”
“Yeah...yeah...I’m fine, now lets get out of here before APG comes back”
“Ok...hahaha...” When Hobbit and Jessie were walking through the great hall RTO and RG appeared.
“Oh look RTO, it’s those two losers from Hufflepuff,” RG and RTO sniggered.
“You better watch your mouth RG, RTO might be a prefect but your not,” Jessie said to RG.
“Who do u think you are, you dummy prefect! can’t understand why Professor Rogue ever made you a prefect!” said RG.
“You asked for it-“ Hobbit was cut off from finishing the sentence by Rphoe.
“don't make a scene Hobbit, come on, and you too Jessie.” The crowd began to disperse when Rphoe added, “Oh and before I forget, 10 points from Slytherin.” RG looked furious, and Jessie and Hobbit were laughing at her.
It was now dinner time and Jessie still had not found out what made Hufflepuff so special. She had decided to take a break and go eat before she continued to search. Dinner was extremely uneventful and filled with thoughts of Jessie’s unfinished task, she wasn’t the type of person to give up. Just then APG hurried in smacking into several students on her path to the seat next to Jessie.
“Guess what!” Damn that girl has too much energy for anyone’s own good. “I think I came up with a theory”
“Ok well can I eat before you go into it?”
“O yea sure!” APG didn’t start eating just sat there tapping her fingers impatiently looking around the room like it pained her to sit in one spot for too long. After about 20 seconds of that she decided her time was better spent staring at Jessie as if she could use her mind to make her full. APG didn’t have to use her mind after a few glances over and seeing APG staring at her Jessie decided she better go before her young friend exploded. Over in the common room APG had a moldy old piece paper spread out on the table.
“Look! Isn’t it great!” APG was beaming like this paper was the best thing in the world.
“Um well it’s...uh what is it?”
“It’s one of the sorting hats songs from a really long time ago!” The look on Jessie’s face obviously didn’t affect APG at all for she didn’t loose any of her enthusiasm.
“Ok well what does it say about Hufflepuff?”
“It says that our house founder took all the rest!”
“Riiiight so it shows that we’re just the left over” This however did seem to affect APG.
“Well I didn’t think of it like that”
“How else could you think of it?”
“I don’t know...I’ll go back to the library there has to be something else” APG went running from the room.