orli's sroty:THE SLYTHERIN LEGACY
Hogwarts was founded by the four friends, who were also the four greatest witches and wizards of the age; Rowena Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. Three of the four founders coexisted in harmony…one did not. Salazar Slytherin was a conniving, ambitious, proud and dexterous character. He argued that the only students that should be admitted into Hogwarts were ones of “pure” heritages. His dream was to educate a race of wizards, purest of blood, and lead them on to bigger and greater goals/dreams they had for life. So naturally, the ones accepted into Slytherin house were not only pure-bloods, but just as ambitious and motivated as Salazar himself. While the students studied under him, he stressed and glorified the prospect of being “pure of blood,” which the students overtime adopted into their ideals as well.
Salazar’s pure-blood mania did not arise spuriously. Growing changes he witnessed in his youth added to his way of thinking…
Salazar began as a pure blooded wizard, and he lived as such. Watching precious pure-blooded legacy decay due to half-blood/pure-blood marriages made him feel bitter and vengeful. Strong, powerful, determined pure-blooded friends that he had turned soft and indolent when married to a muggle. He felt that his friends were sacrificing their powers and poisoning the noble gift of magic when confiding in their muggle spouse. Their once ambitious dreams and goals were traded for a mere muggle, who couldn’t even grasp the importance or understand the complicated ways of the wizarding world. Salazar considered the ability to perform magic a sacred art …an immense secret that, he thought, should only be kept within the purest of bloods. Engrossed and spellbound in thought, he decided to leave home. Salazar tried thinking back on what went wrong…what was so special about these muggles that could stray a very competent and blossoming wizard away from his dreams? At this thought, anger rose up inside him; a bitter, spiteful emotion rose like a snake inside him. He would not accept their children; their tainted, foul offspring. The right of passage into the wizarding world will never be theirs…never. He vowed to himself that he would NEVER allow that to happen...
Originally posted by Exa
Somebody thought of a new scoring system we quite liked,
But it only works properly if all houses submit their entries;
It was like each prefect had 50 points and he could divide them among the three houses
Like,
Gryff 16
Huffy 14
Slyth 20
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... which would make the differences a little clearer and see the text as a whole work.But as Slytherin doesnt seem to post,
I think we should use the old systemThe one we had before we decided to use the new 50-system was
About the scoring system..........
I think we should use a little more categories, not only creativity, organization/flow and preresiquites - maybe Creativity/Originality (7), Organization and Flow (4), Preresiquites (ie submitting in time, using house founder as main character etc) (2) and [interesting/suiting] portraying of the characters (2)? I think this last point shouldn't be neglected - Gryffindor for example imo did it excellently.
Grammar should be included in "organization" as well as the style and the flow of the story - the whole "outer appearance" of the story.We could also double the points for each category because it was suggested that the first entry should get +5 points - which is quite a lot (btw, are these 5 points for the house or for the scoring??), imo a little too much as nearly all the entries were posted at the same time, only some minutes or hours between which isn't a lot as we had two long weeks for the submitting.
Am I correct saying that is how you want the scoring system?? Are we clear on it???