Well, the results are finally in for HP4GU Contest #6 – and quite a contest it was, too. In this contest you were asked to find words or phrases from the Potterverse that began with certain letters in 5 different categories. There were many entries from people who clearly scoured the HP books, looking for obscure People, Places, Beings, Things and Terms. In fact, people were so intent on finding obscure words that the Person entries for the letter H consisted of 2 Olive Hornbys and 2 Hannah Abbots, but only 1 Hagrid, 1 Hermione, and no Harrys at all! Players were asked to choose a word – SNAPE, GHOST, or MAGIC, and submit 25 words or phrases beginning with each letter from the word chosen in each of the five categories. Each unique entry was worth 2 points, making 50 points the highest possible score for any one entry. Eleven people submitted entries for the word GHOST. The highest score was 34 points, by Mark Navarrete (mark_weasley@hotmail.com), who has gone through all the footnotes in QTTA and FB with a fine-toothed comb. Anne (old_wych@yahoo.com) and Lea (f95lean@dd.chalmers.se) also did quite well, scoring 30 points. The word MAGIC was the most popular, with 12 players sending in entries. The winner of this one was also Mark Navarrete (mark_weasley@hotmail.com), with 30 points. Elena (elena.maestri@unipr.it) and Brandon (bak42@netzero.net ) also did quite well, scoring 29 and 28 points, respectively. The SNAPE contest attracted only 6 entries. The winner was, yep, you guessed it, Mark Navarrete (mark_weasley@hotmail.com), with 38 points. Catherine (catherine@cator-manor.demon.co.uk) and Joy (joy0823@earthlink.net) each got 34 points. Clearly, Mark is desperately in need of a 12-step program for his HP addiction. However, I am instead sending him an HP Journal and owl bookmark to reward his amazing obsessiveness. (This is also known as the Vander Ark Prize, given only to people who truly impress me with their fanaticism.) Thanks very much for participating, everyone! A list of all the words and phrases from the contest entries is below. SNAPE S Person: (Veronica) Smethley, (Elliot) Smethwyck, (Blenheim) Stalk, Sibyll (Trelawney), Susan (Bones) Place: Sahara Desert, Salem, Shrieking Shack, Stonewall, Sweden, Smeltings Thing: Secrecy Sensor, Sonnets of A Sorceror, Self-shuffling Playing Cards, Self-Stirring Cauldron, Socks Being: Screech Owl, Snowy Owl, Sparky, Streeler, Sphinx, Squid (Giant, in lake) Term: Stooging, Special Award for Services to the School, splinch, Sonorus, Summoning Charm, Serpensortia N Person: Nugent (Potts), (Madam Z.) Nettles, Newton, Narcissa (Malfoy), Natalie (McDonald) Place: Nottinghamshire, North Tower, Norfolk, North America Thing: Notable Magical Names of Our Time, Nose-biting Teacup, Numerology and Grammatica, Nimbus 2000 Being: Nundu, Nagini, Nicolas (de Mimsy-Popington) Term: Nox, NEWTs, Nunqum Titillandus, A Person: (Stewart) Ackerly, (Hannah) Abbott, Algie, Arsenius, Armando (Dippet), Alastor (Moody) Place: Argyllshire, Apothecary, Atlantic Ocean, Astronomy Tower Thing: aspohdel, Abyssinian shrivelfigs, Alihotsy, Axminster, Ancient Runes Made Easy, Astrology Charts Being: Abraxan, Aragog, Acromantula, Augerey Term: Anti-cheating spell, Appleby Arrows, Aparecium, Alohomora, Alchemy P Person: Pennifold, Perenelle (Flamel), Ptolemy, Pucey, (Madam) Pince, Penelope (Clearwater) Place: Percy’s room, Peebles, Portsmouth, Pumpkin Patch, Privet Drive Thing: Pepper Imps, Put-outer, Powers you never knew you had..., pepper-up potion, powdered root (of asphodel) Being: Polecat, Pogrebin, piglet, pigwidgeon, pixie Term: Parkin’s Pincer, Peskipiksi Pesternomi, Pest Sub-Division, Puddlemere United, Potionmaster, Porskoff Ploy E Person: Eunice (Murray), Elfric the Eager, Enid, Ernie (Prang), Elfrida (Clagg) Place: Egypt, Eeylops Owl Emporium, Eton, Entrance Hall, England Thing: Enchantment in Baking, Evening Prophet, Eye of Beetle, Ever-bashing boomerangs Being: Eagle Owl, Erumpent, erkling, Emeric the Evil Term: Engorgement Charm, Exploding Snap, Ennervate, Expelliarmus MAGIC M Person: Madame Malkin, Magnus Denthead MacDonald, Malecrit, (Hassan) Mostafa, Moran, (Narcissa) Malfoy, Morgan, (Jim) McGuffin, Mafalda (Hopkirk), ?, (Zacharias) Mumps, Mr. Mason Place: Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation, Museum of Quidditch, Moose Jaw, Mauritius, Magnolia Crescent, Mars, Ministry of Magic, Mrs. Figg’s house, Majorca, Mykonos, Maze Thing: Moontrimmer, Modern Magical History, Magical Theory, Moste Potente Potions, mirror (talking one in the Leaky Cauldron), Magical Mess Remover, Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks, Magical Me!, mokeskin Being: mermaid, mooncalf, merpeople, Mosag, merchieftainess, Milly, Merrow of Ireland, Mrs. Norris, Mauler, Moaning Myrtle Term: muggle, mudblood, magizoology, mobiliarbus, memory charm, mass memory charm, medal for magical merit, muggle protection act A Person: Arabella (Figg), Apollyon, Agrippa, Armando (Dippet), Abraham, Aberforth (Dumbledore), Archie (with the flowered nightgown), Adalbert (Waffling) Place: Australia, Abergavenny, Africa, Appleby, Azkaban, Aberdeen, Albania, Arithmancy classroom Thing: Acromantula Eggs, Alihosty Leaves, Axminster, Anglia, Asphodel, Acid Pops, Armadillo Bile, Ancient Runes Made Easy Being: Aberforth’s goat, ashwinder, Antipodean Opaleye, Aragog, Aethonan, Augerey Term: Animagi, avis, aingingein, arithmancy, accio, animagus, Accidental Magic Reversal Department, apparate, Ancient Runes, Avada Kedavra G Person: Gabrielle, Gregorsvitch, Grenouille, George (Weasley), Gunther de Gewalttaige, Griffiths, Godric (Gryffindor), (Miranda) Goshawk, Gladys Gudgeon, Gilderoy (Lockhart), Gilber (Wimple) Place: Gringotts, Gladrags Wizard Wear, Grodzisk, Greece, Godric’s Hollow, Gambol and Japes Wizarding Shop, Grunnings Parking Lot Thing: Goblet of Fire, Guide to Household Pests, Galleons, Galaxy Model Broom, Gillywater, Guide to Advanced Transfiguration, Gillyweed, Gobstones, Gadding with Ghouls, Grow-Your-Own-Warts kit, Great Wizards of the 20th Century Being: Griphook, Graphorn, grindylow, gnomes, granian, goblin Term: Gorodok Gargoyles, Ghouls Task Force, git, gobbledegook, Grodzisk Goblins, Goblin Liason Office, Gripping Charms, grand prize galleon draw, gargoyle I Person: Ivanova, Irma (Pince), Igor (Karkaroff) Place: Isle of Drear, India, Ireland, Isle of Skye, Isle of Wight Thing: Invisibility Cloak, Invisible Book of Invisibility, Important Modern Magical Discoveries, Ice Mice, Intermediate Transfiguration Being: Imp, Ironbelly (Ukrainian dragon), Irish Phoenix Term: International Confederation of Wizards, Ilfracombe Incident of 1932, Incendio, Imperius Curse, International ban on dueling, Improper Use of Magic office, International Confederation of Warlocks’ Statue of Secrecy, impervious C Person: Crockford, Cliodna, Crapaud, Charlie (Weasley), Cuthbert (Mockridge), Catriona, Cassandra (Vablatsky), Celestina (Warbeck), (Owen) Cauldwell, Cho (Chang) Place: Chamber pot room, Charing Cross Road, Caerphilly, Cokeworth, Congo, (Ottery St.) Catchpole, Cornwall, carriage (from Beauxbatons) Thing: cauldron, Comet 260, Cribbage’s Wizarding Crackers, Charm your own cheese, Cleansweep 7, cauldron cakes Being: centaur, chimera, Chinese Fireball, Crookshanks, Cornish pixies, Common Welsh Green Term: Care of Magical Creatures, Committee on Experimental Charms, Creaothceann, cobbing, catcher, Cheering Charm, Curse of the Bogies, Council of Magical Law, counter charm GHOST G Person: Goodwin (Kneen), Gabrielle (Delacour), Gertie (Keddle), (Professor) Grubby-Plank, Gregorovitch (wand-maker), (Miranda) Goshawk, Graham (Pritchard), Gulliver, Grogan (Stump), (Gregory) Goyle Place: Godric’s Hollow, Gringotts, Gimbi, Greenhouse 3, Gryffindor Tower, Green Dragon, Grunnings, Great Hangleton Thing: Goblet of Fire, gobstones, gillywater, grow-your-own-warts kit, Golden Snitch, Great Wizards of the 20th Century, Guide to Medieval Sorcery Being: gnome, giant squid, Grey Lady, Glumbumble, grindylow, Griphook, Graphorn, ghoul, gargoyles Term: Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans, Goblin Liason Office, Gobbledegook, Ghoul Task Force, Ghost’s Council, Gripping Charms H Person: (Olive) Hornby, Humberto (on Dudley’s TV show), Hannah (Abbot), Hermione, Hamish (McFarlane), He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, Horton, Herpo the Foul, Hagrid, Horton Place: Hog’s Head, The Hanged Man, Holyhead, High Street, Herefordshire, Hospital Wing, Hut-on-the-Rock, Hogsmead Station, Heidelberg, Hogwarts Thing: howler, holly and phoenix feather wand, holly, Handbook of Do-It-Yourself Broom Care, Hogwarts Express, Hand of Glory, hump (on the witch), Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles Being: horklump, Hungarian Horntail, Hebridean Black, Hermes, house-elf, Hinkypunks, Hoppy Term: herbology, homorphous charm, Hawkshead Attack Formation, Headless Hunt, haversacking, Head Hockey (what the Headless Hunt plays), howler, Hit Wizard, Hover Charm O Person: Orla (Quirke), Olive (Hornby), Olaf (Kneen), Oblansk, Ogg, Mr. Ollivander, Olympe (Maxime), Owen (Cauldwell), O’Hare Place: Owlery, Ottery St. Catchpole, Ollivander’s Wand Shop Thing: One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, opal necklace (cursed) in Borgin and Burkes, Oakshaft 79, One Minute Feasts – It’s Magic!, Old Rubber Tyre (portkey), Olde and Forgotten Bewitchments and Charms Being: owl, occamy, Opaleye Term: Order of Merlin, Order of Merlin (Third Class), Office of Misinformation, Orchideus, OWLs, Order of Suspension, Office of House-elf Relocation S Person: Susan (Bones), (Professor) Sinistra, (Brutus) Scrimgeour, (Stan) Shunpike, (Newt) Scamander, Seamus (Finnegan), (Emeric) Switch, Stewart (Ackerly)), Smethwyck, (Blenheim) Stalk, Snape Place: Stoatshead Hill, Staff Room, Sumbawanga, Stonewall High, school library, Surrey, Slytherin Dungeon, Somerset, Scandinavia, Slytherin Common Room Thing: Sorting Hat, Shrinking Solution, Secrecy Sensor, self-shuffling playing cards, shrivelfigs, spellotape, screaming yo-yo, self-straightening brush, Sonnets of a Sorceror, Standard Book of Spells, sickles Being: Scabbers, streeler, shrake, snidget, Swedish Shortsnout, sow, selkies Term: Seeker, serpensortia, Shuntbumps, Starfish and Stick, stooging, switching spells, scouring charm, snitchnip, squib T Person: Trelawney, Tom (Riddle, Sr.), Travers, Trimble, (Dean) Thomas, Tom (Leaky Cauldron bartender), Ted (muggle newscaster), (Janus) Thickey Place: Togo, toilet (of Moaning Myrtle), Tutshill, Top Box (at Quidditch World Cup), Transylvania, Topsham, Texas Thing: tea leaves, Ton-Tongue Toffee, Twigger 90, Theories of Transubstantial Transfiguration, tooth-flossing string mints, Travels with Trolls, time-turner, Transfiguration Today, tail-twig clippers Being: toad, Tebo, Trevor (Neville’s toad), Tibbles, terrier, Tufty Term: transfiguration, Transylvanian Tackle, Transmogrifan Torture, Tri-wizard Tournament, Troll (the language)