From fearandfearalone at hogwartsthehiddenschool.yahoo.invalid Fri Aug 1 08:20:58 2003 From: fearandfearalone at hogwartsthehiddenschool.yahoo.invalid (Madam Irma Pince) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 08:20:58 -0000 Subject: Plug: Hogwarts: The Hidden School (Set In The Early 1970's) Message-ID: ~^*~ The Daily Prophet ~^*~ Is Proud To Present "The Top 3 Ways To Kill Boredom For The Magically Challenged" Over the years here at the Daily Prophet, we have received many letters from our readers who complained they were unable to take a vacation with their magically challenged relatives for the summer. Finally after much hesitation on the behalf of our editor, we have agreed to post a few helpful suggestions to take the "muggle" out of your vacations! No longer will you have to endure another sight seeing tour of Paris or New York City. No! Instead you will be enjoying yourself in one of our 3 top destinations set aside for you and your magically challenged relatives!! The hot vacation spot that ranked 3rd on our list comes to us from the foreign lands of Romania. Set up on a lush 300 acres of land, this tourist spot is located in the mountains a mere 300 miles away from the nearest muggle habitat. Here you will enjoy an exciting day with the handlers of these great beasts! Helping to feed dragons such as the Common Welsh Green, Norwegian Ridgeback, and the Swedish Short- Snout! "When we first entered the park and my Grandfather saw the dragons. He ran away faster then he had ever in his life, and he can't walk! Thanks Daily Prophet, you've helped him more then any of his muggle doctors!" Writes Electra a 6th year Slytherin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Number 2 comes to us from sunny Maldive Islands, located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. With their sandy white beaches and massive lagoons with different depths and infinite shades of blue and turquoise, your muggle relatives will feel as if they are visiting something out of a story named Robinson Crusoe. Little would they expect that the Maldive Islands are home to a large variety of Magical Creatures! Here you will enjoy adventures that muggles have only begun to imagine! You will tour the local ocean looking at the variety of Grindylows present, and if your lucky visiting the Merpeople's under water cities! "The Maldives were really fun, even if I did get caught trying to give my squib kid brother to the grindylows. However, every time I tossed him in, the merpeople brought him back. Honestly, the third time those merpeople handed him back, I thought I'd scream!" Writes Lara a 3rd year Hufflepuff. ~~~~~~~~~ Our Number 1 spot is located eight or nine hours north of London in the misty depths of Scotland. Here centered by a lake and bordered by a forest is our number one spot. Our editor picked Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as our number one tourist destination for a number of reasons! Here summers not only the world's most famous giant squid, but the renowned Headmaster Albus Dumbledore! It really makes your magically challenged relatives think of all the fun they are missing out on! Take our word don't be Magically Challenged, and visit Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the summer of 1973! http://www.freefallingweyr.com/Hogwarts_hidden_school/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Post Script) All that remains is for me to warn anyone who has read this far without intentions of joining this group, that this article carries a Thief's Curse. I would like to take this opportunity to reassure Muggle readers that the amusing vacation spots described here are fictional and cannot hurt you. To wizards, I merely say Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Want to know more? Please feel free to check out our group at: http://www.freefallingweyr.com/Hogwarts_hidden_school/index.htm Hogwarts: The Hidden School is a PBEM, set during the early 1970's. We accept members 14 and up. Yours Sincerely, The BoD Staff Of Hogwarts: The Hidden School From lsawh at ... Sat Aug 2 14:11:00 2003 From: lsawh at ... (Larry Sawh) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 07:11:00 -0700 Subject: New Hogwarts RPG: O.W.L.s for Britain Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030802071000.03272a68@...> Ladies and Gents; After much labor, my Harry Potter role-playing game 'O.W.L.s for Britain' is at last launching! The game casts the characters as students at Hogwarts School. You create your character, choose your actions each month, and develop your skills over time- all the while plotting against your fellow students in pursuit of your personal goals and the House Cup. You are all cordially invited to play. Final character selection will occur on August 15th, so you have until that time to become acquainted with the rules and make your character. The address is: http://www.dubliners.org Enjoy, and I hope to see you there! From coriolan at coriolan_cmc2001.yahoo.invalid Sun Aug 3 01:02:12 2003 From: coriolan at coriolan_cmc2001.yahoo.invalid (Caius Marcius) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 01:02:12 -0000 Subject: Harry Potter Filks: 1000 filks, a CoS Musical & Red's New Snape Message-ID: Harry Potter Filks celebrates its 2nd anniversary today with 63 new filks (putting us over the 1000 mark - 1043 to be exact). Red Scharlach contributes two new illustrations for our Phoenix and MWPP & Snape page, Veresna Useep (whose name may be an anagram) presents The Sound of Magic, a musical of Cos, and other contributors both new and veteran makes this one of our richest updates ever. Pay us a visit today! - CMC HARRY POTTER FILKS http://home.att.net/~coriolan/hpfilks.htm (updated today with 63 new filks) From heather_blaine2003 at ... Sun Aug 3 20:54:23 2003 From: heather_blaine2003 at ... (heather_blaine2003) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:54:23 -0000 Subject: Heather's Harry Potter Site In-Reply-To: <9um16t+vbn4@...> Message-ID: I too have a new HP site: http://www.freewebs.com/no-choice-in-ana/harrypotter.htm Heather's Harry Potter site, complete with Muggle money converter! From shelaghc at ... Sun Aug 3 22:16:02 2003 From: shelaghc at ... (shelaghcol) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:16:02 -0000 Subject: Harry Potter Day in Oak Park, IL - June 20, 2003 Message-ID: A bit on the late side, here's a busy batch of photos from Harry Potter Day in Oak Park, IL at my brand new shiny online album: http://www.albumtown.com/showalbum.php?aid=140&uuid=123 Also, here's the report to go with them at my LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/shelaghc/19925.html#cutid1 I've had these pics and report languishing in limbo for over a month (gave it all to a site that's been swamped and hasn't been able to do anything with 'em in all that time). I just picked up the album to have a place to show off other pics I took last weekend at an LotR event and decided with all the free space available, I might as well show these off too. Enjoy! Shelagh snap, snap, snap From lunalovegood at tbernhard2000.yahoo.invalid Tue Aug 5 10:03:59 2003 From: lunalovegood at tbernhard2000.yahoo.invalid (Dan Feeney) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 10:03:59 -0000 Subject: luna group, informal thing Message-ID: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunalovegood/ This is an informal group - looking for luna theories, art and such. I promise to be friendlier and less contentious there than I am on the HPFGU lists. Everyone is welcome. From lunalovegood at lunalovegoodrules.yahoo.invalid Wed Aug 6 10:01:29 2003 From: lunalovegood at lunalovegoodrules.yahoo.invalid (lunalovegoodrules) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:01:29 -0000 Subject: New Parvati group too Message-ID: The similarly named group on yahoo no longer has an active owner, it seems, so I have created this group too. It is meant for theories, filks, art, fan fiction and links, music, ships etc. etc. An informal group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/parvatipatil/ There you go. A group for Luna and a group for Parvati. dan From flo.r at reichenflorian.yahoo.invalid Thu Aug 7 12:34:10 2003 From: flo.r at reichenflorian.yahoo.invalid (reichenflorian) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:34:10 -0000 Subject: I need your help...! Message-ID: Hi everybody Im looking for people all over the world, who are using English as their standard and everyday spoken language and who are willing to help me. I'm going to do a research about the Harry Potter books. The aim of this research is to find out, why an original childrens book like the Harry Potter books attract so many adult readers. I'm a 18 years old boy from Switzerland and have chosen this task for my diploma work. I've written 4 question papers and now I'm looking for adult readers (older than 18 years), who have read the Book(s) and who would like to help me with my work by filling in these question papers. Please send a mail to flo.r at ... and I will send the questions to you! It would be very nice if you could spend 15-20 minutes to answer these questions. The more answers I get, the better and deeper the research will be! If you would like to know more about the results of the research, just write to me! Thank you in advance Florian Reichen From heidit at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Mon Aug 11 16:54:03 2003 From: heidit at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (heiditandy) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:54:03 -0000 Subject: Chapter & Character of the Week on FictionAlley Message-ID: This week, FictionAlley's Chapter and Character discussions are focused on Chapter Four (http://www.fictionalley.org//fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php? s=&threadid=41004) and Albus Dumbledore (http://www.fictionalley.org//fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php? s=&threadid=40930), respectively. C'mon over and share your insights, ask and answer questions, and discuss whether she put the term "grim" in Sirius' boyhood address for multireferential purposes. Heidi for FictionAlley From jdowney at ... Mon Aug 18 23:09:37 2003 From: jdowney at ... (Jim Downey) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:09:37 -0000 Subject: Nobel Prize for JK Rowling? Message-ID: Hi folks, David suggested that you may be interested in this effort I've recently gotten underway: to petition the Nobel Prize Committee to consider JK Rowling for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for OotP. You can find out all the details at http://www.nobelprizeforjo.com/ Please, help spread the word of the effort to other Potter fans... Best, Jim Downey From heidit at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Tue Aug 19 11:22:30 2003 From: heidit at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (heiditandy) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:22:30 -0000 Subject: Chapter Owls now crossposted to LiveJournal Message-ID: FictionAlley is pleased to announce that the listings of new fics are now being posted to LiveJournal at http://chapter_owls.livejournal.com. If you have a LiveJournal, you can add the page to your Friends list via http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=chapter_owls - and can also use the Calendar feature (http://www.livejournal.com/users/chapter_owls/calendar) to find the listing for a particular time period. If you don't have a LiveJournal, you can still bookmark the page and check it regularly to find new fanfics and updates to WIPs. The listings posted to the LiveJournal are created manually, and therefore, there may be some days where an update is not posted - in fact, we haven't posted the lists for the past week, while we've been finishing the LJ itself, but we'll be posting it in the next day or so. Of course, the automatically-generated daily list of all fics uploaded to each house can still be found at (and subscribed to at) http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/chapterowls, but we hope that people will find this extra resource helpful. Heidi for FictionAlley From lmrourke at lmrourke.yahoo.invalid Wed Aug 20 00:00:15 2003 From: lmrourke at lmrourke.yahoo.invalid (Lisa Rourke) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:00:15 -0000 Subject: New Fan Art Message-ID: Hi, me again with more new fan art. I recently completed 2 new drawings, one of a teen (late teen) Ron with hair that Molly would most definitely *not* approve (sorry Molly!) and a portrait of "That Umbridge Woman" (*shudder*) They can be seen in my folder (under Long Hair Ron and Dolores Umbridge) at HPforGrownups-Graphics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownUps-Graphics/files/FanArt/% 20LMR%27s%20Drawings/ or at my yahoo group in the photo section: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LMRourkeArtGallery/ Thanks! Lisa Rourke From heidit at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Wed Aug 20 14:21:55 2003 From: heidit at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (heiditandy) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:21:55 -0000 Subject: S.P.A.G in the Department of Mysteries on FictionAlley Message-ID: Thanks to some amazing work by some of FA's fantastic coders & mods, we're thrilled to announce the grand opening of the Department of the Mysteries.
Frustrated by commas? Confused by quotation marks? Can't find a beta editor and really need to understand why your fic keeps getting returned? Welcome to The Department of the Mysteries, the newest forum at FictionAlley Park! Here, learn the deep and not so very dark secrets of grammar and structure - and take advantage of our public beta reading process!
You can find it here. Heidi for FictionAlley From famsle369 at famsle369.yahoo.invalid Fri Aug 22 16:14:50 2003 From: famsle369 at famsle369.yahoo.invalid (famsle369) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:14:50 -0000 Subject: New Yahoo Group! Message-ID: > I'd love to see a listserv devoted to the discussion of spiritual > issues raised by > the Harry Potter books, actually, and I know there are others at > HPfGU who've > talked along these lines in the past -- but I have no time to > moderate such a > list. On a general list such as HPfGU, such discussions are likely > to annoy > more folks than they entertain. Any takers for starting a new > targeted list??? > > urghiggi, Chgo > Alright, the gauntlet has been thrown and I'm proudly picking it up! I've started a new Yahoo group called "Christians for Harry Potter" -- anyone interested? Karen :o) From eliasheldon at eliasheldon.yahoo.invalid Sat Aug 23 19:00:26 2003 From: eliasheldon at eliasheldon.yahoo.invalid (Elia Sheldon) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Lumos Dissendium Site Updates - 8/23/03 Message-ID: <20030823190026.87055.qmail@...> Greetings all, Lumos Dissendium was updated today. Visit the site at: http://www.lumosdissendium.org/ Lumos Dissendium is FictionAlley's newest addition - a section for tips and tricks on writing and other fandom activity. It's a good place to start for the new member of fandom - and also a good place to visit occasionally, in order to make sure you're still in the loop! Here are the changes to the site: 1. Added new essay, "Screenplay - FAQ" by John Bragg, which gives advice on how to write in this fun and challenging format. 2. Added three links that connect readers to sage writing advice from a well-known published author. Read about the three rules of writing, how to write about your ideas, and the tricks to chapters. 3. Updated list of contributors at the bottom of the main page. Enjoy the updated site, and stay tuned for more. Cheers, Elia On behalf of the Lumos Dissendium Elves __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com From scifi451 at scifi_sg1.yahoo.invalid Tue Aug 26 01:01:51 2003 From: scifi451 at scifi_sg1.yahoo.invalid (scifi_sg1) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:01:51 -0000 Subject: New HP forum for Grown-ups Message-ID: I would like to announce a new Harry Potter for Grown-ups forum. I have to decided to make this board for people who like the discussions that go on here but like talking on a BBS. So that I hope that you come on over and visit the new HP for Grown-ups BBS! http://www.scifi-world.net/harry/ From coriolan at coriolan_cmc2001.yahoo.invalid Fri Aug 29 16:17:38 2003 From: coriolan at coriolan_cmc2001.yahoo.invalid (Caius Marcius) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:17:38 -0000 Subject: Harry Potter Filks: The Musical(s) Message-ID: Harry Potter Filks was updated today, with 66 new filks including two new complete musicals, Wendy's Hogwarts Story (an OOP musical via West Side Story) and Haggridd's Harry Potter and the Declaration of Independence (selected scenes from all five books via 1776). Check it out and get set to sing along. And of course, the latest from contributors new and old, with new filks about Dolores, Luna, Bellatrix, Regulus, Tonks, and even Grawp! - CMC HARRY POTTER FILKS http://home.att.net/~coriolan/hpfilks.htm