HP4GU Contest #6

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20409

This week's contest is kind of complicated, and I will be out of
town for a few days, so the contest will run for 2 weeks.  The 
submission deadline is midnight EST Tuesday, June 18.  Remember, 
DON'T POST TO THE LIST.  Email your responses to HP4GUCon at aol.com.

(That email address seems to be having some problems, so if you
don't get an acknowledgement, send it to me again at the joym999 
address.)

This contest is one of my favorite games, which is known by several 
different names including CATEGORIES.

In this game, you have a five-letter word and five different 
categories and you have to find 25 words or phrases which begin with 
each letter of the five-letter word.  The categories are People, 
Places, Things, Beings and Terms, and you have three words to choose 
from – SNAPE, MAGIC, and GHOST.  

To play the game first pick one of the three words – SNAPE, MAGIC
or GHOST.  Then find something from the Harry Potter books (including 
FB and QTTA) which corresponds to each category.  For example, if you 
pick SNAPE as your word, you must find a person, place, thing, being 
and term which starts with each of the letters S, N, A, P and E, for 
a total of 25 words or phrases.

The definitions of the five categories are as follows:

"People" is the first OR last name of a HUMAN (includes those
who are only part human) character in any of the HP books (including 
QTTA and FB) .  Only humans, so "Harry" or "Potter" is
acceptable but "Binns" and "Dobby" are not.

"Places" is the name of any place mentioned, in any capacity,
in the HP books, for example "Japan" (mentioned in QTTA) or
"Dumbledore's Office."

"Things" is any magical object mentioned in the HP books,
including titles of books, and names of specific magical items such 
as potions or plants.  It must be something that you can touch.

"Beings" includes both names and types of any non-human
beings or creatures.  "Peruvian Vipertooth", 
"Vipertooth", "Norbert", and "dragon" are all
acceptable.

"Terms" includes anything magical that doesn't fit into
the above 4 categories, including spells, MoM departments and jobs, 
Hogwarts classes, and languages.

Scoring is as follows:  You get 2 points for each category in which 
you are the ONLY one to have that word or phrase.  One point is 
subtracted from your score for any categories you leave blank.  Here 
is an example:

Here's an example, using the word SNAPE.  Suppose there were only
two entries, from Amy A. and Amy B., shown below.  Amy A. left 3 
categories blank and Amy B. left 5 categories blank, so they receive 
minus 3 and minus 5 points, respectively.  Neither one gets credit 
for Scabbers, Nimbus, Norbert, NEWT, Azkaban, Ernie, Eeylops, or 
Elves because these words were on both lists.  Amy A. gets 28 points 
for her remaining categories, minus 3 for the blanks, for a total of 
25 points.  Amy B. gets 24 points minus 5 points for a total of 19 
points.  (Note that this is NOT meant to imply some sort of 
alphabetical trend in the intelligence of Amys.)


Entry 1 – Amy A.

	Person	Place	  Things     Beings	Terms
--------------------------------------------------------------
S	Snape	Shrieking Sorting    Scabbers	Seeker
		Shack	  Hat

N	Neville	?	  Nimbus     Norbert	NEWT

A	Albus	Azkaban	  Armadillo	?	Astronomy
			  Bile

P	Peter	?	  Prefects   Puffskein	Parselmouth
			  Who Gained
			  Power

E	Ernie	Eeylops	  Every	     Elves	Erised
		Owl	  Flavor
		Emporium  Beans


Entry 2 – Amy B.

	Person	   Place      Things    Beings	  Terms
----------------------------------------------------------------
S	Slytherin  Slytherin  Standard  Scabbers  Squib
		   Common     Book of
		   Room       Spells

N	Newt	   ?	      Nimbus	Norbert	  NEWT

A	Aberforth  Azkaban	?	?	  Accio

P	Pettigrew  ?	      Polyjuice	Peeves	  Parseltongue
			      Potion

E	Ernie	   Eeylops	?	Elves	  Exploding Snap
		   Owl
		   Emporium


A few notes:

1.  Only ONE entry per person is allowed, with only ONE of the three 
words.  If there are not a lot of entries, I may allow people to 
submit a second entry with a different word next week, since this 
contest will run for 2 weeks.  The two examples above are NOT 
considered official entries, so you can use any of those words.

2.  You only get points if you are the only one to come up with a 
particular word or phrase, so the more obscure the better.  On the 
other hand, maybe no one will choose words like "Harry" or
"Hagrid" because they are so obvious.  Hmmmm.  Maybe
you'd better come up with your own strategy.

3.  I can assure you that there are at least 2 possible entries for 
each of the 75 possible combinations, and many, many more for most of 
them.

4.  Remember the rules!! Do not post to the list or you will be hung 
by the ankles in the dungeon!!!!

--Joywitch