Introducing the HP4GU Contest

[meckelburg at foni.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 18057

Hi, 
It'll be fun to have a contest every week! 
however, I am still waiting for your answers to the last one- the 
DADA-Ecam. For those, who missed it, you find it Messages

#17862 + #17863

Hey, all you HP- obsessed! Capable of nitpicking on half-senteces( I 
know it's fun<g> but not even able to answer a few simple questions 
about DADA- Lessons?(hey, don't take this seriously!)I thought you'd 
do better! 5 answers with more than 1200 obsessed members is close to 
a catastrophe (spelling?).
Or was the test so boring, you decided to ignore it? Don't! If you 
didn't like it, please post why, off-list! I have to know what went 
wrong, to make it better next time
Sorry if this is OT
Mecki

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Neville's aim was so poor that he kept accidentally sending much 
heavier things flying across the room - Professor Flittwick for 
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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., joym999 at a... wrote:

> Welcome to The HP4GU Sort-of-Weekly Contest, known also by its full 
> name:  The Invitational, Magical, Exciting, Weekly, All-Smarty's 
> Tournament Extraordinaire!  In order to make HP4GU a more fun and 
> exciting home, especially for those of us who have absolutely no 
> lives outside of it, I have (with the Moderators' permission) 
decided 
> to inflict upon you a weekly, non-competitive yet hopefully amusing, 
> contest.
> 
> This contest will consist of a variety of different activities which 
> I think you will all enjoy.  Some of the contests will be written or 
> designed by yours truly, but I am hoping that the rest of you will 
> contribute puzzles or contest ideas as well.  All contest ideas 
> should be sent to the contest email address, which is 
> HP4GUCon at a...  Remember, the contest is non-competitive, so there 
> are no winners or losers (well, no winners anyway).
> 
> There will be a new contest every week, I hope, or almost every 
week, 
> anyway.  There will be 3 types of contests: puzzles, creative 
> contests, and speculative contests.  Puzzles consist of crosswords 
> and other word puzzles, anagrams, trivia questions, etc., so if 
> you've written one of these please send it to me!  Creative contests 
> will consist of things like poetry-writing (more fun than you think, 
> really!).  Speculative contests will consist of asking people to 
> theorize about an unknown aspect of the Harry Potter universe, such 
> as the recent thread on "What happens to the Hogwarts Express the 
> rest of the year?"
> 
> This contest is for fun only.  There are no winners, no prizes, no 
> trophies, no glory, but also no losers, no shame, and no hurt 
> feelings.  Friends don't need to compete with one another, right?  
> Right!  And don't forget to send those lists of trivia questions, 
> word search puzzles, or other brilliant ideas to me at 
> HP4GUCon at a...
> 
> The Rules are posted below, and will be repeated each week when a 
new 
> contest is posted.  I will also file the rules in our files section, 
> along with a contest archives (space permitting).  The first contest 
> will be posted this Friday.
> 
> The Rules
> 1.  Contest responses should be sent by email to the contest email 
> address, which is HP4GUCon at a...  RESPONSES SHOULD NOT BE POSTED 
> TO THE LIST.  Anyone posting responses, especially puzzle answers, 
to 
> the list will be disqualified from participation in that contest, 
> sent a howler, turned into a toad, sent to Azkaban, AND forced to 
eat 
> bubotuber pus. SO DON'T POST RESPONSES TO THE LIST.
> 
> 2.  Contests will be posted on Fridays.  Responses should be sent by 
> email to HP4GUCon at a... by midnight Tuesday night.  For puzzle 
> contests, both the correct answers and a list of everyone who 
> submitted a correct solution by the deadline will be posted on 
> Wednesday (or Thursday at the latest).  For creative and speculative 
> contests, all responses will be posted, although I might just post a 
> random sampling if there are a real lot of responses to a particular 
> contest.
> 
> 3. ANSWERS SHOULD NOT BE POSTED TO THE LIST.  I know this is also 
> rule # 1, but I can not stress it enough.
> 
> – Joywitch M. Curmudgeon
> 
> P.S.  There is a little tiny contest imbedded in this post.  Did you 
> find it?  If so, let me know by sending email to HP4GUCon at a... and 
> NOT BY POSTING IT TO THE LIST.