HP4GU Contest #2

joym999 at aol.com joym999 at aol.com
Fri May 11 16:53:55 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 18546

Hello, all.  I hope you are feeling artistic, because this week we 
have a creative contest.  But first, the rules:

1.  Contest responses should be sent by email to the contest email 
address, which is HP4GUCon at aol.com.  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 aol.com by midnight Tuesday night (EST).  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.

OK, here is the contest:

Can you write bad poetry?  Of course you can!  I'll bet you have, 
too.  Here's your golden opportunity to put those skills to work once 
again.  This week's contest is to write a poem about a character in 
the HP universe.  Write any sort of poem at all, using any sort of 
formal structure or rhyme scheme, or none at all, as you prefer.  
Here's some examples, by yours truly:

First, a haiku:

   Ugh.  Draco Malfoy.
   Evil, unredeemable
   I do not like him.

And, even worse, this awkward limerick:

   George Weasley has a twin named Fred.
   By whom he is usually led.
   Some people say
   George must be gay.
   But I really don't get how they came up with that thread.

Think you can do better?  (You could hardly do worse.)  Get to it!  
Send me your poems, BY EMAIL of course (to HP4GUCon at aol.com), NOT BY 
POSTING THEM TO THE LIST!

BTW, if you can actually write good poetry, that's even better!  I 
will leave you with JKR's gem about everyone's favorite young wizard:

   His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad.
   His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
   I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
   The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

--Joywitch





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