Something New Challenge

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Subject: Something New Challenge Sun Apr 07 2013, 08:15

For this challenge you need to come up with the following:

- HE Bday: one suggestion for HE improvement; suggestion of something you'd like have on HE;
- Valentine's Day: one magical and one non-magical date idea;
- St Patrick's Day: one magical and one non-magical tradition;
- Easter: one magical and one non-magical tradition;
- April Fool's Day: one magical and non-magical lie.

Top 4 of each:
1st Place -125 points
2nd Place - 100 points
3rd Place - 75 points
4th Place - 50 points
All others taking part - 25

Subject: Re: Something New Challenge Wed Apr 17 2013, 20:00

HE Birthday
One Suggestion for Improvement: Maybe offer a Newbie of the Month award to encourage newbies to participate. Offer up a special signature or avi for them.

One Thing I'd Like to See: The Return of The Green Dragon! XD

Valentine's Day

Magical Date Idea: a date inside your loved one's favorite book! Step into your sweethearts best loved novel and join in on the literary fun!

Muggle Date Idea: To go with the theme above, decorate you dining room with a scene from your sweetheart's favorite book- dress up and stay in character as you wine and dine them. Will you be the Ron to her Hermione, or the Crabbe to his Goyle?

St. Patrick's Day

Magical Tradition: Each year on St. Patrick's day, wizards from all over the world set up a special portkey by the Blarney Stone. On the 17th of March you might just find lots of strange, robe wearing strangers arriving as if out of nowhere to kiss the Blarney Stone!

Muggle Tradition: Forget the Easter Egg hunt, kiddos! This St. Patrick's Day the hunt is on for a four leaf clover! Pour over our clover patch and each four leaf clover will earn you a chocolate gold coin!

Easter

Magical Tradition: A favorite tradition in the wizarding world is the annual Chick Transformation Contest. Hogwarts students Year 1 to 4 compete to see who can transfigure more Muggle plastic Easter Eggs into baby chicks! Winner gets a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean!

Muggle Tradition: A new tradition popping up all over the Muggle world is the Egg Stomp. One uncooked Easter egg is place in a basket of hard boiled Easter egg. The race is on to be the one to snatch the egg from the basket and stomp on it. Whoever finds the raw egg has the pleasure of choosing one piece of candy from the other competitor's Easter baskets.

April Fool's Day

Magical Tradition: Perhaps the most repeated April Fool's Day traditions in the the I've Just Been Splinched Gag, where a witch or wizard pretend to have been splinched. Fake ears, hands, and even in some cases, heads, are readily available at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Muggle Tradition: Muggles and their primitive non-moving photographs are taking to Instagram to fool their fellow muggles. Posting increasingly ridiculously and fake pictures of themselves (for instance dressing up a Beauty Queen winner with tiara and sash, or a booking picture from a "jail") and trying to out-do their friends with the amount of views, or "likes" they can get.

Subject: Re: Something New Challenge Thu Apr 18 2013, 11:18

I'm really new at this but I'm going to give this a shot.

HE Bday:

Those members who are celebrating their birthdays on a specific day are given a shout out and emailed a birthday greeting. In addition we could post a little birthday cake in their profile just for that happy day.

Valentine's Day:

Magical date:
Transform your loved one's room into their favorite place in the Wizarding world, and have write a Drabble or short poem dedicated to your loved one and have people polyjuiced to look like her favorite heroes/heroines.

Muggle date:
Similar to the one above. Instead of buying your loved one a card, make one yourself & include the poem/Drabble in it. It's the things personally done that is lost treasured and remembered.

St Patrick's Day:

Magical tradition:
All the houses in Hogwarts should pick 5 people in their house to dress up as a leprechauns. They will then hide out while the other houses look for someone other than their own house students. The first house to find all 5 leprechauns from the same house, will get 3 wishes granted by that house.

Muggle tradition:
Hide four leaved clovers in school posts. The person who finds them must send send a PM with the links to those posts. There will be a fixed deadline and only one PM submission is allowed per member. The person with the most will be awarded points.

Easter:

Magical tradition:
Everyone in Hogwarts will spend the day looking for eggs only it's not chicken but dragon eggs. They must take care of it until it hatches. Then take care of the baby dragon until it is ready to leave. This of course will be completed under the strict supervision & guidance of the Care Of Magical Creatures Professor.

Muggle tradition:
Use the clues egg hunt. Each person is given a plastic egg with a clue inside. This should lead them to another plastic egg, which leads to another and so on, until finally leading them to their basket. Use up to 10 eggs. They’ll have so much fun trying to figure out the answers to the clues they'll won't want the game to end. when they get to the basket at the end.

April Fool's Day:

Magical tradition:
Some of the staff and students in school will polyjuice themselves into someone else and throughout the day, they will play harmless pranks on their fellow students and staff.

Muggle tradition:
Crazy Cursor - Plug a wireless mouse into your victim's computer. Go to a nearby location and wiggle the mouse around. They will wonder why their computer is freaking out.

Subject: Re: Something New Challenge Mon Jun 17 2013, 01:47

- HE Bday

One thing I think would improve the site would be trying to bring back the old stuff like quidditch and stuff. I know there is a lack of people to attend these games so maybe there would be a change in how it was originally done. Maybe have it so 8 people sign up for a game and you switch around the roles. 7 for a team and the 8^th plays the entire second team. I don’t know how well it would work. Then rotate it so everyone gets to do it. Also make Great Hall be able to earn housepoints in some way.

I would like to see dueling return. Dueling was so fun (I dominated it too :D).
- Valentine's Day
For a magical date, it would be neat to be almost like a non-magical one. Having a dinner together by candle light would be so romantic but that’s where it would stop. Instead of sitting there waiting for your food all you would have to do is pick what you want to eat and it would be there. Another thing is instead of a boring old candle have a candle that burns a different color depending on the atmosphere in the room. Then have little fairies fly around sparkling off from the candles.

For the non-magical date you must do a dinner, in a very nice restaurant. If you can’t find a nice one at least pick a place that have super delicious food! There should be a nice flower display in the middle of the table. Maybe some flowers she can take with her later in a very pretty vase.

- St Patrick's Day

The magical tradition would be to set wizards out onto a field filled with clovers and they try to find the four leaf clover. The tricky part is that all of the clovers appear to be four leafed but only one actually is. Wizards can use spells to try to find this four leaf clover but it wouldn’t be as simple as accio four leaf clover. The winner would get a cool prize.

The non-magical tradition would be like the magical. However set kids out to find a four leaf clover in someone’s backyard and the winner would get a neat prize as well. (seems to be a popular idea hahaha)

- Easter:

For the magical tradition, wizards could each bewitch one rabbit as their egg finder. These rabbits will be magiked so that they and only they would be able to find the eggs. The wizards would be more of the follower and also help the rabbit figure out where the eggs are hidden (ie if they’re buried, in a tree, etc.)

For the non-magical tradition it would be like the regular egg hunt we all know and love. Plastic eggs would be used and each egg would have a tiny piece of candy in it. However one of the eggs will have a special prize in it for the lucky winner.

- April Fool's Day

For the magical tradition wizards could use magic to pull pranks on their friends. Anything would go, from putting little curses on them or even in their food to make their front teeth grow out to be bucked teeth to having warts grow all over their skin.

For the non-magical tradition a family member could all pick one person who is immune to the pranking. Then this person is what will help the other family members prank the rest.

Subject: Re: Something New Challenge Mon Nov 04 2013, 12:01

HE

1st Place -125 points: Rigby Dumbledore
2nd Place - 100 points: stephy
3rd Place - 75 points: Fameludos

Valentines

1st Place -125 points: Rigby Dumbledore
2nd Place - 100 points: Fameludos
3rd Place - 75 points: stephy

Easter

1st Place -125 points: Rigby Dumbledore
2nd Place - 100 points: Fameludos
3rd Place - 75 points: stephy

April Fools

1st Place -125 points: Fameludos
2nd Place - 100 points: Rigby Dumbledore
3rd Place - 75 points: stephy

St. Patricks

1st Place -125 points: Fameludos
2nd Place - 100 points: Rigby Dumbledore
3rd Place - 75 points: stephy

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