Miette Bynny

Some members of HOL have been present since its inception; some members have just joined; most members are somewhere inbetween in regards to their length of membership. But, no matter the length--we all have our reasons for staying in HOL. Of course, we know that "Learning about the Harry Potter books" and "Making new friends from around the world" are two of the top reasons. But, what are some of the others? Any member of HOL may submit five (5) reasons for staying in HOL as the years go by. Reasons may be serious or humorous, but must abide by HOL rules for contest submissions. In order to have a reason/reasons selected for final judging by some staff members, contestants will need to be creative with ideas and accurate with wording, spelling, etc. Points are awarded as follows: Submitting five reasons--10 pts Inclusions in final vote--20 pts Making the TOP TEN--30 pts. Please put "Top Ten" as the subject of your E-message and be sure to put your student name and HOL ID# in the message. Send submissions by 22 October 2010 to ProfDragonfly@hol.org.uk The winners will be announced after the judges have made their final decisions. This is an easy and enjoyable way to earn some points and to participate in HOL's year-long Tenth Anniversary celebration!

"Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling." One can never have too much sweets, especially when it comes to chocolate frogs. The best part, however, definitely has to be the wizarding card that comes with it! Your new project? Write a chocolate frog card for a HOLer! It can be a student, a professor, or a staff member, as long as he or she is a member of HOL. A regular chocolate frog card has around 50-100 words, so consider that your range (though you are definitely welcome to write more). As with everything in HOL, everything you write MUST be G-RATED and no netspeak is allowed. Please run spell checks and double check your grammar and word counting. From now on, comments are mandatory for all ratings. At least 8 words must be used in all comments (and yes, they must be different words and make sense). If there are no complete comments, Library admins will delete them. As with all Library Projects: follow the instructions to the letter or your submission will not be eligible for house points. Everything that is not clearly specified in the instructions is entirely up to your imagination.

This is a just your typical Open house, where we introduce ourselves to our new students, answer their questions about classes, answer questions about Dungeons and HOL in general. For those that are hesitant to go on IRC (you should try it) there will be a thread in the Dungeons for this little social. For those that will dare to go on IRC, there will be a channel #SlytherinSocial for those are want to explore IRC. It'll be a fun mixer both In House and IRC. (please look at your time zone to coordinate with this) THIS EVENT IS AN OPEN EVENT. IRC CHANNEL #SlytherinSocial. The channel will be open the entire weekend starting Friday 10th of September. Be there!