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Picture of Puzzle: name//house

Participation points: 10 points
Deadline : December 29th 8AM EST

Last Issues Answers & Participation

Answer Key:
1. 4 boys, 3 girls in the family:

The number of boys is b+1, the number of girls is g+1. The boy has B brothers and G+1 sisters. The girl has G sisters and B+1 brothers.

The girl has twice as many brothers as sisters:
B+1 = 2G (i)

The boy has the same number of each:
B = g+ 1 (ii)

Combining the two (ii in i) gives G+2 = 2G.
G = 2, the number of girls then is G+1 = 3
thus B = 3, B+1=4.

2. Microphone

3. 0. There are 3 yellow socks and 1 purple sock! (Otherwise the chances of getting a yellow pair wouldn't be 1/2.)

Particpation Points
3 pts per answer - 10 pts for all 3

Gryffindor: 15 pts
destinyfroste - 3 pts
kaelakaelakaela - 3 pts
zestyzorra - 3 pts
spacemonkymafia - 6 pts

Hufflepuff: 12 pts
mandyloo - 6 pts
hookedupforfun - 6 pts

Ravenclaw: 20 points
peyton07
et_tu_lj

Slytherin: 16 pts
mmailliw
slashfiend337 - 6 pts

Yes I know I missed last week - sick family got me behind so we are shooting for this week. If you know you can't make it leave me a comment now that I have pitch writers :) Thanks!

All submissions due by Monday, December 14th at 12 Noon EST, 5 PM UTC

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( Term XV, Issue 0X: Front Page )
( Term XV, Issue XX: Subsidiaries )
( Term XV, Issue 0X: House News )

Staff payments to date.

Here is a list of the positions of the Daily Prophet - most are pretty self explanatory :)

Gryffindor Correspondent
Hufflepuff Correspondent
Ravenclaw Correspondent
Slytherin Correspondent
House correspondents report on what's been happening in their common rooms; you can write about in-house activities, social posts, new members, or just use the space to crow about your houses's recent successes around HiH if you like.

Writing Spotlight
Fanart Spotlight
These writer's scour the HiH comms, looking for the best pieces of fiction and fanart to showcase in the Prophet. Usually writers choose to pick one or two artists/fanficcers to spotlight per issue, but how you do it is up to you. You should include the icon challenge comms if you're writing for fanart.

Clubs Correspondent
Animagus/hh_wilderness Correspondent
Quidditch/Hogsmeade Correspondent
St.Mungos Correspondent
Insomniacs Correspondent
These correspondents report specifically on their respective comms. Clubs Correspondent might write a roundup of outcomes of various club activities, whereas the Quidditch/Hogsmeade correspondent might report on recent quidditch scores.

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Articles are due every other Monday at 9AM EST so you would be contacted at that time and have one day to write an article. If you don't think you would ever be available please don't sign up but if you think you may please feel free to sign up ;)

Use the textbox below.

<b>Name:</b> <b>House</b> <b>What three positions in order of preference would you want to write for?:</b> <b>Are you sure you can be a pinch writer for the Daily Prophet?</b>

Comments are unscreened because I will comment to you here if I need you to write.

RIDDLES

1. "I have as many brothers as sisters," says Mundungus Fletcher to his sister Margaret. "That's nothing!", says she, "I have twice as many brothers as sisters."
How many brothers and sisters are there?

2. Mr. Weasley walks into a music shop and starts perusing the Chopin section. "I shall have to buy some Muggle music!", he sighs blissfully. He looks around the shop and sees something. With amusement he realises that this one word could be formed by rearranging the letters of the phrase MORE CHOPIN.
What is it?

3. Each morning Dobby takes his socks out of the cupboard separately. He was down to his last four socks which were either bright purple or mustard yellow. He knows that the chances of his picking a random pair of mustard yellow socks are 0.5 - what are his chances of choosing a bright purple pair of socks?

Participation points: 10 points (3 points per correct answer, + 1 point for three correct answers)
Deadline" December 8, 2009 8AM EST, 1 PM UST

Last issue answer: Firewhisky

Participation: 10 points

Gryffindor: 50 Points
destinyfroste
easels
nanerbear
spacemonkymafia
waterwheel

Hufflepuff: 30 points
dawnfarie
mandyloo
voldy92

Ravenclaw: 20 Points
et_tu_lj
peyton07

Slytherin: 50 points
clasped
hecticity
slyfoxesq
mmailliw
syntheticdeath

Corrected Game:

Who sent Harry his first birthday card?
B Sirius	M Hagrid	F Ron	W Hermione
The uniforms of Stonewhall High are which colour?
I brown	C blue	I grey	E magenta
Where did Tom Riddle purchase one of his horcruses?
G Mould-on-the-Wold	R Upper Flagley	R Vauxhall Road	A Stoatshead office
Who gave a box of maggots as a present to someone?
E Kreacher	T Hagrid	O Umbridge	S Dobby
On which day did Harry have a dream about the mermaid in the prefect's bathroom?
L 25. July 96	N 29. Oct. 94	W 24 Feb. 95	H unknown
Which team got flattened by Ireland in the Quidditch World Cup semifinals in 1994?
A Argentinia	E Chile	D Poland	H Peru
What gift did Harry give his one true love?
Y a green rossette	G a kiss	I a book set	A a chocolate frog
Which orphan had the displeasure of being teased by Tom Riddle?
A Eric Walley	Y Dennis Bishopp	T Billy Stubs	S Amy Benson
Which dragon is a shimmery grey color?
K Ukrainian Ironbelly	S Swedish Short-Snout	L Hungraian Horntail	W Norwegian Ridgeback
In which pub did the D.A. get started?
H The Three Broomsticks	L Hanged Man	D Green Dragon	Y Hog's Head

The letters in front of the right answers spell: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Participation points: 10 pts
Deadline: November 24th 8 AM EST

Participation & Answers from Previous Issue

Answer Key
1. Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There
was no sign of movement; the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured
by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr. Weasley?
Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad-Eye, and Mundungus?
- Deathly Hallows

2. All Harry's spellbooks, his wand, robes, cauldron, and top-of-the-line
Nimbus Two Thousand broomstick had been locked in a cupboard
under the stairs by Uncle Vernon the instant Harry had come home.
- Chamber of Secrets


Gryffindor - 40 pts

colours_unseen
destinyfroste
pot_of_coffee
spacemonkymafia

Hufflepuff - 20 pts

mandyloo
voldy92

Ravenclaw - 20 pts

et_tu_lj
peyton07

Slytherin - 30 pts
hecticity
mmailliw
slyfoxesq

Decrypt the following passages and include which books the quotes are from:

1. NXEITSI BIEE DILPIIT LUI BKRJ KB LUIZ QN LUIH EKKOIW RC QL LUI NOH. LUIJI PQN TK NXMT KB ZKGIZITL; LUI NLQJN NLQJIW DQSO, RTDEXTOXTM, XTWXBBIJITL, RTKDNSRJIW DH BEHXTM BJXITWN. PUIJI PQN JKT? PUIJI PIJI BJIW QTW ZJ. PIQNEIH? PUIJI PIJI DXEE, BEIRJ, LKTON, ZQW-IHI, QTW ZRTWRTMRN?

Tip: E = L and no letter is substituted by the same letter

2. RJJ DRNNK'V VYQJJAPPSV, DOV URGB, NPAQV, FRXJBNPG, RGB WPY-PC-WDQ-JOGQ GOTAXV WUP WDPXVRGB ANPPTVWOFS DRB AQQG JPFSQB OG R FXYAPRNB XGBQN WDQ VWRONV AK XGFJQ HQNGPG WDQ OGVWRGW DRNNK DRB FPTQ DPTQ.

Tip: J = L

Decryption help: here
More tips: here
Participation points: 10 points

Deadline: November 24th

Last Issues Participation - coming tomorrow!

Decrypt the following passages and include which books the quotes are from:

1. NXEITSI BIEE DILPIIT LUI BKRJ KB LUIZ QN LUIH EKKOIW RC QL LUI NOH. LUIJI PQN TK NXMT KB ZKGIZITL; LUI NLQJN NLQJIW DQSO, RTDEXTOXTM, XTWXBBIJITL, RTKDNSRJIW DH BEHXTM BJXITWN. PUIJI PQN JKT? PUIJI PIJI BJIW QTW ZJ. PIQNEIH? PUIJI PIJI DXEE, BEIRJ, LKTON, ZQW-IHI, QTW ZRTWRTMRN?

Tip: E = L and no letter is substituted by the same letter

2. RJJ DRNNK'V VYQJJAPPSV, DOV URGB, NPAQV, FRXJBNPG, RGB WPY-PC-WDQ-JOGQ GOTAXV WUP WDPXVRGB ANPPTVWOFS DRB AQQG JPFSQB OG R FXYAPRNB XGBQN WDQ VWRONV AK XGFJQ HQNGPG WDQ OGVWRGW DRNNK DRB FPTQ DPTQ.

Tip: J = L

Decryption help: here
More tips: here

Passage 1: Book: Passage 2: Book: Name//House

Participation points: 10 points
Due: November 12 noon EST

Participation from last issue:




House Points Earned:

Gryffindor: 50 Points
colours_unseen 10 points
gryffinwhore 10 points
pot_of_coffee 10 points
thenecessities 10 points
weddingbeaches 10 points

Hufflepuff: 10 points
mandyloo 10 points

Ravenclaw
No One :(

Slytherin: 10 Points
mmailliw 10 points

Questions
- Which creature's meat is green-tinged and, according to Hagrid, has healing properties?
- What did a student in 1996 dump on Screechsnap for it to move and make
sound in frustration?
- In which chapter number does the Divination teacher make her first
appearance?
- Whom did Cho Chang turn down for a date in her sixth year?
- What did Hermione find in Hagrid's beef casserole that made her lose her appetite?

What to do: Answer the questions and put the answers into the grid pictured above.

Use the text box and please leave the actual picture not a link - thank you!

Puzzle: Name//House

Participation points: 10 points
Due: October 27th 12 noon EST

Participation from last issue:

( Puzzle Answer Here )

House Points Earned:

Gryffindor - 10 points
colours_unseen

Hufflepuff - 30 Points
dawnfarie
hiddengrace
tunnels_of_loce

Ravenclaw - 50 Points
cashdogg827
et_tu_lj
msninacat
nfgs
starryeyedstara

Slytherin - 20 points
clasped
lovestories

Wordsearch Clues: 1. Draco has this specie of owl as a pet 2. Name of Harry's House-Elf 3. Water-dewlling creatures that look like monkeys, commonly found in Japan 4. She was a member of the Slug Club who was favoured by Slughorn due to an influential family 5. Hermione's parents' occupation 6. Charlie takes care of these creatures 7. Luna's father 8. Fleur has the hair of this creature in her wand 9. Harry's parents' burial site 10. the vampire known as "Vampire from the Valleys"

Participation points: 10 points
Due: October 13th 12 noon EST

Use this box for submission
Puzzle: name//house

Participation from last issue:

Answer key: GAMBOLJAPES
What is this: Gambol and Japes is George and Fred's fave jokes shop in Diagon Alley (or any reference to the shop at Diagon Alley)

Points were submitted for September

Gryffindor: 40 Points
colours_unseen
delorispea
pot_of_coffee
spacemonkymafia

Hufflepuff: 40 points
cyyt
dawnfarie
exoticrooftile
stringdancegirl

Ravenclaw:10 Points
et_tu_lj

Slytherin: 30 Points
clasped
sanggre_habagat
mmailliw

Answer the questions in the table and fill out the answer below.

Which member of the Black family didn't have any children?
P Cedrella	G Elladora	D Marius	W Sirius
Sopohorous is used in:
R Quodpod	E Veritaserum	O Wit-Sharpening Potion	A Draught of the Living Dead
What's the professor's name of Hermione's favourite O.W.L. subject?
A Integra	M Vector	A Flitwick	T Quint
Which creature helps against a certain hysteria?
G Puffskein	T Pogrebin	B Glumbumble	S Billywig
Which statue did a person hide behind of in the fifth book?
O Wilfrid the Wistful	L Boris the Bewildered	O Lachlan the Lanky	E Gregory the Smarmy
What did Harry not see in the Room of Requirement:
R a plush troll	L a biting teakettle	E a skeleton	N a whistle
Which witch enjoyed being burned at the stake during the Middle Ages?
H Fiona the Fearless	Y Vaisy the Victorious	J Wendelin the Weird	T Mafalda the Forgetful
Which isn't one of Mrs. Figgs cats?
O Snowy	A Mr. Tibbles	T Mr. Paws	A Tuft
Who sold illegal Venomous Tentacula seed pods to some people in the Order of the Phoenix?
W "fake" Mad-Eye Moony	P Mundungus	R Fred	U George
What should not be used to cook?
R shrivelfig	E aconite	C dried nettles	I Billywig parts
What is a good pet for children?
S Plimpy	H Jarvey	N Irish Phoenix	Y Erkling

The letters in front of the right answers spell: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
What is he/she/it/they:

Participation points: 10 pts
Deadline: September 29, 12 Noon EST.

Use the handy text box for your answer.
The letters in front of the right answers spell: What is he/she/it/they: Name//House

Writer Signups

Please use the textbox at the bottom of the post to register interest in writing for the Daily Prophet.

Positions and their duties

Copy Editor
Copy editor is the person who proof reads each of the columns before they're sent to publish. You'll need to check for spelling mistakes, test links and try to make sure all the columns share similar formatting. Copy Editor is given a full 24 hours between the writers deadline and the DP issue date to do this, but you can start proofing columns as soon as they're submitted by the writers if you want.

Gryffindor Correspondent
Hufflepuff Correspondent
Ravenclaw Correspondent
Slytherin Correspondent
House correspondents report on what's been happening in their common rooms; you can write about in-house activities, social posts, new members, or just use the space to crow about your houses's recent successes around HiH if you like.

Writing Spotlight
Fanart Spotlight
These writer's scour the HiH comms, looking for the best peices of fiction and fanart to showcase in the Prophet. Usually writers choose to pick one or two artists/fanficcers to spotlight per issue, but how you do it is up to you. You should include the icon challenge comms if you're writing for fanart.

Clubs Correspondent
Animagus/hh_wilderness Correspondent
Quidditch/Hogsmeade Correspondent
St.Mungos Correspondent
Insomniacs Correspondent
These correspondents report specifically on their respective comms. Clubs Correspondent might write a roundup of outcomes of various club activities, whereas the Quidditch/Hogsmeade correspondent might report on recent quidditch scores.

Ask Dumbledore (Two positions, please specify)
Our regular Agony Uncle column. In charge of writing in, or responding to, member's questions. One member will act as Dumbles, whilst another will create questions for him to answer (for issues where we don't have a member question available - which is usually pretty much all of them :( )

Quizmaster
Create and organise a wordsearch, crossword, sudoku puzzle or similar for each DP Issue. You'll need to provide me with an answer key each week so I can check the winners.

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<b>Name:</b> <b>House</b> <b>Position Applying For:</b> <b>Why would you make a good writer for the Daily Prophet?</b> <b> If another position becomes available, would you like to be contacted?</b>



Once you're signed up here, we'll keep you in mind for the whole term. Just because you don't get the position now doesn't mean you wont get it later - in fact last term almost everyone signed up here got offered some form of position before the end of the term!

What magical animal closely relates to the animal depicted here?

Deadline Thursday August 27th, Midnight EST
Points 10 points participation.
Tips As soon as you have to lift the pencil from the paper, the game is over and you're finished drawing in whatever you need to draw in.

Please submit both the completed image and your answer.

( Last week's points and answer key )

"Brilliant,” said Hermione. “This isn’t magic — it’s logic — a puzzle. A lot of the greatest wizards haven’t got an ounce of logic, they’d be stuck in here forever.”

Logic Puzzle
Oh no! Hagrid lost the summer camp notes!

Hagrid stares at the four Hogwarts Houses, and back to the row of holiday houses numbered 1-4 with red, yellow, blue and green as colours. The Mandrakes are crying, and Hagrid wasn't sure if the Devil's Snare already ate someone. The pixies were fluttering around annoying everyone, and the Nifflers were annoying the Jarveys. The Kappas meanwhile were gnawing on the Gillyweed. And Colin Creevey ate too many Alihotsy leaves- again.

The caretaker, a deaf old man, merely shouts:
"ARRR, the Niffler lives directly left of the yellow house. The Jarvey-owning inhabitants live directly to the right of the people who study Mandrakes. Two Houses lie between the house where people plant Alihotsy leaves and the green house. The people who grow the Devil's Snare live directly right to the blue house. One house lies between the Hufflepuff house and the Jarvey-owning inhabitants on the right. There are two houses between the Slytherins and the Kappas. Yeh decided to not put any Houses in their House coloured hut. And don't forget, the Gryffindors own the Nifflers! ARRRR GET THIS DEVIL'S SNARE OFF OF ME."

The two new clues can be seen in bold above. Can you help poor Hagrid assign a House to a coloured holiday house, with their assigned pet and plants according to plan?



Please use the textbox provided when submitting your answers!
<b>Holiday House 1:</b> [colour] [House] [plant] [pet] <b>Holiday House 2:</b> [colour] [House] [plant] [pet] <b>Holiday House 3:</b> [colour] [House] [plant] [pet] <b>Holiday House 4:</b> [colour] [House] [plant] [pet] Name/House

Participation points: 10 points
Deadline: Thursday 13th August, Midnight EST



Last week's quiz.

Decrypt the following passages:

TWDLX CFZYHFP TJNLHWA DFIL WDL QTXC TQ COZZPL FXWYQFHWA JOW MOYWL VYQQLXLGW QOGHWYTGA QXTC WDTAL TQ WDLYX COZZPL FGFPTZOLA—WDL JXTTCAWYHS FGV WDL WYCL WOXGLX FXL ZTTV LUFCBPLA. WDLXL FXL FPAT CFZYHFP FXWYQFHWA WDFW JLFX GT HPTAL XLALCJPFGHL WT FGK COZZPL FXWYQFHW, LYWDLX YG QTXC TX QOGHWYTG—XLCLCJXFPPA, BLGAYLILA, FGV AGLFSTAHTBLA FXL LUFCBPLA.

Tip Q = F


XIWY HW KISSNPW QC RCY IRQPZWYHRQ KHSTB, KIBV CA KCQPZR YPBVRCNCSJ TW H KJWYPZJ YC YVP GTDHZQTRS GCZNQ, HRQ GCINQ TRQPPQ HMMPHZ, YC H GTDHZQ, YC CMPZHYP LJ WCKP IRFRCGR HSPRBJ—GTYRPWW HZYVIZ GPHWNPJ’W AHWBTRHYTCR GTYV YVP KJWYPZTPW CA VCG KISSNPW KHRHSP GTYVCIY KHSTB, ACZ POHKMNP VTW BCKKPRYW QIZTRS VTW ETWTY YC YVP QIZWNPJW TR SA4 HRQ CR YVP NCRQCR IRQPZSZCIRQ TR CM7.

TIP: R = N


Decryption help: here
More tips: here
Participation points: 10 points

( Answers and points for the last context )

BRAINY RIDDLES TIME~~~

1. I buy myself a specimen of Jackoweevles and put it in a Petri dish at 4 o'clock. Every creature divides into two creatures each minute, and 47 minutes later I notice the Petri dish is half full. I glance at the clock when the Petri dish is full- what time is it?

2. Hermione wants to take the ship to Japan to visit a Kappa- a ladder is hanging on the side of the ship. The bottom rung is touching the water. In the ship manual that she managed to dig up, she reads that the length of the ladder is 2m40 and that the distance between the rungs is 30cm. The tide rises 27.3cm each hour. How many hours must Hermione wait to cast a charm that requires the water to reach the 7nth rung of the ladder?

3. A group of 98 aurors suffered the following injuries in a battle: 85 lost an eye due to a Bat-Bogey Hex, 75 broke their back, 70 lost one Finger (à la Peter Pettigrew), and 80 lost an arm because of blast-ended skrewts. What is the minimum number of aurors who must have lost all 4?

4. How far can a Kneazle go into the woods?

5. I've got seven Remembralls in a basket and meet seven forgetful children. I want to give each child a Rememberall but still have a Rememberall in the basket- how do I divide the Rememberalls among the children?

Participation points: 10 points
Deadline Thursday 25th June Midnight EDT
Hints There are trick questions.

( Last Week's Winners )

Boggle: Words are formed by the use of adjoining letters. Letters must join in the proper sequence to spell a word. They may join horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, to the left, right or up and down. But no one cube letter can be used more than once within a single word! For more information, check this site under "PLAYING:".

What to do: There are 16 names (the given name or the family name) of people who were once or still are in Hogwarts. Submit a list of the names you've found (boggle images not necessary).

Tips: There is one creature, and one dead person in the grid, as well as a person who teased a Ravenclaw Ghost. Also, there's a Slytherin Quidditch Seeker, eight D.A. members, a family member of a D.A. member and three teachers in the grid as well.

Participation points: 10 pts. You must find twelve of the sixteen to qualify for points.

Deadline: Thursday 11th June Midnight EST.


( Last Week's Winners )

Rules: Fill-a-Pix is a Minesweeper-like puzzle based on a grid with a pixilated picture hidden inside. Each number indicates how many of the squares immediately surrounding it, and itself (!), will be filled.

Tips: Use two colours to fill out the grid, one colour for the blank squares, and one colour for the filled squares. Fill out 0's and 9's already, as well as 6's on the sides and 4's in the corners. Here's an example. Don't forget to sign with your name and house!

Participation points: 10 pts
Deadline: Thursday 28th May Midnight EST

Roll call!

The staff list for Term 14 is currently as follows:

brownstudies (R) // Editor-in-Chief
et_tu_lj (R) // Copy Editor


alohachary1851 (G) // gryff_lions
andromeda0604 (H) // the_puff_house
cinematiic (R) // ravenclaw_house
absolutelybatty (S) // cunningfolk

planetgal471 (G) // hh_clubs
brownstudies (R) // Fanfiction
willfully (S) // Fanart
lotrangel17 (H) // hih_insomniacs
alight (G) // hogsmeadewkends and hh_quidditch
accountingwitch (R)// hih_animagus and hih_wilderness
planetgal471 (G) // hh_stmungos
latenightcuppa (G) // Ask Dumbledore
alohachary1851 (G) // Ask Dumbledore
caketime (R) // Quizmaster


You wont lose your place if you don't comment, but it saves me chasing people up come deadline time...

If anything is amiss, please let me know. If you don't want to continue on with the DP, please let me know. If I've unfriended you when I shouldn't have, please let me know!*

All present and accounted for, thanks guys!

*Quizmaster and Fanart Correspondent removed due to inactivity.