By Saya Erikson
Twas the Night Before Christmas
And All through the Slytherin House
Everyone was stirring,
Except for the mouse
Our Stockings Were Hung by our Fireplace with Care
In Hopes that the Baron
Will fill them with Care
The girls were all Snuggled up on the couch
The boys were playing Chess with their Awesome head of house
The Baron Was floating near the fire
And Our Professor Snape was winning the game
And all the girls decided Chess was pretty Lame.
When all at once The Common room door started to Rumble
I myself screamed, wondering if the dungeon was going to crumble
Away to the Door Frame Professor Snape ran with a dash
Threw open the door and was covered in Cash!
Our Head of house Scratched his head
And wondered who had given us all this bread.
But what to our Slytherin eyes did appear
18 little house elves all carrying Christmas gear
They darted about Consumed by their task
They stopped only once to get a drink from their water flask
One by one the Presents they came
Each house called to us and Called us by name
For Seraphina, For Kiley For Lorena and Darmean
For Jennifer, For Saya, For Bastien and Xion
For Professor Snape, And The Dear Bloody Baron, For Eltanin,
For Jess, For All of your Lovely Slytherins.
They Filled up our stockings
And Showered us with Presents,
We returned the favor by giving the croissants
In a flash they were gone
And their task was finally done.
We all looked around surprised at the mess
And What Happened next
Was to funny to forget
Professor Snape switched his Robes
For a set of Flannel, Snow men Pajama's!
We all started laughing as we headed toward bed
For the Baron had put Santa's Hat on his head!
He bid us good evening and floated around
He was a very entertaining sight
For this was truly a Slytherin Christmas Eve Night.
By Thomasina Sealy
Brandi and Candi of Penshire claim to have gone to the land of Narnia through a cubbard in the Room of Requirement. The room is located on the seventh floor of Hogwarts Castle.
The girls said they were looking for a place to hide a broom that one had gotten for her birthday and smuggled it in at the beginning of the year. Being first years they are not allowed brooms and to keep it from being taken away Brandi desided to put it somewhere it wouldn't be found
The girls said that at first the Narnians were hostile toward them especially when they found out the girls were what they called, "Witches in training." They were all set to kill the girls when "The Great Lion," Aslan, ruler of Narnia stepped in and prevented the executions.
Candi said that they were invited to tea and they had a lovely time and want to go back, but in order to do so they had to turn in the illegal broom. So, when they came back through the cubbord, Brandi, the girl with the broom, sent Candi back to bed. On the way to turn in the broom, Brandi said that she almost turned back, but somehow, she claims, Aslan appeared to her in a picture. She pressed on
Professor Snape caught her in the hall on the way to Professor Ripley's room and lost house points, although she was happy to see Professor Ripley. Brandi turned in the broom and was sent back to bed.
When asked how she felt about losing house points, Brandi said: "I hate that, but I'm happy, because I can go back to Narnia someday."
By MoD
I've recently had the opportunity to talk to the Head of House of Gryffindor. You may remember last issue's article about the secret missions in the Gryffindor Common Room. Well, it occurred to me that, Prof. Opal is in fact involved into the secret missions going on there.
During some posting on the boards, she let slip a tiny bit of a secret that seems to be well kept among the Gryffindor students, since no Gryff has been seen around doing unusual stuff. Well, what means unusual here, though? The posting rate increases every time one takes a look at the number of posts and, at least so it seems, the secret mission is somehow connected with it.
Professor Opal was, like I said, on her duties to look around on the board, when I caught her more or less red-handed posting like a maniac in the games section at given House. Well, it might not be very suspicious to you, as a reader, that the Head of House is out, posting in the games at the house she is head of. Still, the Gryffs would be able to confirm that it indeed is suspicious, but since this is being kept a secret, students of other houses probably won't be successful asking. It even seems as if some students of the honored House of Gryffindor aren't aware of the things going on there.
Professor Opal, however, was quite surprised about the sudden disturbance and answered my question, what kind of mission she was on, with just as much as "My lips are sealed."
Suspicious, even more than before, if you ask me. I'd advice you to stay away from every Lion and especially Professor Opal, since she appears to be the Head and the initiator of the secret missions alarm at Gryffindor.
By Kiley Blaire
Hufflepuff Maya Parker sure knows her way around a computer! Her color bars are the envy of the school, and you�ll be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn�t have one in their signature on the BB. This reporter is currently waiting for her own to show up in PM! No doubt it will be just as good as the rest that she has made.
If you would like a color bar made especially for you by the wonderful Maya, just PM her six pictures of your choice and a saying that you want. This reporter is sure that she would love to make one for you! After she finishes mine, of course.
By Araceli Mendoza
"Samtastic" Banners are rocking Penshire signatures! Originally open to Penshire only, it is also open to the rest of the houses occasionally. These high-quality signatures include all of the necessary information and can be used anyway. In addition, they never use up all 500 of your characters in your siggie. Not only is he making signatures for everyday use, he also makes banners and cheering signs for Penshire posting wars and activities! Look out for Samtastic Banners by Samuel Craft of Penshire!
By Kiley Blaire
No one can say that new members aren�t welcomed in Slytherin. The whole house gathers together to say hello to the newbie in question, and there�s generally lots of friendly advice and offers for help in anything. But as more and more people have flooded into Slytherin (even from other houses), �The Slytherin Welcoming Committee� has gotten a little bit�well�crazier:
From Kitty Kitona�s welcome thread:
~Hey Kitty! Welcome home! Pretty soon there's gonna be a bunch of people coming on here, telling you to "jump right in" and get to know everybody. You should listen to them this time, but anything else they tell you from here on out is pure rubbish.
~ KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTY!!!!!! *Uber hugs* You're here! You're here! *bounces up and down excitedly* Join in, be crazy, write, all that good stuff, ask anyone if you need anything and...er...YOU'RE FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~ Hello, what's the crack, how's it going, hola, bonjour, howdo, and all the rest! I'll leave ya with a short n sweet 'Welcome Home' and since you know the drill...we'll see ya in the CR!
~ OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!! *launches herself at Kitty*
From Taylor Blaire�s welcome thread:
~ (after Kiley and Lorena hijacked said welcome thread) Next thing you know, Sera will be putting me and Tofu in detention for being thread-hijackers. "You darn kids stop stealing those posts, ya hear! Get back to yer schoolin work before I call them Heads er Houses on ya!"
~ Welcome, Taylor! Please ignore all of THOSE posts *points* Mine's the most important one, anyway. Now, you know by now that you're in the best place possible. All *cough*most*cough* don't hurt others in the first week, so you're good for a while. Oh! And would you like "Taylor," "Taylor Blaire," or "TayTay" on your VERY OWN personal padded-cell?
From Kestral�s welcome thread:
~ Welcome Kestral! Gotta say I love the name - is it after the bird? I got to hold a North American Kestral once and it was so kewl!! I usually hate birds, but this was a bird of prey, and I wore the leather glove and...er...I'm off topic.
~ Welcome Kestral!! Have fun and join in. And don't worry about all of them. They're fairly harmless, just keep at least an arms length between you and them.
From Eltanin Wemyss�s welcome thread:
~ Welcome to Slytherin and why do you use such big freaking words???? Chat, no chat, I'll be annoying you soon enough probably!
~ Heya, Eltanin! Pull one of my snakes and find out what happens! Then you'll REALLY be a Slytherin. You WILL be annoyed incessantly FOREVER now. Welcome home. And because some people on the committee are just slow:
~ ((Sorry I only just noticed this post. I'm so out of it lately)) Glad to see you're not so introverted anymore, well done Kiley!
~ I win Jessness, I am even later than you! Sorry Eltanin for my lateness...but I see you have been posting and stuff, so welcome to the coolest house� (response) Bla, he's been here long enough to get a girlfriend. You're just NOW welcoming him?
From Napoleon�s welcome thread:
~ Welcome to the bestest of the bestest of houses! I'm Lorena, one of the resident loudmouths of Slytherin (There's a few)
~ Hi Napoleon, welcome to the Nut Farm. Don't worry 'bout Jen, she's mixed up in the head, but she's mostly harmless.
It�s no wonder why some new Slytherins are never heard from again. Surely they are desperately thinking up ways to get out of the dungeons before the craziness overwhelms them. So, a word to the wise about joining Slytherin: If you can�t stand the crazy, stay out of the dungeons.
By Roxanne Whitez
There had been a recent poll that had been set up during this past month, asking housemates of the Gryffindor house what color they think would suit the month of December the most? Or perhaps, the season of winter. And the outcome of such a question had been more than greatly received by the 28 voters out there!
First off, the most common answer had been the colour "white" as Adrianna La Cerva happily put it, "SNOW!! It just wouldn't be Christmas if there wasn't snow covering the ground." And many other Gryffindors couldn't agree with her less, some of which were Gawyn Crossguard, Megan Miller, Fiona Chauvet and many more! However, some clearly original responses were more than welcome. Linda Danes voted for purple out of all colours, "in order to dedicate this to the best BB queen: Queen Purpy!" Others like our HoH, Professor Opal, voted for red because "it makes me think of red Christmas bows, holly berries and Santa Claus!" Kalie Black was one of the seven voters who chose blue, and her response was simply "because of the way the sky turns that grayish blue. And for some reason I've always thought of ice as blue." So whatever you think the Holiday Colours are, go ahead and have a great winter holiday!
By Kiley Blaire
There is a cold-blooded killer waltzing through our corridors! Penshire Lilac Brown has become addicted to the ghostly images of her fellow
classmates, and will do anything to gather more! So far she has attacked Gryffindor Kristin Johnson, Hufflepuff Maya Parker, and even this reporter,
Slytherin Kiley Blaire! Anyone in the castle could be next, even a Professor, for this seemingly innocent girl will stop at nothing to grow her collection of ghosties.
Lucky for the rest of you who are safe, I have discovered the methods behind Miss Lilac�s madness. Here is how she chooses her victims, and how she
turns them into her puppets!
Well, their names have to begin with the letter P for passed. And I capture them, poke them with a pokey stick until they are ghosties, then I have to
wipe their memory and make them believe what I tell them (how they died, who killed them etc).
And after she has collected enough of these �ghosties,� she plans to set them off around the castle, attacking people and possibly making more ghosts out of them! This reporter can only hope that some kind soul will put a stop to this lunatic�s rampage before it�s too late!
By Hermy_Own
Ever wondered where Gyffindors are going for break? Now here are your answers:
"Nowhere" came in first, surprisingly enough, with 11 of the votes. Next was "out of country," with 3 votes. Third was "out of state/province" with 2 votes., and last but not least was "Out of town" with 1 vote.
Why did so many people want to stay at Hogwarts? Here are some responses directly from some of our dear Gryffindor housemates:
Shanay Smith - Shay is going to stay at Hogwarts as she'll miss it too much if she leaves!
Topher Davenport - Topher is staying at Hogwarts due to the fact that he doesn't want to put up with his family. How nice.
Audrea - I'm still not sure... Maybe Audrea and Kristin could go home to visit our father... But Aud might just stay here. *shrug*
And our very own Professor Opal - Professor Opal will be staying at Hogwarts for the holidays.
So wherever you're going for the holidays, it seems like it's more likely you'll be bringing some friends along with you or you're just going to stay in Hogwarts, with the jolly good holiday spirits!
Thanks a ton to all the repliers, Shanay Smith, Topher Davenport, Fiona Chauvet, Josh, Professor Opal, Kallara Hithwen Silme, Megan Miller, Adrianna La Cerva, Aerwin, Kalie Black, Audrea, Roxanne Whitez, and yours truly.
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