By: Amber Thatcher
Tricks and Pranks that we Ravens have suggested in our Common Room!
From Myrrima:
� sneak out of bed at night and play a humongous joke on some people in other houses....not sure who yet though *shifty*
� sneak a stink bomb into someone book bag and then 'accidentally' trip them
� Make all the carpets someone steps on fly from under their feet and then land on top of them.
� Get Peeves to throw water bombes on everyone for a day....wait, that's already been done..hmm...okay, I'll magic the water bombs to chase people.
� Dig a tunnel using the secret passageways in Hogwarts to outside on the grounds and disguise it and then whenever someone walks next to it, cast a tripping spell on them.
� Put dung bombs around a hallway
� Fill Prof. Snape's office with bull frogs.
� Put slippery ice that won't melt in random parts of different hallways. It's invisible too...and then everyone slips on it.
From Hagrid:
� put a portable swamp in the head masters office and send professor Snape a howler
� Charm professor snape to make his clothes (all of them) Yellow and gold, and say "I love griffindor" (though we�re ravens snape hates griffindor the most)
From Cally:
� obviously, seeing as I'm ALWAYS eating, sneak some food from the kitchens
From Samantha Hola:
� Sending some one a howler because they did something (i.e.: blinked when talking to you, yawned in class.)
� Go up behind some one and charm their hair a different color without them knowing.
From Camilla Doyle:
� Send a package full of billywigs to someone I dislike. Especially if they will be alone and shut up in their dorm room!
From Bridget:
� Plant a cute little doll in someone's locker, but inside is a stinkbomb that goes off when the person touches it!
From Melanie:
� Give someone the puking half of a puking pastile... without them knowing that they ate it!
From Andela:
� Jinx the bludgers! That would never end well.
� Put a vanishing step on every other step
From Star Potter:
� I would cast a spell on the Slytherin picture to change the code and no one would be able to get in
From Amber:
� Only every other step! Come on, it has to be random groups of 2-10 steps at a time! (in reply to Andela�s last one)
� Put a charm on most of the doors in the school that made them take you to somewhere other than where they were suppose to take you!
(Just imagine, someone wanting to go to the washroom and ending up in the entrance hall!)
� Charming the house tables to make people's uniforms look like one of the four other houses for the rest of the day (sit down to activate)
� Anyone who sits next to each other in their first class (or second depending on what class they had first..) will be magically chained/cuffed together for a time period...
� Randomly plant Devil Snares in all the greenhouses
� Have random trip wires everywhere!
� Switch Prof. Dumbledore's lemon drops for vegetables (or something that is really unliked!)
� Turn the Great Hall into a Disco Hall!
� Dye Prof. Snape�s hair red or gold
� Mess up the teacher's lesson plans so they accidentally give 1st year work to 5th years.... and 7th year work to 3rd years... and so on and so forth!
� Having an "airing" or "yard sale" of all the lost items found in Hogwarts or the grounds... with particular high prices for embarrising items (diaries, clothes, journals... etc)
From Joe:
� Make someone�s locker a portkey to your own house!
From Toby:
� Put makeup on a Professor's face while they're sleeping.
� Wander in the halls at night making a lot of noise.
� Dye Prof. Snape's hair green
From Taylor:
� Put all of the stuff in the professor's offices in each other's offices.
� Sneak my armadillo in to Professor Snape�s office.
By Millie Vanillie
I see Secret Societies wherever I go. Let it be in the CR, where some people are off to plan mischievous things, or around the school where you run across the opened Chamber of Secrets, with its hidden Tom Riddle down there, waiting for you. It even seems you can�t take a breath unnoticed, as I read something about a certain MoD and this group�s secret plans to reign this school. But is this true?
As a student around here, you should rather have an eye on Dementors strolling around the Grounds, or the Dark Lord, wanting to gain back his position in the wizarding world.
I find myself lucky, as I write this, because I haven�t seen any Death Eaters around here yet � and I hope for the sake of this school, that it stays this way. As fascinating secret societies might be, if they were built to cause trouble, I�d rather stay away, but I found myself already joining one. Which one, however, will stay my secret?
By: Myrrima Goldenleaf
Well, we've had quite a few of them so far this year. There was a contest in September, October, December, February, and there is a new one coming up in April. All of the poems from the past contests, not counting April's, can be found here http://www.orcadiafarm.com/PoetryClub/contestawards2.html. From now on I will be posting each contest's poems here for those of you who have yet to read them. ;) Also, there will only be three more contests this school year. There will be the one in April, one in May/June, and then a Finalists contest between all the winners of the previous contests. Good luck to all of you, and have fun!
By the Hufflepuff House
Prof. Lockhart fretted about his office
Looking for his hair brush
A hair was out of place
And he was crushed
Not finding the brush
He pulled out a pick
Trying to use that to flatten it
It stood up straight like a candle wick!
Fussing more with the thing,
even more appeared in a ring!
Around his head now they went,
creating now a small tent!
Prof. Lockhart checked his mirror
And then he shouted out
"Merlin's beard, I look horrendous!"
Fromt he room he ran out!
He ran out of the corridor
and out of the castle
finding more hair-care products
was alwyas such a hastle!
Out of the castle he went
Rushing up and down Diagon Alley
Making a note of everything he spent
Holding as many hair products as he could carry
He ran back to the castle
Really out of breath by now
Spent 4 hours fixing his hair
Then he smiled and said "Wow."
He was amazed by his new look
On his hair there was a lot at stake
He should have read the instruction book
He now had hair like Professor Snape
By The Hufflepuff House
We have a Headmistress
She's got white hair
Though people seem to like her
She's mean as a bear
Her name everyone knows
But call her for short PAD
As she has no foes
Shes what we call 'Rad'
She's one powerful witch
we know that for sure
don't let her hex you
there might not be a cure!
One student even gave me a warning
That someone had walked up the stairs
And bumped into her first thing in the morning
With nothing but her bedtime wares!
Another student even told me
that they once saw her with a big big bag
But I think they had just got out of detention
Cause they said it really suited the old hag!
That student was never seen again
Not many students return
They are all found in St Mungos... Insane
But some students just never learn
Thats a scary thought,
But even with that said
because we have fun doing it,
we still write our poems to be read.
Right now we must run
Before she gets a chance to cast a spell
With this poem we are now done
Before we end up in St Mungos as well
Alone in the woods,
sitting on a log
all by his lonesome
was a little tree frog.
The frog was quietly
watching a fly.
It landed beside him
& started to cry.
The little tree frog,
watched the fly cry,
He heard it's whimpers,
Then he ate with a small sigh.
The guilty tree frog,
Felt kind of sad,
Here is another fly,
It is the previous fly's dad.
The fly looked at the frog
and said "You ate my son!"
The frog just frowned
& then said, "Yes, I'm the one."
"But why?" The dad asked
and he looked really blue
"Diner!" Said the frog,
"And I'll eat you too!"
But the fly had a friend,
who really counts in the end.
The friend was a snake,
coming now around the lake.
The frog gasped in horror
& jumped into a pond
The snake slithered up
& said, "Drat! He's gone!"
By Kevin Whitby & Zoey Taylor
Hes as tough as a wall
His stare is like death
He makes you feel 2 foot tall
Freezing you over with his every breath
He can read your mind
Whenever he wishes
Eventually you'll find
you wanna slap him with fishes.
Though his greasy hair may block
That fish from even clashing
Though we must not mock
Or he may give us a smashing
But Professor Lockhart says to run now
if we want to get away
Because Snape doesn't know how
Though I'd like to see the day...
Professor Snape has been seen to run
When he has spotted 1st Year Hufflepuffs for lunch
The fear for our saftey has just begun
Before he changes his mind on who to munch
But he hasn't caught many yet
So I think we're safe till we graduate
Though always ready to hide i'll be set
Sorry Potions Master I refuse to be bait!
Worrying all the time
that can't be fun
Under something ready to climb
But what's to be done?
I say we kidnap him!
Shampoo his hair!
Make him look all pretty and prim
then all sit and stare!
By the Hufflepuff House
There once was a Hufflepuff boy
his name was Kevin
He thought he was the greatest
But really he only rated about a seven.
There was also a girl Hufflepuff
Zoey was her name
She always thought she was tough
But everyone else thought she was a pain
One day Zoey saw Kevin
and she threw a tomato at him
afterwards she laughed and said
"Oops sorry it was a whim"
Kevin responded by getting equip
Scissors is what he got
His plan was to snip
so for zoeys hair he sought
He snuck up behind her
"Wait what are you doing Kevin?"
He wondered to himself
For he really thought her hair was heaven.
He laughed to himself,
And started to cut,
Zoeys ears were like an elf,
He cut her hair just like a hut
Zo turned around mad
She couldn't stand for this
She pulled out her wand
and hexed him with a hiss.
Kevin landed straight on his back
He stood up ready to return fire
But all he could say was quack
With his new talent however...he did join the Hogwarts choir!
From the House of Slytherin
Taika Korento: When I take over the world, I will put Kiley in a zoo.
Linda Danes: When I take over the world, I'll help build PAD a throne, too.
Kiley Blaire: When I take over the world, everyone named Seraphina Rosehill will be beheaded. "Off with her head! Off with her head!" *giggle*
Eltanin Wymess: When I take over the world, Sera will be kept in The Box.
Leah Emerald: When I take over the world I�m going to make everyone go on PAD�s and join Slytherin!
Kastidy Hart: When I take over the World, all the mean people will be banned and forced to be nice.
Seraphina Rosehill: When I take over the World there will be a Sera Shrine in EVERY house.
Marilene McGonagall: When I take over the world, stupidity will be banned.
Areyna Havic: When I rule the world I will outlaw peas ewww!
Gabriella Murphy: When I take over the world I would burn every place that harms animals
Jenii Chang: When I take over the world I will crown Tom Felton my right-hand man.
Jennifer Kull: When I take over the world, nobody will spell incorrectly.
