By Amanda Dasaro
Over the years here at Hogwarts, you may have noticed that as active as I am with the school, I'm really not as active when it comes down to RPGing. It never really suited me, because I like hands-on interaction, you know, learning as you go along. It seems like with RPGing you need to know a lot about writing and story structure, as well as having an inept eye for detail with every letter you write. Now, I was always good at all those things, so why did I never RPG? A new student in the Penshire Common Room started an RPG and it was open, so I decided to participate. I must say...making up a story as you go along has proven to be a lot of fun for me and let me use my imagination. You can do anything you want or be anything you want to be (with some exceptions). So I suggest to any of you who do not RP, you should start: you won't regret it.
By Erica Lovegood
Not everyone has an exact career in mind. Some people have no idea. It doesn't mean they won't do anything as they get older, just that they need time to decide. Emily doesn't know exactly what she chooses to be but when she gets older, she has some idea about working with Muggles. Feeling that sense she is in fact a Muggle Born, she knows how to work with them. Arya wants to take a different path from her parents. She mostly wants to be an auror, but a little part in her wants to be a professor. She doesn't know for sure what she wants to be. Both of these girls are first years with some idea in mind. they might change it or may not. However they have a good set of years to decide.
Summer Levy may be following in her father's footsteps when it comes to a career. Yup, you will probably see Summer working as a reporter for the wizarding media. Perhaps at the Wizarding Wireless Network also known as the W.W.N. The W.W.N. is the wizarding equivalent to a radio network. Who knows, she could be more popular than Glenda Chittock! Other wizarding media are The Daily Prophet, The Quibbler, Transfiguration Today, Which Broomstick, and Witch Weekly. If media is your style this is definitely something you should think about. If you end up not seeing her in the near future, you will definitely hear her voice and see her writing.
Our dear raven Emma Staunton has already formed a career in mind. Her mother works in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and she wants to do the same. People in this department pursue the day-to-day law offences of the Wizarding World.The Department of Law Enforcement has many jobs that can be found in it, one of them is an auror. Emma therefore may find herself working alongside Dawlish who wants to be an auror. To become an auror is a hard task but holds great prestige.
However that is not the only job in that department. There are the Improper Use of Magic Office, Magical Law Enforcement Squad, and many more. I wish them the best of luck in getting there.
By Ava Black
Valentine's famous Mythological Cupid is set to come to Hogwarts this Valentine's Day. Cupid will be holding a lecture in the Great Hall. It is said to be one of the most knowledgeable places to find out about Love and romance. A question and Answer session will be held afterwards so get busy thinking of your most intimate questions. Cupid will also be selling his new book, ' Young Love, A Guide to First Crushes'. Signed copies will be available for purchase.
By Ava Black
February is the start of the Forbidden Forest tours! All tours take place on Friday evenings starting at dusk. You are guaranteed to see Centaurs, spiders and many other mythological delights! Be sure to sign up outside Mr. Filch�s office. Dress warm and come expecting the unexpected.
By: Zoey Taylor-- and all of the interviewees
Perhaps its because he has quit making the students of the school memorize the names of all of his books these days or maybe he�s just an author of the past, but it seems many of his books have been long forgotten.
Of the 25 people I interviewed only about 10 percent was able to name all of his books, and about 20 percent were able to name just a couple of them.
For anyone wanting to know� his books are as follows:
�Break With a Banshee�
�Gadding With Ghouls�
�Gilderoy Lockhart�s Guide to Household Pests�
�Holidays With Hags�
�Travel With Trolls�
�Voyages With Vampires�
�Wandering With Werewolves�
�Year With The Yeti�
�Marvelous Me�
�All About Hair Implants�
�Around the World, Lockhart Style�
�Amazing Twit�
�Because Purples Prettier�
�Banishing Banshees�
�Battling With Banshees�
�Bee-bopping With A Banshee�
�Best Smile�
�Cha-Chaing With A Chimera�
�Cheating Cerberus�
�Conversing With the Crazy�
�Dancing With Dawlishes�
�Deceiving Dimwits - How to choose who to� what was the memory charm again?�
�Dining with Dingbats�
�Eyeglasses for Cyclops�
�Fighting The Frizz�
�Habanera With Harpies�
�How to Hysterically Laugh Like A Hydra�
�How to Perform the Transylvania Twist with a Vampire�
�Lambada the Nemian Lion�
�Lockhart�s Guide to Loving Your Locks�
�Lockhart In Love, with Himself�
�Lockhart�s Living Like a Star�
�Lockhart�s Lovely Locks�
�Lockhart VS Snape, The Battle of the Hair�
�Lockhart�s White Winners� - a book on how to please the audience with a smile every time.
�Loving Your Lilac Lotions�
�Mastering Memory Charms�
�Minimizing the Minotaur�
�Monster Mash Medusa�
�Salsaing with a Sphinx�
�The Loveliness of Lilac�
�The Nairest of Them All� - about hair removal
�Trimming Your Toenails�
�Vanity, It Isn�t All That Bad!�
�Vocalizing with the Valkyrie�
�Vomiting With Vampires� - a book about the death of health care availability for creatures of the night.
�Waltzing With Werewolves�
�Wearing Your Wig�
�We Can�t All Be Lockhart�
�Whining With Werewolves�
�Zippers and Zombies� - a book aimed at the fashion conscious un-dead.
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