Congratulations to Team Hufflepuff on their recent Quidditch win against Ravenclaw House! The next match, between Slytherin and Hufflepuff, will take place on 4 May, at a time yet to be determined.
Prof. Laffengraff has posted lesson 5 for her Handwriting Analysis class.
Are you interested in writing cheers for your House Quidditch team? Display your spirit and rhyming talents in the first ever HOL Cheerleading Contest! More information can be found in this post in the HOL forum.
posted by Rhiannon 3:22:00 AM
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Prof. Pradipta wishes to remind all Magical Musicology students of the upcoming end-of-term examination, which will be carried out 1 May 2002. Students should prepare by reading all class rudiments/textbooks, lessons, and assignments, in addition to the discussion located in the class forum.
posted by Rhiannon 5:24:00 AM
Monday, April 22, 2002
Prof. Oort has announced the cancellation of the Astronomy II class.
posted by Rhiannon 4:08:00 PM
Sunday, April 21, 2002
Prof. Swish has announced a competition to create a room for his Hogwarts Castle Adventure project. More information, including a list of available rooms, can be found in this post on the main HOL forum.
posted by Rhiannon 4:48:00 PM
The Hufflepuff Common Room has added a board where HOL students and professors alike can post messages of appreciation for the upcoming Mother's Day holiday. More information can be found in this post on the main HOL forum.
Prof. Bentley has posted a new lesson for the Muggle Magic class.
posted by Rhiannon 2:47:00 AM
Friday, April 19, 2002
Prof. JB Bentley has established a Harry Potter-themed internet radio. Anyone interested in being on the team or who wishes to submit a sound file (in wav. format) can contact Prof. Bentley. Examples are "This is ________ and you're listening to HOL radio" and "Lesson 5 in DADA is now up!" A sample file can be found here.
posted by Rhiannon 7:47:00 AM
Thursday, April 18, 2002
A message from Prof. Blue, Captain and Chaser for the Faculty Flobberworms Quidditch team
On April 20th, 2002 at 7pm GMT time, your HOL Staff will face the the mighty house Quidditch team of Ravenclaw in a duel of fun Quidditch! Don't miss our esteemed Headmaster as he plays Beater, sending those bludgers flying! And even our ever-cantankerous caretaker, McNish, will be seen flying over the pitch on a broom (instead of using it to sweep up dirt, he'll be using it to sweep up Eagles! Whoot! Go McNish! Er... ok ok... sorry, should be a little less biased...)
Since this game is for fun, we have decided that every 10 minutes (to coincide with the Seeker's break), we will have Player Substitutions in order to give more of our staff a chance to play if they want! (Though, Headmaster Dybendahl says it will take an act of the gods or something to get him off the pitch if he is beating like a banshee *laughs*)
Don't miss out on this game that is sure to go into the record books as one of the most... er... interesting... games ever played!
posted by Rhiannon 6:47:00 PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Prof. Blue wishes to let all HOL know that the Quill & Ink is looking for dedicated students and staff who are interested in writing monthly columns. The columns can be about various topics relating to HOL, HP, or the wizarding world in general. More information can be found in this post on the main HOL forum.
All students who have registered for the Quidditch seminar should have gotten an email from with further instructions. If any student has not received this information, please email Prof. Blue.
Mooney Potter (HOL Gryffindor) will be offering a seminar for everyone who wants to know more about the chatrooms available on IRC. Please see this post on the main HOL forum for more information on how to sign up.
posted by Rhiannon 4:18:00 AM
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Lesson 4 of Prof. Nitehawk's RPG/Persona Development class has been posted.
posted by Rhiannon 3:15:00 AM
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Headmaster Dybendahl has implemented a new HOL search engine which can be used to search through all main HOL pages, the Library, Hogsmeade, the Birthday Calendar, and several sub-pages. The Yearbook, however, cannot be searched (too many pages). The search function has been added to the main HOL page, and also to this post and the Newbie post in the HOL forum. (Hint: Use quotation marks to find a phrase; e.g., "James Potter".)
posted by Rhiannon 4:35:00 PM
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
And even more congratulations go out to Prof. Oort on the news of her engagement! Read more about this happy occasion here.
posted by Rhiannon 4:42:00 PM
Sunday, April 07, 2002
Congratulations to Team Gryffindor on their recent Quidditch win against Ravenclaw House! The next match, between Slytherin and Hufflepuff, will take place on 20 April.
posted by Rhiannon 3:50:00 PM
Saturday, April 06, 2002
A message from Headmaster Dybendahl:
The following decisions have been made by the HOL School Board:
The HOL Quidditch Cup and the HOL House Cup will be separate awards next school year. House points will not be awarded for the final rank in the Quidditch Cup. Points will be awarded for the matches and the MVP awards. It has not been decided yet if the size of the awards will be increased.
Also, the School Board has decided to cut the points for this year's Quidditch Cup from the originally-planned 10,000 - 5,000 - 2,500 - 1,000 points for 1st to 4th place to either 6,250 - 3,500 - 1,500 - 750 or 5,000 - 2,500 - 1,250 - 500 points. More information on this topic can be found in this post on the main HOL forum.
posted by Rhiannon 6:58:00 PM
Friday, April 05, 2002
Don't forget Saturday's Quidditch match between teams Gryffindor and Ravenclaw! The game starts at 10:00 pm GMT (5:00 pm EST; 2:00 pm PST). Fans are reminded to use only the #grandstand, #hpgalleries, or common room channels. Please do not enter the other Quidditch channels without permission.
posted by Rhiannon 6:48:00 AM
Thursday, April 04, 2002
The final lesson and assignment for Prof. Pradipta's Magical Musicology class have been posted. The Professor also wishes to let all students know that next month will be a free month to prepare for the end-of-term exam. All lessons from Rhythm to Music Rehabilitation will need to be reviewed.
posted by Rhiannon 6:00:00 PM
Monday, April 01, 2002
A message from Headmaster Dybendahl:
Hello Wizards and Witches! Welcome to one of the biggest HP projects ever! We are rebuilding all of Hogwarts and its surrounding area on this website - room for room, corridor for corridor, the greenhouses, the lake, the forest, the Quidditch arena, everything... All the rooms and places are connected to each other exactly as we know it from the books; where we don't know the location in detail, we'll improvise. In the final stage, you can walk through the castle and EXPLORE HOGWARTS. All the rooms, corridors, staircases, secret passageways, the greenhouses, Quidditch field, Hagrid's Hut, Hogsmeade Station - all these places will get their own page in Explore Hogwarts, and YOU can design this page. You can do all the graphics, text and colors, add everything you want to the page (sound, flash, links), add games, riddles, passwords, whatever you can come up with to your page. It also can have multiple sub-pages.
If you want to design a room, please email the HOL Headoffice and let me know. Don't send in anything without giving notice first. There can be multiple versions of the same room, so don't worry. All submissions that live up to a certain quality level will be published. House points will be awarded by a special system (details here by mid-April; we are planning to set up an all-student jury, but this needs to be discussed with the staff yet). We hope you all enjoy the Explore Hogwarts project.
posted by Rhiannon 11:17:00 PM
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