Bathroom Chat, Discuss all Fund Raiser Duels here! Options

[evlpez]

Chat away! Discuss the fundraiser, the challenges and the writing here!

[Whirr]

This is a great idea, hilarious! I can't wait!

I'm not sure if you were just counting bathrooms that Harry has entered but I do remember that when Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad are catching the DA that night, Harry thinks that he will hide in the boys bathroom that is just up the hall.

I will go look at the Valentine's topic now, and keep my nitpicking nose out of things.

[evlpez]

Good eye, Whirr! I'll check that reference out and maybe add it to the list of known bathrooms. Still, not nearly enough for the whole Hogwarts population. They need another bathroom.

Maybe when we've raised the money for it, we'll have a special project to decide where in Hogwarts it ought to be.

[timeturner]

A year long event- very clever!

Great choice for the Valentine's Duel. I :heart4: Fred & George.

[McGonagall's Cat]

Awww......

Mrs. Weasley's Valentine

[AnimeEyeshime]

^^ I agree with Cat... Mrs. Weasley's Valentine is really cute!

[evlpez]

I'm so sorry gang! I was supposed to open the voting booth for the Valentine Duel the other day and forgot!

It's open now, and will remain open an extra day (until Feb 2).

Forgive me! :ashamed:

Subs will be extended another 24 hours, too. Subs will be accepted until tomorrow night at midnight-ish.

[AnimeEyeshime]

Evlpez...awesome sub! Hermione Ron ^^

[evlpez]

Thanks!


All right, ferrets! Hogwarts needs that bathroom, so please get on into the voting booth and rate the three Valentine Duel submissions.

Voting will continue until Feb. 4th, to give people a chance to get their ratings in.

Good luck, writers!

[evlpez]

The voting booth for My Funny Valentine is now closed.

:heart4: Congratulations to Timeturner!! Her story, Mrs. Weasley's Valentine won first place with an average rating of 9.33! :heart4:

She will be contacted soon by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures regarding her prize.

Thanks to our ferrets, we've just begun the race to 7000 galleons with our first deposit of ferret points-to-galleons towards a new bathroom for Hogwarts! Our first Hogwarts Fund duel earned us 140 galleons!

As soon as our sponsors, Plum and Plum's Perfect Wizarding Plumbing and Loos and Marvin Merrill's Marvellous Magical Marble are notified of our earnings, the galleons earned will be reflected in our fund tallying thermometer, which you can see in the left hand side bar menu.

Thanks to everyone who wrote and voted!


Here are the final scores. The comments from the voting booth have been extracted and sent to the submission topic for My Funny Valentine.

Mrs. Weasley's Valentine | Average score of 9.33

Genuine Affection Confection | Average score of 9.33

So much for a happy ending... | Average score of 8.50

[timeturner]

Awesome new duel! (as usual) I would say more but I need to go work on my vocabulary.

*runs to webster.com to learn the meaning of the word limicolous*

[StarWalker]

Question/Comment!!!

'Gothamist' appears to be a word without meaning. While it is currently a particular, and peculiar, magazine, the word seems rather devoid of a modern definition, although Webster's 1913 edition had one.

Has my Webster's Unabridged finally failed me! Are we to resurrect ancient usages, and obsolete words? Has Harry Potter finally invaded New York City? Are we now in the middle of a Potterverse/DC Comic universe crossover? Will Robin attend Hogwarts next term?

Stay tuned - same bat time, same bat channel!!

[zymurgy]

Gothamist is not completely out of circulation. I remember reading it lately in a book review for A Seduction of Unreason by Wolin... though I forget who wrote the review and where. At any rate, a definition can be found without need of the OED on dictionary.reference.com.

[agrippa]

The OED does not list the word as obsolete or archaic... but it certainly is uncommon. I'm voting for the DC crossover. I've been watching way too much Justice League Unlimited lately.

[evlpez]

I'll add my vote for a HP/DC crossover! That sounds like a whole lotta fun!

[timeturner]

Stay tuned - same bat time, same bat channel!!

POW! I mean WOW, I wasn't the only ferret who suspected that a Gothamist was a Batman enthusiast.

I've been watching way too much Justice League Unlimited lately.

Is that possible?

[AnimeEyeshime]

Of course it's not possible. Everyone knows that cartoon series based on comic books are completely immune to the law of "all things in moderation." ^_~ Of course, I *am* an anime fan, so I'm probably biased on your side...

[evlpez]

Cat asked about banners for the Lupin's Loo Duel, so here we go:

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[URL=http://www.projectferret.org/index.php?showtopic=430[/URL][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/QQS/ferret/llooduel2.jpg[/IMG]

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[URL=http://www.projectferret.org/index.php?showtopic=430][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/QQS/ferret/sllooduel2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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[cherabela]

I know that the "victim/s" aren't supposed to know that Remus is behind the prank, but is it possible that they learn it from him at the end?

[evlpez]

Remus must be above suspicion, either because of his lycanthropy or for another reason.

^That's the only requirement. Whether Remus decides to confess his sins or not is totally up to you. It's your story; you may end it however you like. Would Remus admit it or would he be happier keeping it to himself, satisfied that he's even more devious than his mates as well as being better able to avoid discovery or worse, detention or expulsion? Remember that he was a Prefect at some point, in any or all of his 5th - 7th years.

[McGonagall's Cat]

Buy One, Get One Free Department:

~ The Ink Pen is running a similar ff contest for the month of March, if you craft your story so that it works for both, you could post the same at both sites. For more info on theirs, click Here.

[evlpez]

Yay! We have a sub for the Lupin's Loo Duel and the voting booth is now open!

[evlpez]

Subs close tonight for the Lupin's Loo duel. Where is everyone?

[zymurgy]

It's Easter tomorrow- could be part of what's going on. At least, that's my reason for not being around. Can we... er... extend... for the end of hte month? I did think subs ended April 1st, but that's my brain playing tricks on me.

[evlpez]

We are going to extend the submissions deadline. In fact, we're going to keep this topic open for a while and award 8 Ferret Points to ALL who submit. Voting is cancelled.

Feel free to play around with the mission, omit the vocabulary words if you like and have some fun with Remus in Spring! Let's see how much trouble Remus can make without getting caught!

[jamin]

I think I found two more bathrooms. One on page 573 of Order of the Phoenix when Ron and Ginny go and take baths after dinner. Also, in the same book on page 582 when Hermione talks about the girls talking about The Quibbler in the bathroom.

[AnimeEyeshime]

O.o What happened to the Word of the Day Challenge? I'd been keeping the word list on a Word document so that one bright shiny day far off in the future (well, spring break anyway) I could sit down and then blitz the topic with multiple really enlightening blurb stories using all of the words of the day (at least, the goal was to use all of them). Will my dream be unfilled?

[evlpez]

Sorry my dear. Yes, it's been archived. It's a lot of bother for one to go fetching a word for each day when no one is participating.

edit: If you'd like to host a WotD challenge, feel free to post new topics for it here. I'll add the Ferret Points for the bathroom!

[AnimeEyeshime]

Maybe I will do that But I'll wait a bit before trying to organize anything...so everyone better keep an eye out!