Broomsticks And Owls

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

Common rooms for Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin are now open! To be placed in one of the Houses, just visit The Sorting Hat and choose which House you'd like to be a member of.

At some point I'd like to figure out some kind of way of awarding House Points to make some kind of friendly competitive spirit between the houses. Not sure what to award points for yet but if anyone has any ideas, feel free to post them here.

by **Scarlett_and_Isadora** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

This is going to sound soooooo dumb:oops: but how do we do that?(the sorting hat that is)

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

Welcome Scarlett_and_Isadora :welcome:

Sorry 'bout that - guess I should have put a link so here goes ... follow this route through the corridors and stairways of Hogwarts to get to <a href="http://www.broomsticksandowls.com/forum/viewforum.php?forum=14&4">The Sorting Hat</a>
:smile:

(edited to get the link to work)

[ This Message was edited by: Paul on 2002-03-02 03:21 ]

by **Firebolt360** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

To get house points maybe you should make some sort of a 'Classroom' topic and ask questions. That way, whoever answers the questions right, gets points for his/her house! Well, that was just a suggestion, but I think that it's a pretty good one...

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

Sounds like a good idea Firebolt360 - we could have a weekly quiz or something similar. What does everyone think?

by **chrestomanci** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

I think that would be a great idea! :smile:

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

Alrighty - the weekend after we get our first Hufflepuff member I'll get our first quiz underway. Maybe 5 questions, one of which is about Harry Potter and four general knowledge questions?

by **Fenny** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

That would be great!!

by **BECKYness** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

COOL but nobody wants to go in hufflepuff hmmmmmmmmm

by **oliver wood** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

We've just got our first Hufflepuff member - neville longbottom...yay :jump:

If it's OK with everyone I'll start the first quiz from next weekend (the 27th/28th January). :smile:

by **chrestomanci** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

January?

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

lol...whooops!!!

The first ever house point goes to Slytherin for chrestomanci spotting my deliberate (errr...ok, maybe not so deliberate :smile:

)mistake.

by **bewitchin** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

Paul, would you be kind enough to explain exactly how the quizzes for house points are going to work? Thanks a lot! :smile:

[ This Message was edited by: bewitchin on 2002-04-23 23:52 ]

by **Paul** » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

This is just an idea of how it'll work, so feel free to make any suggestions and it'll be open to changes and developments over time.

I'll set 5 questions in The Great Hall on Friday night / Saturday morning (the way my body clock and everything works, this will probably be some time between 10.00pm on Friday night and 4.00am on Saturday morning). One will be about Harry Potter and 4 will be general questions about anything I can think of. You'll all have up until 9.00pm on sunday night to discuss things if necessary in your common rooms. Then, at or before 9.00pm on sunday you'll need to give me the answers. I can access the common rooms (I promise to knock first :smile:

) if you want to leave the answers there, or else you can send a private message. You'll need to decide among yourselves who will post the answers (a Prefect from each house would be a good idea but anyone is OK, as long as I don't get 15 different sets of answers from each house :smile:

)

Then, on Monday or Tuesday I'll announce the results. There will be one house point per correct answer for the general questions, and two house points for the Harry Potter question. If any house gets all 5 questions correct they will score a bonus 4 points on top of the 6 points available.

The winning house will have the option of setting the following week's quiz. The point structure for the remaining three houses would remain the same for the next quiz, but the house who are setting the questions will score 2 points for every wrong answer given by another house. This gives a total possible point score for the quiz-setting house of 30 points (for 5 wrong answers from 3 houses multiplied by 2 points). The questions should be fair and provable, not "what did I have for breakfast today" type stuff.

I've just thought I should have really posted this earlier in case there were any questions or other ideas anyone wants to throw in. Does this sound OK as an outline idea?

(edited to mention that all times are UK-based time)

[ This Message was edited by: Paul on 2002-04-25 21:02 ]

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