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10000 Squeeeeeee we did it!!!!

Yaaaay!! 13 years in the making :')

Today is a momentous day for the house. It took us over 13 years and the combined efforts of many Gryffs and visitors but today, my friends, we finally counted to 10000.

The book fair has officially closed, the stalls are packed and the inventory (what little wasn't bought) secured back into boxes that'll be levitated to their proper places. Our stock of books nearly ran out, and everyone's gotten their hands on something they liked. I hope your arms don't hurt much from hauling the books and trinkets back to your dorms. Now, let's quickly declare winners with the highest book values! Top three places will get 20, 15 and 10 extra rubies for their efforts. It was an extremely tight race that kept us guessing right until the end. In third place, with 442 points is....Anne-Marie Gagne! In second place, with 464 points is...Adeline Morior! .... and the winner, with 545 points is... Ellie Vernez! Now, the list of beans and rubies awarded to each person. Adeline Morior - Beans: 240; Rubies: 135 Alison Karbach - Beans: 120; Rubies: 60 Anne-Marie Gagne - Beans: 240; Rubies: 130 Dibyarup James Potter - Beans: 240; Rubies: 120 Doubhee Pevensy - Beans: 60; Rubies: 30 Ellie Vernez - Beans: 290; Rubies: 140 Emerald Wolvenhowl - Beans: 60; Rubies: 30 Everly Whisper - Beans: 20; Rubies: 10 Evie Figg - Beans: 180; Rubies: 90 Katherine Laurier - Beans: 120; Rubies: 60 Lex Green - Beans: 240; Rubies: 120 Mabel Maee - Beans: 40; Rubies: 20 Magatha Birdowelfe - Beans: 20; Rubies: 10 Maeve Madden - Beans: 80; Rubies: 40 Prof. Felicia Hartwick - Beans: 100; Rubies: 50 Raevia Ward - Beans: 20; Rubies: 10 Rose Dove - Beans: 20; Rubies: 10 Rosemary Sharpe - Beans: 60; Rubies: 30 Scarlet Robloutain - Beans: 200; Rubies: 100 Silvana Mandeville - Beans: 100; Rubies: 50 You'll find beans and rubies deposited in the next few days. If there's any discrepany in either bean or ruby value, please tell me over PM and I'll check it! :) Congratulations to all participants! Thank you for giving me the opportunity of hosting this activity for you. I hope you've had fun!

The best time of the year is coming! We call upon all of HOL, students and staff alike, to submit mottos for our annual Gryfftoberfest! This year, our theme is "Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes and mischief", so ready your best thought-out pranks and join us for a month of fun. Gryfftoberfest is an annual celebration where all of Gryffindor house and our friends come together for a month long party of butterbeer and craziness! Mottos should represent our theme and Gryffindor as a whole! There are some rules, of course... Keep your mottos to 15 words or less and entirely HOL appropriate. You must be happy for people to reuse your motto on signatures and other creative submissions. You will earn 5 rubies per Motto for the first 5 you submit (so 25 in all). You can submit more for consideration but you will not earn rubies for them. Third place will win an extra 10 rubies, second place an extra 15 and first place an extra 20 rubies for your gem collection. Winners are decided by the Gryffindor staff. Send your mottos to me (Prof. Maxim Trevelyan) in a Gryff PM and title it "Motto Contest 2023". Remember to include your name and your house in the message. Please try to send all your mottos in one or two messages so my inbox does not stage a revolt. The deadline is 11:59 PM HOL time on Thursday, September 28th 2023.

It's nearly time to catch the Hogwarts Express! Who's excited?

Image shows a Quidditch team in gold and red getting sprayed with 'water'. Image shows Ron as Keeper celebrating before hoops. Image shows GQT team in flight. Gryffindor Quidditch Team has won SECOND place in this term's Quidditch season! This has been the best result in more than a decade. :D As a captain I am incredibly proud of this team, congratulations to @Prof. Sky Alton, @Reyyan Azkendra and @Janne Halla for a wonderful season of incredible play at matches!

I’m delighted to announce that Prof. Maxim Trevelyan has agreed to become Deputy Head of House for Gryffindor! He’s shown so much enthusiasm and commitment to the house since joining us as a professor - I’m sure he’s going to be brilliant. Celebratory butterbeers are on me!

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that @Janne Halla has stepped up to become a full prefect!

I was busy collecting Mardi Gras throws in this basket. I put my haul in this basket. I love bead necklaces and bead bracelets and I am not disappointed because I got a lot of them. I also got some fruits (coconuts and apples), coins, a large tea mat that I am definitely going to use at my next tea party, shiny gems, and even a tiara.

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It’s time to celebrate what we achieved in the autumn term! And what a term it was. We welcomed a huge number of new students to the castle back in September and it’s been wonderful to see so many people, new and old, enjoying HOL and stopping by The Den to take part in our activities. Gryffindor also managed to catch up in the nick of time and finish the term more or less neck and neck with Hufflepuff in the cup standings, so a huge thank you and congratulations to all of you who contributed to that by earning points. Even if you can only earn a few here and there, we truly appreciate you! Now, the awards. They’re coming to you a little late this year due to an incident with an open window, a pair of nifflers and a rogue flying key (don’t ask). So let’s press on before anything else can happen! The Platinum Quill goes to the lion who has earned the most house points during the term. Our hard working autumn term winner is @Janne Halla who earned a dazzling 2027 points! Next up are our ruby awards, the Phoenix and Lionheart, presented to the Gryffindor and visitor with the highest ruby counts. Many congratulations to our own @Dibyarup James Potterfor an impressive haul of 883 and @Lex Green of Ravenclaw for an even more staggering total of 937! And now for a few awards given out by the staff… We hand out the Studious Simba award to a lion who has distinguished themselves in the classrooms. I’m delighted to present it to @Sophia Williams who has hit the ground running in their first term and achieved some very admirable grades indeed. An honourable mention goes to last term’s recipient @Doubhee Pevensy who has kept up their sterling work this term as well. The Consistent Cub is handed out to a particularly active lion who shows up for the house continuously and who courageously throws themselves into everything HOL has to offer. It isn’t possible to go anywhere in the castle and not encounter this particular lion hard at work and flying the flag for Gryffindor, so very well done to Dibyarup James Potter! Last, the Exploding Snap award is for someone who has lit up The Den with their creative and ingenious ideas. We’re proud to hand it to Janne Halla for his enterprising and entertaining Book Fair activity. Congratulations to our winners and thanks once again to all the lions and visitors who make The Den such a fun place to hang out. Butterbeer this way!

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Hi, this is my first post on HOL!

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Wishing Janne Halla an absolutely splendid birthday! The Honeydukes sweet buffet is right this way and watch out for the non-exploding baloons - Weasley's Wizard Wheezes say they're still experimenting, so they might not be as non-explody as promised.

Happy birthday, Janne!

Happy Birthday. Hope it was a good one

Happy birthday, Janne!!

Wishing every one of you a very Happy Halloween. Whether you are on the Quidditch pitch flying around levitating pumpkins to practice your flying techniques or you are in the Great Hall hoping that a troll does not interrupt the feast, have a spooktacular time. <3

https://postimg.cc/gallery/9RdGyZw Candies — Who doesn’t love a bit of Every Flavor Beans? Game — The twins definitely would’ve put Ron and Draco in a game together just to make fun of him! Wacky Clothing — The reindeer is cute, but I could see it lighting up on Christmas! Rainbow Gems — Take your pick! Each one would likely be enchanted to give the holder some special power. Animal — The guard dog… that gives out cuddles?

Wishing Ellie Vernez a truly spectacular birthday! I hope you’ve had a brilliant celebration.

Just realised that I now have the same number of rubies as my community reputation ;)

Took my first OWL today...it's gonna be a loooong long term (´。＿。｀)

Oh man, there are many books I’d like to change. I think the one I’d like to change the most would also be who Harry had ended up with in canon. Or really, just the whole thing with Ginny in book six. It really didn’t add anything to the story since it seemed pretty out of nowhere that Harry was all the sudden really into Ginny. I also really hate how Ginny was portrayed in book six. She was made to seem shallow and selfish since she had seemed to jump from boy to boy to boy just to get Harry to notice her and be jealous enough to say something. Harry never gave any indication he was even into anyone outside of an awkward encounter with Cho in book four, then there was nothing. Which honestly is very far because in book five, he was dealing with so much, with the Ministry on one side and Voldemort on the other causing his life many, many stresses. In book six those stresses didn’t go away but all the sudden he’s also all the sudden into Ginny? Nah man. While teenagers are shallow and can change their minds on a dime, this was really out of nowhere for Harry. And Ginny being shown as super independent and then having a string of boyfriends to get another boy jealous is such a juxtaposition of what her character was in just the previous book. And I don’t think it would change anything at all in the main parts of the story. His relationship with Ginny went nowhere in the main story and added absolutely nothing but unnecessary drama that also added onto Harry’s stresses. If JKR didn’t add in the weird romance plot into book six with Harry, having him married to Ginny in the epilogue wouldn’t seem that weird to me but because she added it, it just feels very off.

The Appleby Arrows

Happy yeah Happy!

Happy birthday, Ellie! :D

Round 1 Anne-Marie bumps out Lex. Ellie misses Dibyarup. Dibyarup bumps Anne-Marie. Round 2 Ellie misses Dibyarup. Dibyarup is the week 4 winner!

Woah! Thank you Professor ><

Notes @Jagger Sofia I edited a space into your username so it matches your HOL name. You were approved as a first year. :)

Aww, thank you all, I really appreciate it. I had a quiet but enjoyable birthday. <3

Even though it's a few days late, I want to take a minute to wish Sky a happy birthday!!

It’s time for our End of Year and Spring term awards! Firstly though, I’d like to thank all of you for your hard work this year. While we didn’t finish as high as we’d have liked to in the house cup race, it was an incredibly close run thing. I honestly didn’t know what the result would be and that’s testament to the amazing performance you were all putting in. I know we can do even better next year! We also have another close fought race to celebrate. Gryffindor placed second in the interhouse quidditch tournament - our best result for many, many years. Thank you to @Prof. Maxim Trevelyan and to the rest of GQT for showing up and playing like champions. I’d also like to thank our prefect team of @Lorainia Riverrider and @Reyyan Azkendrafor their sterling efforts keeping everyone entertained and informed this year. They’ve put on some ingenious activities for us all and hopefully there will be plenty more magic to come! Now, I promised you shiny things and here they are…. We’re kicking off with our brand new awards! If you weren’t around earlier in the year, we had a contest to name our new awards. The winning names were chosen by Gryffindors in a vote and these are the result. Thank you again to @Janne Halla for submitting the winning names! These awards are designed to celebrate and thank every lion who works hard to gather house points during the year. We’ll be awarding these every school year from now on People who earned over 500 points receive The Brave @Avery Hill @Amanda Summers @Amethyst Silvermane Chasen Carter Davie Diggle @Doubhee Pevensy @Elizabeth Hermione @Ellie Vernez @Emerald Wolvenhowl @Ginny Chaves @Hanna Joyton @Harmony Potts @Janne Halla @Jessy Bleck @Lorainia Riverrider @Lucia Mayhew @Luna Lemongrass @Luna-Love Swan @Raevia Ward @Reyyan Azkendra @Timmy Le People who earned over 1000 points receive The Determined Davie Diggle Doubhee Pevensy Ellie Vernez Janne Halla Lorainia Riverrider Luna-Love Swan Reyyan Azkendra Timmy Le And people who earned over 1500 points receive The Daring Ellie Vernez Janne Halla Lorainia Riverrider Luna-Love Swan Reyyan Azkendra We did want to leave a little something as a surprise though. So I created a 4th award, for those courageous lions who manage to earn over 3000 points in a school year. I’m delighted to award the Minerva McGonagall prize to Janne Halla, who earned 3896 in total! And now onto our awards which are based just on people’s performance in the Spring Term… Platinum Quill – This goes to the highest points earner for the term. And it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that it’s going to @Janne Hallawho netted an incredible 2034 points just this term! And now for rubies. I’m delighted to award the Phoenix award to Janne Halla for being our highest earning Gryff on 155 and the Lionheart Award to @Lex Green of Ravenclaw for being our highest earning visitor with a sparkling score of 286! Finally, let’s close with the awards decided by the staff… Studious Simba – This is an award for someone who has distinguished themselves in their classes and possibly even found time to do some extracurriculars too. We’re glad to award this to @Doubhee Pevensy for a very impressive performance in class and in the Zodiac activity over on the HOL Forum. They were our second highest point earner for the term on 1490 - absolutely brilliant work! Golden Snitch – We’re reviving an old award this time! This used to be handed out to members who showed particular enthusiasm and after showing up for both the Triwizard Tournament and Zodiac activities, we think @Ellie Vernez definitely deserves that designation! Consistent Cub – this is an award for an all-rounder: someone who has been showing up regularly, trying everything and generally proving their Gryffindor daring all over the castle. With stellar performances in the departments, in activities and on the Quidditch Pitch, @Janne Halla is a very worthy recipient indeed. Friend of the Den – This is awarded to someone outside of Gryffindor who has made a significant contribution to the house. We’d like to hand it to @Prof. Sindor Aloyarc for designing our beautiful new award graphics! Congratulations to all our winners! We’re always looking to improve the awards process, so if you have any suggestions about awards you’d like to see or changes you think we could make, please do drop me a PM. For now though, let’s celebrate. Butterbeer awaits!

Solutions received from: Janne Halla Emily Spencer Emerald Wolvenhowl Rory Devaney Rose Dove Submitted for fun: Dibyarup James Potter

I think mint's one of my favourite herbs. I always drink it as a tea and syrup. It settles my colds, nerves, it's refreshing and it does wonders for my digestion. It's also incredibly useful for mouth cleanliness and it has a very refreshing taste. So if you can't get to your toothpaste, chewing on the leaves is quite good in a pinch! I've also got quite a sensitive nose and the smell of mint, for me at least, can overpower a lot of bad smells so I also use it to battle unpleasant odors.

I love my wand collection. I get pretty protective of it, to the point that my family makes fun of me. I don't have a ton, but I was subscribed to a monthly wand box for a few months last year, and a HP loot box, so I have seven or eight non-canon wands, plus of course a few wands purchased at HP land in California. I think my favorite wand is Nicolas Flamel's wand. Although the specs are unknown, I just think it is so elegant with the curved bone handle, and I like to think all of the work that the wand has been through. On a completely unrelated note, my ideal wand, although it shares some small similarities with the Elder Wand, it is completely unintentional. I would love to have a black cherry blossom (Sakuya) wand, a thestral tail hair and occamy egg shell, 15", and feisty flexibility. Stubborn wand to tame, but both beautiful and powerful. I would probably have some gem inlays and keep it in the handle of my cane, similar to Lucius Malfoy, just not as sinister. I would take some inspiration from Nicolas Flamel and have a curved handle to my wand to make it easier to hold on my cane, though I am not sure what I would have, as I don't think I would want a broken off bone.

Welcome to the Gryffindor Common Room! Whether you’re a Gryffindor student or a visitor from another house, it’s wonderful to see you here in Gryffindor Tower. Come closer to the fire and find yourself somewhere comfy to sit. This thread is meant to give you a quick overview of how to sign up for the Common Room and how to find your way around once you have. For more information on our forum rules, our staff and other helpful things to know, you can visit the other threads in this Guidelines Forum. Registering First things first, you will need an account on Hogwarts Online (hol.org.uk). Then, you’ll need to make a separate account here as unfortunately, you can’t just use your HOL login! Your Gryffindor username must exactly match the name you use on HOL - that includes the spaces and capital letters. You should also use the same email address that you used to sign up for HOL, so that we can be sure both accounts belong to the same person. Once you’ve created an account, it will need to be validated by an admin. This should only take a day or two but please be patient. You can check on the status of your account using the handy Account Registrations thread in this forum. Common Room Tour Let’s take a quick tour! The Den (our nickname for the Common Room) has plenty of fun things to explore and take part in. Almost all of them are open to everyone, including visitors from other houses. Here’s a brief description of what takes place in each forum. Main Areas: Announcements: Updates and news from the Gryffindor staff. Guidelines (This forum): Where you can find information on rules, staff and how the forum works. Current Activities: You’ll find new things to do in Light Reading every month. If there’s a special event going on, it will have its own forum here too! The Seventh Floor Corridor: Fat Lady’s Portrait: This is the discussions forum. If you want to introduce yourself or dive into a conversation, this is the place. Madam Pince’s Board: This is the classes board where you’ll find lots of handy advice about homework and tips on how to earn more house points. Peeves’s Place: The games room! Discover tons of fun games and mayhem. Sir Nick’s Notices: A place to post any personal announcements, like birthday wishes. The Tower (Gryffindor Only Forums): Cubs With Clubs: Head here for all things Quidditch as this is the headquarters of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team (GQT). Here Dwell the Brave: Our lions only lounge chock full of fun things like quizzes, games and handy resources. If you’re new around here, you should head straight to HBD and check out the Newcomer’s Checklist.