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Wishing @Prof. Amy Lupin a truly wonderful birthday! White chocolate and cranberry cookies all round.

Magical foodies rejoice as it’s time for “Charm Your Own Cheese”! The cheese-tastic original was written by Greta Catchlove and a ripe revised edition was released by Gerda Curd. This book takes you through every step of the magical cheese making process, as well as how to make special varieties, like dragons milk cheese. NB: If you want to write about plant based cheeses, please do. Task 1: https://gryff.net/index.php?/topic/4501-charm-your-own-cheese-task-1/ Task 2: Task 3:

When cheese goes bad… No, we’re not talking about it going green and furry in the fridge, we’re talking about curses. Part of the book is dedicated to cursed cheeses and includes a few notable examples. What we’d like you to do is create a front page for the Daily Prophet about a cursed cheese that made the news. You can either create a graphic (in which case please keep it to 600 x 600 pixels) or you can describe your front page in 80 words (including what the headline would be, what accompanying photos you’d choose and a quick summary of the story). Please post your breaking news below by 23:59 HOL-time on the 31st of March to earn 10 rubies.

One of the most fascinating chapters from the expanded edition is on “cheese based potions” (I have so many questions…) Please suggest at least 3 cheese based potions to be found in the book and introduce us to them – what do they do? What’s in them? Who created them and why (most importantly, why cheese?)? Would you try them? Please write at least 100 words for full credit. Post your cheesy potions below by 23:59 HOL-time on the 31st of March to earn 10 rubies.

Wishing an extremely happy birthday to @Ivy Grey! *Hands round some Gryffindor cupcakes*

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Rubies have been reset for the new term so the homepage widget will look a little strange for the next week or so. :)

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The autumn term has finished so it’s awards time! Before we celebrate the hardworking lions (and guest) who’ll be taking home a trophy though, I’d just like to recognise everyone who contributed to the house during the first half of the school year. We have a very hard working and creative team of staff who do amazing things here on The Den and around HOL. And we also have lots of dedicated students, bringing home tons of points and proudly representing Gryffindor. Thank you all for making our house what it is. And now, onto the shinies… First up is the Platinum Quill Award, awarded to the Gryff who earned the most house points during the term. @Janne Halla is our extremely worthy winner with a total of 1,759 and we are still in awe at how he manages to earn so many AND do all the other helpful things he does around the castle. The Phoenix and Lionheart awards go to our top ruby earners for the term. Congratulations (and a massive well done) to @Ellie Vernez (495) and @River Fenwick (1120)! Then we have the awards decided by the Gryffindor staff… First up is Studious Simba, our award for someone who has been incredibly hardworking in their classes. We’re delighted to present it to Nargola Hawthorne for putting in a brilliant performance across all her subjects last term. The Curious Kitten award is for an enthusiastic person who has brightened up The Den and/or positively represented Gryffindor elsewhere on HOL. @Cassie Williams definitely embodied both of those things this time round, throwing herself into activities here and adventuring all over the castle in her first term. Consistent Cub is for someone who (well, consistently) inspires us all to get involved. Our winner this time round is Ellie Vernez, who was here, there and everywhere last term, taking part in things here in The Den and putting in sterling performances in the other Common Rooms too. Lastly, we’d like to present the Exploding Snap award to @Prof. Amy Lupin. This is an award for someone who has shown great creativity and ingenuity around The Den and Amy blew us away with her ideas during her first term as part of Gryff. I know everyone who took part in Potterium had tons of fun but what you might not have realised was that Amy coded a whole set of custom-made tools to keep things running smoothly behind the scenes. (I’m sure you’ll all join me when I say: WOW!) That’s all the awards announced so now, it’s time to party. I’ll grab the butterbeer!

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