August Contest!, Personal, funny Harry Potter Memory |
 Aug 1 2007, 12:39 PM
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Daily Prophet Copy Boy/Girl  Posts: 3,054 Joined: 1:49pm October 25, 2005 Location: Monterey, CA   |
This Month's challenge is to write an anecdote about you and Harry Potter. It could be when you received any of the books, telling your friends about Harry Potter, or anything else, but it must be your personal, funny story involving Harry Potter.
* Write a funny story about a Harry Potter memory. * Your story should be 300 words or less. * All content must adhere to a strict PG-13 rating. * There is a limit of one entry per person. * All work must be original. Any entries found to contain the work of others will be disqualified. * All stories MUST be of an exemplary quality; they must be organised, focused, coherent and not contain net speak. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation will be taken into consideration when judging. * Please include a name to be used for authorship (e.g. Leaky Lounge name or real name). * This Contest is open to all readers 13 years of age and over, as well as members of Leaky staff that are not involved in the adjudication process. * There is no restriction on which Country you are from - we accept entries from all over the World. * All decisions by the judges are final. * Please submit entries as a document (.doc or .txt). * E-mail all submissions to contests@the-leaky-cauldron.org by 11:59 pm of August 31 (EST). * Please refer to our FAQ if you are not sure of something. * If you have any questions, not answered on the FAQ, or would like to discuss this Contest, then please come to the Contest Corner Forum of The Leaky Lounge. -------------------- Click the image for the latest contest and winners.  |
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Aug 5 2007, 12:52 AM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 93 Joined: 9:36pm September 19, 2006 |
All of my life I've been a right brained person. I am an artist, a writer, and a musician. Slap a science or math book in front of me and I look as if I've been confunded.
I had this exciting idea one autumn night. Looking back I can see why I was struck with inspiration. It was close to halloween and that time of year brings out my inner witch. Feeling creative, pen in hand, I began to write. After many scratch out's and crumpled paper balls on my floor I finally finished. My story took the form of a childrens poem called 'Hennrietta Witch'. Sadly I have no idea where the story ever ended up, I can still see it in my mind eye, yellow lined paper, blue ink and at the bottom was my name and the date, October 23, 1996. Four years had gone by and I had completley forgotten about my poem. I went to visit my Nana Quattrucci, I had just gotten married and had my first baby. I was proud and excited to show off my son, Liam. Somewhere during that visit my Nana, who was 64 at the time, brought up this new book series called Harry Potter. She had been reading it and highly recomended it. I cracked open the first few pages on the ride home and immediatley my attena's went off. This looked like an interesting story. I had been home for only a few hours before I was telling my husband to take care of the baby, I couldnt stop reading! The entire time I was reading about Harry and the brooms and the school, somthing was nagging at me. I couldnt put my finger on it until the chapter, "Quidditch". A small childrens poem I had written four years ago snapped into my mind. I couldnt believe this amazing book called 'Sorcerers Stone' was basically the same idea as my poem. My 'Henrietta Witch' was an orphan who attended a magic school for children similar to her. She was a trouble maker and the only person who could make her behave was a strict teacher with a tight black bun called, Miss Snitch. They flew on brooms and boiled potions in cauldrons. Needless to say I was astounded that I had come up with somthing, no matter how lame in comparison to Jo Rowlings story, similar to this amazing author. I am proud to say that I, Kerri Hennebury, thought of this magical world before I even knew of Jo Rowling. Im thankful she wrote the series because her world took shape for my half formed ideas about a magical community. Im going back to school because of Jo. She trully is my inspiration to do somthing with my creativity. Im just glad my family read the poem when I wrote it. They believe me! |
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Aug 5 2007, 07:10 PM
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Gambol and Japes' Research Department Posts: 1,363 Joined: 11:00am May 14, 2007 Location: Seattle,Washington |
i think i didn't start wanting to read the books until maybe 1st grade. I didn't really like HP until i watched the movie because my first grade teacher would read the books out loud.
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Aug 5 2007, 08:08 PM
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Exclusive distributor of The Dungbomb Protection Kit Posts: 2,642 Joined: 10:52pm March 5, 2007  |
Just a reminder, this forum is not for submitting your entries. Entries should be submitted to contests@the-leaky-cauldron.org by 11:59 pm of August 31 (EST). Thanks!
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Aug 6 2007, 09:48 AM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 283 Joined: 12:23pm June 13, 2007 Location: Waiting in line for the next movie. |
oh that's great.
Now we'll be able to see how Harry has related to all his fans. I'm sure we'll hear some very awesome stories!! 
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Aug 6 2007, 10:58 AM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 4 Joined: 2:02pm April 9, 2007 |
These are supposed to be funny, right? There are many that are more inspirational than funny. Should those be submitted or not?
Cheers. Carmen -------------------- "I was raised to be charming, not sincere." -Into the Woods
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Aug 6 2007, 09:20 PM
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Exclusive distributor of The Dungbomb Protection Kit Posts: 2,642 Joined: 10:52pm March 5, 2007 |
Great question Carmen Black! We in the Contest Crew decided that many people would be feeling a bit down about the series coming to an end, so for this contest we are looking for a humorous story. This is not a fanfic contest, we are looking for real stories about your Harry Potter experience (like that time when I ran into a co-worker reading the book during lunch, and so I launched into a detailed analysis of chapter four, only to get a blank stare in response as said co-worker began to quickly clean up his lunch..only written funnier than that!).
A panel of four to six judges will be evaluating the entries, and humour is one of the judging criteria. |
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Aug 7 2007, 12:25 PM
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Junior Dishwasher at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 626 Joined: 12:39pm January 28, 2005 |
This 300 word limit is killing me. It's so hard to fit in everything I want to say!
This post has been edited by HeidiBug: Aug 7 2007, 12:26 PM -------------------- I am the biggest Remus/Tonks shipper on the planet. Fear me! BWAHAHAHA!
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Aug 8 2007, 12:34 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 30 Joined: 12:18pm July 8, 2005 |
Ah bummer. I wrote mine and it is more poignant than funny. Think you will do a contest on how Harry has touched your life??
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 Aug 8 2007, 02:50 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 12 Joined: 2:37pm December 6, 2006 |
do the 300 words include title and Author`s name?
If not I could manage to reduce my tale to 300 words. If it does, I have a problem. I have been writing for half an hour, but trying to scretch words out for two more full hours...It's 313 now.. 
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