New Year’s Resolutions Contest
Jan 11, 2008
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New Year’s is fast approaching and it’s time to help the Harry Potter characters we have grown to know and love (and sometimes hate) make their resolutions for the coming year. We’ve divided the characters up into six categories. All you need to do is write one resolution for one character from each category. So put on your party hats and pull out a quill, ink and parchment and start writing those resolutions!
When writing your resolutions, please keep them within the New Year’s that occurs within Deathly Hallows. This will, of course, exclude the information in the Epilogue which occurs 19 years later.
The judges will be looking for creative resolutions which deal with plot points in thoughtful or humorous ways. Please try to avoid resolutions based solely on “shipping” concerns.
For example:
Resolution based solely on shipping: Harry: I resolve to tell Ginny how much I love her every day of the year.
Resolution based on a plot point: George: Wear protective head gear before flying off to battle Death Eaters.
Rules:
- • Choose one character from each category and write a New Year’s Resolution within the New Year’s that occurs within Deathly Hallows.
- • There is a strict PG-13 rating for the content.
- There is a limit of one entry per person. All work must be original.
- • All submissions must be e-mailed to [email protected] by January 7, 2008 at Midnight (EST).
- • Anyone over the age of 13 can enter the contest, including staff members who are not involved in the judging process.
- • All decisions by our judges are final.
- • Winners will be chosen from each of the categories. Depending on the number of entries, a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will be announced for each category.
- • 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.
Categories:
Hogwart’s Personnel
* Bloody Baron
* Dumbledore, Albus
* Fat Lady
* Fat Friar
* Filch, Argus
* Flitwich, Filius
* Grey Lady
* Hagrid, Rubeus
* McGonagall, Minerva
* Nearly Headless Nick
* Nigellus, Phineas
* Peeves
* Sir Cadogan
* Slughorn, Horace
* Sprout, Pomona
* Snape, Severus
Order Members
* Delacour, Fleur
* Dumbledore, Aberforth
* Lupin, Remus
* Potter, Lily
* Potter, James
* Shacklebolt, Kingsley
* Tonks
* Weasley, Arthur
* Weasley, Bill
* Weasley, Charlie
* Weasley, Molly
Magical Creatures
* Buckbeak
* Crookshanks
* Dobby
* Fang
* Firenze
* Grawp
* Griphook
* Kreacher
* Nagini
Students Past and Present (Harry’s time)
* Brown, Lavender
* Chang, Cho
* Crabbe, Vincent
* Creevey, Colin
* Finnegan, Seamus
* Goyle, Gregory
* Granger, Hermione
* Jordan, Lee
* Longbottom, Neville
* Lovegood, Luna
* Macmillan, Ernie
* Malfoy, Draco
* Parkinson, Pansy
* Potter, Harry
* Smith, Zacharias
* Thomas, Dean
* Weasley, Fred
* Weasley, George
* Weasley, Ginny
* Weasley, Ron
* Wood, Oliver
Characters at Whom Some Would Like to Throw Rotten Tomatoes At
* Carrow, Alecto
* Carrow, Amycus
* Dolohov, Antonin
* Greyback, Fenrir
* Lestrange, Bellatrix
* Macnair, Walden
* Malfoy, Lucius
* Malfoy, Narcissa
* Pettigrew, Peter
* Rookwood, Augustus
* Umbridge, Dolores
* Voldemort
* Yaxley
Other
* Aunt Muriel
* Black, Regulus
* Dawlish
* Dumbledore, Ariana
* Dursley, Dudley
* Dursley, Petunia
* Dursley, Vernon
* Fletcher, Mundungus (yes, we know he’s an Order member, but really!)
* Gregorovich
* Grindelwald, Gellert
* Krum, Viktor
* Longbottom, Augusta (Gran)
* Lovegood, Xenophilius
* Ollivander
* Shunpike, Stan
* Skeeter, Rita
* Tonks, Andromeda
* Tonks, Ted
* Thickness, Pius
* Weasley, Percy
UPDATE: We have got our winners!
Hogwarts Personnel
First Place: Mallory V – Sir Cadogan – Defeat all the scurvy braggarts, rogues, dogs, and knaves in the castle, while soundly mounted on the great grey beast!
HM: Anna K – Severus Snape – Stop watching wildlife documentaries about the mating season in the animals with antlers.
Order Members
First Place: Rachel Zander – Arthur Weasley
– This year I resolve to find out where exactly this ‘World Wide Web’
is located and exactly what kind of spider made it. Oh, uh, just don’t
tell Molly¦ Please¦
HM: Curious – Aberforth Dumbledore – Don’t let the Death Eaters get my goat.
Magical Creatures
First Place: MistyH – Crookshanks
– I, Crookshanks, resolve this year to leave alone any tempting little
thing that looks like it might come from Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes. The
ear was pretty good, but I saw what that ton-tongue toffee can do. How
in the world would I bathe???
Students
First Place: Rachel Zander – Vincent Crabbe
– I resolve, after I have killed Harry Potter single handedly of
course, to do what I have been dreaming of doing ever since I spent all
those hours standing guard outside the room of requirement last year.
And that is to do what Barnabas the Barmy in that tapestry could not,
and actually teach those trolls, once and for all, to do ballet. That
way the dark Lord and all of Hogwarts shall know just how strong and
what a powerful leader I am. It will also allow me to show of my
prowess as a great ballet dancer, which I have kept quiet because Draco
has made me, I think because he is jealous. But he and his family have
lost the Dark Lord’s favor and now it is my turn to prove myself¦
HM: Curious – Vincent Crabbe – Seek enlightenment.
Rotten Tomatoes
First Place: Rachel Zander – Dolores Umbridge
– My resolution is obviously to punish that Harry Potter. Also, I must
remember to accuse the owner of Twillfit and Tattings of being a
mudblood. That way when the ministry seizes that shop of hers I can
take that delightful pink cardigan in the window, the one with all of
those charming little bows on it, for myself. It will go perfectly with
that lovely pink taffeta bow-topped alice band that I recently acquired
from that Mudblood I sent to Azkaban yesterday¦
Others
First Place: Curious – Xenophilius Lovegood – Update homeowners insurance policy.
Although
Aunt Marge was absent from DH and thus ineligible for placement in our
contest, we’d like to acknowledge MistyH for her creativity. Thanks for
the laugh!
Aunt Marge – I, Marge Dursley, resolve to find
a self-help group this year and stop drinking. That last round of
brandy a few years ago caused horrible dreams – dreams of expanding to
10 times my normal size and floating through the air, unable to get
myself down. Although, when Ripper attacked Vernon’s leg, that WAS
quite comical….
