Pensieve Diving Contest
Oct 31, 2010
Fun - Contests
Pensieve Diving Contest
style=”text-align: left; font-family: Arial;”>Have you heard? Hogwarts has
been opened to muggles! The enchantments that befuddle muggles into
seeing only a dangerous ruin have been lifted. Muggles can tour the
grounds and castle proper, sit in a lesson on history of magic, and we
heard rumors of some getting to see part of a Quidditch match. Four
muggle friends came upon something very curious while touring the
Headmaster’s study. They described an old basin with a shimmering
substance that we immediately understood to be a Pensieve containing
memories. Well, these friends are an adventurous lot and got a bit
closer than advisable to the memories and fell in – accidentally, of
course. Being muggles, the Pensieve didn’t work properly for them and
all they could do was focus on a particular item in the memory. Upon
exiting, they were only able to describe what they saw in a rather
cryptic way. Each of them described something different as if they
experienced different memories that were focused on particular items.
We need your help understanding where the memories took place and what
object they saw.
For this month’s contest we are going Pensieve
diving! On each of the first four Mondays in November we will provide
you with the description of one place and object pair as observed by our
muggle friends. Your job will be to figure out both parts: the
location and the item of focus. These ambiguous clues are all that our
poor muggle friends could articulate and so are rather confusing.
Here’s an example of what we mean:
This location is a combination
of one of Hagrid’s favorite meal ingredients, a tennis racquet maker,
and a topographic projection. If you need a hint Mr. Weasley can guide
you along. Here you will find an object that had two uses in life. In
both cases its sole purpose was to carry you on your way.
Answer (highlight to read):
Stoatshead Hill, boot portkey
Oh, one more
thing. We were able to identify the wizard whose memories were in the
Pensive. You guessed it, Harry Potter. A location can be any place
mentioned in J.K Rowling’s books that Harry has been to personally.
Accordingly, the object will have been mentioned in the books as being
at that location.
Pensieve Diving
Contest
A new memory clue written by the Contest Staff
will be posted each week in the Contest Corner starting Monday, November 1 at
12:01am EDT (see schedule below). All people who submit correct
location AND item answers for all four memories will be placed into a
drawing for one of three handcrafted wand donated by Wizard
Wood Wands (changed monthly) and 50 MyLeaky points. Everyone who
identifies all four pairs correctly will also receive 50 MyLeaky points.
General
Rules:
- All decisions by the judges are final
- Anyone
13 and older may enter the contest including staff members who are not
involved in the judging process - 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, please
come to the Contest Corner forum on The Leaky Lounge.
Contest
Rules:
By 12:01am U.S. Eastern Time on each of the first 4
Mondays in November, the Contest Team will post a memory clue on the Contest Corner to be answered via e-mail. Please see
the schedule below for the exact dates. Here is a link to the thread with the memories: Memories to Answer
- All answers must
be e-mailed with “Memory # Answer” in the subject line to
[email protected] before the next Memory clue is
posted (see schedule below). Please also submit a name (real name or
Leaky Lounge name) to be used for tracking and site announcement (if you
should win) purposes. Please replace the # with the memory clue number
(e.g. Memory 1 Answer, Memory 2 Answer, etc). - The answer to each
memory clue must contain the identities of both the location and the
item of focus. Remember Harry has been to each location at some point
in books 1-7 of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series and he has
encountered each item personally. No memories from other characters
will be used. - Please do not post your answer in any form or way
on The Leaky Lounge. All attempts or answers will be removed with the
person notified as to why the post was removed. - All answers
submitted will be recorded and kept throughout the month for each person
who enters. - Official answers to the memory clues will be posted
after the new memory clue has been posted. - To be eligible for
the drawing of one of the three wands donated by Wizard
Wood Wands, you must have all 4 locations and items identified
correctly. If you miss a deadline, your list of answers will not be
counted towards a full list of correct answers. You are encouraged to
still submit answers after a missed deadline in case there is no one
with a full list of correct answers. If no one submits and/or identifies
all 4 memory location/item pairs correctly, the next highest amount
correct will be used for the drawing of the wand by Wizard
Wood Wands .
Schedule of Posted Memories:
All
memory clues are posted on Monday by 12:01am U.S. Eastern Time. All
answers are due via e-mail by Sunday at 11:59pm EST (4:59am GMT). Please see this thread for the posted memories.
Memory
#1 posted Monday, Nov 1 at 12:01am EDT (= 4:01am GMT)
Answer #1 due
Sunday, Nov 7 by 11:59pm EST (= 4:59am GMT)
Memory #2 – Monday,
Nov 8 at 12:01am EST (= 5:01am GMT)
Answer #2 – Sunday, Nov 14 by
11:59pm EST (= 4:59am GMT)
Memory #3 – Monday, Nov 15 at 12:01am
EST (= 5:01am GMT)
Answer #3 – Sunday, Nov 21 by 11:59pm EST (=
4:59am GMT)
Memory #4 – Monday, Nov 22 at 12:01am EST (= 5:01am
GMT)
Answer #4 – Sunday, Nov 28 by 11:59pm EST (= 4:59am GMT)
Depending
on the response to this contest, some wayward muggle may trip and fall
into the Pensieve again next year. Let us know what you think by going
to the Contest Corner forum and commenting in the thread
for this contest.
UPDATE: The contest is finished and we’d like to acknowledge a few people:
Two people got all 4 memories correct.
Becelf
WeenyOwl
Because we are actually awarding 3 wands and there were not 3+ people who answered all 4 memories correctly, a 3rd person was picked from the 19 people who answered 3 of 4 memories correctly. That lucky winner is Damian Griffin.
The memories and answers can be found here.
