Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XV)

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We'll need to go over by 1 or 2... no worries!

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Good to see you, BB!

Mona, Julia or BB, feel like suggesting our next FSOTW ('featured Story of the Week')?

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PAH, I'd like to choose something. I'll go through the stories and post it tomorrow.

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Mona, I had just thought something like, "if this behavior continues." My thinking being, if what she tried already didn't work, wouldn't she try something else? Anyway, on with the story!

And looking forward to your choice for FSOTW!

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    gradually shown progress this year.                

Which of the two summoned the Fiendfyre in DH? Just checked.. Crabbe. So maybe Goyle was not as accomplished as Crabbe?

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practically every aspect of the

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Hi, PAH! Thanks for sending the report!

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    basic transfigurative spells, like changing

curriculum, he made an improvement                

I was thinking of the first assignment, in the first lesson ... but it could be another simple task, as well.

Cross-post! Hi Julia! And no probs. re: the report.

Hmmm... seems a bit of an awkward construction ... hang on!

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Okay, all set!

EDIT: It was nice to have a bit of a spree, and to see all 5 current posters' posts!


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in basic transfigurative spells, like


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needle. Naturally, this does not

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Sounds good to me, Julia!

Last update coming soon...

Anyone want to do one more report, for an even 10? A Ravenclaw's or a Hufflepuff's? Just to see what we could come up with, from someone from one of these Houses? It would mean our last story of this thread would be 'bout 575ish words instead of 700ish. If people didn't want to, I completely understand.

Just checked the 'length of Five Words stories' link on the Bulletin Board chart in the header post. Apparently, there have been 6 stories of 600 words or less, but way back in Volume I, if I remember correctly. It would be interesting to see if we could write something that short.

story update #7

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on his laurels. He must

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PAH, I'd love to do one more report, for any of the students!

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Glad to hear it, Julia! These days, normally, one vote is all takes to carry a motion. But now I'm thinking that, as Verity is staring the next story, it'd be good to hear what she thinks ... tomorrow, as it's in the wee hours in Thailand at the mo'. Her story idea may need those extra 125 words. We'll have to wait and see... * fingers crossed *

But if we do end up writing another report, how 'bout Ernie Macmillan?

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regularly if the improvement is

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I'm happy to do another report. I'm not sure how many words we'll need for my story idea - it's just a vague idea at this stage - but I'm sure we can work with however many words we have!

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    be ever diligent and practice

{for such a young witch!}                

She is keen to answer questions in class and is the only student I've ever taught who has managed to successfully turn a tiny flower pot into a large, beribboned tea cosy on the very first attempt! Quite a remarkable achievement for such a young witch!

YAY!!! So report #10 is on... any other ideas on a subject? Maybe another girl would be nice, since we just have Hermione's. Padma Patil, perhaps.

EDIT: To save this post, I inserted the words in blue above into an earlier post.

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PAH, in your last post, you accidentally repeated your previous five words. I'm continuing Verity's five words now. You can probably still edit and use your last post when you visit the forum again.

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Mr Goyle's ... written assignments?

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We haven't noted any late assignments by anyone yet, so I thought why not Goylesy?

Lavender sounds good to me!

OOPS! Sorry 'bout that, Julia! I guess what happened is: I usually just copy and paste my previous post to write my next one, then change the five words and comments as necessary. But while I was doing that, I received a phone call from a school colleague and while talking to her — and catching up on all the school gossip — I lost track of what I was doing and just pressed 'send'. So much for multi-tasking!

I'll figure out a way to use that post somewhere else in one of the previous reports, maybe 's

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handed in on time. His

Still in the process of choosing the Featured Story...

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handwriting is often illegible or

How about spelling?

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... or the other?

I had a look at Snape's reports to see what he wrote about Goyle and guess what?

Mr. Goyle's essays were rarely handed in on time. Numerous detentions have had little effect on his timeliness.

So he's consistently the fashionably late one. We might need to go over by 1 or 2 posts for Goylesy's behavior section. Then on to Lavender!

I've inserted 'for such a young witch!' (my new five words from my earlier gaffe) into this post.

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with others, Mr Goyle frequently

Nice about Severus's and McGonnagal's reports coinciding about something.

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OK, this is my choice for Featured Story of the Week - "Lost and Found"

I chose this story more or less at random. I thought it was short and satisfying. The sentences flow well, and the personalities of the three girls come out well in the dialogue. While it doesn't have those brilliant touches that pop up in quite a few of our stories, neither does it have the dragging parts that also pop up in a lot of our stories , probably because it's so short.

I like the five-wordsy way in which it starts off as one thing and ends up as something completely unexpected. It's a good thing we didn't make the Black household all dark and foreboding, and that the kitchen was a cheerful place with burnished copper pots and pans. That leads a touch of authenticity to the tale.

I suppose, since it started off with all three sisters, Bella and Cissy could have had a bit more of a role to play. We dropped them unceremoniously rather early in the plot, but on the whole the story was a nice little peek into life in the Black household on a particular day.