Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XIX)

Welcome to Potty Five Words, Volume XIX! This is a game invented by the Potties, first played in October 2005 on the Harry Potter Lexicon FanFiction Forum on World Crossing.  It resided there for 5 years and 12 volumes/threads, then moved over to the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum in July 2010; some Forum members wondered if it could be played on the Main Forum, along with all the other wonderful Potty Games so many of us enjoyed. So, with Kip's approval... the move was made!

And then the whole Harry Potter Lexicon Forum moved, to our new home here on forumotion.com.  This is now the second Five Words thread here, and we have settled in quite nicely.  

 

Vol #	__ set of stories	# of stories in set	length of time stories created	additional notes
I	1st	fourteen	6 months, 24 days, 15 hours, and 23 minutes	--
II	2nd	ten	2 months, 2 days, 0 hours, and 36 minutes	--
III	3rd	thirteen (and a half)	3 months, 7 days, 9 hours, and 29 minutes	It features our one-year anniversary special and story.
IV	4th	ten	7 months, 30 days, 6 hours, and 35 minutes	--
V	5th	fourteen	7 months, 12 days, 13 hours, and 16 minutes	Story 50: Our Golden Anniversary.
VI	6th	nine	2 months, 12 days, 0 hours, and 7 minutes	--
VII	7th	ten	2 months, 17 days, 19 hours, and 42 minutes	It features our two-and-a-half-year anniversary special and story.
VIII	8th	seven	2 months, 8 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes	* * *
IX	9th	eleven	2 months, 28 days, 19 hours, and 52 minutes	It features our three-year anniversary special and story.
X	10th	nine	4 months, 23 days, 17 hours, and 37 minutes	It features our 100th story.
XI	11th	eleven	7 months, 23 days, 7 hours, and 44 minutes	It features our four-year anniversary special and story.
XII	12th	seven	1 year, 3 months, 4 hours, and 7 minutes	This volume did not reach its max. capacity of 2,999 posts because of World Crossing's closing on April 15, 2011.
XIII	13th	eight	8 months, 23 days, 19 hours, and 53 minutes	This volume did not reach its max. capacity of 2,999 posts because of World Crossing's closing on April 15, 2011. It features our five-year anniversary special and story.
XIV	14th	four	1 month, 6 days, 9 hours, and 59 minutes	This is the 1st volume of Five Words stories on forumotion.com. The threads here max. out at approx. 1,005 posts, thereby affecting a volume's length of time, from start to finish. They will be considerably shorter than WX volumes.
XV	15th	four	4 months, 6 days, 21 hours, and 28 minutes	---
XVI	16th	five	* * * * *	It features our six-year anniversary special and story.
XVII	17th	four	* * * * *
XVIII	18th	four	* * * * *

[size=18]* * * * *NOTE: Data about the total time it took to write stories in this volume was not gathered.

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Now... back to the game!

The rules of this game are simple: place five words in your post that continue the story told through other members' five words. Strung together, the five words will make a much, much longer story. (You might add another much to that list if some people decide to go on a posting spree, which has been done in the past. )

If you're new to Five Words, or even if you've been playing since since the beginning, take a look at some suggestions Finn (the creator of the Five Words thread on the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum), made at the conclusion of Volume V.

We ask that you please post your five words in bold format. This will help distinguish your addition to the story from other side comments you might make in your post, and help the story posters when they compile the story at the end. The way to do this is by:

— typing a in front of the text you want in bold then after it to unbold anything else you might post.

Enjoy!


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As of August 28, 2011, the Five Words Story Archives are complete!  These links are all ready for your perusal:

* Five Words - Main Archives *

* Five Words - Stories Index (by topic) *

Should you want to travel down Memory Lane and find the first story in which you posted, this link will take you to a chart of this information:  * Five Words - Volumes Index * 

These Archives are a work in progress in that they will be continually updated as future stories are completed.  These Archives contain a multi-volume index of Volumes 1 to 15 (and then beyond), individual volume indexes, and a table that has the stories categorized by topic.

Happy reading!

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L A T E S T U P D A T E	Using Contractions: Narrative vs. Dialogue	some other 'dialogue' word ideas	* Five Words Stories Archive *	Potential Five Words Story Ideas
Capitalizing / Not Capitalizing witches / wizards / Muggles: What's the rule?	Commonly Misspelled/ Miscapitalized Wizarding Words	Italics? Or not?	chart of word counts: Five Words stories	'MRHP' GoF, ch. 15 - Hedwig's Log
JKR's 'Hagridspeak'	JKR's 'Fleurspeak'	JKR's 'Viktorspeak'	Please don't write NON-POSTS (posts with no story words) Thanks!	Info. about Writing a Letter to the Editor (website addresses provided in post)
The zodiac signs in order are: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn	A Wizard's Atlas	UK Quidditch Teams	Revision Story Information	*

The first day of the holidays for me! Yippee!

I guess it is my turn to start a story now. If I'm correct, we haven't had a "Snapey"   story for a while, so maybe it's time to start one!  

I've been thinking of rewriting the PS/SS Halloween story from Snape's point of view. What we know from canon is this: While Harry and Ron are busy fighting the troll, Snape, who has been told by Dumbledore to keep an eye on Quirrell, realizes that the troll may be a diversion intentionally created by Quirrell so he hurries to the forbidden corridor, intercepts Quirrell on his way to the Philosopher's Stone, gets attacked by Fluffy and ends up with a wound and limping, yet he gets to the Trio and the troll at the same time as Minerva, taking along Quirrell (who probably goes with him only because he must). The scene has a silent observer, Voldemort, whose presence is known by Quirrell only. In the bathroom, Snape bends over the knocked out troll and gives Harry a piercing look.

My questions are: What happened behind the scenes? How did Snape see the events of that night? And my five words:

The Great Hall was in

... turmoil?

announcement. Panic-stricken students jumped from

Thanks, Verity!  It was really time to truly finish the school year! (Teaching ended two weeks ago.) Last night was the school's final exam banquet and I got some very nice flowers from the school-leavers. It was good to see those kids once more.

We haven't made any travel plans yet, and it's likely that, due to various reasons, we aren't going anywhere far away this summer. However, we'll make sure we get out of the city as often as we can!

the door as their teachers

LOL, on the one hand, there were final exams. On the other hand, we had several meetings, we wrote some reports, we did some planning for next year and we sorted out all the books and papers that had accumulated on our desks during the year.

houses back to the dormitories

I've just read A Sneaking Suspicion. On the whole, I think we have written a coherent story with some humorous characters. I agree with Verity's comment that Five Words stories could sometimes use a bit more description - we can pay more attention to that next time. We have found out little of what the League actually does, but the initial assumption was that they do nothing of importance anyway, and perhaps we have managed to convey that.

It was nice to read the relatively long list of participants... *** wishful thinking...***

to the dungeons.

All? He

I wonder whether he can actually see Quirrell going the other way or just has an intuition and decides to check on the forbidden corridor.

it would be quite easy

Verity, did you mean realised or realises?

for someone with an ulterior

Julia, I had meant to write 'realises' as I was imagining the sentence as something like, 'he realises that in all the commotion, Professor Quirrell has disappeared.' However, if at the end of the sentence it seems that 'realised' would fit better, I'm fine with the change.

motive to take a different

Oh, OK then. If you think the present tense is correct, I'm fine with it, too.