Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XXI)

[Julia H.]

Welcome to Potty Five Words, Volume XXI! 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	1 or 1 1/2 or 2?	* * * * *
XIX	19th	---	* * * * *
XX	20th	---	* * * * *

* * * * * 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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Featured Story of the Week
(described here; numbers below are links)

• 'Featured Story of the Week' #1
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #2
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #3
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #4

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As of August 28, 2011, the Five Words Story Archives are complete! :bounce: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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Five Words Bulletin Board

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 -
JKR's 'Hagridspeak'	JKR's 'Fleurspeak'	JKR's 'Viktorspeak'	Please don't write	Info. about Writing a Letter to the Editor
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	*

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EDIT: Due to the fact that forumotion split the thread for Volume XX when that thread reached page 74, I had to insert information into this header post to establish this post as the header post for Volume XXI of Five Words.
~Potteraholic, May 20, 2014


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the door. She wanted to

[Verity Weasley]

talk to Arthur, to tell

[Julia H.]

him how she had been

[Verity Weasley]

treated so unfairly by her

[Julia H.]

family. Arthur was, however, at


I wonder where?  

[Verity Weasley]

home with his family, and

[Julia H.]

Molly would rather not let

I think she may not want to share this problem with all the Weasleys - Fabian and Gideon being in the Order had to be kept secret anyway.

[Verity Weasley]

all of his relatives in

[Julia H.]

on her family's secrets and

[Verity Weasley]

troubles. She really wished she

[Julia H.]

could be with Arthur all

[Verity Weasley]

the time. She already knew

[Julia H.]

they were made for each

Mrs Weasley's own words in HBP.  

[Verity Weasley]

other, but she also knew

Ooh, good memory, Julia!   

[Julia H.]

that her parents considered her

Spoiler:

[Verity Weasley]

too young to know what

[Julia H.]

was good for her. They

[Verity Weasley]

still treated her like a

[Julia H.]

child. As for Arthur, they

[Verity Weasley]

knew he came from a

Spoiler:

[Julia H.]

good family but they didn't

Spoiler:

[Verity Weasley]

think he was ambitious enough

[Julia H.]

to pursue a successful career

[Verity Weasley]

and prove himself worthy of

I don't know about you Julia, but I'm finding it tricky to write these scenes because we know so little about Molly's and Arthur's families. I guess it's about finding that balance so they come across as loving but a little overprotective, and not pure-blood snobs!   

[Julia H.]

their daughter.

Molly, however, knew

...better?

Well, at least we know about Muriel.   The parents may well be just overprotective. After all, it's war, so it may be natural that they are reluctant to trust a young man not yet twenty and fresh out of school with their precious daughter. Anyway, perhaps we have written enough about the families.

Spoiler:

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