Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XV)

Club. I think I deserve

Perhaps he feels it necessary to justify the idea.

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in a really good mood                

Verity Weasley wrote:It's been a while without a post, so I thought I'd add a hint just in case folks were stuck.

Verity, I dont think it's a case of folks being stuck... just busy. Puck's moving house, Julia's on holiday soon (or already) for 10 days, and Mona's husband is back home on leave. And me? Well, I'm at my parents' and also hanging out with my sister and her kids. I still have time to post, but... I'm of mixed minds about Lily wanting to help Sev use this potion as a means to get Slughorn to offer an invite to him, as I mentioned earlier. So I'm going to watch, along the sidelines, as others develop this section's storyline. (It might take a while, though, by the looks of things.) But thanks for the words!

And Volume XI is up. The Dursleys figure heavily in this volume, and we have the first of the Lily/Petunia letters. Also, some great Pre-Harry, even pre-Marauder stories.

Just 2 more volumes to reformat/repost! The revision stories are coming up, and then the tricky formatting of The Daily Prophet piece. It'll be lots of hit-or-miss with that one! But definitely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

hesitated. "Do you really know

Spoiler:

PAH, good luck for the Daily Prophet story.

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I think that's a vague enough set of 5 words. Just wanted to post an update, in case Puck stops by or BB wanted to post again. (Or maybe, just maybe, if so someone new joined in? Nahhh... )

Thanks for the reposting support Verity and Mona. It's good to know I'll be done with that part of the Archiving soon. Then it'll just be making a bunch of posts with links when I create the Archives chart by category. The links will be to the posts where stories are listed by topic. We've written a few more stories since I last updated the topics list, so some of those lists will be longer than before. (I have a hunch that the list of stories about will be the longest list of them all. ) I imagine I'll have a few tabs open at once to keep everything straight, with loads of going back and forth from page to page to check things. Should be fun.

EDIT: Mona (and Julia, too, in case you stop by), when you get a chance, can you read my last 2 posts in the 'Efforts to Archive' thread? Regarding the tables? Thanks.

story update #7, 229 posts and 1,145 words

makes him lose his hair

Spoiler:

I couldn't resist the invitation to drop in and add a bit of silliness.

I have been taking the opportunity to read some of the older five word stories. The first stories seemed disjointed and odd because the characters didn't act like they do in the books. Also, there were strange deviations (I felt) when suddenly another character was brought into the story. I think one of them took place at Hogwarts and Mrs. Weasley was brought into the conversation out of the blue.

The last one I read was really interesting about a dinner with Harry's and Dudley's families. I thought the dialogue, in general, was very good. It will be fun to read more of these! Therefore, I believe I should add to the words of thanks to our esteemed prefect, PAH.

BB

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or gain weight or worse.                

Thanks for the words suggestion, BB. And for heeding the call. And for going through the Five Words Archives and the kind words. On behalf of the other Archivists and myself, it's great to read about whenever folks look at any archived material from WX that's been reposted here in our new forumotion home.

Re: the earlier stories, Puck, who started Five Wording before I did, made an observation about them here and here. I think many, but by no means, all, of those early Five Worders, were high school and college students. And posting happened more frequently, with 2 to 3 posters online at the same time having posting sprees. From about Volumes 5 or 6 onwards, the majority of Five Worders, while still young at heart, were a bit older in years, and the posting pace slowed down considerably.

Which reminds me of something my 7 year-old niece said in the car yesterday, while describing a woman, "She was in her 20's or 40's." I laughed and laughed. To a 40 something like me, the thought that I could be mistaken for a 20 something by the under 10 set makes my day!

Also, from what I've experienced from those Volume 5 onwards, generally, as a group, Five Worders tried to have the characters act like they do in the books, and tried to steer clear of deviations like the one you described. The stories I have had the most fun participating in are the ones where there's very little canon, and we get to be as creative as we want. Stories about lesser-known characters have turned out quite well, I think, and I personally love the Seamus and Dean adventures, and anything where Minnie McG or Molly take center stage or play a great part. I think we have amassed quite a fun, entertaining, eclectic, interesting, and sometimes very plausible set of stories here, written five words at a tim. YAY us!

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to help me brew it.                Re: the flattery, take it away, Verity! (Or next poster! )

LOL, this story's certainly creeping along... and to be honest, I'm only posting now because I really wanted to ask Verity a question about her suggestion for future stories. After reading the past few volumes of stories - I just finished reformatting the one where Gilderoy Lockhart reads an excerpt of his 'Wagga Wagga Werewolf' book over the radio (what fun that story was to write! ) - I realized that I'm ready for a break from Lily and Severus stories for a while. We've written about 3 or 4, maybe more now, and there are just sooo many other wonderful, funny, and adventurous characters we could write about. (And aahhh... the Luna and Xeno story... a lovely one, that. *sniff*)

So Verity, your suggestion sounds great! And as there are currently only 5 or 6 folks Five Wording with any regularity, taking turns starting stories sounds very manageable. Here's my question: when you say a 'Featured Story of the Week' in The Daily Prophet, do you mean that's what we're writing every time from now on and alternating starts? Or do you mean something like every story that's a multiple of 3 or 5 or something is a DP story, so whoever's turn it is chooses the featured story topic? Or some other thing entirely?

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at measuring just the perfect                

Verity Weasley wrote:What do others think?

Ummm... how about just one other at the mo', Verity. Just yours truly. Hope you don't mind.

Ahhh... I see! I LOVE your idea! And... as there'll be lots of posts left over in the Archives thread, all the new comments on past stories could be collected in a 'Featured Story of the Week' comments page, one per story. When I set-up the Archives, I left some blank posts in the beginning, in case some things came up where a post on the first screen page of the Archives would be needed. An index of these featured stories, with links to their new comments, sounds like the perfect thing for one of those pages. So... count me in! I vote YES!

Volume XII is posted! This one had our revision stories; 5 of 'em. Remember those? I liked the challenge of working on those... maybe we can do that again soon? Lots of stories with female pairs: Luna and Padma (the 'fåravel'/'farväl' mix-up ), Hermione and Luna in Australia, and the Petunia and Lily letters continued.... what fun those were. Just Volume XIII to go, and some minor reformatting of the post titles and links in Volume XVI, and then... I can work on the story topics chart. The light's getting closer!

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Verity, do you think there's a quick way to end this story? Or... how about this? We end with a cliffhanger and continue it another time? When folks who are more attuned to this story are around more to post words to it to do it justice? Like the way we ended the Neville and the mysterious plant (Noissome Vibrissa story)? Just an idea, as this story is just draaagging.

Re: the FW Archives, thanks, Verity! Though I did use many of those same pix as my story avatars over on WX, when I started that practice in Volume VIII. I had a page of their HTML codes saved in my Five Words desktop folder. Go figure. I had to find new ones for a few that were no longer available online, and for some of the stories PatPat posted, I happened to find her avatar in an image search. So while she may not have registered here yet, she's still here in spirit.

I also wanted to keep the look of the WX posts somewhat the same, so decided to use the Times New Roman font for all the text a la WX, instead of the default one all the posts are set to, Verdana. But the colors and different bolded and italicized styles for the links etc. are absolutely brand now... I guess it's the teacher in me, but colors always make a page pop and get people's attention. And who knows? maybe one or two of this forum's nifty features might show up in one or two of the next volume's stories...

Edit: Added a link to the Neville story.

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. So ... what do you say?                

Verity, the latest update ends right when this conversation starts. It can be found in the post after the header post. Hope it helps.

Well... maybe some others will join in before Julia gets back. I did mention something like this happening 2 weeks ago. As for a series... I was just thinking a Part II, no more.

LOL, I've written too many stalling posts lately... and I don't want to make this story any longer than need be. Good luck with it, folks! Or maybe Five Words goes on a bit of a hiatus for a week or so? Let's see what happens.

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BB

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