Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XVII)

Welcome to Potty Five Words, Volume XVII! 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	- months, - days, -- hours, and -- minutes	It features our six-year anniversary special and story.

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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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Story #147 begins 1 April 2012.

Click on Story #147 (10 August 2012) for "Fred and George Meet the Marauders"

Story #148 begins 3 July 2012.

Click on Story #148 (6 October 2012) for "Cross Examinations"

Story #149 begins 12 September 2012.

Story #150 begins 29 December 2012.

Click on Story #150 (11 January 2013) for "NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS"

Story #151 - Starts in Volume XVIII.

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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	*

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    of the twins' four-poster beds                               

Will look for your comments on the other thread later, then, Verity. Hope you have/had a good day!

with a flourish and proceeded --> to

    bed, madly waving two presents                               

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Mona and Verity, great news, my 8 year-old niece and her 1st and 2nd grade teammates won the championship! It was a close game, 28 - 23. The team was sponsored by a local company, the G---burg Drillers. (Left out some letters for privacy.) It reminded me of Vernon Dursley when I first heard the name. And the blueberry cupcakes with vanilla frosting and purple sprinkles my sister baked turned out to be celebratory treats, and not just treats.

Verity, some of our placement meetings have gone that long, too. It's quite draining! But I'll be missing that experience this year. Can't say as I'll be too disappointed. I just trust that everyone will do their best to set-up a well-balanced class for me, for my return to the classroom next year.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that my nephew says he will no longer sit next to me during games, as I cheer too loudly and make his ears hurt. And I get out of my seat too much. I can't help it... if a game is exciting, esp. a championship, one, I am an active spectator.

    grumbled. "Shhhhhh...."

"But you're twelve                               

So now we know they are first-years!

Thanks, Verity! It was quite a thrilling game! And it was amazing to see how the team's skills have grown over the past 3 months. My brother-in-law coached both my niece and nephew's teams, and he really helped everyone along so well.

years old today! Get up

Great news, PAH! to the team!

    !" Lee demanded.

"What's so special                               

Thanks, Mona! I did feel bad for the other team, esp. the 2 tykes who started crying as soon as the final whistle blew. Oh, the agony of defeat. I wanted to give them a pat on their backs, and say "Good game," but thought it best to leave things be.

Now, that basketball playoffs are over, there's a recital at the end of the month to get ready for. We're still waiting to hear if my nephew made it into his school's end-of-the-year talent show. He played some Beatles tunes on his electric guitar for his audition. He was in the show last year, and we have our fingers crossed he's in it again this year, too.

    up and rubbing his eyes.                             


Thanks, Verity. You can't really go wrong with these 4:

"It feels just the same

This could be a new para and George speaking, or same paragraph and Fred continuing to speak.

Good luck to your nephew, PAH. I love the Beatles too!

    as eleven so far," Fred                             


Thanks, Mona. He's been learning, and loving, "She's a Woman" now.

    , tossing each twin his present.                             


Thanks, Verity.

Off the top of my head 12 moons of Jupiter, 12 days of Christmas, 12 is even closer to 13?

    , twelve moons of Jupiter, twelve                             

Maybe the twins don't need that much convincing about 12? And I wonder what Lee got them? Were the presents the same item? Were they a joke for April fools? And he'll give them the real presents later?

Fred, "Now let's see what

The 12 uses of dragon's blood is the only one I can think of.

    's in here!" He tore off                             

George better sit up soon...

. Lee had given them both