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I was surprised while catching up on blogs from work today to find out that I won the first Ravenclaw House Prize for this term! And all I had to do was post my biography last week...(names were drawn from those who completed that homework assignment). Yay! I can't remember the last time I won something.

On a related topic (sort of), I've been laughing at myself recently because every time a House Quiz is posted, I want to complete it. This week the Hufflepuff Quiz was anagrams. Ooh, fun! Tonight the Slytherin Quiz is Order of the Phoenix trivia. Ooh, fun!

I'm impatient for the next Ravenclaw homework, and I completed this week's before 5 am Monday morning, I think.

...these may be strong clues as to why I sorted into Ravenclaw, no?

:D

Andromache dropping in again...

Remember that snoring problem I talked about in my last post? Well, Emma, Patonga, and I put our Ravenclaw heads together over the weekend and came up with a Silencing potion to keep Emma's snoring quiet so Patonga and I can sleep. And Emma tried it last night, and it worked!

Um, except it turned out there was one slightly...unexpected side effect. I'm sorry, Emma! No one will notice, will they, Patonga?

...perhaps we should work on a slight alteration to the potion, girls.

You know, putting a misspelled word in a cryptogram is a little mean... :P

Here's the solution to the Ravenclaw House Quiz:

Quick note to those who read my blog but are not involved with HSKS5: I'm going to be sharing my blog with my Ravenclaw alter-ego, Andromache Tonks, for a while. I'll try to label all such posts appropriately so you'll know to just skip on by. :)

A Note from Andromache:

I'm a first-year at Hogwarts and, wow, this place is so confusing! I assume it'll get better, but this first week has felt like I'm just spinning around trying to find my bearings. I've finally figured out how to get to the Ravenclaw dorms and have found out who my roommates are: Emma Scrimgeour and Patonga Pinkstone.

We have a little problem in our dorm, though, because Emma snores! So far it hasn't been too bad, but she says it happens when she's really tired. She's already snoring and the term has only just started--I'll be lucky if I get any sleep once the real studying begins!

We've decided that we need to make a Silencing Potion to quiet Emma's snoring and give Patonga and I a good night's sleep.

Hey Patonga, how are you at potions?

I've had many, many opportunities to join sock clubs over the last few years, but have never succumbed.

Until this one came up and I could no longer resist. I just joined and I can't wait to see what they're going to come up with!

Another thing I've never done is participate in a swap of any kind. The main reason for my reluctance on those is that I worry that I won't be able to knit to a deadline--no matter how much time is given. I don't do well with deadlines and knitting, even when they're self-imposed.

But I just joined a swap, because it looked like it'll be a lot of fun and because it's a sock KIT swap, not a sock swap. There is a handmade component to the swap, but it's pretty flexible so I'm confident I'll be able to follow through. The swap I joined is Hogwarts Sock Kit Swap 5, a Harry Potter-themed swap with games and activities throughout the swap. Because I didn't want to create a whole separate blog for my "character," you're going to see blog posts popping up here that relate to the swap (I've only just got into the swing of things here--trying to maintain two separate blogs might have been overdoing).

As a new student at Hogwarts, I will have homework from time to time...

Oh, and I've been sorted into Ravenclaw. I get to spoil a Slytherin in this swap. Should be fun!