HSKS 6

What Patronus Charm would you create?

Sea Otter You would create an Otter Patronus just like Hermione. Your personality must be intelligent, determined, thoughtful, and graceful.

How do you compare? Take this test! | Tests from Testriffic

How Randomly Cute Is Your Personality?

Underwear Cute Your personality proves to be so randomly cute that you'd wear underwear on your head just because you can. Let's just hope there clean...

How do you compare? Take this test! | Tests from Testriffic

How Randomly Cute Is Your Personality?

Odd Cute Your just a bit odd, but its still cute. I would totally give you a hug.. but I don't trust strangers.

How do you compare? Take this test! | Tests from Testriffic

What Patronus Charm would you create?

Stag You would create a Stag Patronus just like Harry Potter does. Your personality must be brave, heroic, focused, and passionate.

How do you compare? Take this test! | Tests from Testriffic

The winner of the first Hufflepuff house quiz is...

Since everyone posted their questionnaires early I picked a name for another House Prize.  

(See, it pays to do your homework ;)


Don't forget, today is picture day!  Post a photo of yourself or a digital representation to your blog.  I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's portaits :)

Crocheted Hat Pattern
Divine Hat

Knit Hat Bracket Pattern

Utopia Hat

Knit Sock Bracket Pattern

Campfire Socks

PDF Versions of the Knit Hat and Knit Sock have been e-mailed to all of you. There is no PDF version of the crocheted hat.

Best of luck everyone!

Okay ladies and gentlemen ... The signups for the dueling club are officially closed. We have a total of 38 participants this round: 26 will be crafting hats and 12 will be knitting socks.

So, with wands at the ready … Here is what each of your duels will require:

The crocheted hat will require a skein (less than 200 yards) of worsted weight yarn. You will also be using a K (6.5 mm) hook as well as an I (5.5 mm) hook. The recommended gauge is 3 dc (with the K hook) is equal to one inch. Tools include a yarn needle (for tucking in ends).

The knit hat will require a skein (less than 200 yards) of worsted weight yarn. You will also be using US 8 (5mm) knitting needles – a 16” circular and DPNs. Tools include a cable needle and yarn needle (for tucking in the ends). There is no gauge listed, per se, so you will have to wait and look at the pattern to determine how to resize the hat to fit your partner (i.e. do more or less pattern repeats, if necessary).

The sock knitters will require 1 – 2 skeins (between 250 to 500 yards) of DK (8 ply) sock yarn. The amount of yarn required depends on the size of the sock you will be knitting. They recommend one skein for the women’s sizes and small or medium men’s sizes but two skeins (or one plus a contrasting color) for the larger men’s sizes. You will also be using US 4 double pointed needles (or size needed for gauge) and they recommend a US 4 - 12” circular needle, but it is optional and the whole sock can be worked with the DPNs. You will also need a yarn needle and stitch markers. The recommended gauge is 6 sts in stockinette = 1” (after blocking) and 8 rows = 1” (after blocking).

You will have to contact your partner to get their mailing address, sizing information and color preferences. I will e-mail everyone the bracket along with a list of participants and their e-mail addresses so that you can do so. Keep in mind that this is also meant to be a stash busting event so please don’t feel like you have to go out and purchase new yarn to participate. Feel free to use yarns from your stash, as long as they are the correct weight for the pattern.

The patterns will be posted on the HSKS6 blog THIS Sunday, September 21st at 10:00 AM CST and the dueling will begin!

We have had a fantastic turnout for the duel club so far and I’m very excited to get the dueling started! Therefore, I will only be accepting applications through tomorrow (Friday, September 19^th) at noon CST.

The bracket will be sent (via e-mail and with a link posted on the blog) on Friday evening and I will also post the specifications for round 1 at that time.

The pattern for round 1 will be posted on the HSKS6 blog at 10:00 AM CST on Sunday, September 21st and the dueling will begin!

So if any of you are deciding whether or not to join us, please do! For more information, please see the following blog post.

This will be the first time that we're doing this :) Picture day will be on Monday, September 22nd.

So, what do you do? You will need to either post a real picture of yourself OR, if you really don't have a picture of yourself to post you can post a meez.

Many of the students have gotten back into the swing of things and the newer students are learning what Hogwarts is all about. Amazingly HSKS 6 has seen the highest enrollment of male students! This is a good thing :)

The Beginning of the Year Term went off without a hitch! The party lasted well over three hours and some of the best dishes were shared in the potluck style feast. Of little concern is a particular stash of Firewhiskey and Butterbeer. Hopefully, though, we won't have any students forced to go through any rehabilitative classes because of their dependence on such beverages.

Tour of the Grounds Mishap
A few of the first years fell into the lake and got a first hand introduction to the merpeople in the village in the lake. We found out that Guinifer LaFleur could not swim!! Lucky Henry Longstaff had a solution. What do you think that was??

I few of the students have been seen with Canary Creams! I hope that does not get out of hand like it did 2 terms ago.

Hello, all!

It is time to announce the early House Points! I will also give a little explanation on how I add the points.

Specific activities in HSKS are worth numerical points. One of the early House Point incentives was to post the HSKS logo in the sidebar of your blog by Friday, September 12th. Each person that had the logo posted earned 5 House Points. I take all the points possible and divide them against the actual points in order to get a percentage. So, say there are 23 Gryffindors. The possible number of points that they can earn for the Early Points activity was 115. If only 20 of them participated in the activity then would receive 100 points. So, 100 divided by 115 will give me a participation percentage of 87%. All scores are accumulative.

Right now I rely heavily on the Head Girls to keep track of the scores and log them on a special sheet that I have created. At any time, however, sporadically for no reason and should I deem it necessary, I will go student by student to validate the scores to make sure that they are correct. So, if you ever see a drastic change in your House scores that would be the reason why.

Take Heed!!! Just because your House may run behind throughout the entire swap it does not mean that you should give up. In HSKS 2 Hufflepuff ran behind almost the entire swap, but because they found the Snitch in the third round they came from behind and won the House Cup. Overall, your House needs you to participate - that is mainly what this swap is about. So, sit back, have fun and make some long lasting friends :)

Hello fellow Hufflepuffs. I've volunteered to put together our house quizzes. Here is the first one, it is due by Sunday at midnight. I'm looking forward to get to know a little about everyone. Clio T.