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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:20 am
Issue Name: August Issue
Issue Number: 2.8
Editors: Avatar34 (Tina Aurora) and Lyra Elizabeth

Table of Contents:

Page 1: Table of Contents
Page 2: Event
Page 3: Birthdays
Page 4: Ask the Elf!
Page 5: Wizarding World Past Events
Page 6: Help in the Kitchen?
Page 7: The Latest in Divination
Page 8: Member of the Month
Page 9: Meet the Mods
Page 10: Around Hogwarts
Page 11: Note from the Editor
Page 12: Staff  
PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:21 am
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The Quidditch World Cup!!

As you should all know by now the current Event going on in HPGoG is The Quidditch World Cup. Participants have been sorted into two Teams. Team Romania!! AND Team Belgium!! At this Point in time we have 1 Seeker, 2 Keepers, 3 Chasers, and 2 Beaters for each Team. We have a Referee for each Playing Position as well. Refereeing the Seekers is Junimaia, refereeing for the Chasers is Iceewitch, refereeing for the Beaters is Angilwingz, and refereeing for the Keepers is me. We also have an Official Announcer and Commentator, Headmaster Adonis.

For Romania we have the following players and their Positions:


Keeper: Kamalia-Mingan Phelps [DownAzzLette]
Keeper: Mehsaa “Leah” Sparks [xCupcakesx]
Chaser: Kitty [Animekitty47]
Chaser: Helen [animefreak-01]
Chaser: Lyra [Lyra Elizabeth]
Beater: Lana [The Queen Lana]
Beater: Endria [x_Endria_x]
Seeker: Fred [101cookies]

For Belgium we have the following Players and their Positions:

Keeper: Laurel Williams [newoxikkin]
Keeper: Miranda [Mirmirfied44]
Chaser: Amber Moonshade [Stardust Disaster]
Chaser: Sarah Jane [meree]
Chaser: Andrew Adler [Oshenukhar]
Beater: James Telemar [techpriest35]
Beater: Juni Basore [Junimaia]
Seeker: Tina Aurora [Avatar34]

The First Series of questions were very easy for most of the Players. However, as time goes on the questions are getting harder and some of the Positions are not allowed to use books, movies, or the internet to answer questions. The question will continue to get progressively harder until the game is over.

For those of you reading this saying, “What about me?!? I’m participating in The Stands!!!”, please let me finish. The fans are some of the best part of Quidditch and this time is not any different. We also have a Avatar Contest going on right now for the first 10 Witches, Wizards, and House-Elf’s that Sign Up. All that is needed is a small entry fee of 200 gold. There is a theme of course and that is: Quidditch Fanatics! Support your favorite Team by participating in The Contest and The Stands!!

Stay Tuned for the Final score and the Winning Team!!


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:21 am
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August Birthdays

HPGoG would like to wish a spectacular birthday to:
Lorrieta (August 3)
Daffodil the Destroyer (August 5)
cocosam (August 10)


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If your birthday is in August but is not listed here, please post it in this thread.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:23 am
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Ask the Elf!!


Dear Ask the Elf,

My House-Elf is misbehaving, are house is starting to smell, and we don't know where its coming from, but we believe it has
something to do with, Mimsy, are house-elf. She hasn't been cleaning up properly, there are stains in our clothing, spots on
our dishes, and our beds are always un-made. She has become also a bit careless, she let the cat out, and forgot to feed it,
she's been letting gnomes get in. And the list goes on. What are we supposed to do? What treatment, or punishment can we give
her, so she will start doing her job properly again?

From,

Verilaz E

Dear Sir,

The job of the house-elf is a humble, but important one. Important to their masters that is. We live to serve you, and we ourselves when we make mistakes, punish ourselves. But the house-elf should never make a mistake twice. That is a great rule amongst us house-elves. If your house-elf does not do her job properly, then she must be punishing herself, but her master must tell her, tell her whats wrong, or you must... you must give her... clothing!!! If she does not start doing better, it is best, for when a house-elf cracks, like a bad egg, or gets too old, then it is a dangerous house-elf. It becomes dumb, and may cause accidental harm to there masters and mistress'. For house-elves have magyk too sir. So be careful sir.

Humbly at your service,

Ask the Elf
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The Queen Lana (Lana)


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:24 am
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Wizarding World Past Events!

While Harry is at Hogwarts:

August

Birthdays

August 22, 1976- Percy Weasley is born.
August 11, 1981- Ginny Weasley is born.




1991


-Percy Weasley gives his pet rat, Scabbers, to his younger brother Ron.

-Voldemort, disappointed by Quirrell's inability to steal the Philosopher's Stone, decides to inhabit him. Quirrell begins wearing a turban to hide Voldemort's face, which is sticking out of the back of Quirrell's head.

-Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia treat Harry as if he doesn't exist.


1992


3rd- Fred, George, and Ron rescue Harry from the Dursley’s in their father's Ford Anglia.

13th- Gilderoy Lockhart announces that he is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts. Harry, who arrives at Flourish and Blotts just in time for the announcement, accidentally (and unwillingly) gets caught up in the publicity. Not long afterward, Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley get into a scuffle, and Lucius drops Voldemort's diary into Ginny Weasley's cauldron.


1993


- Quality Quidditch Supplies displays the new Firebolt broomstick.

7th- On the last day of Aunt Marge's visit, Harry blows her up and runs away. The Knight Bus picks him up in Magnolia Crescent and drops him off at the Leaky Cauldron.

Post 7th- Harry stays at the Leaky Cauldron and spends his days in Diagon Alley. He does his homework out in the open, eats free ice creams, picks up his books, and repeatedly stops by Quality Quidditch Supplies to admire the Firebolt.

31th- Harry meets Hermione and Ron in Diagon Alley. They are all staying at the Leaky Cauldron. Hermione buys Crookshanks. That night, Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley in conversation - and learns that Sirius Black is after him.


1994


20th- Voldemort and Wormtail take up residence in the old Riddle house in Little Hangleton. Frank Bryce is killed, shortly before his 77th birthday. Harry Potter wakes up with his scar hurting after seeing Frank Bryce's death in a dream.

22nd- Final of the 422nd Quidditch World Cup - Ireland beats Bulgaria, 170 to 160. Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys are in attendance. That night, Death Eaters raid the campsite and are driven away when Barty Crouch Jr. casts the Dark Mark.

23rd- Bartemius Crouch sacks his house-elf, Winky. He does so after she is found holding the wand which had cast a Dark Mark.


1995


2nd- Dementors attack Dudley and Harry; Harry drives them off with a Patronus Charm. The Ministry of Magic - and the Order of the Phoenix - react to Harry's Patronus Charm. Mrs. Figg reveals her identity to Harry; Mundungus Fletcher arrives and is sent to report to Dumbledore. The Improper Use of Magic Office atttempts to expel Harry from Hogwarts, but Dumbledore arrives at the Ministry and forces them to comply with the letter of the law.

6th - Harry leaves Privet Drive and flies to Number twelve, Grimmauld Place. The Dursley’s depart for what they believe to be the prize-giving of the All-England Best-Kept Suburban Lawn Competition. The Advance Guard - "Mad-Eye" Moody, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Elphias Doge, Dedalus Diggle, Emmeline Vance, Sturgis Podmore, and Hestia Jones - arrive at Number four, Privet Drive to escort Harry to Number twelve, Grimmauld Place. Once there, Harry learns about the Order of the Phoenix, and Voldemort's current actions. Later that night, Harry dreams about studying weapons in Care of Magical Creatures.

7th- Mundungus Fletcher attempts to stash some dodgy cauldrons at Number twelve, Grimmauld Place.

12th-Harry's disciplinary hearing in old Courtroom Ten. He sees the Department of Mysteries corridor in the waking world for the first time.
*5:30 AM Harry wakes up.
*6:00 AM Dumbledore 'by a lucky mistake' arrives at the Ministry, three hours before the scheduled time of 9:00 AM.
*8:00 AM Harry's disciplinary hearing begins in old Courtroom Ten, the time and venue having been changed without his receiving notification.
Harry empties his moneybag into the Fountain of Magical Brethren after his acquittal.

30th- The Ministry of Magic passes Educational Decree 22. This decree allows the Ministry to appoint a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor -Dolores Umbridge- since Dumbledore has not yet found one.

31st- Ron and Hermione receive notification about their appointment as new Prefects. Molly Weasley buys Ron's Cleansweep Eleven. That night, Harry first sees Moody's old photograph of the 1970s Order of the Phoenix and Harry, Lupin, and Moody learn about Molly's Boggart.


1996

3rd- Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys visit a much-changed Diagon Alley. There they have a run-in with Draco and Narcissa Malfoy in Madam Malkin's, visit Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and follow Draco to Borgin and Burkes, where they overhear him threatening Mr. Borgin.

1997

1st- The Wedding- Fleur Delacour and Bill Weasley get married. The reception is broken up by a Death Eater attack.

2nd- Kreacher tells Harry Potter the tale of how he was told to go with the Dark Lord by his master Regulus Black and how he failed his master by not destroying the locket.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:26 am
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Trouble In The Kitchen?

Butterbeer


Butterbeer is a timeless classic that you can now make at home, and still get the quality of Madame Rosmerta's finest! Enjoy!


Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (8 oz) club soda or cream soda
  • ½ cup (4 oz) butterscotch syrup (ice cream topping)
  • ½ tablespoon butter




Directions:

  • Step 1: Measure butterscotch and butter into a 2 cup (16 oz) glass. Microwave on high for 1 to 1½ minutes, or until syrup is bubbly and butter is completely incorporated.

  • Step 2: Stir and cool for 30 seconds, then slowly mix in club soda. Mixture will fizz quite a bit.

  • Step 3: Serve in two coffee mugs or small glasses; a perfectly warm Hogwarts treat for two!



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:27 am
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The Latest in Divination


User Image Aquarius August 2010 Horoscope (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 ) Something in your chart is paranoid about your reputation in August, as Pluto in Capricorn makes nasty angles to other planets all month, and scours the skies for hidden enemies. Fortunately, relaxed Neptune in your own friendly sign somewhat counteracts the vibe. Neptune-y people (artistic and/or spiritual types, for example) are still likely to be attracted to you or hold you in good regard. Healers may also give assistance, or you may be able to help others heal.Meanwhile, your ruler Uranus moves from Aries back into Pisces mid-month. Theoretically, while Uranus is in Aries, he wants to help you achieve some goal or gain some results in the area of communication. He’s planted some seeds in that area, and now he’s going to go leave them alone and let them germinate for awhile. In Pisces, he comes back to take aim at your finances once again. 7 more months of Uranus taking aim at your finances and then you won’t have to deal with him in that spot again unless you live to be really really old. (It takes Uranus 84 years to circle the zodiac.)Your first instinct will probably be to want to hide your money from Uranus, since he’s spent a lot of time trying to snatch it away from many Aquarians. However, since this is his last tour in Pisces (until March 2011), you may want to consider that perhaps his real aim now is to increase your income, not destroy it. That should probably be your goal anyway, to make more money.

User Image Pisces August 2010 Horoscope (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20) Pluto in your 11th house of friends makes many difficult aspects this month. This may not affect you unduly unless you have powerful friends and supporters, as Pluto in any sector relates to powerful and influential people. If you do have such supporters or backers, there seems to be some sort of a to-do about money that doesn’t look entirely pleasant.Meanwhile, your ruler Neptune is gliding majestically through the last degrees of Aquarius in your solar 12th house, as is Chiron, the wounded healer. By April of next year, Neptune will make his foray into your own sign, and we will literally standing on the edge of an end of an era. It will mark the end of the gadgety and Interwebby Aquarian era that has overtaken our society since the mid-1990s. Your ruler will be doubly strong in your own sign.In preparation for this hand-over (which won’t be complete until 2012), Uranus moves from Aries back into your sign at the middle of this month. Uranus in Aries relates to money in your life, but it also encourages you to be more proactive about allying yourself with others who share common values. In your own sign, Uranus becomes more passive and instinctive regarding allies and perhaps even repels them. The next 7 months represent something of a last gasp in your chart’s long effort to get you toward as much independence as you can stand, so that you can form your later alliances productively. The difference is that this time around, Uranus is not being opposed by Saturn. Uranus in Pisces won’t be at war any more and what that means is that you may be able to practice being independent and in relationship at the same time. And that’s a good thing.

User Image Aries August 2010 Horoscope (Mar. 21 - Apr. 19) Pluto in your 10th house of career and reputation spends much of the month mad at someone. He gets mad at Jupiter and Saturn and even Venus and Mars. A quick interpretation of that would be that whatever your inclination is this month, someone else will have to go and have a different one. Pluto also pertains to sexual matters, so I suppose it’s possible that you are developing a reputation as a sexy beast, although I am in no way going to guarantee that.But it is possible that, especially during the early part of the month, someone else will be inclined to take a sexual relationship far more seriously than you were intending. Your own sign has been trying to feel all free and easy with Jupiter and Uranus cavorting in its early degrees, but Pluto is not Mr. Freedom and he gets irked when he cannot possess someone. Just so you know. Furthermore, you’ve got Mars (also sexy) and Venus (love and relationships) in your 7th house of bonding in all its forms. Pluto squares off with Mars on the 4th and with Venus on the 10th. Your sign is stuck with people who apparently want to fasten themselves to you this month and not let go.And I haven’t even mentioned Saturn in your 7th house yet! Saturn and Pluto also square off this month, with the aspect reaching exactitude on the 21st and building before then. This is the kind of face-off that can bring up old relationship wounds, although they are more likely to be metaphorical than physical thank goodness. Suffice to say you’ve got some stuff to work through this month. If you do, though, September will be much easier it seems.

User Image Taurus August 2010 Horoscope (Apr. 20 - May 20) Sexy Pluto is very active this month, operating from your solar 9th house. He makes a number of difficult aspects to planets in Libra, the sign that rules relationships between the sexes, as well as to Jupiter in Aries. Normally, the action of Pluto during these aspects would be to make a person feel confined, un-free. In your case, this could take the form of feeling confined in the sense of desperately wanting a vacation but there’s just too much darn work to do. Or feeling confined and restless because relationship and sexual issues keep playing on your mind.Hurt feelings could also come to the surface. The most difficult aspects are Saturn and Mars in your 6th house of health and work squaring off with Pluto. The Mars square takes place on August 4 and the Saturn square reaches exactness on the 21st. The worst case scenario, I suppose, would be some sort of injury or physical wound, especially around the time of the Mars aspect. Be careful during the first week of the month. Occasionally, Mars-Pluto aspects are associated with violence, and during that first week we do have volatile planets in Aries also heating things up.More likely though, there will be no physical violence in your life, but instead some sort of a feeling that something is trying to rupture or tear apart a relationship you’ve involved in, and it need not be a sexual or romantic one. The reason seems to be that the universe wants you to hold firm to your principles. If you acknowledge that other people have their own principles, too, you may be able to salvage the relationship.

User Image Gemini August 2010 Horoscope (May 21 - June 20) Pluto in your 8th house spends almost the whole month nursing grudges against various other planets. He squares off against no fewer than 4 planets this month. In your chart, all of these dust-ups have to do with relationships in one way or another. The action is so intense that it sounds like a good month to just go into the backyard and do some gardening, hiding out from everyone. You’re better off connecting to something tangible, like the earth, than operating in your normal air sign arena of thoughts and conversation. Another possibility is to escape through travel. Neptune in your travel house is one of the few major planets not getting involved in any major arguments this month. A nice long trip could even be a healing endeavor. Try to go during the first 2 weeks before Uranus moves back into your career sector.If you must stay in the fray the whole month, prepare for an involuntary education in the ways of society, because ours is likely to be rife with conflict. If you are able to ignore the angst in the general population, then the aspects may take you on a more personal journey. What is happening during the first part of the month is that Jupiter in Aries in your solar 11th house is squaring off against Pluto in your 8th. Jupiter in Aries represents, on one level, your powers of reasoning and judgment, because that’s what Jupiter specializes in. Pluto, on the other hand, represents the volcanic sub-surface instincts that ruthlessly promote survival, no matter the cost. Pluto specializes in the non-rational and cares little for conventional wisdom and judgment. You can actually bulk up your rational mind during the first half of the month by challenging your own instincts and discovering what lies below them.Toward the second half of the month, Pluto squares off against Saturn in the part of your chart that governs love affairs and children. The same dynamic applies, but is even more intense. The bottom line is that if you are going to engage with people on anything other than a superficial level this month, you’ll need to be ready to check yourself so that your reactions don’t become overly intense.

User Image Cancer August 2010 Horoscope (June 21 - July 22) August is kind of a crazy mixed-up month. The good news is that Uranus moves back into Pisces by the 14th. This takes energy out of your career sector and puts it back into your travel sector, so if you can take a week’s vacation go for it. The time before the 14th, however, continues to see quite a bit of action in the part of your chart that deals with your professional life, as Uranus and Jupiter will both be there.During the first week or so of August, there is a clash between Jupiter in the 10th and Pluto in your 7th house of relationships. In fact, Jupiter will actually make difficult aspects with 4 planets this month–Pluto, plus Mars, Venus, and Saturn in Libra in your solar 4th house of hearth and home. What Jupiter in the 10th is supposed to do is help prepare you for the future by encouraging you to develop intellectually through education or training. He’s supposed to help you grow up a little bit professionally. Sometimes people will also find themselves in a more public or visible role while Jupiter is in their 10th, or they will take on the role of teaching and training others. Getting a promotion or becoming a supervisor are not uncommon.During the first half of the month, though, all these other planets seem to want to interfere with Jupiter’s agenda and force you to pay attention to other things that come up regarding your career or personal life. That subsides after the 16th, so if you can make it through to then, then you can use the time later to get away and perhaps deal with whatever personal life issues seem to have the planets all roiled up.

User Image Leo August 2010 Horoscope (July 23 - Aug. 22) The biggest astrological news for Leo in August is probably the movement of Uranus from Aries back into Pisces mid-month. Uranus in Aries is a reasonably happy placement for Leo, Pisces not so much. Uranus in Pisces has been dogging you for about 7 years and now it’s time for his farewell tour. The farewell tour lasts about 7 months, until mid-March 2011. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to totally and permanently get rid of whatever problems Uranus in Pisces may have caused you so that you can be clean and fresh and ready for the vital energy of Uranus in Aries for 7 years.What kind of problem could that be? Well, the 8th house is complicated so it’s hard to give a blanket answer for all Leos. Uranus is impulsive, so you might look to see what kind of longstanding impulses have not been working out for you during the last 7 years that need to be thoroughly changed or deleted (since Uranus is about change and the 8th house is often about removing something). You could also look to see how you’ve been reacting to Pluto in Capricorn in your 6th house of health and employment, as Pluto echoes similar themes. Health patterns in particular may need to be changed. This final confrontation with Uranus in Pisces eats up more than half of the coming year for your sign. It will be a real relief to put it behind you. In the meantime, concentrate on physical and psychological health.Speaking of Pluto, he spends much of the month fighting with Jupiter and then Saturn. He evens briefly squares off with Venus and Mars. Oy vey! Co-workers may be a real pain and management perhaps even more so. The good news is that they get over it by September and everyone retreats to their various corners for awhile. You’ve also got a birthday new moon wish day this month on the 9th. That’s a good thing.

User Image Virgo August 2010 Horoscope (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) August is kind of complicated, as planets in cardinal signs (Venus, Mars and Saturn in Libra, Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, and Pluto in Capricorn) make clashing angles with each other. The planets in Libra are transiting your solar 2nd house of financial matters. Jupiter and Uranus are opposing them in your solar house of joint financial matters and other mysterious things. Pluto is situated in your love life house, also the house that deals with children and creative endeavors. After the 14th, Uranus moves back into Pisces and your 7th house of marriage. Complicated.To streamline things a bit, let’s look at this through the eyes of Jupiter in Aries, who moves slowly this month. Jupiter is the education planet, so presumably during his stay in Aries you’d be acquiring (or perhaps teaching) knowledge and skills related to joint finances, debt management, taxes and investments or other 8th house matters. Well and good. No biggie. Then Pluto comes along during the first week of August, squaring Jupiter from your 5th house of love, kids, and creativity and says something like ‘change o’plans. A serious matter requires your attention and you must travel to attend to it.’ Why travel? Because Jupiter is a travel planet as well. I’m not saying this is what will happen, it’s just an example. You’re plugging along, living your life, and then planets want to bring up serious matters that require you to make difficult adjustments to your plans. This kind of thing happens all month long, in various areas of your life. Fortunately, next month should be better!

User Image Libra August 2010 Horoscope (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) The month starts with 2 planets in your marriage and relationship sector, Jupiter and Uranus in Aries. Uranus moves back into your job and health sector on the 14th. Jupiter meanwhile clashes with 4 planets (Pluto in Capricorn, and Venus, Mars and Saturn in your sign) between the 1st and the 16th. The Jupiter square Pluto clash could mean things like planning to take a trip with your spouse and then not being able to because things arise on the home front that need to be attended to. Even shorter car trips are supposedly not well-starred this month as Mercury goes retrograde in Virgo. Some say this does not bode well for even short trips, although I haven’t found that to be the case in practice.Jupiter also relates to beliefs and opinions or convictions. Mars and Venus in your own sign challenge him this month. This is the sort of aspect that indicates that people’s opinions could hurt your feelings or their stubborn beliefs could limit your scope of action in some way, especially the opinions of a partner. Saturn in your own sign will also clash with Jupiter. Since Saturn often relates to career, your personal interest in or commitment to your career could clash with your partner’s ideas about how things ought to be. If the clash doesn’t relate to career, it could simply have to do with your own personal progress and evolution these days, clashing with your ideas about marriage and partnership.Finally, Pluto in your solar 4th house is also making difficult aspects to Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars. Bottom line: a month of adjustments. Next month–not as hairy.

User Image Scorpio August 2010 Horoscope (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Let’s start with job and career. Jupiter and Uranus start the month in your 6th house of jobs, and then Uranus moves back into your 5th house of love life, children, and creative projects by the 14th. Meanwhile, Jupiter is challenged by Pluto, Saturn, Mars, and Venus all by 16th of the month. Put bluntly, your beliefs about jobs, and work and employment are scheduled to be challenged. Meanwhile, your career and professional projects get a boost from the sun in Leo until the 23rd. The time around the new moon on the 9th provides a good time to initiate a new important creative, intellectual, or career endeavor. Pluto in Capricorn may have an impact on your professional choices as well, as he hammers at Jupiter in your job sector. For some reason, research or gaining more knowledge seem to be key. With Pluto in your 3rd house and Jupiter in your 6th house, a profession like teaching seems to fit the bill astrologically. Yet, Venus, Mars, and Saturn in your 12th house of the subconscious seem to disagree or resist your long-term direction regarding your job or vocation. It is possible that momentary feelings of laziness are discouraging you from pursuing the knowledge you need to succeed. If that’s the case, the doldrums should subside relatively early next month when planets start moving into your own sign.The most difficult clash comes from Pluto square Saturn. This aspect becomes exact on the 21st but builds before then. Both of these planets are concerned with reputation by nature, and they don’t seem to agree on what yours should be. Possible outcome: a secret is outed.

User Image Sagittarius August 2010 Horoscope (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Career month for Sagittarius! Here’s the lowdown. Saturn, which has been messing up your career progress since late 2007, is finally gone from this sector of your chart for good. Well gone for around 29 or 30 years at least. Yay! Career month actually begins on July 21, when Saturn leaves Virgo, your career sign. At this point, Venus is in your career sector. She stays through August 6. Mercury enters your career sector on July 27 and stays all the way through to October, thanks to a retrograde. Conflict-y Mars leaves on the 29th of July. And the sun enters Virgo on the 23rd of August. Mercury’s long stay in this sector can used to put attention on any type of vocational or business endeavor. The Venus energy through the first week of the month focuses more on the people involved in your profession and on building relationships with them. The sun can be used to build up your reputation. The kink in the works might be Pluto in Capricorn in your 2nd house of income. Pluto’s on something of a rampage with many of the other planets this month, although not your career-related ones. Pluto in Capricorn relates to reputation by his nature, and he spends the first week of August glaring at Jupiter, who represents the part of your chart that just wants to have fun. At the moment, necessity or at the very least protecting your reputation requires that you put work before fun for the month. Pluto’s equally unhappy with planets in your social life sector, and it seems he really wants you to concentrate on bringing home the bucks right now. So, like I said–career month!

User Image Capricorn July 2010 Horoscope (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) This month, there’s an awful lot of energy in the sector of your chart that relates to profession and respect. Venus enters Libra, your career sign, by the 7th, while Mars and Saturn spend the whole month there. I wish that I could tell you that these planets will conspire to give you a well-deserved good reputation in your field or with the public at large, and that they will bestow upon you the respect you have undoubtedly earned. This could happen, but the somewhat greater likelihood is that you’ll need to fight like a dog to win back your reputation from threats of your own devising or maybe even from volatile family members. The problem is that 2 of the planets at the top of your chart, Mars and Saturn, are not always easy to get along with. Mars is prone to outbursts of temper. Saturn’s a bit better but can seem stand-offish or correlate with career and reputation stress. Neither of these things is the end of the world, but Pluto in your own sign is picking fights with all 3 of the planets in your career sector this month as well as with Jupiter in your 4th house of family. Something inside you seemingly wants to sabotage all you have worked for. Hold your temper in August and don’t let it. If you can make it through August, you’ll see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel in September.


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Meet the Mods


Today we are going to “meet” one of our Mods. This month we will be meeting Alicia the Head-Elf.
I meet Alicia in The Three Broomsticks several days ago to take this interview. It was a very good interview and I hope that you will be able to learn a few more things about Alicia while reading this article.

Our interview began with Alicia and me deciding to meet each other in The Three Broomsticks. I arrived early to receive a table and to get my quill and parchment ready to take notes. I had just finished when in walked Alicia. She looked heckled and disheveled until she sited me. “Professor Tina!” she said bowing. “Thrilled to see you. Alicia elf is always a bit busy, so Alicia elf might have to make this interview really quick.” was the first thing she said to me.

“Alicia thrilled to see you, as well. Okay, we shall make this as quickly as we can then.” I replied.

When I commented on how nice she looked today she replied that she was wearing her favorite purple tea towel. I then offered her something to eat or drink and that it would be on me, she said that she wasn’t hungry or thirsty and offered me thanks for asking and bowed once more. I had so many questions for Alicia, started with, “So, you are one of the Heads at HPGoG, what keeps you coming back everyday?”

“Yes miss. Master Adonis made Alicia Elf, Head Elf and I is having as much a part as the other Heads of Houses.” , she responded.

“What’s your favorite part about being a Head?” I then asked.

“I is loving planning things in the guild. It makes Alicia elf really happy when masters, misses, and house-elves enjoy things Alicia elf helped planned and set up!”

“What do you do in your spear time?”

“Most of the time, Alicia elf is not having much free time. If she did, she would be in the Kitchens more. But Alicia elf is not complaining because she loves helping Master Adonis.”

“Being a Head is very critical to HPGoG, for many different reasons. Which responsibly of being a Mod do you wish you didn’t have to deal with all the time?”

“Alicia elf is loving the planning part, but is also the part she wishes she didn't have to do. Tis a lot of responsibility. Alicia elf doesn't mind doing the planning, but Alicia elf would love it more if masters and misses would help out more with the planning.”

“One of the things that the Heads do on a regular basis is coming up with new ideas. Do you ever draw a blank?”

“Alicia elf is really strange when it comes to ideas and stuff. I is not knowing how to explain it. Alicia elf usually just says ideas out loud as ideas come to Alicia elf. There is many times when Alicia elf forgets her ideas and many times when Alicia elf doesn't have an idea for days. Tis why Alicia Elf is really happy to have Master Adonis and Professor Basore (Juni) because whenever Alicia elf has no ideas they is always having suggestions!”

“It has been years since Harry Potter defeated Lord Voldemort, do you think that in the time (since Voldemort was defeated) that House-Elf’s have gotten better working conditions and better careers other then serving Witches and Wizards?”

“Alicia Elf has only ever served our Hogwarts, and my mother is doing it before that, and her mother is doing it before that. Alicia elf has always been happy where she is, so she doesn't hear much about bad working conditions! In fact, most elves is loving their careers and working conditions!”

I wanted to ask Alicia how she felt more about her Mother and Grandmother, etc. but, I could tell by the look on her face that she was really in a hurry now. “Well, I think that should be enough for an article. Is there anything else you would like to add?”

“Alicia elf must go! heart

“Okay. Good bye Alicia. I will see you around school.”

So ended my interview with Alicia. I hope that all of you reading this love the article and I would be on the look out for more Meet the Mods articles in the future.


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Around Hogwarts


There are a lot of things going on Around Hogwarts this month. One of which is the Quidditch World Cup. This Event is going to last all Summer Term. For more details read the Event article at the first page of the Hogwarts Monthly.

Just because, we have an Event going on doesn’t mean we should forget about the rest of the guild. Remember we still have Discussions, Games, Role-play, and many more things you can still do while you are here over the Summer. There are a lot of things going on now and you should have fun!



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Note from the Editor


Hello, again everyone. I just wanted to say, “Thanks!!” my Co-Editor for stepping up last Month when my real life got in the way of my Editor duties. I’d also like to give a big thanks to my Staff. Look out for a surprise wink . I hope everyone likes this issue, we worked really hard to make it and I hope you enjoy reading it.


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