HPKCHC October Classes
Charms: time-turners
Option #1 - An item from a specific point in history. Any point, from yesterday to the age of the dinosaurs. You must, however, research carefully and report back why this item will be helpful to you when you travel to that time. For example, if you are traveling to the ice age, then a pair of thick, woolen socks would be most helpful. If you are traveling to 1942, you may wish to knit yourself a beret to aid you as you parachute in to fight alongside the French Resistance.
Option #2 - An item from a very specific time in the future. Again, please tell me precisely why this item will come in handy. If it were me, for instance, I would travel to the time when the Great Recession is over, and I would knit myself a large felted purse to hold all that money that will invariably be headed my way. (It could happen!)
DADA:
Craft an object that somehow wards off a haunting by the undead. Dementors are magical beings and are thus not undead, despite the strong resemblance.
Divination:
Option #1 - Do a tea, coffee or wine reading, show and explain for us your results, then make or spin a project showing what you learned or saw, or what equipment you used.
Option #2 - Use tea, coffee or wine to dye your yarn, thread or roving. Before and after pictures are required. Process pictures are appreciated.
Option #3 - With the changing of the seasons, ghosts and ghouls leave their resting places. Practice your Divination by communing with the spirits. Use one of the Divination method of Scrying, show and explain for us your results, then make or spin a project showing what you learned or used. Make sure you post a picture of your spun yarn with something for scale such as demonstrating wraps per inch with a ruler.
Herbology: Take inspiration from the symbols of Fall (leaves, pumpkins), and/or craft in its colors (yellow, red, orange, purple, and brown).
History of Magic:
Assignment Option One: Attend Sir Nicholas’s Deathday Party and use the opportunity to interview an attending ghost. Craft something in honor of the ghost you have interviewed. The expected ghostly guest list can be reviewed here. (Note: Peeves is not a ghost, he’s a poltergeist. He was never among the living and can not be trusted to provide an accurate account of…well, anything.)
Assignment Option Two: Sir Nicholas would appreciate some help with the decorations for this year’s expanded celebration. Craft something to bring to the party that will help spread the spirit of his Deathday festivities!
Muggle Studies: ANY project based on ANY television show - NOT a movie.
Potions: Professor Regulus Moonshine is most famous for developing a potion to suppress a hag’s usual desire for human flesh. He lost several chunks of his own body while conducting the clinical trials.
Option 1: We all have bad habits that we’d like to suppress. Craft a potion to help you overcome one of these nasty habits. Perhaps a pair of gloves out of a cashmere blend that you wouldn’t want to smell of smoke, or a felted bag to help you get over that three-vending-machine a day lunch habit.
Option 2: If your potioneering skills aren’t up to Professor Moonshine’s standards, create something that will protect you from flesh-eating hags and other dark denizens of the night.
Transfiguration: Nymphadora Tonks - Create a costume or disguise. Your costume must be for a person or animal to wear, not an inanimate object.
Option #1 - An item from a specific point in history. Any point, from yesterday to the age of the dinosaurs. You must, however, research carefully and report back why this item will be helpful to you when you travel to that time. For example, if you are traveling to the ice age, then a pair of thick, woolen socks would be most helpful. If you are traveling to 1942, you may wish to knit yourself a beret to aid you as you parachute in to fight alongside the French Resistance.
Option #2 - An item from a very specific time in the future. Again, please tell me precisely why this item will come in handy. If it were me, for instance, I would travel to the time when the Great Recession is over, and I would knit myself a large felted purse to hold all that money that will invariably be headed my way. (It could happen!)
DADA:
Craft an object that somehow wards off a haunting by the undead. Dementors are magical beings and are thus not undead, despite the strong resemblance.
Divination:
Option #1 - Do a tea, coffee or wine reading, show and explain for us your results, then make or spin a project showing what you learned or saw, or what equipment you used.
Option #2 - Use tea, coffee or wine to dye your yarn, thread or roving. Before and after pictures are required. Process pictures are appreciated.
Option #3 - With the changing of the seasons, ghosts and ghouls leave their resting places. Practice your Divination by communing with the spirits. Use one of the Divination method of Scrying, show and explain for us your results, then make or spin a project showing what you learned or used. Make sure you post a picture of your spun yarn with something for scale such as demonstrating wraps per inch with a ruler.
Herbology: Take inspiration from the symbols of Fall (leaves, pumpkins), and/or craft in its colors (yellow, red, orange, purple, and brown).
History of Magic:
Assignment Option One: Attend Sir Nicholas’s Deathday Party and use the opportunity to interview an attending ghost. Craft something in honor of the ghost you have interviewed. The expected ghostly guest list can be reviewed here. (Note: Peeves is not a ghost, he’s a poltergeist. He was never among the living and can not be trusted to provide an accurate account of…well, anything.)
Assignment Option Two: Sir Nicholas would appreciate some help with the decorations for this year’s expanded celebration. Craft something to bring to the party that will help spread the spirit of his Deathday festivities!
Muggle Studies: ANY project based on ANY television show - NOT a movie.
Potions: Professor Regulus Moonshine is most famous for developing a potion to suppress a hag’s usual desire for human flesh. He lost several chunks of his own body while conducting the clinical trials.
Option 1: We all have bad habits that we’d like to suppress. Craft a potion to help you overcome one of these nasty habits. Perhaps a pair of gloves out of a cashmere blend that you wouldn’t want to smell of smoke, or a felted bag to help you get over that three-vending-machine a day lunch habit.
Option 2: If your potioneering skills aren’t up to Professor Moonshine’s standards, create something that will protect you from flesh-eating hags and other dark denizens of the night.
Transfiguration: Nymphadora Tonks - Create a costume or disguise. Your costume must be for a person or animal to wear, not an inanimate object.