This story was submitted to Manual RedEye by Norah Wulkopf (10, J&C).
Dumbledore’s Army celebrated Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in the Harry Potter series, and competed for house points through a trivia game and riddle-solving competition after school until 3:30 P.M. on Jan. 28 in Mr. Wes Curtis’s (VA) room.
Each meeting, the houses compete for house points to win the House Cup as characters do in the Harry Potter books. The house with the most points wins.
Ravenclaw, which placed last in the trivia competition and the riddle-solving competition, began the meeting with 1,675 house points.
Hufflepuff, which placed first in the trivia competition and third in the riddle-solving competition, began the meeting with 1,360 house points
Gryffindor, which placed second in the trivia competition and first in the riddle-solving competition, began the meeting with 1,090 house points.
Slytherin, which placed third in the trivia competition and second in the riddle-solving competition, began the meeting with 890 house points.
“I think the meeting went well and wasn’t too chaotic,” Rae Banks (12, VA) said.
The houses answered trivia questions in order to spell out their clue for the riddle-solving game.
Teams revealed a letter in their clue for each point they earned. The teams were required to fully spell out their clues which revealed the locations of each house’s Triwizard Cup.
Once the houses located their cups, they had to eat “gillyweed.”
“We used seaweed chips as a stand in for gillyweed, which the characters used to breathe underwater during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament,” Banks said.
Because there were ten minutes of the meeting left, the houses competed in general trivia to earn house points again.
“It was more organized than meetings usually are, which is why we had the left over time,” Abigail Hassler (12, J&C) said.
Dumbledore’s Army’s next meeting, which will celebrate Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be held in late February after school in Mr. Curtis’s room.
