Hello everyone, I'm officially bringing August's Hogsmeade Weekend to a close. Thank you to everyone for your participation. I enjoyed reading the discussion posts and the survey post! Quite fun, guys!


Here are the winners of our three Hogsmeade Contests:

1. Hogwarts Mottos:
First place: vixen_of_light with "Hogwarts: Because a Good Education is More Important than Limbs" with 14 votes!
Second place: tsukinofaerii with "Keeping the world safe from magical teenagers and Weasleys since 1000 AD" and 9 votes
Third place: esso with "Always poke a sleeping dragon with a big stick - then run!" with 7 votes

Our other participants were: alonelymiracle, astronomychica, eternalslacker, __megh, keristars, nyreak, chorusgirl

2. House Mascots:
First place: mystifying_haze with this re-designed Hogwarts shield and 21 points!
Second place: keristars with this image of the mascots in costume and 18 points
Third place: tsukinofaerii with this really cool dragon drawing and 3 points.

mystifying_haze had a second entry, the Hogwarts motto over the house tie images, which earns Slytherin a second set of participation points! (and she gets more knuts! cool!)

3. Hogsmeade Captions:
First place: tsukinofaerii with "Being transformed into a snowman, Harry decided, was far from the wors tfate Voldemort could have visited upon him. He still spent time with his friends, he no longer had to attend classes, and his hair was better than ever." and 16 votes!
Second place: This was a tie between vixen_of_light with "Harry's attempt to get Hermione and Ron to get together involved certain sacrifices...!"
and bloody_frogs with "Ron and Hermione celebrate their freedom together with confetti after successfully Transfiguring Harry into a snowman, thus ending the H/Hrship." They each got 7 votes
Third place: chorusgirl with "Ron and Hermione flirt casusally by playing in snow.
Harry checks out Hermione's butt. And smiles." and 6 points

Other participants were: astronomychica, eternalslacker, esso, __megh, nyreak


Congratulations to everyone! Super cookies to tsukinofaerii for placing in the top 3 in all the contests! Slytherin must be proud. :D


Also, apologies to those whose entries did not make it into the polls -- they were posted to the submissions post after the poll was put up, thus becoming invalid.



Furthermore, all the applications at hh_stamping still need votes! We need at least 10 before we can give them the final stamp - that's two and a half people from each house. Let's not leave them waiting too long, please. (Besides, we can't give out the points for stamping until the applications are tallied with a final stamp!)



I will announce all the points and knuts earned this Hogsmeade Weekend once hh_stamping has been tallied!



love, etc,
Keri
Hogsmeade Mayor // HiH Co-Mod