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Archive for January, 2012

January Issue

By: Sirithre Leylnn It’s a new year! A time for new beginnings! And that means you can look forward to a whole ‘nother year of articles, photographs, recipes, and crafts from us here at the Serpentimes. But we need your help! Get submitting! You want to earn points for your house, don’t you? Tell us! [...]

January 30th, 2012
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Newbie’s Guide to Picking Classes

By: Jenna Hathaway Every beginning of term, you are faced with the impossible task of choosing just five classes from the long list of fascinating, intriguing, and very interesting names that is presented before you. If you’re a newbie, no doubt this is the most exciting part of starting your HOL experience, but even to [...]

January 30th, 2012
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Newbie Guide: The Art of Rating

By: Zoki Phantom The truth is, every newbie craves for more beans once they join HOL, and when you learn that leaving ratings and comments to the submissions for the Art and Library Departments gives you beans, you just run there and get to work, usually overlooking or ignoring the rules. You don’t have to [...]

January 30th, 2012
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Unicorns Exposed!

By: Zoki Phantom Have you ever wondered how the myths and stories about Unicorns started? Have you ever wondered if those completely perfect and innocent magical creatures aren’t just a fake rumor that became popular? What if they aren’t actually extinct but in fact they didn’t even exist in the first place? In various popular [...]

January 30th, 2012
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Bean Puzzles

By: Rorey Padfoot Who said it? Complete the puzzle and send me (Rorey Padfoot) in an HOL message the saying and who said it to earn 15 beans.   Name that Snake Complete the puzzle and send me (Rorey Padfoot) in an HOL message your answers.  2 beans per correct answer. See more articles by [...]

January 29th, 2012
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Happy New Year!

By: Sirius Fudge Here’s a celebratory new year’s graphic made by the talented Sirius Fudge! See more articles by Sirius

January 27th, 2012
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February: Leap Year, Groundhog Day—Oh My!

By: Lisette Westerveldt After the Christmas and winter holidays of December, and then the New Year celebrations in early January, the days since have been rather dull and slow. But don’t fear—February is here! Although February is indeed the shortest month of the year (even including the leap day for this year), it also happens [...]

January 27th, 2012
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Review: Drop Dead Diva

By: Jenna Hathaway Drop Dead Diva is a show on Lifetime that not many people know about (I seem to be watching a lot of these types of shows). It tells the story of Deb Dobkins, a beautiful blonde supermodel on the cusp of her career and life when she got into a car crash [...]

January 27th, 2012
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Twelve Tips to be Awesome this 2012

By: Sirius Fudge Welcome to the Year of the Water Dragon! Most of us are psyched in the changing of the year that it becomes a worldwide phenomenon. Even the Muggles have their own way of celebrating the New Year. As for us in the wizarding world, we take pride in celebrating it with our [...]

January 27th, 2012
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New Year Rhymes

By: Sirius Fudge The holidays had come and gone Students fill the halls once more Welcome back to everyone A Happy New Year, the dragons roar! As we celebrate the end of the term Like a fresh new start of the spring With quills and multi-colored balloons We welcome the year of the dragon There [...]

January 27th, 2012
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