The Serpentimes

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By: Cody Lewis A second-year Slytherin student sits in the Magical Bugs ward at St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, awaiting yet another blood test. It is her tenth trip to the hospital in the past week. She is being tested for dragon pox, a disease that has forced her to miss the [...]

By: Sirithre Leylnn Now that The Serpentimes is powered by WordPress, it makes it much easier for me to keep track of how many visits each page has gotten and so forth. It’s quite fun to take a look and see just how people are getting to our site. Definitely keep coming back and increasing [...]

By: Zoki Phantom Many would think “but what’s there to survive when the holidays are all about having fun”, but in reality we know that in between work or school and HOL itself, it can get quite busy during this season. Of course, once you’ve finished or gave up everything you can sit back and [...]

By: Sirius Fudge December is here and you can fill the cold chill in the air. Hogwarts is already filled with the wintery atmosphere with raining snow outside. The Slytherin dungeon also has its share with its falling snow enjoyed not just by the snakes but also of the other houses as well. It proved [...]

By: Jenna Hathaway With the month of December coming soon, I got to thinking about all the Christmases I have spent in my life. Most of you are probably used to white Christmases. I regret to say I have never experienced even one of them. This is why I love to sing ‘I’m dreaming of [...]