Lesley, HP, & Politics

Hey everyone this is Lesley and since I love Harry Potter so much I thought I would try and express my passion through words. Actually, I mostly just wrote this because Tiffany has sent me and the other DA founders upwards of thirty emails encouraging us to do so. In any case, Harry Potter is unlike any other series that has ever been written. Or will be for that matter. But to truly understand the miracle that is Harry Potter, one must also explore the culture that surrounds the series. When JK Rowling wrote her exquisite chronicles, she laid the groundwork for the greatest cultural revolution that readers have ever seen. Harry and his crew have inspired numerous fanfic and forum sites, musical groups, and short film makers. Today, I want to alert all Harry Potter lovers to the phenomenon that is HP Alliance. This organization applies Dumbledore's ethics and morals to the real world by battling the Sudanese government, world hunger, big media, and corrupt economic policies. This week the alliance urges you, as Harry Potter fans, to encourage anyone who is 18 or older to register to vote in celebration of National Register to Vote Week. Lets Wizard Rock the Vote!!!!

Club Rush Success

Club Rush was rather successful considering. After perusing around a few tables, I noticed that we got more sign-ups than many... and I was NOT spying! xD Disregarding personal friends of mine and my fellow DA officers, we got about 45 legit sign-ups!!! Thank you for all the support! Anyway, so all I believe you need to know for now is that our next meeting is the coming Friday (October 3) at lunch in room F-8. Hope to see you there :) In the meantime, questions/concerns/rants/whatever can be sent to me at tiffydepoudlard@gmail.com. ~Tiffy

Club Rush

Hello, everyone. Just wanted to drop a quick word about club rush. We are planning to have cookies, so you should come by and signup for DA even if you came to our first meeting. Also, you all should come and loiter around our table for awhile to encourage more signups (people tend not to approach signups at a club table that is devoid of anyone standing around, makes them feel awkward). So come on over on Friday! Your presence will encourage others to come over! ~Tiffy

Works in Progress

Ciao, everyone! I think tis nigh time for an update concerning our emblem. So, as you know, I sketched in ink an idea of what our emblem should look like (check profile picture right now to see it). Daunted by the notion of creating a wonderous emblem on photoshop, I decided to commision the job to your fantastic senior undersecretary, George. Here is his emblem so far. Also, apparently George and Will (a member of DA) are competing and each making their own version of the emblem... what trouble, now we shall have to pick one or the other. Unfortunately, I cannot post Will's emblem-in-progress because he does not have it anywhere online at the moment. So that is all the updates on the emblem design so far. In other news, I believe that I have not yet explained my email address to all, "tiffydepoudlard" is French for "tiffyofhogwarts" - Hogwarts = Poudlard! ~Tiffy

Rosella's first post- yay!

Hello fellow wizards and witches! So I am finally blogging for the first time because Tiffany insists that the rest of the officers participate, even though she is doing a fantastic job by herself. This is Rosella by the way, and I am your secretary/propagandist. Well, our first meeting was on Friday and I just wanted to say that we really appreciate you guys coming and showing your support and we really hope you had a good time because I know I did. So, I just wanted to say thanks and how truly awesome it is that Harry Potter fans are able to come together to celebrate their love for such an amazing phenomenon. And thats all thanks to you guys. Dumbledore would be proud! ~Rosella

Fundraising across the school year

Greetings. What do you all think about having three main fundraising events per semester? For this semester, the tentative plan (meaning we would love your guys' input) is October= bake sale (pumpkin cookies, cauldron cakes, etc.), November= book drive (though we accept book donations years round), December= participate in Holiday Craft Fair. For second semester, three ideas are the Cultural Food Fair, possibly a rummage sale (that idea came to me today because I volunteered at a rummage sale this morning that seemed pretty successful from what I saw during my shift, plus I have a lot of good stuff for a rummage sale accumulated at my dad's place), and another book drive or maybe even a raffle (for the raffle we would need a grand prize of some sort, any ideas? however I am sure we can get some vendors, like Copperfield's and Fruit in Motion, to donate oh maybe five dollar gift cards as mini/sub prizes for the raffle). Now though this is thinking way ahead, we definitely need to get England (location of Hogwarts!) for our country in the Cultural Food Fair (wait... they ARE having one this year, right?). Though, English cuisine is a little harder to define. I can think of 'fish and chips' and 'Knickerbocker glory'. Anyway, the main concerns right now are the bake sale (Oct.), book drive (Nov.), and craft fair (Dec.). So mull it all over and leave a comment or email me with ideas, questions, concerns, suggestions, etc. This club is going to dominate! and have a blast doing it! ~Tiffy

First Meeting

Yay, so we had our first meeting today! Thank you to all who attended. On behalf of your officers, I would just like to say that we were extremely pleased with the first meeting and quite impressed at your knowledge of spur of the moment Harry Potter trivia. For all who were not present, we basically did Harry Potter trivia for pumpkin cookies as a low-key first meeting. If we had time, we were going to do introductions all around. However, we did not have time, so we will just do that next meeting. We will not meet the coming Friday because it is club rush. So we will have our next meeting the Friday after club rush. It will be basically a group introduction and/or discussion (maybe you having a pressing question you would like to ask, like How do wizards ever learn the stuff we learn in school before they get to Hogwarts? or To what extent does the portrait of a dead person contain the knowledge/soul of the person?). We will also throw around some fundraiser ideas (for more on that, see previous post about fundraiser ideas). Anyway, thanks again to all you wonderful attendees! ~Tiffy

DA Emblem

A profile picture for this site is now up! Check out the inked DA emblem. Hopefully we shall soon have the improved, photoshoped emblem done. ('sirius' -do not mind the silly pun on "serious"- voice: Will you glow with pride with our DA emblem blazing on your chest?) ~Tiffy

Funds, not just for Books

Hey. So not only are our fundraising efforts going towards donating books and spreading the love of reading, they are also for a. a club set of the HP series, b. prizes, generally yummy food ones, for games and activites we do, and c. funding the (possibly Slug Club) Christmas party we are planning to have in Decemeber as a celebration of the first semester of DA. Thus, the money we raise also goes towards our own enjoyment (in addition to the joy of doing good by donating books and spreading reading)! ~Tiffy

Ideas for Fundraisers

1. Telling people what we are fundraising for and asking for donations.
2. Bake, food sale. We can sell butterbeer, treacle fudge, ton-tongue toffee, and the likes! Another possibility for selling pumpkin cookies and/or butterbeer, pumpkin juice, or pumpkin shakes at tutorial.
3. Book drive, possibly a week-long one where people can drop off their books and we will deliver them to school libraries. Of course, anyone cannot donate books at any time. However, we could have a drive right before Christmas to give the books as a Christmas present to elementary schools.
4. Holiday craft fair. What are you all handy at making? We could make scarves, possibly tee-shirts, wristbands, quote books, other items students might buy during the Chrismtas season.
What do you guys think? ~Tiffy (P.S. Today I learned not to talk about anything Harry Potter related while driving cause I got so excited that I almost hit a car. So be warned.)

The Beginning

Greeting to all! This is the beginning of DA (Dumbledore's Army). As we all know, Dumbledore lives!!! I shall start with an introduction of the founders of this club. Us founders consist of me (your president), Ciara (your vice president), Rosella (your secretary) and Lesley (your treasurer). Now, this club is mainly just a place for Harry Potter fans to enjoy the company of fellow Harry Potter fans. However, besides a wide variety of Haryy Potter related activites (discussion/debate, games, and parties), we are also a group dedicated to fundraising to put more books (especially the Harry Potter series) into public schools and libraries. Our meetings will be on Fridays in F-8. I, and I am sure my fellow officers, are extremely excited to get started! (We are also very excited for the release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. 81 days!!!) Come join us at our first meeting on Friday the 19th. There will be treats! In the meantime, this website (and more specifically blog) will continue to be updated. As of now, you can subscribe to this blog. Also, below the posts, there is a gadget of Harry Potter news from four different websites (which eliminates the need for such news to put posted in these entries), and there is a Harry Potter poster of the day. Please feel free to leave comments on blog posts when you come buy, in fact we love and encourage comments! If you have an questions, concerns, suggestion, or something you would like me to post here on the site for others to comment upon, email me at tiffydepoudlard@gmail.com. For posts (which can be anything from a rant to a question addressed to members of the club and readers of this site), I only ask tht u dnt type liek this cuz its hrd 2 read. Anyway, more to come later! ~Tiffy