THINGS I WILL NOT DO AT
HOGWARTS: (Anonymous Email Source from an unidentified website but sent to us from "The Mermaid Princess"
-It is not
necessary to yell ‘POOF!’ every time I Apparate.
-I will not use Umbridge’s quill to write ‘I told you I was hardcore’.
-It is generally accepted that cats and dragons cannot interbreed,
and I should not attempt to disprove this theory, no matter how wicked the results would be.
-Asking ‘How do you keep a Gryffindor in suspense?’
and walking away is only funny the first time.
-Any resemblance between Dementors and Nargles is coincidental.
-I am not allowed to declare an official Hug-A-Slytherin day.
-I will not charm the suits of armor to perform a rendition of ‘Knights
at the Round Table’ for the Christmas feast.
-The Giant Squid is not an appropriate date to the Yule Ball.
-I will not wear my ‘DEATH EATER AND PROUD OF IT!’ shirt to school.
-Starting a betting pool on the fate of this year’s Defense
Against the Dark Arts Professor is tasteless and tacky, not a good money-making concept.
-Seamus Finnegan is not ‘after me lucky charms’.
-I am allowed to have a cat, rat, owl, or toad. I am NOT allowed
to have a reticulated python, snow leopard, Tasmanian devil, or piranha.
-42 is not the answer to every question in the OWL’s.
-I will not claim my X-files tapes are ‘Auror training videos’.
-I am not allowed to introduce Peeves to paintball.
-I will not tell the first years that they should build a treehouse
in the Whomping Willow.
-My name is not ‘Dark Lord Happy Pants’.
I cannot sign my papers as such.
-I
will not dress up as Voldemort for Halloween.
-I am not allowed to make lightsaber sounds with my wand.
-I am not allowed to sing my own personal spy music while wandering the hallways.
-Ravenclaws do not find a sign saying ‘the library is closed
for an indefinite period’ amusing in any sense.
-If asked in class what the Avada Kedavra curse does, yelling ‘It does DEATH!’ may be correct, but is
not the manner in which one should answer.
-I will not lock the Gryffindors and Slytherins in a room together and take bets on who will come out alive.
-First years are not to be fed to Fluffy.
-I will not bring a Magic 8 Ball to Divintation class.
-I will refrain from calling the Weasley twins ‘Merry and
Pippin’. I will also refrain from calling Harry and Ron ‘Frodo and Sam’. It probably isn’t smart to
call Draco ‘Legolas’, either.
-I will never ask Harry if his scar senses are tingling.
-If the thought of a spell makes me giggle for more than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not
to perform it.
-I will not steal Gryffindor’s Sword from
Dumbledore’s office and use it to patrol the hallways.
-There is not, nor has there ever been, a fifth house. I am not in it. I am also not its founder.
-I do not weigh the same as a duck.
-I am not allowed to use silencing charms on my Professors.
-I am not Xena: Warrior Princess and I shall not use war cries
to signal my entrance in to a classroom.
-I will not follow my potions instructions in reverse just to see what happens.
-I will not thrust my wand into the air before casting spells yelling ‘I
have the power!’
-When fighting Death Eaters in the final battle,
I will not thrust my wand skyward and yell ‘there can only be ONE!’
-Professor Flitwick’s first name is not Yoda.
-I will not sing ‘We’re off to See the Wizard’
when going to see Dumbledore.
-I
will not attempt to magically animate my Marshmallow Peeps.
-Bringing fortune cookies to Divintation does not count as extra credit.
-I will not give Hagrid Pokemon cards and convince him that they are real animals.
-I am not allowed to negotiate a peace treaty with Voldemort.
-I am not allowed to refer to the Accio charm as ‘The Force’.
-It’s a bad idea to tell Professor Snape he takes himself
too seriously.
-‘To conquer the world with an army of flying
monkeys’ is not an appropriate career choice.
-I am not an Animagus sloth.
-I
will not say ‘Dude, get a life!’ to Voldemort.
-Lupin does not want a flea collar.
-I will not try to take out life insurance on Harry Potter.
-I will not lick Neville Longbottom’s Toad.
-I will not sing the entire Multiplication Rock series during the Arithmancy exams.
-No matter how good an Australian accent I can do, I will not
imitate Steve Irwin during Care of Magical Creatures.
-If a classmate falls asleep, I am not to take advantage of their slumber and draw a dark mark on their arm.
-I will not put books of Muggle fairy tales in the history section
of the library.
-I will stop asking the Arithmancy teacher what
the square root of -1 is.
-I will not use ickle firsties as Christmas ornaments.
-Calling the Ghostbusters is a cruel joke to play to the resident
ghosts and poltergeists.
-When being interrogated by a member of the staff,
I will not wave my hand and say ‘These are not the droids you are looking for’.
-Albus Dumbledore’s proper title is ‘Headmaster’, not ‘My
Liege’.
-I will not tell the first year students that Professor
Snape is the voice of God.
-It
is inappropriate to put sample bottles of Selsom Blue into Professor Snape’s personal postbox.
-I will not douse Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak in lemon
juice to see if he turns visible while standing near the fire in the Common Room.
-I will not tell Professor Trelawney that I prophesized her death.
-I will not attempt to recreate the Key of Time in Transfiguration
Class.
-I will not, under any circumstances, ask Harry
Potter who died and made him boss.
-I
am not allowed to refer to Susan Bones, Hannah Abbot, and Justin Finch-Fletchey as Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.
-I will not make sock puppets of the Slytherin mascot.
-I will not yell ‘Believe it… or not’ after
any of Dumbledore’s speeches.
-I
will not start food fights in the Great Hall.
-I will not start of Herbology class by singing the theme song of ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’.
-I will stop asking Professor Snape when we will learn to make
‘Love Potion Number Nine’.
-I
will not perform Potter Puppet Pals in front of all of the Great Hall, no matter how enjoyable ‘The Mysterious Ticking
Noise’ is.
-House elves are not acceptable replacements for
Bludgers.
-I will not greet Professor McGonagall with ‘What’s
new, pussycat?’