{"id":1286,"date":"2015-08-24T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2015-08-24T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:22:31","slug":"horcruxes-hunted-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2015\/08\/24\/horcruxes-hunted-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Horcruxes Hunted on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Saturday, a group of incoming freshmen familiarized themselves with the campus in a new and challenging way–by tracking down horcruxes in the Horcrux Scavenger Hunt, the first event of\u00a0the Harry Potter’s World series<\/a>.
\nArranged into five (randomly named) teams–The Bludgers, The Grangers, The Snapes, The Broomsticks, and The Lupins–these students raced each other around Alfred University, using a set of seven clues to track down the hidden horcruxes, based on the magical artifacts from the sixth and seventh Harry Potter books.\u00a0To get credit for finding each horcrux, they had to take a picture of the entire team with it and send it to the hogwarts@alfred email account. From where we sat at mission control on that beautiful sunny day, it looked like a blast! Ultimately, the Broomsticks took first place, with the Bludgers and Snapes coming in close second and third respectively.
\nIn the order in which the horcruxes were found\u00a0in the original books, we present to you the horcrux hunters of Alfred University:<\/p>\n

Tom Riddle’s Diary<\/h3>\n

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Tom Riddle\u2019s diary<\/a> was turned into a Horcrux while he was still at Hogwarts, sent back to Hogwarts castle by Lucius Malfoy, and destroyed beneath the dungeons of the Hogwarts castle. We hid ours on the front doors of Steinheim Castle, where it often proved a challenge for team members to squeeze themselves in for the selfie.<\/p>\n

Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring<\/h3>\n

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From the creation of the Resurrection Stone in the 13th century to its placement in a gold setting as it was passed down through the family, Marvolo Gaunt\u2019s ring<\/a> was a piece of jewelry with a lot of history. We decided to hide it next to the book\u00a0Jewelry Through the Ages<\/em> in the Scholes Library.<\/p>\n

Salazar Slytherin’s Locket<\/h3>\n

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This turned out to be the trickiest one by far! In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em>, when Dumbledore and Harry finally succeed in retrieving a locket from the cave where Voldemort hid it (at great cost), they discover that it’s a fake, and that a note has been left by someone who switched it out with the real horcrux, intending to destroy it. We wanted to add in some of that sense of crushing despair, so put\u00a0our own note from “R.A.B.” up on the swimming pool doors, directing students to follow yet another clue<\/a> to the real locket.<\/p>\n

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And hopefully, a sense of great elation when teams actually found the real locket<\/a> on the Powell Campus Center.<\/p>\n

Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup<\/h3>\n

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There’s always time for a good pun, right?\u00a0Harry, Hermione, and Ron have to break into Gringotts bank to retrieve Helga Hufflepuff\u2019s cup<\/a>. We told students to go looking by the BANKs (you see?) of Kanakadea Creek; specifically, the back of the Village Bandstand!<\/p>\n

Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem<\/h3>\n

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Never let it be said that library events are all about sitting around and reading!\u00a0Tom Riddle found Rowena Ravenclaw\u2019s diadem<\/a> in an Albanian forest, so these students had to trek all the way up to the trailhead at the edge of the woods.<\/p>\n

Harry Potter<\/h3>\n

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The Brick has had the words “Platform 9 3\/4” painted on it all summer (maybe longer?), so obviously it had to be a hiding place. We decided to stick the Harry Potter horcrux\u00a0<\/a>under the old arch to bring to mind passing through the brick wall at the station.<\/p>\n

Nagini<\/h3>\n

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This horcrux has found you! (And how unfortunate for you that it has.) We tucked Nagini<\/a> in the stacks at Herrick, near the book Snakes in Question.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our winners, and to all the participants! Students: if you see the sweet Harry Potter swag they won and would like your own, keep an eye out for future Harry Potter’s World events. Events like, the trivia night, for instance, or the art exhibit, might involve some similar prizes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Saturday, a group of incoming freshmen familiarized themselves with the campus in a new and challenging way–by tracking down horcruxes in the Horcrux Scavenger Hunt, the first event of\u00a0the Harry Potter’s World series. Arranged into five (randomly named) teams–The Bludgers, The Grangers, The Snapes, The Broomsticks, and The Lupins–these students raced each other around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}