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Salute to the Fallen Heroes Contest Launches
LeakyLoungeMay 2nd marks the ten year anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts which took place in the final chapters of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” On that night, wizards took up arms together to fight against the Dark Lord resulting in many brave souls being lost during that battle. To honor these fallen heros, our May contest asks you to write a eulogy of up to 50 words about the Harry Potter character of your choice. A eulogy offers high praise to honor a person who is no longer with us. Your submission need not be limited to those characters who died during the Battle of Hogwarts, but any character who was killed at any point during the series.
Your work may be in any form, including poem, speech, or prose. Anyone over the age of 13 not involved in the judging process may submit one original work to contests@the-leaky-cauldron.org by May 25, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. EDT with “Fallen Heroes” in the subject line of the e-mail. Full details and information can be found right here.
Good luck to all who enter!
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Really? 10 year anniversary? WOW
Rest in peace Fred, Remus, Tonks, Colin and many others
Great anniversary: ten years of victory on Voldemort and all that is hate!
That brings back sad memories! =( I have never felt so depressed in my life, like I did after finishing DH.
succes with the great contest guys. let us remember every character that was brave enough to join in this immense battle.
Slightly related topic: Isn’t it Victoire’s bday today?
I’m getting goosebumps reading this! That was one intense chapter and and book.
Happy Anniversary and happy birthday Victoire Weasley
how do you know thats been ten years? 10 YEARS???
10 years… thats so sad!!!
Thank you Fred, Tonks, Lupin, Colin…
You’ll be always in our heart!!!!
Grrr, my beloved Riddle lies moldering in his grave thanks to The Boy. >:(
Long live the Dark Lord! (hehehe) xD
...J/k, yay Harry! :)
It was May 2nd? I completely didn’t realise. Black armband time. Colin
hey, i’m curious… how do we know that took place on the 2nd of may?
Well you could go through the book and follow mentioned dates and extrapolate from that.
OR you could just take Jo’s word for it as she said it in the “Year in the Life” documentary as she drew out the family tree diagram… that Victoire was born on the first anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, “which is May 2nd …”
R.I.P. Fred, Lupin, Tonks, and Snape. We still remember you “ten” years later.
P.S.: Joyeux Anniversaire, Victoire!
it has got to be fred weasley. Big up to the weasleys :L haha. looove it
You can deduce the date because I think Harry says (don’t have the book at hand at the moment) on the day of breaking into Gringotts that May started etc etc. So the battle was on the second of May, the day after Gringotts. I looked it up when Jo said that and that’s how you can deduce the date. Before that they were several weeks at Bill and Fleurs, but you can’t get a date out of that untill Harry makes that comment.
I didn’t realise the anniversary when I saw the headline but then I remembered. It is said, and we can take a moment of silence for all the fallen heroes…
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