We celebrated Harry Potter Book Night with a party in the Library on Friday, 7th February. Pupils were invited to sign up to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at lunchtime.
The induction began with sorting the pupils into their houses using the sorting hat, ably assisted by Fraser in S2.
Pupils then gathered into their respective Houses to plan for the spellcasting duel, choosing their champion spell casters and deciding upon the spells that they would use later on.
The witches and wizards were amazed (and slightly terrified) by the magical Potions class prepared by Professor Crosbie. She firstly checked that no muggles had been smuggled into the library (although we did find a troll…) Peeves the poltergeist made an unwelcome appearance but Professor Crosbie managed to catch him with some help from the witches and wizards. The cauldron of goblins’ eggs was also fascinating.
Following a short visit to Ollivander’s Wand shop to participate in a wand-making workshop, the wizards and witches then threw themselves into an energetic spell-casting competition before donning their muggle alter-egos and returning to their Period 6 classes.
Slytherin v Gryffindor
Here are some more photographs from the event:
