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THE HOGWARTS POST

1 October 2024Virginia Fox

NEW SCHOOL CLUB APPROVED

The Society for the Preservation of Magical Heritage (or SPMH for short) is officially opening its doors for membership after finally receiving approval from the Hogwarts staff. Founded by Priscilla Rosier, fifth year Ravenclaw student, the Society for the Preservation of Magical Heritage is an organization with the sole purpose of preventing the further loss of precious and invaluable history and practices of the magical world.

When asked about why she felt such an organization was necessary, Priscilla Rosier had this to say; “Seeing all of the destruction that has happened in our world today should be concerning to every one of us, no matter where we come from. As a witch with deep roots in Britain’s magical community, it’s frightening that so much of our shared history could be lost in an instant, and we—as students—are in the perfect position to ensure that our heritage is preserved for generations to come.”

This student organization comes at a peculiar time in Hogwarts history where not one, but two, student bodies walk the halls. As we know, Ilvermorny was ransacked during the summer by extremist American activists. While Ilvermorny hasn’t made an official statement an unnamed source stated that among the wreckage at least one third of the school’s library is irreparable, which estimates to several hundred books destroyed; many of which are no longer in print and irreplaceable. Now Ilvermorny and Hogwarts students alike are uniting to prevent such a disaster from happening again. When asked about this new found organization the Ilvermorny student body president said; “I think it’s a great idea. History likes to repeat itself, so we need to be doing what we can to protect our history. I only wish we’d thought of the same idea, because maybe we could have saved at least some of what was destroyed at Ilvermorny.”

While we hope the Ilvermorny class president is wrong and history doesn’t repeat itself, at least if it does we’ll be ready.

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(This was written by Seph, not staff But the student that wrote it posted it anonymous, so it's going here)

THE HOGWARTS POST

September 15 2025Anonymous

Ghost Jaguar roams the halls

The school year has barely started and already rumours fly across the hall about a mysterious ghost stalking the halls at night in the castle. While students don't seem to agree on what exactly the thing stalking the halls was, it's clear that there is something out there that merits investigation. While the most common claims seem to suggest a panther or jaguar stalking these halls, I did some research to help your gentle souls further uncover the mystery of the feline ghost, and to determine just how worried we should be about it's appearance. 

After some due diligence and research on the matter, yours truly managed to uncover several past cases where this majestic beast made an appearance and each and every single time the appearance was followed by mysteries, disaster and misfortune. The first time the myth takes shape of a panther in the earlier days of Hogwarts when the founders were still around. It's said the panther was spotted on school grounds and out of fear it would harm the students, Gryffindor slew the mighty beast, much against the advice of Hufflepuff, who believed it better to chase it off than to kill it. 

Months after the beast had been slain, a ghostly version of it made an appearance, stalking the halls of the castle. At first it seemed like nothing bad would happen, but after the phantom had been stalking the hall for 3 weeks and 3 nights, the first victim came. A boy under the tutelage of Hogwarts. Those that believed it to be a vengeance of the phantom panther demanded a peace offering to be made. This did not happen and then every three weeks and nights a student went missing or got hurt, until one day the phantom disappeared without a trace.

It returned about 600 years after the fact, once against harming students with the same pattern of 3 weeks and 3 days. Some believe that such is the time it was allowed to roam while living until it was slain and it repeats that pattern every time it returns to haunt the school, although the reason for it's return is so far still unknown. In this incarnation it was said to be a tiger, which disappeared without a trace after two years of terror for the poor students, although few died those years. 

A mere fifty years later another phantom feline stalked the halls, this time claimed to take the appearance of the panther once more, holding to the now well known pattern of harming a student every three weeks and 3 nights. This time claims were made that the last incident where a student got hurt happened under the full moon and the screams of a werewolf were heard, leading some to believe it was chased off by a werewolf living in the enchanted forest. 

The last incident seems to have happened around 150 years prior to our own time at Hogwarts, where the feline phantom only saw two opportunities to attack before disappearing into the fog once more. While neither student died, both had to be hospitalised for a longer period of time.

The most notable thing in all of this perhaps is that, in all known attacks, not a single Hufflepuff student was involved. Perhaps there is now wisdom in stealing robes from your friendly Hufflepuff friends to let the kindness of the founding mother protect you from injury? Or perhaps for the brave show their true Gryffindor colours by seeking out the beast and stop it from hurting their fellow students? The only certain thing is that those that risk breaking curfew during these trying times have far more to worry about than only the risk of being caught by professors. Perhaps this jaguar will sink it's claws in you! 

And just remember that when the chamber of secrets opened, nobody believed that to be true at first either! Not untill people began getting hurt.... 

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written by @seph