DIVINATION CLUB: Term XXII, Activity 1 - 2012 Predictions

[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

As the fireworks ringing in the new year begin to subside, you decide to make a start on your homework. The Divination one catches your eye; a series of predictions to be made, which will be marked in hindsight. Deciding this one will be an easy assignment to get out of the way you choose to make a start.


Activity: 2012 Predictions
Points: Participation Only - 10pts
Deadline: 18th January @ 11:59PM UTC.
Details: The New Year is a time to make new predictions! Tell us what you expect to happen in the forthcoming twelve months. Activity inspired by xfortytwo, who will win Hufflepuff 5 extra points if she participates.

Here's a nice easy challenge to start the year off! Shamelessly plagiarized Affectionately liberated from Ing of Hufflepuff's similar activity last year, I thought it would be a great time to offer up a variation on it again! :D


I'm going to ask you to make five unique predictions about the coming year: one for each of five areas:

• Your real-life experiences (something that will happen to you, doesn't have to be super-personal or anything.)


• World/Current affairs (something you believe will be in the news a lot, or will affect lots of people).


• Harry Potter fandom (this can be HP itself, HiH stuff, and so forth. No house bashing, or I bash you D:<)


• Showbiz gossip (outrageous scandals! Celeb slander! Pre-emptively clutching mah pearls!)


• Predictions in other entertainment (ie, sports, TV, music, fandom and so on.)

So what's the catch? Well, we could all rattle off some things no probs, so I'm going to latch on a condition: You may NOT make the same prediction as another participant. So for instance, if I said something in #2 (world events) about the Mayan apocalypse coming to fruition at the end of this year, nobody else may use that world ending scenario as their #2 prediction.

There's two reasons for this: first, it gets some variety going, but more importantly, it gets you all reading one another's predictions, too! I encourage you guys to chat and chatter about one another's thoughts on the year to come- however there won't be any extra points for doing so. Just good karma, innit. ;)

Also, because I just used the Mayan prophecy as an example, you can't use it in your answers now, either. It's for the best, tbh: the Mayans couldn't even foresee the Spanish, never mind doomsday. :P


Here, have a textbox-

<b>1) Real life: </b> <b>2) World affairs: </b> <b>3) The HP fandom: </b> <b>4) Showbiz gossip: </b> <b>5) Other entertainment: </b> Name//House

And yes, it's a nice simple 10 point activity to ease you in to the new term. There will be a roster sweep at some stage to clear away some of the clutter, but I haven't yet decided when that spring cleaning will happen. For what it's worth, if you've done recent activities you won't be cut when that time does come. Hint hint hint.


Also! Because this activity was inspired by a brainchild of xfortytwo's, I'll award 5 bonus points to Hufflepuff if she participates.

_{The future will look bleak if you forget to sign the ROSTER!}

Comments

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[malicat.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: There will be a zombie apocalypse and I will be the first one to die in it
2) World affairs: Germany will get a new president
3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will shut down because no one cares anymore :P
4) Showbiz gossip: John Noble will finally get an Emmy nomination
5) Other entertainment: Germany will win the European Soccer Championship

Nadine//Hufflepuff

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[evagoyle.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will get straight A's again in all my semester's of school.
2) World affairs: California will fall into the Ocean.
3) The HP fandom: Gryffindor will win the house cup for Term XXII
4) Showbiz gossip: Frodo and Sam will finally admit they had an affair during the movie making.
5) Other entertainment: Dragon Age 3 will be released.

Krista//Gryffindor

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[kaitydid33087.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've been hoping for it since August!

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[pinksonia.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will move to a new apartment.
2) World affairs: There will be a world news making earth quake.
3) The HP fandom: CoS will be released surprisingly quickly after the long wait for beta to open.
4) Showbiz gossip: Someone famous will die stupidly.
5) Other entertainment: Proteus will finally get new beads this Mardi Gras

Allison//Ravenclaw

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[tsukkomi-boke.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will graduate from college.
2) World affairs: Rick Perry will continue to be a fool.
3) The HP fandom: Dueling in pottermore will be fixed. (it wasn't the last time I was on, which was I while ago)
4) Showbiz gossip: The Kardashins show will be cancelled.
5) Other entertainment: The Texas Rangers will win the pennant but not the World Series, for a third time. ahaha.

Alecia//Hufflepuff

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[sickle-girl.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I predict I will have improved so much my sounds that my teachers will be surprised.
2) World affairs: Sweden will take pity of Argentina and will take over the country.
3) The HP fandom: Hp will be adapted into threatre plays. Noel Fielding will play Snape.
4) Showbiz gossip: Benedict Cumberbatch will propose to his co-star Martin Freeman.
5) Other entertainment: BBC will release Mighty Boosh, Series 4

Noelia//Ravenclaw.

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[arabwel.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: 1. I will write and edit a novel to a submit-to-publishers condition
2) World affairs: Ireland will break off the Eurozone and take all their monies with 'em
3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will be hacked by Twilight fans and all the houses will unite to kick ass and take names to restore it
4) Showbiz gossip: Simon Cowell proposes to Adele on live tv
5) Other entertainment: Finland will win the Ice Hockey World Championships again :D

Ara//Slytherin

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[vanmeeuwe.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I'll have major job-related change, whether its a promotion or a new job entirely.
2) World affairs: The Japanese will invent something outrageous and morbidly cute, albeit disturbing. Like, IDK, some sort of hormonal supplement that turns your poo into a Pokemon. We'll see. We'll see.
3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will be forced to up their game, upon realizing that their users simply aren't that interested in ebooks.
4) Showbiz gossip: An 80s teen icon will die.
5) Other entertainment: Announcements for a fifth installment of Devil May Cry?

Ashe//Slytherin

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[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will receive a promotion within 3 months of starting my job, on account of my being badass.
2) World affairs: Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy will ACTUALLY transform into an actual bona fide megazord. With lasers.
3) The HP fandom: Tom Felton will release a full indie reenactment of My Immortal. Kirsten Stewart plays Enoby.
4) Showbiz gossip: Prince Harry will get Lady Gaga pregnant at a party. The baby will be born following a hasty marriage, making the kid fourth in line to the throne.
5) Other entertainment: During the 2012 London Olympic opening ceremony, Boris Johnson will accidentally set himself on fire.

Rob//Gryffindor

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[vanmeeuwe.livejournal.com]

BATTLE OF HOGWARTS II? LET ME SHARPEN MY BROADSWORD.

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[autumn-mist.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: Baby #3 would be nice......
2) World affairs: Gas prices in the US will finally fall to a more manageable rate
3) The HP fandom: There will be MORE MOVIES!
4) Showbiz gossip: The last Twilight movie will be the best ever *lol*
5) Other entertainment: Jason Isaac's new show (Awake) will be a HUGE HIT

Krystal/Slytherin

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[snowfire.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will move into a new apartment.
2) World affairs: The new president of the United States will be elected because he promised that everyone who voted for him would get a PONY.
3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will have updates for both CoS AND PoA.
4) Showbiz gossip: Lindsay Lohan will end up in jail again.
5) Other entertainment: Lady Gaga will come out with a new EP or LP.

Jen/Ravenclaw

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[malicat.livejournal.com]

Jason Isaac's new show (Awake) will be a HUGE HIT

Oh,I REALLY hope that this will come true!!!

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[dragongirl3745.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: Bastards at work will continue to leave. me. alone.
2) World affairs: All the tyrants will hold hands and resolve to find peaceful ways of solving their problems.
3) The HP fandom: LeakyCon and Starkid will be totally awesome! Wish I could afford to go.:(
4) Showbiz gossip: A married couple will divorce.
5) Other entertainment: The Chicago Blackhawks will make it to the Stanley Cup playoffs, choke during the last game, and lose.

Anna//Hufflepuff

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[caitieness.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will get a new job that I don't hate entirely.
2) World affairs: The Obama family will decide to adopt a second puppy.
3) The HP fandom: Slytherin will not come in fourth place in any term this year.
4) Showbiz gossip: Jennifer Aniston will make a movie that is actually good.
5) Other entertainment: The New York Giants will win the Super Bowl.

Caitie//Hufflepuff

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[mandyloo.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will start a new job.
2) World affairs: an independent candidate (not Republican or Democrat) will win the US election. (mostly because I want it to happen lol)
3) The HP fandom: Chicago will implode after being attacked by rabid HP fans at LeakyCon.
4) Showbiz gossip: Ashton Kutcher will marry another actress 20 years older than him.
5) Other entertainment: Community will come back. 6 seasons and a movie.

Mandy//Hufflepuff

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[n-nanini.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will join a non-profit/charity organization.
2) World affairs: There will be gossips about corruption, bad management, or building isn't yet to be built for the 2012 Olympic.
3) The HP fandom: Theodore Nott/Hermione Granger would be the IT couple for two months.
4) Showbiz gossip: A movie about a certain big city with many actors star in it would be made, and (un)surprisingly it would flop at the market.
5) Other entertainment: Tumblr will have a riot over... something. Anything.

Nan || Puff

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[n-nanini.livejournal.com]

Yay on number 4! And lol on number 5.

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[tralfamadore.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will finally keep at least one new year's resolution.
2) World affairs: There will be a Rick Perry sex scandal. With Michele Bachmann's husband.
3) The HP fandom: JK Rowling will announce the epilogue was all one big joke and she's been trolling us for years.
4) Showbiz gossip: Hugh Jackman will go back, Back on Broadway with a show that includes nothing but him doing bare-chested primal screams.
5) Other entertainment: Sonic Youth will get back together and release an album. No one will care.

Jude of Hufflepuff

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[rhye.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I'll spend way too much money on baby clothes.
2) World affairs: Iran will develop nuclear weapons.
3) The HP fandom: JKR will announce that Sirius was secretly married to a Muggle from China IDKIDK
4) Showbiz gossip: Jake Gyllenhaal will be engaged
5) Other entertainment: The Twins will go to the World Series.

Jess | Gryffindor

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[petit-rhino.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will go to LeakyCon.
2) World affairs: The current French President will NOT be re-elected.
3) The HP fandom: There will be a thrid Very Potter Musical in 2012.
4) Showbiz gossip: Steven Moffat will say something sexist.
5) Other entertainment: The Avengers will be AWESOME!

Flo/Ravenclaw

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[slumber.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I predict that I will walk 500 miles total this year just to get to my office door.
2) World affairs: I predict that a typhoon will hit a third world country but its people will, having dealt with it before, surprise everyone with how well-managed their evacuation procedures run (with the exception of that one instance when a family was caught on camera using something unlikely for a float when the flooding hit)
3) The HP fandom: I predict that JKR's next book will be a tell-all on Albus Dumbledore's wet dreams as a young man, and the world will go crazy until it is revealed that "JKR" was somehow replaced by a trollish but well-meaning Dumbledore/Grindelwald shipper
4) Showbiz gossip: I predict that Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black will have a child, but it will look like Kim Kardashian and the world will collectively go "WUT"
5) Other entertainment: I predict that the Boston Bruins are going to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions. I hope that jinxed them.

Evy//Ravenclaw

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[slumber.livejournal.com]

5) Other entertainment: The Chicago Blackhawks will make it to the Stanley Cup playoffs, choke during the last game, and lose.

GASP. WHY DO YOU HATE US SO.

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[herbeautifullie.livejournal.com]

3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will never open to us mere mortals.

LOL. ♥

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[herbeautifullie.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I'm going to go to London and DEMOLISH the credit cards I JUST PAID OFF. :D
My boyfriend thinks I'm leaving them at home. HAHA! Fool.
2) World affairs: Ron Paul won't win because Americans are silly and vote without researching their candidates first. After the election, they'll complain because things didn't go the way the winner said they would.
3) The HP fandom: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will open and I will be there with a big, HUGE smile and an empty wallet.
4) Showbiz gossip: Katy Perry will find another husband. Probably one even more strange than Russell Brand. "/
5) Other entertainment: The Green Bay Packers are going win another Superbowl because Rodgers is ♥.

Ciara // Hufflepuff