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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[canarycream.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will chance upon a winning lottery ticket lying in the street.
2) World affairs: Via LiveJournal, the Russian Federation will take over the world.
3) The HP fandom: The fandom will be torn in two by a ship war between Dobby/Winky supporters and Dobby/Kreacher supporters.
4) Showbiz gossip: They'll decide to cancel all awards ceremonies indefinitely.
5) Other entertainment: They will decide to make a new Doctor Who movie, Hollywood-style.

Mari-Linn // Slytherin

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[mrschucknoblet.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will become a famous comedian when Jimmy Carr gets sick at the Edinburgh Fringe and asks me to do his set.
2) World affairs: I think David Cameron will be found having a torrid love affair with Nick Clegg.
3) The HP fandom: A massive sex riot will break out at LeakyCon in Chicago this year, mostly because I will be attending and the Phelps Twins will see me.
4) Showbiz gossip: Someone from The Jersey Shore will have a pregnancy scare.
5) Other entertainment: A parent from Toddlers & Tiara's will be arrested for child abuse.

Courtney Rose/puff

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[astrophelind.livejournal.com]

I think Nicolas Sarkozy will be found having a torrid love affair with Angela Merkel.

Fixed it for you.

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[mrschucknoblet.livejournal.com]

LOL perfect.

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[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

are you going to Edinburgh fringe?

If i have the money i'm planning on popping up for a week; i've got friends there

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[mrschucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Yep! I think I'm going the second or so week. I am incredibly excited! I've been waiting years to go!

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[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

lol, that's the week i'm intending to be up (well, 2nd weekend i'm intending to go for unrelated reasons, and considered making a thing of it).

Eh, i'll keep eyes and ears open if it comes to fruition. ;)

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[shellzconlon.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I'll do very well keeping on my studying for the first few weeks of school, and then stop caring about everything by Spring Break.
2) World affairs: The Chinese gymnastics team will cause another controversy with their team of 8 year olds.
3) The HP fandom: JKR will reveal that Scorpius/Rose is canon.
4) Showbiz gossip: Justin (Beiber), you ARE the father!
5) Other entertainment: UCLA football will actually make something happen this season under their new head coach (THE ONLY PREDICTION I ACTUALLY WANT TO COME TRUE)

Michelle/Gryffindor

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[thusspakekate.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will graduate from beauty school and get drunk a lot.
2) World affairs: Americans will relect Barack Obama and the rest of the world will be able to unclench. The fear of a Santorum presidency has passed.
3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will open to all, so that the general public will be just as underwhelmed as the beta testers are.
4) Showbiz gossip: Tom Felton will split with his longtime girlfriend and announce that he is secretly in love with a 25 year old cosmetology student from the states who spends way too much time participating in online fandoms and chainsmokes like a 70 year old woman in Reno.
5) Other entertainment: The Hunger Games will open and it will disappoint many fans but no one will really care all that much because the dude they cast as Peeta is a total babe.

Kitty//Slytherin

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[nowheretogo26.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will get a raise at my second job :)
2) World affairs: All world leaders will join together for a rousing version of Kumbaya.
3) The HP fandom: Hufflepuff will win a House Cup!
4) Showbiz gossip: Someone else will claim that Justin Bieber is the baby's father.
5) Other entertainment: Livejournal will not have any errors for the whole year >____> a girl can dream, yeah?

Nikki//Hufflepuff

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[x-----starlight.livejournal.com]

can number 2 be amended to say all people in the world plz. world peace through campfire songs!!

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[arti-chan13.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I predict that I will figure out what I'm going to do with my life and lose 20 pounds
2) World affairs: I think that there will be more middle eastern revolutions and that Obama will win the presidency again.
3) The HP fandom: I think that Pottermore will actually become more interactive and actually put up something other than the Sorcerer's Stone.
4) Showbiz gossip: Lady Gaga will release another album but it will be better than Born This Way
5) Other entertainment: The Packers will win the Super Bowl and the Wisconsin Badgers will go back to the Rose Bowl

Kirsten//Hufflepuff

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[crusading-soul.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I predict that I will offically declare my major and minors sometime this year.
2) World affairs: I predict that Pangaea will spontaneously re-form.
3) The HP fandom: I predict that JKR will write a book about the adventures of Fred and George Weasley during their early years at Hogwarts.
4) Showbiz gossip: I predict that The Hobbit will earn the most money of any motion picture of 2012.
5) Other entertainment: I predict that GRRM will write & publish the next Game of Thrones book in under two years. (I HOPE)

Mary/Ravenclaw

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[treeperson.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I'll find a job I love in my current city so I can stay for another 16 months.
2) World affairs: Somaliland will finally be recognized by the UN as a separate country.
3) The HP fandom: A cartoon set during the Marauders' Era will be televised.
4) Showbiz gossip: The Hobbit will be labelled the worst movie of the year and fans will weep in sorrow.
5) Other entertainment: A Canadian team will win the Stanley Cup!

Teeps//Slytherin

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[los-york.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: To find a summer job
2) World affairs: Obama will get re-elected and will laugh at everybody at Fox News (:3)
3) The HP fandom: HBO will create a show about the Founders Era
4) Showbiz gossip: Taylor Swift will NOT be in Les Mis
5) Other entertainment: Sexism and misogyny will stop in the GoT fandom

Olivia/Gryffindor

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_morning_glow/]

#4 please please please.

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[ex-yaakov825.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I'll re-read A Song of Ice and Fire...again.
2) World affairs: The rich will get richer, and the poor will get poorer.
3) The HP fandom: There will be an influx of Anthony Goldstein fic as soon as I write it.
4) Showbiz gossip: Happy Feet 15 in 4-D will hit theatres.
5) Other entertainment: Kate Gosselin will make a tabloid comeback.

Jenna // Ravenclaw

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[scarletladyy.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I predict that I'll get married this year!
2) World affairs: I predict that the Tories will annoy the heck out of everyone again (nothing changes, does it?)
3) The HP fandom: I predict that JK Rowling will finally apologise for screwing Pansy over and rewrite the epilogue so Pansy marries Draco :D
4) Showbiz gossip: I predict that Tom out of McFly will enter tv competition/reality show and win :D (Like Harry won Strictly Come Dancing and Dougie won I'm A Celebrity this year :P)
5) Other entertainment: I predict Ant and Dec will do another new Saturday Night telly show! :D

Fairy//Hufflepuff

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_morning_glow/]

1) Real life: I will graduate from college (THIS IS NOT SO MUCH A PREDICTION AS AN ORDER).
2) World affairs: Idk…Mitt Romney will get the Republican nomination?
3) The HP fandom: Pottermore will be interesting again!
4) Showbiz gossip: Lindsay Lohan will make a comeback! (Still Team Lindsay, fyi.)
5) Other entertainment: A reality show will premiere that will make even the most tasteless reality shows look tame.

Tara//Claw

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[ledbylove.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will win the lottery, pay off all of my debts and buy a fabulous house on the beach.
2) World affairs: California will fall into the ocean.
3) The HP fandom: JKR will write a prequel (I can dream)
4) Showbiz gossip: Brad Pitt will leave his wife for an aborigine.
5) Other entertainment: The Beatles will get back together. Yes, even the dead ones. Hello, ghosts.

Lena//Gryffindor

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[flipflop-diva.livejournal.com]

1) Real life: I will get to go to Hawaii for work! (Thinking positively here!)
2) World affairs: All of the US will check 'none of the above' when we go to the polls and we'll get to start all over with awesome candidates like Neil Patrick Harris
3) The HP fandom: Hufflepuff will win the Quidditch Cup!
4) Showbiz gossip: The Kardashians will get yet another reality show! And the Real Housewives of Dallas will debut.
5) Other entertainment: The Texas Longhorns will win the national championship! Or at least beat Oklahoma in the RRR.

Kristine//Puff

[anbyrobanby.livejournal.com]

Time up!