Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Harry Potter Professions

 2025 HPOOTP-Flourish & Blotts Reading Challenge-  


The Wizarding Professions Challenge
Since we took on our N.E.W.T.s last year, it’s time to find a job! As usual, you set the challenge. Each of the 10 professions have 5 book prompts (as well as our bonus 2 prompt profession). You get to decide which career or careers you want to attempt! (& therefore can make the reading challenge as hard as you’d like!) To talk more about the challenge, join our Facebook group, HPOOTP-Flourish & Blotts!
As usual, YOU get to set your challenge. Each of the 10 Professions have 5 prompts. You can decide which profession(s) you want to attempt! Thus, you can build the challenge to the number of books you want to read! For example, you can choose to do only 1 profession and attempt-all 5 prompts. You can try 3 professions (15 books), or you can choose to go for all 10 (plus the bonus) professions (52 books) – or anywhere in between!
*If You completed any O NEWTS last year, you may use your O NEWT as a wild card for that subject (Replace the BOLD prompt with any book of your choice!) **Please note, you do NOT need to have participated in our NEWTs challenge to participate. This is just a fun tie in!


Prompts do NOT have to be completed in order. While the challenge is to read unique books for each prompt, this is your challenge and you can make the rules fit as you’d like. Any format of book (audiobook, physical book, ebook, comic, etc) counts–our rule of thumb is if you can mark it as ‘read’ on a book tracking site, it counts. You may notice that some of the prompts are wide open for interpretation. This is intentional and we encourage you to get creative in fulfilling these prompts! (And make sure to tell us about them too!) Again, this is your challenge and you’re free to interpret the rules and prompts as you see fit.

Don’t forget to join us in the HPOOTP-Flourish and Blotts Facebook group throughout the year for challenge discussions, group reads, readathons, and more!
Potions Master
Potions-Includes a special drink or poison
Felix Felicis- “luck” in the title
Polyjuice potion-A Mistaken Identity
Asphodel-Related to Greek Mythology
Bezoar-A Savior 
Quidditch Player
Snitch-Gold Foiling 
Pitch-Set Outdoors
Nimbus 2001-Set after 2001
Quidditch Cup-Set in a foreign country 
Quaffle-Q in the title
Auror
Defense Against the Dark Arts-
A Dark or Moody cover
Obliviate-
A DNF or book you want to forget
Dark Arts-A dark theme
Patronus-A Beloved book
Killing curse-Includes a death
Magizoologist
Care of Magical Creatures-
Includes a beloved pet 
Bowtruckle-Set in Nature

Niffler-a Shiny Cover
Thunderbird-a weather related event
Dragonologist-Involving dragons
Alchemist
Transfiguration-
Read a seasonal book NOT in that season
Astronomy- Related to a planet
Sorcerer’s Stone-A shade of red in the title
Elements: Includes one of the four elements in the title
  •  Smolder (Stone Barrington # 65) by Stuart Woods and Brett Battles
    Nicholas flammel-A French main character
    Curse Breaker
    Ancient Runes- Written before you were born
    Arithmancy-Number in the title
    Gringotts-Includes a theft

    Goblins-Non-Human main character
    Curse breaking-Includes the breaking of a curse or a cycle
      Shop Proprieter
      Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes- A book with twins
      Olivander’s-The book chooses the reader (blind grab/pick)
      The Leaky Cauldron-Includes a bar/pub
        3 Broomsticks-Author’s 3rd Book
        Honeydukes-Character with a Sweet Name
        Mediwizard
        Herbology-Plant on the cover
        Charms-set in a charming location
        Skelegrow-something broken on the cover
        Essence of Dittany-Floral Element
        St. Mungo’s-Features a medical professional
        Historian
        History of Magic-Historical Fiction
        Divination-A 5* prediction
        Bathilda Bagshot-Includes a writer
        Professor Binns-Includes a Ghost
        Chamber of Secrets-Includes/based on a legend
        Minister for Magic
        Muggle Studies-Non-Fiction or Memoir
          The Other Minister-Includes a politician
          Ministry of Magic-Set in London
            Wizengamot-Includes a courtroom or trial
            Hermione Granger-Strong Female Main Character
            BONUS
            Headmaster
            Harry Potter-A book that mentions Harry Potter
            Hogwarts, a History-A book set in a school
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