- This is the Harry Potter challenge hosted at HPOOTP Facebook page. I want to be more actively involved in this page this year. They do a wonderful job at the creative side of the challenge and there are lots of different categories and varieties of books selected by participants.
For a full list of challenges I found for 2022 see this blog entry.
The instructions from their page:
The Ordinary Wizarding Levels (O.W.L.s) Reading Challenge
Each of the 12 classes have 5 prompts. You can decide which grades to go for in which classes and which classes you want to attempt an OWL in (receive a passing grade). Thus, you can build the challenge to the number of books you want to read! For example, you can choose to do only 1 subject and go for an O grade (5 books), or you could attempt to earn 3 passing grades in 3 subjects (9 books), or you can choose to go for all 12 subjects & all prompts (60 books) – or anywhere in between!
O.W.L. Grades are as follows:
Failing Grades:
Troll (T) : Start a prompt in a subject, but don’t finish any
Dreadful (D): Finish 1 prompt in a subject
Poor (P): Finish 2 prompts in a subject
*Passing Grades: *
Acceptable (A): Finish 3 prompts in a subject
Exceeds Expectations (E): Finish 4 prompts in a subject
Outstanding (O): Finish 5 prompts in a subject.
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. Again, this is your challenge and you’re free to interpret the rules and prompts as you see fit.
CHALLENGE COMPLETE 12/18/22
Ancient Runes
Ancient Runes: A book in translation
Deathly Hallows: A book that has a symbol on the cover
Tales of Beedle the Bard: A fairytale retelling
Mistranslation: A book whose title is translated differently
Parseltongue: A book that contains a fictional language
Arithmancy completed
Arithmancy: A book with a number on the cover or in the title
Golden Trio: A book that’s a part of a series
Hoggy Warty Hogwarts: A book that involves music
Magical Numbers: A book that relates to a magical number (pi or pi(e), 7, 3, 13, etc)
Mad Eye Moody: A book with multiple points of view
Astronomy completed
Astronomy: A book set in outer space
Star Gazing: A book with a star on the cover or in the title
Star Struck: A book about a celebrity
Sirius Black: Includes a character with a celestial name
Telescope: A book you spotted on social media
Care of Magical Creatures completed
Care of Magical Creatures: Includes a magical creature
Niffler: A book with a shiny cover
Fantastic Beasts: A book with an animal on the cover
Unicorn: Your most anticipated book of the year
Monster Book of Monsters: A scary looking book
Charms completed
Charms: A book by a favorite author
Cheering Charm: A funny or happy book
Flitwick: A short book or book of short stories
Wingardium Leviosa: A book that contains a feather
Time Turner: A book with dual timelines
Defense Against the Dark Arts completed
DADA: A book featuring good vs. evil
Dark Arts: A book featuring dark magic
Death Eaters: A book with a dark cover
Magical Me: A book with an incompetent character
Remus Lupin: A paranormal book
Divination completed
Divination: A book set in the future
Trelawney: A book featuring a prophecy
Star Chart: A book related to your zodiac sign
Unfogging the Future: A mystery or thriller
The Grim: Contains a death
Herbology Completed
Herbology: A book with a plant on the cover or in the title
Pomona Sprout: Contains a character with a herbology related name
Greenhouses: A book with a green cover
Mandrake: A book that made you cry
Neville Longbottom: Contains a character who is an underdog
History of Magic completed
History of Magic: A book that mentions a historical witch or wizard
Harry Potter: A book that mentions Harry Potter
Hogwarts, A History: A historical fiction
Helena Ravenclaw: A novella or prequel
Cuthbert Binns: A book you “slept” on
Muggle Studies completed
Muggle Studies: An own voices book
Flying Car: A book related to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math)
Hogwarts: A book set in a school
Daily Prophet: A nonfiction book
Rubber Duck: A book with a yellow cover
Potions completed
Potions: A book that includes poison
Amortentia: A book that includes a romance
Severus Snape: Turn to page 394 - A book with page 394.
No Foolish Wand Waving: A book without magic
Liquid Luck: Luck of the draw: choose a book randomly
Transfiguration completed
Transfiguration: A book to screen adaptation
Animagus: Includes a shapeshifter
Switching Spell: A book whose cover and dust jacket are different colors
Minerva McGonagall: Contains a strong female character
Vanishment Spell: A bestseller (that vanishes off the shelf!)
I liked this retelling of Cinderella mixed with the Sci Fi flair. The Cosplay was An interesting plot line. I wished there was A bit more depth to the relationships between Elle and her family. There were glimpses of them starting to discuss emotions that quickly disappeared I would have liked that to have happened. Also the ending felt a bit rushed maybe I just was wanting more. i did enjoy the book though.
