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Forbidden Word Challenge/Competition

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Create-A-Potion Challenge

Forgetfulness Potion – Ingredient 1 Lethe River Water.

Disney Character Challenge

Hades; Write about Blaise Zabini.

The Crayola Challenge

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(Additional Prompts: The Black Lake & Eating Apples)

Flying over the Hogwarts grounds in spring, Ginny couldn't help but notice how Slytherin everything looked. She knew they weren't the exact shades, but it still looked Slytherin.

"Blaise," Ginny shouted back to her boyfriend, "have you ever noticed how almost everything in spring is Slytherin colours?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, Little Red; I don't see any silver down there!" He teased her.

"You know what I mean, Blaise, it's just all so… so…"

"I know," Blaise cut it, "it makes us Slytherins feel great seeing out colours everywhere even if it is only nature." Blaise stuck his tongue out at this, showing his dislike of nature. This made Ginny laugh so much she nearly fell off her broom so she angled it towards the ground to land, Blaise promptly followed her.

"You Slytherins are all so arrogant!" Ginny teased Blaise as he landed, "You know that just happens to be the colour of grass and trees, right? It has nothing to do with you!" As she said this, she made sure to add a note of arrogance to her voice.

"I know, I know," Blaise gave in, planting a kiss on the corner of her mouth, "now go on down to the lake, I'll meet you there. I have something to fetch first."

Ginny giggled at this, and kissed him again before leaving.

Blaise smirked to himself as he watched Ginny walk away; getting her back was going to be so easy. He thought over exactly what he was going to get as he walked up to the kitchen.

He'd decided that they were going to have a picnic; it was a beautiful day, there was no Quidditch match and it happened to be exactly 3 months since they had started dating.

The kitchen was bustling with the house elves getting that night's dinner ready, but Blaise quickly spotted his favourite elf, Lofty, in the corner and went over to him. Lofty favoured the Slytherins and the colour of the tea towel he wore reflected this.

"Lofty, any chance you'd be able to put together a picnic hamper for my girlfriend and me?" Blaise asked him as he approached.

"Of course I can. What would master like?" The elf replied, immediately dropping what he was doing to serve Blaise.

"Well, Lofty, what can you put together with the theme 'Slytherin'?" He asked with a smirk. Lofty got right to work while Blaise sat there chuckling to himself.

Ten minutes later Blaise was walking towards the lake with a hamper full of Slytherin coloured goodies. He'd ended up with; cucumber sandwiches, apples and grapes (neither of which were the red kind that he preferred), a selection of Slytherin coloured salad including lettuce, pepper and avocado, some not quite ripe bananas, salt and vinegar crisps and some mint coloured cake. This would certainly give him a one up on Ginny. Little did he know, Ginny was currently trying to do the same thing to him.

When Blaise got to the lake everything was covered in red; Ginny had covered the place. She'd spread out a red picnic blanket and surrounded the area in red and gold flowers as well as transfiguring the trees to make them sport Gryffindor colours. He took no notice of that though and sat down, trying not to smirk as she opened the hamper and her face fell.

"Blaise, what the hell is this?" She scolded, "You know I prefer red apples!"

"Well, dear, you just seemed so amazed with everything being Slytherin colours I thought I'd treat you to a Slytherin style picnic," Blaise teased.

"I see," Ginny replied with her own Slytherin style smirk, "do you like my decorations?"

"Why Ginny, darling, they're beautiful," Blaise smirked back with a flick of his wand, "Just think of what the school will think that you're decorating the place in Slytherin colours. They're already calling you a traitor for dating a Snake."

At this Ginny looked around to see her decorations turned from Gryffindor red and gold to Slytherin colours and her face fell.

"You're such an ass, Blaise Zabini!" She yelled at him, before turning her back on him to sulk.

"It's okay," Blaise reassured her, snaking his arms around her waist and producing an apple from his pocket, "I brought you some red food too, it's not all Slytherin colours."