I'm so glad I could leave the others minding the spell-in-progress and come on and wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! We are all so grateful to you for your help in providing the ornaments that have the essences we need!
Orikami, I was so personally moved for you to contribute Dobby as a heroic soul who actively (I believe Prof. Snape called for agressively) fought against the Dark forces. What an extraordinary soul he is, especially remembering he actively moved in spite of enslavement to the Malfoys! And with the danger from Bella to Hermione, how he unscrewed the chandelier which gave Harry, Griphook, Hermione and Ron their escape at the cost of his own life. (Waaah!)
Though he didn't say anything, I know Prof. Snape was clearly moved when Josephine Falnor offered an ornament with HIS essence in it. Our charm, now fused with several spells and merged with specific soul qualities, is quite complex, and I'm learning as well as contributing! Speaking of contributing,
I've a few announcements!
First of all, KimCL and I both want to congratulate all the students who have moved up a year recently, but we are especially singling out
Garnet17th on achieving
but more importantly,
we both recognize the extraordinary dedication and contributions she has made not only to her House of Slytherin, but to the whole of all of Haven. And so we've decided, this Christmas day, that not only does she deserve to be acknowledged, she well and truly deserves to be promoted to a certain rare and exalted company and is here-and-forward named a
Her prefect's badge has been owled to her!

We had enough heroic, brave female essence, so we'd like to thank
1. Iki-ilo
2. Garnet17th
3. Evasive Moon
4. Rayvyn_Vaughn
5. Orna
6. Empress_Cat
7. Josephine Falnor
8. VampireSelene
9. laetifica
10. turayza
And award 10 points to the House of Ravenclaw who contributed the most orbs!
Hufflepuff - 3
Ravenclaw-4
Slytherin -3
There will be further announcements later on!
Oh, and we are needing some agile four legged essences.
Natural animal or Animagi ornaments will do. The first to contribute will receive a beautiful
Coral bracelet(which I've tried on, and goes marvelously with Holiday finery). After we've collected enough, we will raffle an
OMG box which may contain either treasure or a Weasley Wizarding Weeze wannabe. Good Luck and Merry Christmas!
And the Korora Penguin goes to --Iki-ilo!