Week Four - Task #12. - “The Ravenclaw Towers”

[Katherine Laurier]

Finally, your team has done it! The journey has been long, three hours spent peeking over and under every object of every room. But now, you can finally walk up to the Ravenclaw Towers.

After a few minutes, every team is in the room, excited chatter and grins on each face.

The organizers you had seen earlier at the Great Hall are up in front again, and one speaks, "Congratulations, everyone, on completing RPM 2025! We truly appreciate everyone's participation, regardless of the number of badges found."

"Now, we would like you all to take this time to reflect with your team and share your thoughts on your journey. Have a fun time recalling every struggle and success before we announce the final results," they say and step down, allowing everyone to turn to each other and begin talking once again.

You glance around at your team, the faces you’ve come to rely on through every twist and turn of the thrilling adventure. Someone chuckles, bringing up that one location that had you all running in circles. Across the room, similar conversations fill the air, a mixture of laughter, thoughtful nods, and retellings of each moment that made up the joyful Ravenclaw Pride Month 2025.

Task:
Write a poem reflecting upon your experience during the scavenger hunt for RPM 2025, whether that be obstacles you faced, successes, lessons you learned, memories you made, emotions you felt, and other things you may have associated or associate with your journey. Please make sure the poem is at least 100 words and includes at least 3 of the following words: find, treasure, pride, journey, team, Hogwarts, badge, medal.

Alternatively, in at least 150 words, write about your favorite part/s of RPM 2025, whether in character or out of character. Feel free to be creative, ex. make up a story about one of your experiences in scavenging.

[River Fenwick]

RPM 2025 was a spectacular journey,
With honor on the line, we split into four teams,
Decided based on the color of our parchment,
We were so excited that we were practically bursting at the seams!

Once started, we set out to look for the badges,
Trying to find as many as we could to win,
Searching the Hogwarts castle up and down,
Each one the team found caused all of us to grin.

As we found out, the badges weren't the real treasure,
But instead, the pride we found along the way,
No matter what kind of medal we may receive,
The real prize was the teamwork and friendships made that day.