Thanks to everyone who voted and participated in the t-shirt contest. The top six designs were created by:
Shirt 1: Melissa Anelli
Shirt 2: Claudia Miranda Inostroza
Shirt 3:Rachel Jarman
Shirt 4: Stephanie
Shirt 5: Karen Kavett
Shirt 6: Melissa Anelli

Please click here to view which one of the six designs won!

I will be contacting the top 6 for their addresses to send them the new t-shirt design! Great job everyone!

The new design will hopefully be available to purchase by early June.

Today is the last day to vote in our t-shirt contest. Please send an email to hpatshirtcontest@gmail.com to cast your vote for one of the 6 t-shirts below!

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It is a horrific thing whenever we hear about a shooting that happens at a school, killing innocent students. But what about when the killer is the government? The Sudanese government killed seven Sudanese children on Sunday while at school. Thirteen people were killed in total. The children live in the region of Sudan known as Darfur where the killing by the Sudanese government does not stop.

This is Book Seven material. A government attacking it’s own people. Only in this case it’s happening in our world, it’s happening every day, and in the case of the seven school children the international community took 48 hours to even respond.

In the words of the Save Darfur Coalition:

“The attack—and the miserable response—is yet another example of the world’s failure to protect the people of Darfur. The U.N. approved a peacekeeping force for Darfur ten months ago. Less than a third of that force has reached Darfur.

“But we have an opportunity to make sure the world keeps its promise to the people of Darfur when the U.S. assumes the presidency of the U.N. Security Council on June 1.

“Help us meet our goal to send 75,000 messages to President Bush before June 1 urging him to help bring peace and security to the people of Darfur.
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For Mother’s Day, please send this ecard to every mother you know.

One of the most powerful lessons in Harry Potter is that there truly is nothing more powerful than a mother’s love for her child. Voldemort underestimated it and it led to his downfall.
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Hello again, all! My second WWLC video is right here: Sorry for the absence; you can see why it happened in the vid.

The top 6 have been chosen! Please check out all the designs and pick your favorite! Please send your choice number (1-6) to hpatshirtcontest@gmail.com and only vote once. Your vote will only be counted once. The voting ends May 10th at 12:00 PM EST, so send your choice in now!

Thanks to everyone who sent in t-shirt submissions. They were all awesome, it was hard to narrow it down. The top 6 will be contacted to receive their free shirt.

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As far as I know, Barty Crouch Sr, Barty Crouch Jr, and Mrs. Crouch don’t have any Wizard Rock bands named after them. The story of their family is tragic and I think that Mrs. Crouch’s story: dying alone in Azkaban to allow her Death Eater son who her husband sentenced to life imprisonment is one of the saddest stories in the books. But it also makes for some incredibly rich thoughts about her character and the character of her husband and son. Stuff that I think most of us have done little talking about. Is it because it’s just so sad and disturbing? What gives?

I really want to be laughing right now. I don’t want to be making posts about how the Pentagon planted experts to lie to the American people (see below post) or about how President Bush is not following through with the Sudan Accountability Act. I was so excited when President Bush agreed to this last December. But he just missed the deadline for following through. Please send a message for him to take action today!

“I’m not gonna be your mascot, I’m not gonna dance for the Ministry….I’m not gonna put on the Monkey Suit for you and your political aspirations! I won’t pretend that things are cool for your approval ratings. Oh, Rufus Scrimgeour! I’m inclined to believe you’re a vampire, ’cause you’re gonna to suck the truth…out of the situation at hand. And we’re not gonna win this war, we’re not gonna win this war with LIES!” -Harry and the Potters

Despite Rufus Scrimgeur’s pretty intimidating request at the Burrow, Harry Potter flatly turned him down. He was not going to use his status as “the Boy Who Lived” or “the Chosen One” to make people think that the Ministry’s incompetent behavior was okay.

But Unfortunately there are those who we in the public think highly of who don’t have the same integrity as Harry Potter. The same group we are partnered with in the “Rocking Out Against VoldeMedia” campaign is calling for an investigation right now into the US Ministry getting high profile folks to lie to the American people in a pretty extreme way.
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I think if Iorek Byrnison from The Golden Compass, ever met our beloved Rebeus Hagrid, they would make terrific friends. How could Hagrid not like a giant, loyal,and ferocious beast like Iorek? And how could Hagrid not have been outraged when Iorek and his kingdom of armored bears were forced from their home due to melting ice in the Arctic?

Now fast forward over to our world. We also have enormous bears living in the Arctic. And they are losing their homes and drowning due to ice melting in our Arctic as well.
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