Magic Riddles, Make up and answer magic riddles Options

[Archina]

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for them to be hard! 05:(

Padfoot was a good guess!

Okay, answers..

1.

"To start, think of cunning, artice and stealth,
now what's before nouns for true sentence health?
Put them together, now here is the key:
give me a vessel but take out the tea!"

“To start think of cunning, artice and stealth,” – “sly ” is another word for this.
“now what’s before nouns for true sentence health? – articles are, e.g. a or “the ”
“put them together..” – so we have “sly-the-"
“now here is the key; give me a vessel but take out the tea!” – a vessel e.g a container or a “tin”, take out the “T” this leaves us with “in ”

.. so, “sly-the-in ”.. “Slytherin!”

2.
"to have a callous on one's foot"

another name for callouses on the feet are “corns ”, so as we are asked for “a” callous, we want only one callous, so, it’s the singular of corns..”corn ” and it’s only one.. “uni ”

.. therefore, “uni-corn ”.. “Unicorn!"


3.
Don't let my face tell my fate;
I resemble one you do hate.
Though I once was reversed,
It's for freedom I thirst,
So do not presume me sedate!

I'm not giving you the answer to 3 yet!!! 04:P

But I will give you a hint.. its' describing something/someone.. so who do we know who fulfills the following..

"I resemble one you do hate... I once was reversed.. it's for freedom I thirst.."

Happy guessing! 02:D

[srivathsan]

Hey! I am really dumb...I mean, sly was one of the words that I did land up with...and 'the' and 'tin'...why the heck couldn't I just add an 'r' and find the word? Weird. And the Unicorn one was tough! Anyhow, on to number three. Got to think properly this time!

[Archina]

Nah, it's got nothing to do with intelligence.. sometimes you can think and think and think about something but just miss it.. sort of like a horse with blinkers. You might have been expecting a character name not a house name, so when you got close you just didn't see it

.. or maybe I just threw you by not including the R. I didn't want to make it "ring" and drop the "G" - that would have been too easy!!! 02:D

[GuinnessG1rl]

Is it LV? He was once reverses - on quirels head. 02:lol:
People hate slytherins and snakes and Voldy...
Ok, im thinkin outside the box a little...or a lot...but am I any where near?

[Archina]

Thinking outside the box is always a good idea! Good guess!

It's not Voldie though.. he is someone we hate, he doesn't merely look like it! you don't hate whoever or whatever this is! Also, Voldie wouldn't say he has a thirst for freedom .. I think his thirst is power!

Clue: remember there's more than one way to reverse.. reverse just means going backwards.. you can be reversed in many different things.. you could walk backwards, go backwards in character, go backwards in size, go backwards in time.. just a few ideas..

[Archina]

I've got another riddle to be answered. It's a bit like the unicorn one but not as hard (I don't think).

I hope the first word in it isn't edited out, I don't mean it to be a swear word but a word for "covered in blood" - there's really no other word I can use!!!

Here goes, who am I?
"bloody use of a spade"

[GuinnessG1rl]

Diggory?
As in a spade digs and bloody is gory?
Out the box again. 02:D

[Archina]

Yay! Congratulations! You've got it - and with the right reasoning too!!! Good work!
02:D 02:D

Any further thoughts for the 3rd riddle?

[GuinnessG1rl]

WOO!!!
Wow, I feel really clever! 02:lol:
Still stuck on the 3rd riddle, but still working on it!
Any more clues?

[Archina]

Umm.. let's see.. *big hint*
"I once was reversed" has someting to do with a potion!

[GuinnessG1rl]

Has it got to do with Polyjuice??
Im going along the lines of one of the trio who turned into slytherins, the ones they hate...
or moaning myrtly, cause she always talks to them about the polyjuice, and she wants to be free from the toilets...
anymore clues? Am i getting close?

[Archina]

"Don't let my face tell my fate;
I resemble one you do hate.
Though I once was reversed,
It's for freedom I thirst,
So do not presume me sedate!"

Okay, just re-posting the riddle..

You're on the right train of thinking but aren't really getting closer. I've whiped out the dictionary for "backwards". It says, "1. towards the back or rear", "2. with the back foremost", "3. in reverse of the usual or right way", "4. towards the past", "5. towards a worse or less advanced condition; retrogressively". By way of hint, definitions 3 onwards apply to this riddle.. but were I you, I'd look at 4 and 5 to lead me to the answer..

No, I'm not talking about the Slytherins.. I'd probably get hate mail if I did that! Many people like the Slytherins, especially Malfoy..and no, it's not polyjuice.

You're almost there though!

I could give you some more obvious clues but that's to easy and you'll feel smarter this way when you get it!

So, instead of an obvious clue, I'll re-write the word in another riddle.. like the Diggory and unicorn ones..

"Let us drink before the engine makes it's sound,
at the valuable mineral deposit underground!"

(Sorry.. just couldn't resist confusing you all some more!)

[truegriff]

Um I'll guess Barty Crouch jr

[Archina]

Nope. Not a person...

[GuinnessG1rl]

Right, is the valuble mineral deposit a Mine?
Im trying to see if i'm going in the right direction... 02:D

[Archina]

You're thinking in the right direction.. very close, but it's not quite a mine.. you could say that a mine is the excavation of the, "valuable mineral deposit underground", though!

However, if you want to take the easiest route to the answer, you will focus on the first riddle -

"Don't let my face tell my fate;
I resemble one you do hate.
Though I once was reversed,
It's for freedom I thirst,
So do not presume me sedate!"

- not the second one.. and you will concentrate on the first two lines of it.. I've told you that the answer to the riddle is not a person. However, the "one you do hate" is a person..

Now, if I were you, I'd make a list of all the people you hate and think about who/what they resemble to get my answer!!! Trust me, that's probably the quickest way, and having done that, see if who or what they resemble matches the rest of the two riddles..

And the "one you do hate" is quite well-known.. there is at least one thread about this person on our boards!

[truegriff]

When you say 'resemble' do you mean that the objects looks like someone's face?

[Archina]

Yes, yes!!! Why I do think you're onto it..! =D

[truegriff]

nope, just thinking hehe
um.....
Is it a portrait or something to do with the black family?

People you hate:

Umbridge - Toad
Voldemort - Nagini?
Wormtail - Rat
Malfoys - Fox
Snape
Crabbe/Goyle
Deatheaters
Fudge
Dursleys

Run out of ideas 03;)
Close?

[srivathsan]

Is it Trevor the toad?