Ok her you can make up and answer riddles to do with magic1Not preticaly about Harry potter but as long as its something magical!

ok Ill start


It fly's around maybey night or day
It has no bother at all,to catch its pray

You'll surly be scared,Unless you are stronger,
Than this beast,wich compared to yours,chance of living is defintly longer

I may be wrong with my description,
But at least i know my maths and friction.

A threstral?or thestral

am i right?or is it a basalisk

^ Basilisks don't fly! My guess is a Dragon.

hippogriff!!! is that right??

Hmmm... an owl?

How about the Weasley's flying car?

I hate to tell you guys, but the user who started the topic hasn't been active in months. SO it doesn't look like we'll ever know what the riddle was! It wasn't very specific.

I will delete this topic in a day. There are other games that are active that are similar like 20 questions.

Well I really liked the riddle and "who am I?" idea, so I'm going to see if this phoenix can rise from the ashes!

And I'm sticking around so you will be getting answers!

These are riddles or word-plays pointing to something from Harry Potter. Give them a go and let me know what you think they're about and why..

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!

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

I love solving riddles, but I can't make out either of them.
The first one...erm...the first line denotes something like spy or something. And the second line must be telling about an 'article'. Well, that's what precedes a noun in a sentence. And then, a vessel but take out the tea. I guess you're telling us to remove the letter 't' from the word we must have formed by this stage of the riddle...but sadly, i just can't form a word out of spy and article to make it mean a vessel and from which, when a T is removed, becomes a HP related word... Now, you've got me thinking.

But I have no clue about the second one at all.

I have no idea!
Can you give us a little hint?
Just an ikle one mind!

Sure thing! Sriv, you are on the right track with your thinking. Instead of thinking of something described by cunning, artice and stealth though, think of another work for those things..

Same thinking needed for 2nd riddle.. think of another word for callous..

Thesaurus, here I come!!! I am on it now. You've gotten me thinking again.

A thesaurus is a good idea - it helps me write riddles
*hint hint, nudge nudge*

Hey I give up! I can't find it. Your second riddle seems to indicate someone who has an insensitive foot! Moody?
Hey, just give me the answer Archina!!!!

Whoa, whoa! Slow down, you'll get there. The second riddle has nothing to do with anyone having an insensitive foot - it's not descriptive, it's a play on words.. it actually works out to be an animal.

Think of a word for "callous on the foot" - I only know one word for this and I've used it. And then, add in the "a" part - big hint, "a" is a singular term!

And for the first one. You're going well, there are three parts,

1. another word for cunning, stealthy, full of artice..
2. A very common article - there aren't that many and it starts with "T"
3. A type of vessel, container, package etc.. big hint, it's commonly made of aluminium and must have a "T" as you've been asked to take out the "T"..

If you still have no clue, take a wild punt! You never know your luck - it's gotten Harry though a lot!!!

Maybe this one is more to the style you're used to though:

Riddle 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!

Gringots?

Its a wild guess i know, but its all i can think of.

These are really good riddles, make you think - although i prefer not too.

What riddle was that guess for GuinnessG1rl? .. Gringotts isn't an answer I'm looking for but if you tell me which riddle you're working on, I can give you a clue!

I think maybe start with the 3rd one.. I think it's easy as I'm describing something/someone in it. With first to, they descibe the words themselves, not who/what he words are..

Thanks for having a guess!

Archina, just give me the answer! I really can't think anymore!

Padfoot?

As in Bad foot - Padfoot

Dont know about the gringotts, was a little bit far fetched like!

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

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!!!

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!

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!

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!!!

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

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..

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"

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

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


Any further thoughts for the 3rd riddle?

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

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

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?

"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!)

Um I'll guess Barty Crouch jr

Nope. Not a person...

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

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!

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

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

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
Close?

Is it Trevor the toad?

I bet its Trevor the toad, because he is always escaping and looks like umbrigde...or she looks like him?
Anyway, tell us!
Is srivathsan right?
ooooo

Yeah, that's how he deduced it...and he was once reversed...Snape fed him the shrinking potion or whatever and he was turned to a tadpole. So, I do think I am correct...if I am, I'll be so proud of having cracked the clue finally....but I think the credit should go to truegriff...my mind went to a toad only after he mentioned Umbridge looking like a toad in his list.

I wasn't thinking about Trevor
Well spotted

Yes !!!!!!!!

I don't know for how long I've been kicking myself whilst waiting for someone to get that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELL DONE BOTH OF YOU!

I really never thought it would take that long to be solved though! (oh dear.., I don't know what that says about the one's I think are harder and I haven't posted yet..)

Anyway..

"Don't let my face tell my fate;
I resemble one you do hate." -> whose face looks like one we hate? Well, Umbridge is described as having a toad-like face..

"Though I once was reversed," -> you are correct in assuming this relates to the shrinking potion.. when the potion was forced onto poor Trev, his aging process was reversed and he went back to his infancy as a tadpole.

"It's for freedom I thirst,
So do not presume me sedate!" -> this is indeed a reference to his ability as an escape artist.. incidentally, why does Trev escape so much?? Does he know something we don't???


Trevor also fits in with the other riddle I gave (which
I honestly think is more obscure than than the one I just explained..):

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

The reaoning here is:
"let us drink".. something to drink.. maybe tea? -> "T". "engine makes it's sound", what sounds can I think of an engine making?? Vroom maybe?..no.., the sound of reving the engine in acceleration??? Yes! -> "rev". A "valuable mineral deposit underground" - this is called an ore, ->or .. and we know the "let us drink" clue comes before the "engine sound" clue.. so..

Tea-rev-ore -> -> TREVOR! ..but if it was me, I don't think I'd have ever got that one!

So good work getting it with the other riddle!

Hahaha! Thanks! It's all a team effort!
Bring more on!!!

That is great, tell me you think everyone of those Archina and I promise I'll put a photo of you in my room and treat you as my new god/goddess

Go team "Effort"!
Team efforts seem to always be the most productive efforts!

Thanks for the compliment Chap but being a deity is a responsibility I am far, far unworthy of... I don't see myself of "god" of my own life, therefore I would never seek to be a god of someone else's.. anyway, I noticed earlier there are pages and pages of other people's riddles on these boards - I'm probably no-where near having written 1%of what they did!

Did others have riddles they wanted to post? I don't want to be a hog! They're fun to write - I think I prefer writing riddles than solving them!

To tie us over after that hard one, here's a pretty easy play on words for you all:

"colourful apparel"

Bright Clothes orrrr Red Cloak.
I hate not knowing! hehe

"colourful apparel"

It's a play on words, not a simple description... so anything like Dobby's yellow socks or Mrs Weasley's jumpers isn't going to be the answer!

The answer isn't actually a colourful peice of clothing, it's something/someone whose name could mean a colourful piece of clothing.. like the Diggory and unicorn riddles.. does this make sense?

Errm....no?