Harry Potter Adventure of a Lifetime Contest
The thing I love about the Harry Potter books and films are the thrills and adventures of Harry and his friends. The mix of action, suspense and competition engages me in ways that few other stories can. As I read these books by author J.K. Rowling, I’m reminded that life is meant to be an adventure and the journey is worth documenting.
Harry Potter Adventure of a Lifetime Contest
It’s hard to believe it’s the 10th Anniversary of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone, but it does give us reason to celebrate. I am excited to host a fun contest with outstanding prizes for fans of the Harry Potter series (even if you’re not a fan, trust me, someone you know is and these prizes will make for amazing gifts). The contest runs from Friday, September 12th - Friday, October 10th, and it is open to people living in the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how you enter to win the Grand Prize:
1. If you have a blog or website, write a post about your greatest adventure in life. Maybe it happened when you were a kid, teenager, young adult, parent or senior. Whatever your greatest adventure in life has been, write about it and link back to this post so I can track it. To be safe, leave a comment here too letting me know where to find your entry.
2. Leave a comment below describing, in detail, your greatest adventure in life. Unless you’re J.K. Rowling, please don’t write a book; however, you will be judged on this entry, so a few sentences won’t be enough to win. Write enough to tell your story and keep a reader engaged.
You may want to use one of the Harry Potter books or adventures to jog your memory or inspire your writing.
Here’s how you enter to win the First Prize:
Enter your e-mail address below to Subscribe to the Discovering Dad feed and get daily updates (only e-mail subscriptions are accepted as official entries due to the ability to accurately track and contact winners):
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Here are the Prizes that you can Win:
Grand Prize
One Winner chosen by Jeremy Biser, Publisher, Discovering Dad, based on quality of “your greatest adventure” entry. The winning entry will also be republished on Discovering Dad along with the names of all winners. If you win the Grand Prize, you are not eligible to win the First Prize, but you can (and should) enter for both. This prize is valued at $195.
The winner will receive:
- Complete Box Set Books #1 - #7
- Copy of the 10th Anniversary Edition of ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’
- Collectible Harry Potter Gold Pin
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First Prize
Four winners chosen at random from the Discovering Dad e-mail subscriber list will win. The Grand Prize winner is excluded from winning one of the four First Prizes. This prize is valued at $30.
The winners will receive:
- Copy of the 10th Anniversary Edition of ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’
- Collectible Harry Potter Gold Pin
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Here’s some additional information about the 10th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:
Coming to stores on September 23rd. This beautiful collectible edition has been produced in celebration of the 10th anniversary of HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE. It features the following:
- New Jacket artwork by Mary GrandPre
- Additional four-color frontispiece artwork from Mary GrandPre
- Two pages of special content from J.K. Rowling
- Full cloth case with gold stamping
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE
The wickedly funny debut novel from master storyteller J.K. Rowling tells the story of Harry Potter who, having endured 11 miserable years with his hideous aunt and uncle, is invited on his 11th birthday to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There he learns of his distinguished wizard pedigree—and his frightening destiny.
“Wonderful…Funny, moving and impressive” The New York Times Book Review
Again, I’m very excited to be hosting the Harry Potter Adventure of a Lifetime Contest. I look forward to receiving your entries! All winners will be announced during the week of October 12th.
The Harry Potter Adventure of a Lifetime Contest is sponsored by Scholastic Books.
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Comment by VegasDad on 12 September 2008:
Cool contest!!!! I’m going to have to search my brain for my ultimate adventure memory.
VegasDads latest discovery was..reflection
Comment by swati on 16 September 2008:
why only for fans from US & Canada?
Comment by Amy on 16 September 2008:
What an awesome prize ! I’ll have to think about my greatest adventure!
Amy
Amys latest discovery was..When ShallowGal throws a party
Comment by Jeremy on 17 September 2008:
Swati - the contest is only for U.S. and Canada residents because those are the requirements of the contest sponsor.
Comment by Yan on 18 September 2008:
Oh there’s one from my 7th grade year (or was it 6th grade?). It was toward the end of the school year and our entire grade which is around 90 kids or somewhere around there had discovered the venting system through this hole in the wall. Someone had found out that there was this chain where you could shimmy up and climb up. The hole was like 1 foot by 1 foot so we could squeeze in through there. The entire way up was pitch black and really creepy. So try to imagine like 30 or more so kids from 3 different classrooms crawling around in the ceiling and you hear a bunch of clanking and sometimes sneezing by the kids and with some peeking through the window vents in OTHER classrooms.
So you’re probably wondering where all the teachers were but that’s relevant is it? OK so maybe it is. I believe we had a substitute teacher that day (I’m not sure about the other classrooms and in my school we only had one teacher throughout the entire day)and we had waited until the teacher left the classroom before we all huddle around the hole while someone kept lookout. One by one we all climb up and when the teacher came back, he/she (I forget, it’s been so long…) doesn’t even notices or cares maybe. When he/she leaves again, we start to yell to come back down.
And that’s my adventure, we were some horrible kids XD and don’t worry I think someone found and we got in trouble by the teacher from another classroom.
Comment by Dana on 24 September 2008:
My greatest adventure to date as a woman: Natural Child Birth!
Adventure is defined as a wild and exciting undertaking…that’s exactly what regular child birth with drugs is, add an enormous amount of pain and you have the adventure of a lifetime!
My adventure started on June 2, 2008 at about 7pm. Mild contractions, I’ve done this before so no big deal, I’m going to try to go to sleep, get some rest since my husband isn’t even home yet. 10:30pm, okay, not sleeping, contractions stronger and mins. apart, time to go to the hospital. I inform my husband in the car to take the back roads, I can handle this, I don’t want to hurry up and get there just to sit and wait for hours. 11:15pm, we arrive at the hospital, LONG walk from the parking garage to the lobby but I refuse to be dropped off. EMS workers at the front desk look scared to see me walking and try to force me into a wheel chair, I am not having that! On to the elevator I walk. We arrive at the 8th floor maternity ward, I am visibly in pain and can barely stand but still holding strong. 45 mins answering questions in the “holding area”, dilation check 5cm. It’s 12am on the dot when we arrive, still walking, at the delivery room. As I get into the bed, the real adventure starts. I have to push, they tell me no you don’t. I begin to yell ever so loudly at my husband telling him I’m done, sorry, can’t do this. One nurse is trying to put an IV in, I ignore her and yell at another nurse that I’m pushing this baby out now! My doctor is a few miles away, I need to wait she says, it’s not time to push. At this point she decides to check me. AHA, 10 cms, no wonder I’m pushing she says, no time for drugs, crap…lots of running around, they grab a doctor out in the hall and by the time he’s prepared down there, one push, and screams coming out of me that sound similar to a dying pig, and baby boy flies out at 12:18am! 18 of the longest, most painful, but almost entertaining (especially for my husband) minutes of my life. An exciting, wild, once in a lifetime, adventure.
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Comment by Mark David Gerson on 7 October 2008:
Great idea, Jeremy. Just posted my adventure story on my Voice of Your Muse blog (http://markdavidmuse.blogspot.com/2008/10/surrender-to-journey.html)
Comment by gl hoffman on 7 October 2008:
A great adventure was featured in my blog http://www.whatwoulddadsay.com and it is about the SR-71, one of the most unique airplanes ever built. Far, far faster than a bullet, it had an illustrious, if not secret career. Read the story here:
http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2007/11/19/sr-71-now-that-was-some-airplane/
Comment by UrbanVox on 7 October 2008:
hey…
can;t UK dads participate???
Comment by Jeremy on 7 October 2008:
Absolutely, but the sponsors will only mail prizes to winners in the US or Canada. Got any relatives stateside?
Comment by Secret Agent Mama on 7 October 2008:
It’s a little different than what you might expect:
http://secretagentmama.com/blog/2008/10/07/my-greatest-adventure/
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Comment by Matt on 10 October 2008:
Thanks for giving me an excuse to write about this, man! I have been wanting to for a long time. Read it here: http://redsparks.com/playpen/2008/10/10/ready-set-go-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime/
Comment by Brillig on 10 October 2008:
Jeremy, this was so fun. Thanks for including me in the email that you sent out the other day– I’ve been such a bloggy slacker that I wouldn’t have heard about it otherwise. Anyway, my post is here: http://www.twas-brillig.com/2008/10/10/avventure/
Comment by Dad of Divas on 10 October 2008:
Thanks for running this contest…I know I’m waiting until the end, but hope it is worth it when you read about some of the crazy things that happened on this trip - http://dadofdivas.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-greatest-adventure.html
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Comment by Mr Lady on 10 October 2008:
Talk about squeaking in under the wire, man!
Comment by Lukasz on 15 October 2008:
I’m from Europe, Can I join?
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