Academics Weekly Assignment — January 30th, 2022

Welcome to the Academics weekly assignment for the week of January 30th, 2022! These weekly assignments will give our Professors the ability to showcase some of their lesson ideas here on the website. Each assignment will be posted for a week, in which everyone will be able to read about the topic and respond to the assignment prompt. This week's assignment is "Dark Arts - Hand of Glory” created by Elizabeth (ElizabethTheToad).

The assignment is as follows:
Background
The Hand of Glory is a pickled, severed hand that often holds a candle. In order to create one, there is a long process that includes wrapping the hand in cloth, placing it in a vessel with various minerals, then letting it pickle for two weeks. Once the hand is prepared and the candle has been made, it is ready to be used. There are various ways the candle can be placed on the hand. Usually, it’s held between the knuckles and there can be up to five candles. When a hand has five candles, it is said that if a candle is still lit, there are people still awake inside of a particular house.

Once the candle is lit, it makes everyone around it motionless or puts them into a coma. Some sources say that the Hand of Glory can even unlock doors, which is why it was a tool used most often by robbers. The light from the candle also helped the robbers navigate around the house. The only way to free those under the power of the Hand of Glory is to extinguish the candles, which can only be done with milk.


Assignment
If someone gifted you a Hand of Glory, how would you use its power? Would you even accept the gift?

Please make sure to write at least 5 full sentences to get AC for this assignment! Your assignment must be entirely written by you, and may not be plagiarized (including copying anything from online sources, books, or movie plots) in any way. Assignments must follow all PotterworldMC rules, which can be found here; assignments that do not follow all PotterworldMC rules will be subject to punishment. If your assignment does not meet the requirements, you will be unable to redo your assignment for this week. Assignments are due at 12am PST on Sunday, February 6th, 2022. You may submit as soon as you would like, but any assignments submitted after that time will not receive grades. You may receive up to 20 ACs for your submission. House points will not be awarded to any submissions. If you have any questions, please reach out to a Jr. Professor, Sr. Professor, Academics Advisor, or Head of Academics on Discord.

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