On Tuesday, October 31, Bwog Staff attended the H(ogwarts)ewitt Harry Potter extravaganza.

Walking through the leaking Barnard Hall basement en route to Hewitt’s Harry Potter dinner, we were buzzing with excitement. We had been planning this outing for days. When we arrived, the dungeons of Hewitt were transformed into the Great Hall straight out of Harry Potter. With candles floating from the ceiling, cobwebs lining the walls, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets broadcasting through the TV’s, we were ready for our spooky meal.

The Spooky Menu

On the menu: Chicken FANGers, roasted sweet Pottaters, Twisted vegetables, Greengot beans, and Hogwarrs Harissa Tofu. We stacked up our plates Ron-style, prepared to devour.

While the meal tasted like every other Hewitt dinner, the magic of the event (excluding the masses of people with the same idea as us) was palpable.

On our adventure to dessert, we came across a terrifying sight: 

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Hewitt, what is this???? Moving on. We marched our way to the sorting hat cupcakes and great pumpkin cookies, and in a dramatic reveal under the frosting, found that we had been sorted into Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Wait, that’s not what Pottermore said when we each took the quiz in eighth grade??? 

Dessert time.

After indulging in several Great Pumpkin cookies, we rolled ourselves out of the dining hall and over to the Barnard First Year Fright Night in the quad (an added festive bonus!). We ate MORE decorated cookies, helped ourselves to some free water bottles, and topped the night off with the photo booth. Overall, we had a wingardium-leviAWESOME experience at our first Barnard Halloween.

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