This is the place where you will have the chance to know the full history and what lies ahead of HP Clan. You will
be able to get to know and meet the staff personally.
I will share to you how the clan really started, on my own self experiences of course, just to avoid hearing false rumors
and believing it about how this clan was established without knowing the full history first, so here it goes:
Going back last June 2002, I was a junior high student by then when I first met this skinny girl in school. I wouldn’t
mention her name for her own privacy. Anyway, I didn’t know much about her standings and those facts about her life
but all I know is that she used to be my classmate. First day in school, I tried to acknowledge her presence by merely
talking to her about things she’s fascinated most and for the first time in my life, I concluded that she’s totally a
die-hard fan of Harry Potter. I would be honest to say that I disliked Harry Potter the day the first movie was ever
shown here in the Philippines. I never enjoyed watching films with casts so young and those fantasies that would blow
my mind away ever since my parents forbidden me. But grudgingly, I tried to be in close contact with what the film was
all about when I was a sophomore by visiting those Harry Potter sites and buying only one book which is the Prisoner
of Azkaban out of those seven books that are yet to get published, knowing that maybe it can eventually help me change
the word and not be called innocent by my friends. Going back to the main history, I listened shockingly at her while
I brought back the memories I’ve understood on the Harry Potter story. I would say I quite enjoyed all her talks and
expressions about it and I found out that the story was good after all until we did a little Harry Potter sessions up
to the first week of July.
One of those days, she came up and invited me to join on her own Harry Potter group namely Potter Friends. I thought
she’s making fun of me and I even joked around saying that she can’t possibly have a group of her own in the Philippines.
I was thinking about contracts and or copyrights that time which was why I told her she’s not that serious and her invitation
was stupid. She eyed me pleasingly, hoping that I will join. Sooner after she told me, I joined and she started sending
me those numbers of all the members of Potter Friends. I decided to name myself as Hedwig for only one week and then after
that I changed it as Penelope Clearwater. I was lucky that we do not have a member named Percy yet. Well you would know why.
As I remember it, we’re composed of only twenty or so members. I wouldn’t deny that it’s not famous yet so it’s fine. I
found out that my classmate was the headmistress and told me that she’s running the group for a year before I joined. We
tried to recruit more Harry Potter fanatics through radio stations, newspapers, and chats on the television, more specifically
the Fuse. It’s been a helpful way for us to meet new members there until I met these two groups too; HP Lexicon, and
Wizard/Witch Hogwarts School. The three headmistresses were Maricris, and Clarizza, who shared the same interest like
us and got everything united with each other. We got bigger and bigger until I finally met the last Harry Potter group
called the HP Clan. Our group was introduced to them especially to their headmaster who is Neil aka Sirius Black and
his close in position, Jhayna, planned to get united as one after meeting these four magical groups.
The five headmaster/mistresses have agreed and decided to name the group HP Clan and make Fiel as the Headmaster since
his own group reached two years that time before we even introduced ourselves, while the other four headmistresses were
made founders of the four great houses. After a tireless month of serving the clan, Fiel and my classmate finally left
their position because of some private reasons, leaving the three founders to plan on who will take Fiel’s and my classmate’s
place. It’s not an easy task for them to find one who will suit the position for almost two weeks because no one wants it,
not even me. There are a lot of commotions going on that I’m not aware of, but surely they’re desperately needing someone
to take the positions. To complete the four founders, they voted for Enna. After some hesitations, I volunteered myself
to be the headmistress. I do not have a slightest idea on what’s going to happen to me after I informed them but they’re
pleased and I’m glad. They tried to ask all the opinions of the members whether they would agree that I would take the place,
well, they did in the end. I was nervous because I feared that I wouldn’t be able to control the clan myself. But why push
it? I wanted to experience what’s it like to become a leader in a huge group like this and how to overcome those problems
which will take place if I continue it.
23rd of July of 2002, I became the new headmistress with the help and support from the four great founders. I started out
by introducing myself as Harry Potter and by getting to know all of my members, I asked them those basic questions that would
seem to help me improve more on what to do in the clan. After that, I met the only member who helped me change the whole
process of the clan and that was Ruseph aka Cho Chang (former). She made a lot of propositions starting from its main,
which is the sorting ceremony and the codenames that members can use. Gathering up all the officials in the clan, we
have agreed that Enna will be the founder of Gryffindor and will have the official codename as Hermione Granger, while
Jhayna, having the codename as Fleur Delacour will be in Hufflepuff, Maricris who will be best known as Salazar Slytherin,
will be the founder in Slytherin, while Clarizza aka Rowena Ravenclaw will take charge in Ravenclaw. So the five of us
found ourselves wondering what could possibly make the clan more bewitched.
As the year 2003 approached us, we built a strong bond of friendship and trust from its maximum level through all the
activities we did in the past months. We have decided that it’s the time to share more our talents by creating a website,
forum, and a yahoo group for our members. Months of preparations took us to form these sites but we did other things to
occupy us while we are working on it. Members gave us thoughts of making our own picture messages as a clan, did my first
sketch of Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, did some arrangements to have an eyeball, wherein it was held successfully
even though we are not that many. We also planned to make a scrapbook to Daniel Radcliffe for his fourteenth birthday
and it was also flourishing that we finally mailed it to him in United Kingdom and sent some virtual gifts to our members
via yahoo group. We did great things until December 2003 came. It was the month when we finally unleashed our sites to our
members, celebrating along with Christmas.
Everything was done in order up until we reached the year 2004 to December 2005, celebrating 3 years as HP Clan.
Year 2006 came and still we are strong, only we have to vote for another two members to become founders. Clarizza left the
clan for important reasons while Jhayna become my Deputy Headmistress. We’ve voted for Emman and Margie, knowing that
they can handle the clan a lot better if they become founders. Emman was named Cedric Diggory as the Hufflepuff founder
but was replaced by Maicah aka Drussila Rosier when he quit the clan, while Margie was named Padma Patil to replace
the position of Clarizza as Ravenclaw Founder.
All our lives changed because of the magic we knew existed between us. We never knew things would happen so differently
and that it will change us unexpectedly but we are proud to finally experience it up to the last bit of our desires in the
future, leaving us not to feel sorry for ourselves and for others in the end.
