A big thank you to our Samhain Ball Committee for 2008! All their hard work paid off and everyone had a fantastic night! The decorations and special little touches made everyone feel like they really were at Hogwarts, and the activities and prizes added to the fun.

Some photos taken on the night are shown below. Just click on each one to see a larger view.

(30) Photos by Jenny (Jenwytch)

Hufflepuff ...guests were seated at house tables in The Great Hall.	Ravenclaw	Slytherin
Gryffindor	The Sorting Hat in front of the DJ's table	"The Room of Requirement"
Prof. Serverus Snape & a Red Witch (aka Ray & Janine)	The Leaky Cauldron	One of the barmaids
Delicious self serve banquet ...the House Elves had the night off :-) ...well ...um ...this is where the food WAS before we ate it all, LOL.	Eolande Drake (a Fairy Witch) & Prof. Snape (aka Bev & Ray) and Andrew.	Charlene & Janine
Simon & Samantha	Ravenclaw house table	Hufflepuff house table
Voting for "Best Costume" awards	Ravenclaw guests	Gryffindor house table
Sybill Trelawney (aka Samantha)	Counting the beans for "Bertie Botts Bean Guessing Competition"	A few of the prizes
Tallying the votes for "Best Costume" awards.	Dancing to music provided by Ben, our DJ for the night	...on the dance floor
Dancing the night away...	Taking a break...	...still going strong!
A hair-raising experience!	Trev decorating the skeleton (a new "tradition" started at last year's Ball)	Ta daaa! ...the completed "work of art". Hmmm... wonder what next year's skeleton will look like? LOL

Rache	Rubeus Hagrid & Madame Olympe Maxime (aka Charlene & Chris)	Dionne & Maria
The Ball Committee ...a Witch, Hagrid & Sibyll Trelawney	Jeff	Madame Olympe Maxime (aka Chris)
Ravenclaw table	Professor Snape (aka Ray)	Fairy Witch & Member of Ministry of Magick (Dept. of Magical Creatures) Eolande Drake (aka Bev)
Andrew		Orb
Jan & co.	Andy & co.	Andrew & Suzanne
The gang	Erin & co.	Jeff & co.
Simon & Sam	Jenny taking a picture of Janine taking a picture of Jenny	...the flip side of the previous pic :-D
Cake: "2nd Annual Samhain Ball 2008"	Simon	Bev & Ray
Trev	The Skeleton	Ben

The 2008 Samhain Ball Committee

L to R: Samantha, Charlene & Rache

(30) Photos by Jenny (Jenwytch)

Hufflepuff ...guests were seated at house tables in The Great Hall.

Ravenclaw

Slytherin

Gryffindor

The Sorting Hat in front of the DJ's table

"The Room of Requirement"

Prof. Serverus Snape & a Red Witch (aka Ray & Janine)

The Leaky Cauldron

One of the barmaids

Delicious self serve banquet ...the House Elves had the night off :-)...well ...um ...this is where the food WAS before we ate it all, LOL.

Eolande Drake (a Fairy Witch) & Prof. Snape (aka Bev & Ray) and Andrew.

Charlene & Janine

Simon & Samantha

Ravenclaw house table

Hufflepuff house table

Voting for "Best Costume" awards

Ravenclaw guests

Gryffindor house table

Sybill Trelawney (aka Samantha)

Counting the beans for "Bertie Botts Bean Guessing Competition"

A few of the prizes

Tallying the votes for "Best Costume" awards.

Dancing to music provided by Ben, our DJ for the night

...on the dance floor

Dancing the night away...

Taking a break...

...still going strong!

A hair-raising experience!

Trev decorating the skeleton (a new "tradition" started at last year's Ball)

Ta daaa! ...the completed "work of art". Hmmm... wonder what next year's skeleton will look like? LOL

(27) Photos by Janine

Rache

Rubeus Hagrid & Madame Olympe Maxime (aka Charlene & Chris)

Dionne & Maria

The Ball Committee...a Witch, Hagrid & Sibyll Trelawney

Jeff

Madame Olympe Maxime (aka Chris)

Ravenclaw table

Professor Snape (aka Ray)

Fairy Witch & Member of Ministry of Magick (Dept. of Magical Creatures) Eolande Drake (aka Bev)

Andrew

Orb

Jan & co.

Andy & co.

Andrew & Suzanne

The gang

Erin & co.

Jeff & co.

Simon & Sam

Jenny taking a picture of Janine taking a picture of Jenny

...the flip side of the previous pic :-D

Cake: "2nd Annual Samhain Ball 2008"

Simon

Bev & Ray

Trev

The Skeleton

Ben

Prof. Serverus Snape & a Red Witch
(aka Ray & Janine)

Delicious self serve banquet ...the House Elves had the night off :-)
...well ...um ...this is where the food WAS before we ate it all, LOL.

The Ball Committee
...a Witch, Hagrid & Sibyll Trelawney