Drabble Babble Challenge: Eggs Edition

April 2014

An Eggcellent Philosophy

by Hailey Potter (Gryffindor)

I've learned over the years that eggs are like people. Take a walk around and you'll see what I mean. We're different colors. We're different shapes and sizes. Some of us have been cooked by the scalding hot waters of life until we are hard on the inside. Some of us have gone rotten and find we now repel others.

See that young girl there, by the bench? That's a brown egg with a runny center just waiting to mix with life's ingredients to become something special.

What kind of egg are you? What egg do you want to be?

The Big Apple and the Big Egg Hunt

by Polaris Black

Fabergé, creator of fabulous and intricate jewel-encrusted eggs for royalty, is hosting The Big Egg Hunt in The Big Apple. Beginning April 1 and continuing through April 17, participants can download an app and log their progress in finding more than 260 eggs “hidden” in the five boroughs. The masterpiece sculptures were created by prominent artists, designers, jewelers, and architects, are more than two feet tall, and are available for auction. All proceeds benefit Asia’s endangered elephants and New York City school children. In London 2012, 12,000 people took part in a similar event and raised £4m for charity.

At the Chinese School

by Asia Shea (Gryffindor)

At Chinese School every week they sell an incredible invention called tea eggs.

But I'm not going to talk about that.

I'm here to talk about birds and their eggs. So at my school we're doing a whole year about birds.

Yeah, birds. And we've done paintings, reliefs, and even the incredible create-your-own-bird, idea. Then we did a model of a "bird experience" an experience in which people made an experience of a bird doing something, such as eating. Now three boys in my class made to scale bird egg out of cardboard. And it really did suck.

Eggs are Funny

by Asia Shea (Gryffindor)

Eggs are funny sort of things. I mean I normally hate them. But somehow my sister and mother don't. How's that possible? I mean they are strange especially when hard boiled. And the yolk is so ukky and blerg.

How can anyone stand them. They're just yuck.

Omelettes though? Omelettes are awesome. With the crepe likeness but still eggy. With the ability to but cheese and avocado and have it taste savory and scrumptious.

How could an egg in that case get any better?

But really any egg except for the omelette and the tea egg are really just awful.

The Golden Yolk Competition

by Prof. Scarlet Leslie

Five Ravenclaws, including Rhi, entered the Golden Yolk competition, where they modified a family member's egg dish, like deviled eggs. The brother's recipe placed two behind Ryan. Edmund's dish was two behind the daughter's recipe. Of the Eggs Benedict and the daughter's dishes, one was cooked by Ariella and the other placed second. The scrambled eggs chef isn't Amy. Ryan made Eggs Benedict. Fried eggs came in third. Either Ariella or the scrambled eggs chef used their mother's recipe. The omelette placed one behind the grandfather's dish. One dish was inspired by an aunt. Who won the Golden Yolk competition?

Help the World

by Prof. Tarma Amelia Black (Hufflepuff)

He wanted to help the world. 'How better', the Pink Fluffy Slipper thought, 'to improve the world than to create the position of Holy Egg Empress. The only problem with that is this – who would be so talented and totally terrifying to give that position to?'

He sought far and wide to find such a person and then, lo and behold, in his very own nest he perceived someone who had talents galour, including the ability to kill off all and sundry characters in the stories she wrote. Thus it was that a Penguin became the Holy Egg Empress.

Ovomancy

by Polaris Black

Ovomancy is the art and practice of using eggs to seek knowledge of the future. One method of egg divination involved adding the white of an egg to hot water and interpreting the resulting shapes to mean impending marriage, danger, or travel. Another method was to break open an egg in the proximity of a pregnant woman and examine the yolk to determine the gender, general health, and number of unborn children that the woman was carrying. Even today, Ravenclaw students have been known to spend many hours cracking eggs and writing predictions based on the way the yolks fall.

Robin's Egg Blue

by Prof. Scarlet Leslie

In the spring, new baby robin chirps are often accompanied with pieces of bright blue eggshells on the ground. Of course, this begs the question... Why are robins' eggs blue?

When the female robin lays her eggs, she adds a pigment called biliverdin to the eggshell. The more pigment there is, the brighter blue the eggs become. The brightness of the blue hue serves as a representation of the overall health of the female robin. Male robins are more likely to take care of the eggs and the young (when they hatch) if they find the shade of blue attractive.

Sunshiney Eggs

by Prof. Tarma Amelia Black (Hufflepuff)

Sunshiney eggs, who doesn't like sunshiney eggs? So many ways to eat them – raw, boiled, scrambled, fried, in soups or stews. So many kinds of eggs there are to eat! Crocodile eggs, chicken eggs, raccoon eggs (oh wait no, not raccoon eggs), eggs from all sorts of creatures! Don't eat the basilisk egg, though, you might end up with a permanent case of petrificus totalus. If you don't want to eat them, you can always play the famous game of Toss the Egg aka Egg in the Face. Just toss the egg to each other -- without breaking it.

To Crack or Not to Crack

by Hailey Potter (Gryffindor)

Rap! I gently tapped the oval-shaped sphere against my mixing bowl. Rap tap!

I was mixing some cake batter for Dad's birthday. There was only one problem, though: I had to crack an egg.

I was afraid of getting a tiny piece of shell in the cake. Rap! I tapped at the side again. Still nothing!

Deciding to gather every ounce of bravery, I hit the egg once more with a bit more force into the side of the mixing bowl. A crack in the egg was beginning to form. Smack! Finally, the yolk trickled down into the batter. Success!