Southeast Missouri State University's Residence Hall Association is conducting Harry Potter Week for the first time. As of Monday, RHA began hosting one event per day to entertain students.

Members of RHA gave out cookies at the front desk of residence halls on Monday. Josh Reel, the chair of RHA and programming communication coordinator, said that the programming committee collectively felt that there should be a day dedicated to snacks.

Students were given the opportunity to make Harry Potter wands from paper and hot glue Tuesday. Celeste Merideth, the co-chair of RHA, said that programming committees rely on improvisation when planning events.

"I came up with the idea instead of just making wands for one night, why don't we make like a flier with spells on it," Merideth said. "So, not only can people make wands, but they can run around casting spells on their friends."

Merideth also contributed the questions to the Harry Potter trivia night, which begins at 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Towers Cafe. Merideth said that she submitted her trivia questions to be fact checked by other members of RHA.

"We have some extreme Harry Potter fans in RHA," Merideth said. "I know some of the questions when I initially presented them were wrong. People were yelling, 'No, no that's wrong!'"

Reel said that trivia night and movie night are the only events where prizes will be given. The trivia game offers an assortment of prizes: life-size cardboard cutouts of the three main characters of Harry Potter, a Harry Potter broom replica, a three-headed toy dog, Harry's glasses, Hermione's wand, a small poster, some "butterbeer" bottles and some gift cards.

"At the movie night, we're giving out a collector's edition of the hardback books," Reel said. "All eight movies on Blu-ray, a collector's edition wand of Harry's and two $20 gift cards from the students' bookstore [will be given]."

Reel said that people who have only watched the Harry Potter films might be at a slight disadvantage in the trivia game.

"We're not having a different section for book questions, movie questions," Reel said. "So people that just watch the movies might not know as much."

Thursday's event will be quidditch, the wizarding sport introduced in the Harry Potter books. The event will be held at 5:30 p.m. at Parker Field. Reel said that Parker Field should provide ample room for people to try to play quidditch.

RHA will be using "noodles" from the Student Aquatic Center instead of brooms for quidditch. Reel added that the "noodles" weighed less.

"We were worried that someone would hurt themselves while using the brooms because while I think it would make the event a little more fun we didn't want to cause any injuries," Reel said.

Because Rose Theatre was reserved and Academic Hall was too expensive, RHA decided to feature "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" on DVD at the Academic Terraces. RHA selected the Academic Terraces partly because the location does not cost the organization anything.

Reel said that it was unfortunate that the film could not be played in high-definition due to a lack of appropriate equipment.

The film will be featured at 9 p.m. Friday.

Reel said that the only foreseeable issue with displaying the film at the Academic Terraces will be inclement weather. In which case, the film will be moved to Towers Cafe.

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