Who Attacked Ron Weasley

*First let me say that I do not own any of the rights to The Harry Potter series, either books or movies.**

At work I am in charge of changing the foyer display case that we have.

The theme for March was "Once Upon a Crime"

Now I have been in charge of the display case for a little over a year at this point. And while it was great fun picking out different themes to use and books to put out (thank you pinterest), I really wanted to get a little more interactive with it.

So, since the theme was crime, I decided to put together a little Clue game for patrons to get involved in.

Eventually I settled on a Harry Potter theme and so "Who Attacked Ron Weasley" was born.

There was a sign with the story put out:

 
















Then the list of suspects, places and possible weapons:

Finally a chance for the patrons to join "Dumbledore's Army" and help solve the crime:

Each week a different clue would be presented that would lead people to determine: location, weapon and finally suspects.

The suspects clue was done a little differently. I set up a little scavenger hunt for the patrons to follow. First I gave them a set of riddles (please don't judge me on the riddles)

 Then I went and hid copies of the clues at certain locations throughout the library. To give them a little extra help I put a picture of who the particular riddle was about next to the clue location (i.e. a picture of Neville was placed near our programs room).

While I set out the clue(s) I also had the patrons involved turn in a slip of paper with their guess for that particular question. This way I was able to predict how many winners I would be dealing with.

It was a slow start getting signups; I even had a few coworkers put down their names to start padding the list. 

Eventually, though, we ended up with about 20 patrons getting involved. While, of course, not all of the sign ups came in each week and returned their guesses to me, more than half did. And I consider that a win.

Since this was the first time I had ever tried something like this I also included a survey at the end to get some feedback 

We had a great turnout of patrons who kept with it for the 4 weeks. And so, in order to reward everyone for putting up with me and being my guinea pigs, everyone got a prize. 

We had 5 "big" prize winners who received replicas of: a time turner, Ravenclaw's diadem, Deathly Hallow bracelets and necklace. Everyone else who participated received a little gift bag with an assortment of candy and snacks. 

All in all it was great fun. We had a good response on the surveys with many patrons saying that they couldn't wait for the next game!!