For my daughter’s sixteenth birthday, I made a little scavenger hunt based on Wilkie Twycross, who taught apparition to sixth years at Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

“Oh, she was perfect, obviously,’ said Ron, before Hermione could answer. ‘Perfect deliberation, divination and desperation, or whatever the hell it is – we all went for a quick drink in the Three Broomsticks after and you should’ve heard Twycross going on about her – I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t pop the question soon –”

— Ron Weasley, reporting Hermione’s passing her apparition test

The concept was to recreate Wilkie’s flyer and have her ‘apparate’ from one clue to the next:

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In the box with the flyer were two notes. One from Albus Dumbledore (so setting the rules that this scavenger hunt would take place out of doors):

The second was the first instruction from Wilkie:

Under the sundial by the waterfall was Wilkie’s second instruction:

This was a bit of a stretch, but when you realize how many spiders had taken over the tree house, you would find the last instruction:

The Roc is a large bird, and so if you looked in the chicken coop, you would find your present - a new key fob to my Prius (No, I didn’t buy her a car for her sixteenth birthday!)