{"id":6489,"date":"2013-03-01T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:09:57","slug":"not-your-average-muggle-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=6489","title":{"rendered":"Not your average \u201cmuggle\u201d college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/harry-potter-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6490\" alt=\"harry-potter-books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/harry-potter-books.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>With a flick of the wrist and a little incantation of Wingardium Leviosa, members of TCNJ\u2019s Order of the Nose-Biting Teacups, a student club composed of Harry Potter fans, recently helped the College land at the No. 9 spot in About.com\u2019s rankings of the Top Colleges for Harry Potter Fans. TCNJ finished one spot ahead of The University of Chicago, but behind such supposedly muggle-friendlier institutions as Swarthmore and The College of William and Mary.<\/p>\n<p>TCNJ\u2019s club, which was started in 2010 by <strong>Siobh\u00e1n Loughman Sabino \u201912<\/strong>, sponsors trivia games, scavenger hunts, game nights, and game show-style events based on the Harry Potter films. ONBT members also organize Quidditch games and a Yule Ball, and have even divided the club into four houses for a competition for the House Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Club members were mum when asked if a Marauder\u2019s Map of TCNJ\u2019s campus exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a flick of the wrist and a little incantation of Wingardium Leviosa, members of TCNJ\u2019s Order of the Nose-Biting Teacups, a student club composed of Harry Potter fans, recently helped the College land at the No. 9 spot in About.com\u2019s rankings of the Top Colleges for Harry Potter Fans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":6490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2013","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}