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Harry Potter Adventures: Chapter 8 - Harry's Comfort
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Harry discovers Ron's dark secret
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Chapter 8
February had arrived and with it finally came some brighter weather as the first green buds began to appear on the trees again. A month had passed since Draco had completed the first part of his plan and all seemed to be going well. Draco however, had noticed that Luna had been acting very strangely for some time now, and sensed she may have been on the receiving end of a poorly cast obliviate spell. Curiosity got the better of Draco and with the aid of Crabbe and Goyle, they managed to bring Luna back to their dormitory for an interrogation. After a lengthy talk, Draco finally broke through to the true memories as she revealed she was raped, and that all she remembered of her attacker before he stunned her, was seeing a mass of bright red hair. Draco's heart skipped a beat when she revealed this.
'Are you sure Luna?' Draco asked urgently.
'O yes....very sure,' Luna replied in her dreamy voice.
'Ok, thank you Luna,' Draco said, his mind working on overload. So Ron Weasley had raped Luna thought Draco. Ideas flooded through Draco's head of how he could drive a wedge between Harry and Ron. If he could get Ron hating Harry before the final part of his plan then anything would proceed easier. After some thought, Draco reached for some quill and parchment and began to write.
It was breakfast and Harry and Ron were sat together on the Gryffindor table; Harry tucking into some bacon and eggs whilst Ron was buttering some toast. The morning owls suddenly came streaming in through the open windows and began to fly to their owners with their mail.
'Ouch,' said Ron as the corner of a letter dropped from the air onto his head. Ron rubbed his head and quickly opened the letter:
''Ronald Weasley, I know what you did to Luna and I have evidence to prove it. Either you tell Harry Potter of your crime or I'll let the Ministry know of what you did.''
Harry looked up at Ron whose face had drained of all colour; his knuckles white as he clenched the letter in a vice like grip. Draco looked on from the Slytherin table intensely.
'Errr...Harry,' said Ron weakly, beads of sweat forming on his forehead, 'Can we go somewhere private, there's something I need to tell you.'
'Sure mate,' said Harry in a concerned voice, as Ron lead him out of the Great Hall and into the grounds. A few students sat on the grass, deciding to eat breakfast outside in the grounds as Ron and Harry began to talk.
'Harry....there's something I need to tell you, something I'm ashamed of,' Ron stammered, as Harry placed a comforting arm around Ron's back, 'remember when we fell out in the library last October,' Ron continued, 'and I ran off.'
'Yeah,' said Harry slowly.
'Well, I ran off to the grounds....and then Luna turned up.....and, I'm sorry Harry I was just so angry.....I raped her....,' Ron blubbered, his face going red and tears plopping from out of his eyes.
'Ron,' said Harry as he took his arm off Ron's shoulders, 'how could you,' Harry said weakly as a look of disgust formed on his face.
'I'm sorry Harry,' said Ron through tears.
'I comforted you afterwards you pig!' Harry shouted, attracting the attention of the student's sitting in the grounds, 'you stay away from me Ron, and you can consider yourself sacked from the Quidditch team.'
'No....you can't,' Ron shouted back with a look of shock on his face.
'Yes I can,' Harry responded, 'I'm going to Luna,' said Harry as he stormed off back towards the Castle.
'Wait.....please.....don't tell anybody,' Ron cried desperately after Harry. Ron looked back at the querying eyes of the people who had started to mingle around Ron before he quickly stalked off to the solitude of the Forbidden Forest.
Harry spotted Luna ambling down the 2nd floor corridor as she hummed a cheery song to herself.
'Luna!' Harry called, 'have you got time for a chat?'
'Sure,' said Luna in a dreamy voice, 'the Ravenclaw common room should be pretty empty now, we can go there' said Luna as she and Harry began to make their way towards the common room. Finally, they made arrived at the common room as Luna took Harry up to the quiet of her dormitory. Luna gestured for Harry to sit down on her bed as Harry looked on in sadness into her eyes.
'Luna, I've heard what happened to you, I know that you were raped,' Harry said gently. Luna stared at Harry in wide-eyed silence as a tear started to form in her eye.
'Why did he hurt me Harry,' Luna suddenly wept, 'I was only looking for gnarlbats,' she cried as she lowered her head into Harry's shoulder.
'Shhhh,' Harry whispered as he lowered his head on top of Luna's and began to stroke her long blonde hair softly, 'I'm here for you.' Harry despaired at the sadness of his friend. Since last year, though at first he thought she was strange, Harry had developed a strong friendship with Luna, who was one of the few people who stood by him during his troubled year.
'I feel so dirty Harry, whoever it was took my virginity, I hate him. I just want somebody to love me,' Luna said through tears.
'I love you Luna as a friend,' Harry said as he continued to caress her hair.
'No Harry,' said Luna in her far-away voice as she lifted her head off Harry's shoulder, 'I want somebody to show me what love is really like. This person raped me, I need somebody to show me some real love,' Luna said, her eyes locked onto Harry as she reached out a hand to stroke his cheek. Harry stared back in disbelief. Now he thought about it, Luna was quite attractive. Her usual dirty blonde hair was shiny and had been combed straight. She had large, round green eyes that still looked pretty even though she had been crying. She had a long straight nose and beautiful, pure pale skin. Harry let his head lean into Luna's hand as he placed his hand on top of hers.
'Ok Luna,' Harry said softly, as Luna gave a watery smile. Slowly, Harry and Luna inclined their heads towards each other until they were barely a centimetre apart; Harry inhaling the sweet perfume smell that lingered on Luna. The two of them parted their lips together as Harry gave Luna a lingering kiss on her soft lips. Luna closed her eyes in happiness as Harry momentarily broke away. They then kissed again, this time a much longer and passionate kiss. Luna tentatively poked her tongue into Harry's mouth, which he accepted. Harry and Luna fell back onto the bed, lying next to each other as they continued to kiss. Harry began to softly stroke her body as he lifted Luna onto his lap, so that she straddled his hips.
Harry gave Luna a warm smile as she removed her top over her head, revealing her small, but round B sized breasts. Luna took Harry's right hand in hers as she lifted it and placed it on her breast. Luna moaned softly as Harry began to squeeze and play with her breast softly. Harry they took both breasts in his hands as he continued to play with them; circling them in his hands and rubbing her nipples between his finger-tips. Luna naturally began to grind her hips on top of Harry's, her pussy rubbing up against Harry's cock and soon Harry was nursing a massive hard-on. Luna leant down and placed her hands on Harry's stomach as she pushed up his t-shirt up to his chest. Luna began to squeeze and feel Harry's strong muscles as she started to kiss and lick around Harry's belly button. Harry moaned at the tickling sensation this caused as he removed his shirt. Luna then began to kiss and feel Harry's nipples whilst Harry placed one hand on top of Luna's blonde hair and with the other, he began to feel Luna's peachy bum through her skirt.
Suddenly, Harry rolled over, so that Luna lay underneath him. Luna giggled up at him as Harry smiled back.
'This is so much better then hunting hatchquins,' Luna said in a floaty voice. Harry laughed as he went to kiss Luna once more, feeling her small breasts crush against his chest. Slowly, Harry began to lower his kisses, first to her neck and then down her slim throat towards her chest. He paused at her breasts, as he sucked in a huge mouthful of her right breast and began to suck on it, hearing Luna moan in delight. Harry then snaked his tongue down her toned, white tummy till he finally came to her pussy. Harry carefully removed her skirt and panties, till Luna lay fully naked on the bed, her tight pussy directly in Harry's eye line. Harry could feel Luna's legs quiver as he stroked and lightly kissed the inside of her thighs.
'It's ok Luna, I'm not going to hurt you,' Harry said gently.
'I know,' Luna said softly, 'I trust you with my life Harry.' Harry placed his hands either side of Luna's pussy lips as he gently eased her lips aside with his fingers. Harry lowered his head and poked his tongue out and began to tenderly circle her clit with his tongue.
'Ahhh yes Harry.....that's the spot,' moaned Luna in naive delight as she ran her fingers through Harry's thick, dark hair. Harry, encouraged by Luna's moans began to lap more quickly around her clit as with his fingers, he began to rub up and down her smooth, young pussy. Luna wrapped her slender legs around Harry; her hips began to buck more and more as Harry tried to keep licking her pussy. Harry's placed his hands under Luna's tiny bum cheeks to try and keep her still as he flitted his tongue in and out of his mouth quickly around her clit, before moving his tongue to her entrance. After a few minutes, Harry felt Luna's body tense up as she let out a cry of delight.
'Ooooh.....ahhhhh Harry,' she cried as she went through a glorious orgasm, juices flowing out onto Harry's tongue. After a few moments, her body relaxed as Harry went and lay beside her.
'Ooh Harry that was incredible...I want you inside me,' panted Luna as she went and pulled down Harry's trousers and tight fitting white boxers. Harry's 7 inch cock suddenly burst free as Luna placed her dainty hands around it and slowly began to rub it. Luna quickly straddled Harry's hips as she placed the tip of his cock at her entrance. Luna lowered herself down on to Harry's cock, until she lay completely on Harry's lap. Harry could feel Luna's pussy resting on his balls as she tentatively began to thrust her hips up and down along his cock. Luna and Harry smiled at each other as Harry placed his hands on Luna's bum, admiring it's smoothness as he occasionally squeezed it.
Luna placed her hands on Harry's chest as she began to thrust more quickly; her body and head arching backwards in ecstasy. Harry began to breathe more sharply as he heard Luna's thighs slap onto his legs quicker and quicker. He reached up and grabbed Luna's tits in his hands, as they began to jiggle and bounce up and down with the motion of her thrusting.
After ten minutes, Harry sat up, so that his back lay against the bed rest. He began kissing Luna passionately on the lips as she lowered the tempo of her thrusting so that she was thrusting a lot slower and more fluidly. Harry held Luna in a tight embrace as she pressed Harry's face into her tits. Luna moaned as she enjoyed the sensation of a cock in her pussy which this time, was not hurting and violating her. She used her muscles to wrap her pussy walls firmly around Harry's cock, causing Harry to sigh out in pleasure.
Luna's pussy felt great around Harry's cock. Even though Ron had raped her, she was still really tight Harry thought; and warm. Harry's cock slid in and out of Luna's pussy easily as she was still sopping wet from the oral Harry gave her. Harry gently eased Luna backwards onto the bed as the warm blankets enveloped her body as Harry lay on top of her. He placed his hand on the underside of her thigh as she wrapped it around Harry's waist as Harry began to thrust quickly into Luna's tight cunt.
'Ahhhhh......ahhhh,' they both panted as Luna placed her hands on Harry's bum, squeezing it and giving it a gentle slap every few thrusts. Harry then grabbed Luna around her middle, gently feeling her toned tummy as he began to thrust hard and deep into Luna's pussy. Eventually, Harry began to sense the familiar electric feeling surge through his body as he felt his balls tighten. His hip thrusts became more wild and untimed until he felt his body tense as his head shot back in delight.
'I'm gonna cum.....ahhhhhhhh.......hmmmmm,' Harry cried out as he felt Luna pull his bum in, so that his cock lay 7 inches deep in Luna's pussy. Harry felt his cum splash against Luna's warm pussy walls as once his orgasm subsided; he collapsed on top of Luna, his head resting on Luna's breasts.
'Thank-you Harry,' said Luna softly as she kissed the top of Harry's head and began to play with his hair, 'now I know what sex should really be like.' Harry leant up and gave Luna a brief kiss on the lips in response, his softening cock still inside Luna's pussy. After a few moments, he removed his wet, sticky cock as he lay next to Luna and began to cuddle her.
'You are one of my true friends Luna,' said Harry as he kissed her hair lightly, 'I'll never let anybody hurt you again,' Harry said defiantly as he and Luna lay together in warm embrace, till they both fell asleep in each other's arms.
Ron finally stopped, deep in the Forbidden Forest and sat on a tree-stump and wept. He heard strange animal noises howl and squawk around him as he thought about what had happened. He had lost his place on the Quidditch team, he had lost his friend and his dark secret was in danger of being found out. Anger spread through his body as a strange red-glint flashed across his eyes as he let out a strangled cry of despair. In this moment, Ron had nothing.
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anonymous reader
2013-01-26 07:33:42
harry is such a good guy...wish i had someone like that to help me when i was raped :/
anonymous reader
2012-02-15 02:07:05
all of you are aware that draco is a rapist too. his forced sex makes ron's look gentle! harry and draco should nevef be friends!
anonymous reader
2011-12-14 18:26:16
great,im soooo glad i found ur stories.iv been trying to find a descent set of stories 4 so long now. one problem though... after fingering myself my panties have got all wet... i have to find new ones now
2011-05-18 12:59:58
Just make him suffer for it & don't do a Ron & Hermy. maybe do a Ron & Patsy as Draco dosn't want her. but do more of Harry & Luna with afew others that you haven't used. Would love to see Harry doing all of the black sisters and getting them PG by Harry. would make a very good story line in that Draco would want more revenge because of it Dave
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2011-05-16 19:34:54
I really hope you do a Ron/Hermione
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Tuesday 23rd March 1915- Diary of HV Reynolds
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Diary of an Anzac
Please note: Care has been taken to transcribe these entries without alteration to preserve the original language of Herbert Vincent Reynolds.
'Granted leave but spent a lazy day in camp, went to the picture show at the Empire theatre after tea. There are 5 picture theatres in this camp. They are extremely roughly constructed, but nevertheless serve their purpose, they go under the names of Empire, Red Cross, Pathes, Pyramid and the Coliseum.'
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In the past, buying programs for your computer was very simple. If your computer was fairly new, it would probably run any new game or program you chose to throw at it. Hardware was simpler, and video games were written in a more straightforward manner.
Fast forward to today: Shopping for games is like purchasing food for your latest diet kick... you have to go through a long list of unintelligible specifications and numbers before you know if it's even going to work. And if you succeed in deciphering the gigahertz and gobbabytes and bogon generators, you still have to upgrade your computer on a regular basis to even hope to play the newest games. And don't expect that to be simple, either. Purchasing 3D accelerators reminds one of a fireworks shop.
To fully understand what this is all about, we need to go back a bit in history.
Welcome to 1981. I don't exist, but we can ignore that. Personal computers are slow, simple, generally fairly stable, but not quite as much fun as hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. You press a key, and the appropriate letter pops up on the screen... not much for your computer to think about. A monochrome text display at 80x25 uses four entire kilobytes of video memory, which is seen as way too much. Of course, there are some video games... I hope you like Zork.
Jump ahead to 1983-86. Personal computers have advanced at an incredible rate, adding 16-bit hardware and software, color graphics, and an occasional mouse pointer. Now, if you want to draw a circle on your screen, you type an appropriate command or series of commands, and simple formulas create the pixel images and place them on your screen. Detail is low - you could never show a realistic photograph on your screen - but computers are now good for play as well as work. Video games such a Janitor Joe debut, distributed on floppy disks.
1993 is here, and the dawn of entertainment computing is upon us. A small child can use a Windows-based PC to do homework or paint a picture on the screen, in glorious VGA resolution. You can buy a complete multimedia kit with a CD-ROM drive, a sound card, and a simple pair of speakers for less than a good keyboard cost just a few years ago. Modern 32-bit processing powerhouses, such as the i386, bring video gaming to a whole new dimension - the third dimension.
This amazing revolution in graphics quality is primarily due to improvements in video cards. A video card is a small fiberglass board with various chips soldered onto it, which plugs into a specially designed slot inside the tower part of your computer. It is used to convert the data inside your computer into a picture you can see on your monitor. In fact, the connector you plug your screen into on the back of your PC is usually attached directly to the video card. The hardware on that card is the main factor concerning the graphics capability of your system.
With the advent of Microsoft Windows, 3D gaming, and the internet, the main processor of the PC was no longer capable of performing all the calculations necessary for displaying new, more complex images on the screen while providing smooth desktop performance. You can demonstrate this deficiency by booting your computer in Standard VGA Mode or 16 Color Mode and scrolling a website or word processor document... the display draws very slowly, and the entire system is much less responsive.
To solve this problem, computer designers began putting small, optimized processors on the video cards themselves, dedicated to drawing objects onscreen. Early models, such as the Tseng Labs ET6000, the S3 ViRGE, and the ATI Mach series were know as graphics accelerators. Their benefits were twofold: They improved computer performance, and especially graphics performance, and they allowed much higher detail on the display. For example, a standard VGA graphics system displayed 640x480 pixels onscreen, with a palette of 16 colors to choose from... not bad for computer work, but not sufficient for photographic images or immersive video games. With a graphics accelerator, the display resolution could be as much as doubled, and color quality was usually perfect - far more colors than the human eye can differentiate.
It's 2004, and we've come a long way, baby. Little children now use their computers to play with their friends in immersive, nearly realistic digital worlds, or chat with buddies across the globe. Extra intelligent individuals can, say, contribute to collaborative databases of knowledge and Everything else, with the assistance of experienced writers and researchers. Video games no longer require a leap of imagination to enjoy... they place you in a realistic world of electronic space.
Hardware technology is beyond space age. A single gaming-grade GPU (graphics processing unit, that's what we call them now) is hundreds of times more powerful than the computers that ran the Apollo 13 mission. The graphics hardware is used for wireframing, texturing, antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, mipmapping, and communicating with extraterrestrial life. Gone are the bleeps and tones that added life to action games just a few years ago. Now, above-CD-quality surround sound creates an immersive experience for the ears as well as the eyes.
Nothing is simple any more
After you boil down all the computer lingo, funny green naked butterfly women, and "vodeo supercard for INTENSE HAPPY FISH", you are left with two purchasing criteria:
Let's consider those separately.
How much horsepower do you need? The wide range of video cards available at a given time is a confusing product of competition, market research, platform tuning, and a little bit of artificial inflation. Let's look at a theoretical product lineup (units intentionally vague):
Make Model Speed Price Vega Lightstar 16 37 49 Vega Powerstar 1000 65 79 Xeno Mantissa Z5 60 75 Xeno Tornado 2700 136 89 Vega Powerstar 1400 140 99 Xeno Tornado 2750KS 142 99 Xeno Tornado 3000 180 110 Vega Powerstar 1500 158 129 Vega Powerstar 1500XT 170 149 Vega Powerstar 2000 200 210 Xeno Tornado2 4000 220 213 Vega Powerstar 2000XT 220 249 Xeno Tornado2 4100 230 249 Xeno Tornado3 5000 300 499 Vega Powerstar 3000 Ultra 310 499
You immediately notice a few things about this list. First, that some products are simply not worth the money for the extra performance they buy over the next lower product. Second, only two major vendors really matter.
At the low end, we have the very inexpensive Vega Lightstar. This card is probably the top end of a discontinued product line, being marketed as a general-purpose product. Xeno has a similar offering in the Mantissa, which competes with the PowerStar 1000 in performance. At the 75-100 price point, we have a good selection of low-end 3D accelerators that will probably run the majority of games out there, but not at the very highest quality settings. These cards will probably be choppy when playing the very newest games available (2004 - the $79 Radeon 9000 is really not fast enough to play DooM3, but most every thing else works on it).
The middle of the chart, 100-250 price range, is populated by parts that can be expected to work for anything you want to play, provided you turn down the quality a bit. Their horsepower is considerable - many older games will be extremely fast and smooth. As of September 2004, this market segment is populated by the ATI Radeon 9600 series and the nVidia Geforce FX5x00 products. Most users buy in this price range - the performance versus cost index is the highest.
At the far end of the lineup, we have two products, one from each major company, that stand out as being the fastest, most expensive video cards you can buy. The top notch is highly contested, with frequent product releases reclaiming the spot. You really don't need one of these, but they are made available because many computer gamers buy them just for the bragging rights. The one saving grace of these is that they are going to be far more future-proof than mainstream video cards, because they are usually the cutting edge of a new generation of graphics technology. For example, the Geforce 6800 and the Radeon X800 are radically different from the next product down, the Geforce FX 5900 Ultra and the Radeon 9800XT, respectively. It's not just a performance boost; it's a completely new architecture.
Selecting a video card to fit your computer comes down to only one factor. You need to make sure your motherboard has the slot the video card uses. This can be accomplished a few different ways. First, if your computer came from a major manufacturer, such as Dell, you can usually look up the manufacturer's website to determine what type of slots you computer has. If your system is from a small company, you can usually call them and ask them for the information, but be prepared to look up motherboard models online or something similar.
Failing this, you can always open your tower and look inside. On one side, laying flat, you will see a relatively large circuit board that has many cables and smaller circuit boards attached to it - that's your motherboard. Notice a series of long, rectangular receptacles that the other, smaller boards plug into - those are your slots. Usually, a computer will have between two and six white PCI slots, and one, slightly offset AGP slot, which is almost always a different color, often brown.
If your system offers an AGP slot, you will probably want to use it; that slot will always be faster than PCI for gaming graphics. It is only used for video cards, so if it already has a card in it, it's going to be your existing video hardware plugged into it. If you are stuck using the white, PCI slots, expect to pay more and get rather less performance. Keep you eyes open for the new PCI Express slots; they're going to be faster and better than AGP when they become available.
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John Hensby, 71, from Cowshill near Bishop Auckland, said he had been warned the 110ft (35m) wide chasm would grow.
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UPDATED: "Price is Right" host Drew Carey says the CBS game show didn't snub his predecessor, Bob Barker. TMZ.com caught up with Carey and asked him for his reaction to Barker's complaints earlier this week that he was not invited to take part in the show's special 40th anniversary episode that aired this past Monday. Barker hosted the show for 35 of those 40 seasons. "It wasn't because of animosity or anything like that," Carey told TMZ. "Nobody has anything against him … It just didn't occur to anybody to invite him personally to be on the show because it was a salute to contestants." Indeed, the entire studio audience was made up of past contestants, some of whom got to play once again for big prizes.
PREVIOUSLY: Game-show legend Bob Barker is apparently feeling snubbed by his old show, "The Price is Right," when it came time to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary on CBS on Tuesday (Sept. 4).
He says he wasn't invited to participate in the special episode marking the four-decade milestone that was taped earlier this summer.
"I don't know why I wasn't asked to take part in some way," Barker, 88, is quoted as saying in an interview posted here on TVGuide.com.
In the interview, he was critical of his old show's commitment to animal rights — a long-time interest of his. As most people know, Barker is an animal-rights advocate whose activism was a part of every "Price is Right" episode he hosted — ending each show with an admonishment to viewers that they spay and neuter their pets. He hosted the show for 35 of its 40 seasons on CBS — from 1972 to 2007.
"I am ashamed of the show," he told TV Guide, "and surprised at their complete disregard for the welfare of animals. Were I still there, a prize to attend the Calgary Stampede would never have been considered. We never did anything that condoned animal cruelty. Apparently, things have changed."
According to the TV Guide story, the Calgary (Canada) Stampede is an annual event that is "notorious for its many horse deaths."
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The show marked the 40th anniversary of the premiere of "The Price is Right" on CBS in September 1972 — but Tuesday's show marked the start of its 41st season.
CBS declined to comment on what Barker said, but a source noted that this special episode — with its former contestants wrangled from all over the country for a show that included six games, two spins of the show's famous wheel, and then the elaborate showcase round — did run over its allotted time and had to be edited down to an hour. Which means: A minute or two with Bob Barker would not have been possible. "The Price is Right," of course, originates from a studio that was renamed The Bob Barker Studio when he retired.
And the studio's name is announced at the beginning of every episode of the show, including the anniversary show on Tuesday. In addition, Barker was seen in brief clips from past shows.
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BLOG: HPE Teachers in primary schools: supplementing the debate
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Timothy Lynch, Monash University, Gippsland, Victoria
The purpose of this article [from the Active & Healthy Magazine, Volume 20, Issue 3/4 2013] is to join in the debate around who is best prepared to provide quality Health and Physical Education lessons (HPE) in primary schools. Christina Curry's article 'Why public primary schools need specialist PE teachers' [in July 2012] advocated specialist PE teachers and Natalie McMaster's article 'Generalist Teachers; Ideal candidates for providing developmentally appropriate, best practice instruction in physical education in early childhood and primary settings' advocated generalist classroom teachers [in March 2013]. Both articles published in the Active and Healthy Magazine raise pertinent issues surrounding Health and Physical Education and lifelong wellness.
Says who?
What I will be sharing is where I see theory meeting the practice. I have spent a considerable amount of time in primary schools (15 years) as a generalist classroom teacher, Health and Physical Education specialist and as a school leader for Foundation Stage and Key Stage One (3-7 years) in an English curriculum school (450 children). For a number of years these roles were combined and juggled. Furthermore, I completed a Master of Education (Physical and Health Education) from Deakin University where I was fortunate to have learnt from academics such as Professor Richard Tinning (University of Queensland) and Professor Chris Hickey. Studying my Masters in HPE as I taught full time enabled me to attempt the social critical pedagogy with success. In 2006 I completed a Doctorate of Education entitled "An evaluation of school responses to the introduction of the Queensland 1999 Health and Physical Education (HPE) syllabus and policy documents in three Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) primary schools." This study was very relevant to present national curriculum reform in HPE and the implementation process.
My experience in research and practice has provided me with a special opportunity to reflect on the best way to approach the issues raised by Curry and McMaster. My thoughts on these issues are supported by data collected at the end of the 2012 school year. The data was gathered using surveys completed by 138 government primary school principal participants in the state of Victoria. This is a large number considering the demanding and time limiting role of school principal. There were two ethical clearances that were granted before this research was conducted. They were the ethical clearance from Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (MUHREC) and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD).
Government school principals' surveyed represented schools from seven Victorian regions and schools of various enrolment sizes (Table 1).
Advocates for Health and Physical Education
The first point I would like to comment on is that as evidenced by the Curry and McMaster articles and the number of Victorian government principals who participated in this research, there are many advocates for HPE. That is, there are many people who have experienced the benefits of learning in, through and about movement, who believe in the key learning area and care that primary children across Australian schools receive a quality education.
The second point I would like to clarify is that the learning area within the Australian Education system and that I specialised in, is 'Health and Physical Education'. As McMaster argues, generalist primary and early childhood teachers have the developmentally appropriate pedagogical knowledge and understanding of the child's holistic learning. This holistic approach is the very reason why the ultimate outcome of a child being physically educated is to be a healthy and a well person throughout life. There are seven dimensions of wellness: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, environmental and occupational which are all strongly connected (Robbins, Powers & Burgess, 2011). As evidenced by the following excerpt from the recent draft of the Australian curriculum, HPE auspices more than the physical:
In Health and Physical Education students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to support them to be resilient, to develop a strong sense of self, to build and maintain satisfying relationships, to make health-enhancing decisions in relation to their health and physical activity participation, and to develop health literacy competencies in order to enhance their own and others' health and wellbeing. (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2012, p. 2).
While Physical Education is the learning area referred to within the United States and the United Kingdom, Health and Physical Education has been the nomenclature in Australia since 1994 (Australian Education Council). It is only due to very gradual curriculum change in one or two Australian states' educational policies that the term Physical Education may be at times referred to in the P-10 curriculum.
Structure for preparing primary school Health and Physical Education teachers
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) draft shape paper for HPE, similar to predecessor curriculum documents, espouses quality experiences for children and the importance of having these from the very beginnings of schooling. What is being accentuated within this shape paper is one particular aspect of quality HPE; that it is 'developmentally appropriate'. The priority for Health and Physical Education is:
to provide ongoing, developmentally appropriate opportunities for students to practise and apply the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to maintain and enhance their own and others' health and wellbeing. (ACARA, 2012, p. 4).
As earlier mentioned McMaster debates the importance of developmentally appropriate HPE and raised the issue that having a HPE specialist within the primary school does not guarantee a quality developmentally appropriate program. For a long time I thought that primary schools in Australia simply required specialist HPE teachers as Curry argues (2012). However, as Dinan-Thompson (2009, p.48) expresses; questions are often raised about "who is teaching HPE, and who is deemed competent to teach HPE in schools". Hence, I no longer think HPE specialist roles is a viable solution for two reasons. One, the obvious reason that this is yet to evolve in all schools is the cost involved. And two, we lack 'suitably qualified', that is 'developmentally appropriate' knowledgeable primary HPE teachers due to the absence of specific courses in Australia. Hence, specialist HPE teachers working within primary schools are often not qualified generalist classroom primary teachers (often secondary HPE trained), and may not have had opportunities to develop pedagogy specifically for teaching children in the Primary school sector, or they are generalist classroom teachers with no HPE specialisation.
The principles applied have been recognised in many other learning areas within education. Pre-service teachers do not study English Literature in preparation for teaching and learning of phonics (letters and sounds), in the early years. Nor do they study physics and chemistry in the Faculty of Science in preparation for teaching and learning science in the primary school. Physical Education (PE) courses specifically tailored to children in the 3-11 age range, where teachers are qualified generalist classroom teachers with a specialism in PE are offered in the United Kingdom. What is sometimes offered in Australia are quasi primary HPE courses where pre-service primary teachers may be able to choose electives in general sport often relating to industry or secondary physical education. While these offer opportunities for enthusiasts to study areas of interest, ideal candidates for primary HPE specialists, unfortunately they lack the primary children 'developmentally appropriate' nature that the draft paper emphasises.
Both Curry and McMaster channel us to a problem within primary schools. As Curry states generalist teachers have "very little specific training in HPE" (p. 17). In the past there was no required accreditation or formal training in physical or sport education as a condition of employment for graduating primary school teachers (Moore, 1994). In my experience having worked in schools and university education faculties across four Australian states and territories, this is a problem that still exists today. Some primary graduates have studied units that relate to movement broadly (often not primary HPE) or not at all. Furthermore, Curry asserts that it is difficult for the generalist classroom teacher to focus on HPE when they are responsible for all learning areas. Hence, having a specialist HPE teacher within the primary school ensures consistent and regular HPE lessons.
In arguing that generalist teachers are the best candidates, McMaster rationalises learning through movement in a connected curriculum to benefit all learning areas. This involves the generalist teacher designing learning experiences optimising physicality through multi-sensory learning. It can be argued that this is different to quality HPE specialist lessons and that not all teachers may be as passionate or confident to do this. I agree to some extent with McMaster when she argues that generalist teachers are ideal candidates to teach HPE in primary schools as they have a better pedagogical and developmentally appropriate understanding of the children. Hence, I propose that for the first time in Australia's history primary education (P-6) pre-service teachers (generalist classroom) be given the opportunity within their university courses to specialise in developmentally appropriate Health and Physical Education. My experiences at Monash University (Gippsland campus) Bachelor of Primary Education evidence that there is strong demand for such a course. We have on average 55 of the 80 (69.0%) first year intake choosing to study the HPE major stream. These numbers have continued throughout second and third year where numbers have increased by 92.0% in biennial units, from 39 (2011) to 75 (2013). Graduating generalist teachers with a HPE specialism can teach either in the classroom or if the school has the opportunity for a specialist they can step into such a role. This is supported by the Victorian government primary principals surveyed.
Principals' survey results
From the 138 principals surveyed 120 (88.2%) preferred to have HPE specialist teachers in their school. Within small schools (less than 100 children) many Principals stated that it was not possible or financially viable to have HPE specialists due to their rural, regional or remote location. Therefore there was a much higher percentage of Principals in small schools who answered 'no' to this question, stating that they did not prefer to have HPE specialist teachers.
The comments supporting HPE specialists in primary schools were many and suggested that quality was provided through expertise, knowledge of the subject, priority of the learning area, skill development, motivation, community relations, sport coordination and to enable a developmentally appropriate and consistent program. Also, it was mentioned that some classroom teachers are not able (physically) to take HPE classes and that it provided release time for classroom teachers.
From the 138 principals, 82.6% believed a course that qualifies teachers to be generalist classroom teachers and HPE specialists would be or would probably be valuable.
The number of principals who stated that their HPE specialist teacher was a qualified specialist was 62 (59.0%), 43 principals (41.0%) stated that their HPE specialist did not have specific qualifications and 33 did not answer the question.
Principals' commented on key attributes of a good HPE teacher. The top six responses were:
Concluding remarks
A university course where generalist teachers have the opportunity to specialise in developmentally appropriate primary HPE will enable, in time, all schools in Australia to have classroom teachers who are prepared to teach the whole child with particular strengths and focus in physical learning as specialist primary HPE teachers. There is a demand from principals and from the student interest at Monash University (Gippsland campus). Such a course directly relates to the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA, 2008) and the recommendations of the Gonski Report, where all children are to have the same opportunities regardless of where they live or what school they attend. Finally, teacher advocacy for HPE, the standard of resources and time deemed appropriate to ultimately enhance children's lifelong health and wellbeing needs to be supported by the profession to improve the quality of HPE in Australian schools.
*I would like to acknowledge the support of the Victorian Government – Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) during this research.
Australian Education Council. (1994). A statement on health and physical education for Australian schools. Carlton, VIC: Curriculum Corporation.
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2012). Draft shape of the Australian curriculum: health and physical education. Retrieved from http://www.acara.edu.au/hpe.html
Curry, C. (2012). Why public primary schools need specialist PE teachers. Active & Healthy Magazine, 19(2), 17-19.
Dinan-Thompson, M. (2009) Health and physical education: issues for curriculum in Australia and New Zealand. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand.
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. (2008) Melbourne declaration on education goals for young Australians. Retrieved from http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/National_Declaration_on_the_Educational_Goals_for_Young_Australians.pdf.
McMaster, N. (2013). Generalist teachers; Ideal candidates for providing developmentally appropriate, best practice instruction in physical education in early childhood and primary settings. Active & Healthy Magazine, 20(1), 5-7.
Moore, D. (1994). The challenges for sport and physical education in schools. ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 41(1/143), 23-28.
Robbins, G., Powers, D., & Burgess, S. (2011). A wellness way of life. (9th ed.). USA: McGraw Hill.
About the Author
Tim is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University – Gippsland campus where he coordinates the Health and Physical Education (HPE) discipline stream within the Bachelor of Primary Education course. He is an experienced classroom and HPE primary school teacher and Head; Foundation Stage and Key State One (3-7 years) in an English International School (Qatar). In 2006 he was the Australian Council for HPE (ACHPER) Teresa Carlson Award recipient (Queensland Branch) for his outstanding dedication to the teaching of HPE and promotion of its benefits within the community. He can be contacted via email email@example.com.
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Comments on this article
Stan vincent of Sydney
Posted at 13th Jan 14 9:53 AM
I am a somewhat specialised badminton coach at club level (not state or Elite level). Part of the training involves general exercise health in particular to prevent injury and promote a life long love of sport.. I teach early teens. I advocate exercise health as a core subject for generalist primary teachers, who already are multiskilled anyway. self confidence self reliance self improvement rather than winning, good sportsmanship and avoidance of obesity are the result. Medically $1 of prevention saves $17 of cure.
Stan -
Mike @ balustrade
Posted at 19th Feb 14 3:27 PM
I would like to clarify is that the learning area within the Australian Education system and that I specialize in, is 'Health and Physical Education'. As McMaster argues, generalist primary and early childhood teachers have the developmentally appropriate pedagogical knowledge and understanding of the child's holistic learning.


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Journal FortKnox's Journal: [FFL] Its that time... 16
Ok, there are two audiences for this journal:
1.) Those that are in the slashdot keeper league or would like to be.
2.) Those that want to play in a free single-season league.
No fears if you don't know football, or don't understand fantasy football. You can be taught pretty easily. All I ask out of #2 is that you spend an hour (or less) a week setting up your lineup, and a couple hours within the next few weeks to draft players (you can autodraft and stuff, which doesn't take anytime).
Anywho, for the keepers:
I need to know who is in and who isn't in. NFL.com still has all the details, including placing and rosters (and they just added a bunch of new features for keeper leagues, so I'd like to stick with them).
I can't remember how many we kept last year, but 3 or 4 seems to be right. Which will it be? Also, would you like any rules to change? Did it seem like one position always got more points than others? Did one position not matter as far as poitns? We want to kind of even it all out if we can...
Also, I'm guessing not everyone will want to keep on keeping on with the keepers league, so I'd like to ask anyone else if they'd like to jump in. There is a cost, but its usually less than $15 (it was $13 last year).
If you are a keeper and want to stay, please send me an email or leave a comment here. If you want to join in, do the same.
Group #2... we can just make a quickie yahoo or nfl.com free league. I'll be happy to set it up, but I'd like 6-8 people, minimum to run a team (if we have over 12, we can split into two leagues). Anyone up for it? I'll even be HAPPY to teach football and/or fantasy football to anyone that's willing!


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Caraviello: From fifth place, favorite for 600 emerges
May 20, 2012, David Caraviello, NASCAR.com
CONCORD, N.C. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. was coasting under caution, about to start the third segment of the Sprint All-Star Race, but he couldn't prevent his mind from drifting to another event. "Don't let me forget to tell you," he radioed to crew chief Steve Letarte, "how much I'm looking forward to the 600." "I think we showed what we're capable of doing here next weekend." --DALE EARNHARDT JR. That would be the Coca-Cola 600, next weekend's marathon at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and a year ago perhaps the best chance Earnhardt had to snap a winless streak at NASCAR's highest level that now stretches back 140 points-paying events. Last season he led off the final corner, trying to stretch a fuel run to the end, but ran dry through the last few turns and suffered perhaps the most heartbreaking defeat of this four-year dry spell. But after Saturday night's $1 million-to-win exhibition, one thing became as clear as the fireworks bursting in the sky above this 1.5-mile facility. Next week, Earnhardt is the favorite to win. Jimmie Johnson may have claimed his third all-star victory Saturday, but no driver or vehicle was as impressive as Earnhardt in that No. 88, which won a preliminary event just to get into the big show and then charged to the front of a star-studded field again and again and again. Earnhardt was a sitting duck at the end, winning a segment but winning the wrong one, and starting the final 10-lap dash with more miles on his tires than his chief competitors. He wasn't helped when Matt Kenseth's car was slow in front of him on the last restart, giving NASCAR's most popular driver almost no chance to catch the drivers starting in front of him with so few laps remaining. "We just didn't have enough laps to mount any kind of a challenge," said Earnhardt, who came in fifth. "They were gone after about two or three laps." No matter -- in the All-Star Race, when it's all about winning and the big bag of cash at the end, almost anything short of a victory is a disappointment. Unless it's placed in the context of next Sunday, and one of the most prestigious events in NASCAR, when the knowledge attained from this exhibition will be put to use. And you look at that No. 88 car, which ran away and hid in a qualifying race held in waning daylight and then contended for the victory in a main event held at night, and it's hard to not believe it's capable of being equally as potent under what should be similar conditions next week. "I think if we can repeat that sort of speed, we'll have a great 600," Letarte said. "The thing I liked about it the most is, we really didn't adjust it all night. Our race started around 7 and with when things finished -- you're looking at not quite early enough for the start of the 600, but you get in the bulk, the last two-thirds of the 600. So hopefully that will give us a good benchmark to get going." The signs were evident from the beginning of the Sprint Showdown, a preliminary event for drivers not otherwise qualified for the All-Star Race, where Earnhardt led all 40 laps and was never really challenged. This time he had raced his way into the big show, just as he had hoped to, rather than rely on the near-certainty of being voted in by the fans, "You spanked 'em hard tonight," car owner Rick Hendrick said over the radio after Earnhardt won the qualifier. "Yeah," the driver answered. "Pretty good car." "Pretty good?" Hendrick responded. "How about real good?" It was. Starting near the rear of the field for the All-Star Race, Earnhardt needed a little pit strategy to gain track position. But unlike the winners of the first three segments, he didn't have the luxury of coasting around at the tail end of the lead lap, buying time until the pit stop before the final 10-lap dash -- a stop for which the four segment winners would line up in the top four spots. Earnhardt won the fourth segment, but it concluded just after a caution period that allowed Johnson to take fresh tires, since as the first segment winner his place at the front of the field was guaranteed. Kenseth's slow restart, which came right in front a No. 88 car lined up in fourth place, didn't help. In truth, Earnhardt probably wouldn't have been able to catch the leaders anyway, especially given that Johnson used his fresher rubber to scoot away from the field and win with relative ease. But coming out of a qualifying race, starting from near the rear of the field, racing from the back to the front over and over to try and gain track position -- through all of it, the Chevy with the special Dale Jr. Foundation paint scheme never wavered. And next week there are no segments, no automatic passes to the front of the field, no coasting around in the back. Next week, it's 600 arduous miles of going fast and turning left. "I think we showed what we're capable of doing here next weekend," Earnhardt said. "We're probably going to bring the same car. We've got a couple of ideas on how to make the car even faster, especially for qualifying, that I hope will work out. But I'm real pleased with our effort." Understandably so. Earnhardt's 2000 victory in NASCAR's all-star event stands among the most notable of his career, capped by a celebration that included a now-famous embrace by his father. But last year, his No. 88 team didn't put much of an emphasis on the race. It is an exhibition, after all, despite all the fireworks the blown engines and big money doled out at the end. Letarte, then in his first season in the sport's highest-profile crew chief position, wanted to focus on righting a foundering program and getting off to the kind of start that would land them in the Chase. He did all that, though the price was an afterthought of an all-star event in which the sport's biggest star finished 14th. At the time, Earnhardt wasn't aware of it -- Letarte only told him sometime in the past year, he said. But given the hole his No. 88 program had fallen into, and the expectations that always surround him, he understood the approach. "We didn't bring our best bullet to the fight," Earnhardt said after winning the Showdown. "He told me this year they were going to put a little more emphasis on this event. I think last year ... in defense of Steve and his decision, we were a young team. This was early for us in our relationship. He was concentrating really more on the 600, trying to make the Chase. We had a lot of pressure on us to do well. We were still sort of coming out of the box. This was pretty early in the season last year. In defense of his decision there, I don't have a problem with it at this point. Obviously now ... it's easy to look back and say it's not a big deal. But it was a challenging time for us, and our priorities were quite a bit different then." Now, the priority is clear: win the Coca-Cola 600, end the streak, claim the one that got away in the final laps last season. The memory of it, of the No. 88 car coming off Turn 4 clear of the field and then slowing agonizingly to a crawl, still stings. "I try not to think about it. That one hurts," Letarte said. "Last year we had an OK car, we worked a really good strategy, and we ran out of gas trying to win one on fuel. I think we have more speed this year, which will hopefully open up more strategies. But [tonight] was a really fun night. Looking forward to next week without a doubt." Saturday night, Letarte said he still hadn't decided which car to use in next weekend's event. His team makes a lot of good cars, he said, as Earnhardt's third-place position in Sprint Cup points will attest. But in the immediate aftermath of the Sprint All-Star Race, the crew chief may have revealed a clue. Feel free to give Hendrick Motorsports teammate Johnson a congratulatory tap, he told his driver. Just be careful. "Don't dent it, though," Letarte radioed. "We might bring it back." With good reason. Because as late Saturday night turned to early Sunday morning, that battle-tested No. 88 was the favorite to win the Coca-Cola 600. The opinions expressed are solely those of the writer. Watch Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s All-Star weekend highlights below:


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CNN appears poised to replace one half of its "Parker Spitzer" show and it isn't Eliot Spitzer.
It's Kathleen Parker, the right-leaning columnist who's reportedly been unhappy on the program. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that CNN is considering replacing Parker but keeping Spitzer. The story cited unnamed "people familiar with the matter."
Officially, a CNN spokeswoman told the WSJ that her network is happy with the progress "Parker Spitzer" has made at 8 p.m./7c weeknights since its debut in October. "We aren't going to engage in speculation," she said. "The show continues to improve and we think it is a good addition to our lineup, providing smart, substantive analysis on the day's news."
But The Hollywood Reporter points out that "Parker Spitzer" has made little headway against its higher-rated rivals in the time period – "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel (averaging 2.6 million viewers nightly) and "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC (874,000). "Parker Spitzer" is averaging under 500,000, a contributing factor in CNN's steep decline in viewership in 2010, when it lost 34 percent of its prime-time audience compared to 2009.
Rumors that the two co-hosts of "Parker Spitzer" have struggled to develop a rapport have dogged the show for a while. One story in late November had Parker "storming off the set" during a taping because she felt Spitzer — the hard-charging, scandalized former governor of New York — was hogging the limelight. And it's true that Spitzer often comes across on the show as the more assertive of the two.
The struggle for viewership from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. must be a concern for CNN brass as they prepare for the launch next Monday (Jan. 17) of "Piers Morgan Tonight," CNN's long-awaited replacement for "Larry King Live" at 9/8c.
The WSJ story gave no indication of when CNN would make a move to replace Kathleen Parker (or simply have Spitzer go solo, as has also been rumored). And it's entirely possible they won't replace her at all.
The question is: Who should CNN get to counterbalance the liberal Spitzer? Any ideas? Sarah Palin?