Morgana sat on her bed in the Slytherin dorm and thought about the end-of-year holidays. All of a sudden she had an idea.

"Hey girls, what if I host a song contest? The idea would be that everyone changes the words of a known holiday song or carol, and makes the words more magical. Make a connection to Hogwarts and HEXmas," said Morgana.

"Don't you mean Christmas?" asked the Muggle-born witch Amizore.

"No, Amy," replied Morgana. "I mean HEXmas. Muggles celebrate Christmas. We magical folk celebrate HEXmas!"

The Caesar cipher is one of the earliest known and simplest ciphers. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plain text is 'shifted' a certain number of places down the alphabet. For example, with a shift of 1, A would be replaced by B, B would become C, and so on.

Here is a new version of an old song which you will need to decipher:

vuzsxq nqxxe, haxpk eyqxxe,
rday m tgzpdqp yuxqe mimk!
tmddk ime mf eayqitqdq qxeq
qmfuzs fdqmoxq fmdfe mxx pmk, tqk!
bqqhqe ime nmp, ruxot ime ymp,
tq saf mimk msmuz.
efgpqzfe xmgst mzp etmwq ftqud tqmpe
mf bqqhqe etqzmzusmze.

* with thanks to Gemz Bond who wrote this

Send your entry to Soup Account by 10 February at 11:59 pm with the subject "Puzzling Things"

Prizes
~ 15,000 galleons~
~ 10,000 galleons ~

Winners will be randomized from all 100% correct entries.

Good luck to you all!
- Morgana