Who is Escaping?

I’m not actually planning to lock children up in my house, so I had to get a little creative when it came to who is escaping at L’s Harry Potter Escape Room Birthday Party.

Often when people do at-home escape rooms, the escapees unlock a treasure or treats. I also read about one in which the players had to find an antidote for some potion someone had ingested, which was kind of a cute idea.

But…I came up with something I think is super fun and super cute.

The storyline of my escape room is this: Argus Filch was upset that students’ pets were bothering Mrs Norris (his cat), so he kidnapped all the pets. To get their pets back, the students must prove that they are responsible pet owners (whose pets would never bother Mrs Norris) by completing a series of tests and tasks.

I thought it was a super fun and logical storyline for a Harry Potter Escape Room. (It also kinda lines up with the Chamber of Secrets, right?)

There will be 8 students total at this escape room, so I crocheted up 8 little amigurumi creatures that will be locked up and which the students will rescue if they complete all the tasks in the escape room.

With 8 students, it probably would have made sense to crochet two each of the known animals that Hogwarts students keep as pets: owls, rats, cats, and toads. Buuuut when I bought pattern instructions that included a badger and a lion and a raven, I just…I decided that I’d do the classic pets + one each of the house animals. Oh. But then the pattern I bought had the cutest bat, so I decided to forgo the rat and make a bat instead. Whatever. These are the Hogwarts students’ pets! It’s fine, it’s all fine.

Since the students will be sorted into houses, I do have plans for which pets go to each house. Slytherin students will have a snake and a bat. Ravenclaw will have a raven and a (wise old) owl. Hufflepuff will have a badger and a cat. Finally, Gryffindor will have a lion and a Toad (representing Trevor).

So here are the little cuties who will be looking forward to being rescued and adopted: