Magically Rigging The School System… Until…
In Harry Potter, there are four houses and they compete or something like that. Well, our school does that as well. Every kid is put into one of four houses and they earn “house points” throughout the school year. At the end, whoever has the most points gets a bonus field trip to someplace cool.
I was once poking around the school website and I found an archive of all the winners over the years. When I scrolled down there was a button that said, “Add Points” and naturally, I clicked it. I couldn’t believe what I found.
I was redirected to a new page that had three things: a dropdown, a text box, and a button. I could select the house, input point value and add points. I added 25 points to my house as a test and saw that it worked. Over the following days, I’d slowly added more points.
Eventually, some teacher got suspicious of my house staying in first place for so long. The rankings typically changed daily and it’s always a close competition.
They checked the logs and saw that there were being points added after school hours. Unfortunately, they disabled access to the site after 3:00 pm on Monday-Friday and you couldn’t use it on the weekends.
It was sort of my own fault but everything we do on our school computers is tracked so I couldn’t add the points during school hours otherwise they would’ve found out it was me. Story credit: Reddit / Irregular_Chaos