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![[ ]](http://www.irongloves.com/uimages/color15_process_black.jpg) | Sorting Hat
YOU MUST DO THIS FIRST!
Originally the pointed wizard's hat of Godric Gryffindor, the Sorting Hat was bewitched by all four of the founders of Hogwarts with brains and some amount of personality. It's function is to determine which of the four houses each new student will enter. It does so at the beginning of the start-of-term feast, when it is placed on a three-legged (sometimes four-legged) stool in front of the Great Hall. It then sings a long, rambling song of introduction, a different one each year but with the same basic information in it: how it was bewitched to perform the sorting and what the criteria are for the various houses. The first year students one by one place the Sorting Hat on their head. Within a minute, it loudly proclaims the house for which they are best suited.
The hat is battered and old; it's patched, frayed, and extremely dirty. In order to speak and sing, a tear along the brim opens like a mouth. It speaks inside of the hat with a small, quiet voice to the wearer and it can read thoughts and respond to them. When not sorting students, the Sorting Hat rests on its stool in Dumbledore's office.
Moderator: Meg | 3 | 8 | on Aug 23, 2008, 8:58pm
by Meg
in To get sorted... |
| Characters
This is where you tell us all about your character, whether it be cannon or not!
Moderator: Meg | 6 | 10 | on May 7, 2008, 6:45pm
by Pansy Parkinson
in Available Cannon Chara... |
| Affiliates
Become an affiliate here.
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 2 | on Mar 25, 2008, 4:23pm
by Bearian Admin
in Bearian University of ... |
| Notice Board |
| Announcements
Check here everyday for new announcements.
Moderator: Meg | 3 | 3 | on Aug 17, 2007, 11:51pm
by Meg
in QUIDDITCH |
| House Points
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Moderator: Meg | 5 | 6 | on Aug 7, 2007, 8:59pm
by Meg
in Slytherin House Points |
| Questions/Comments
Registered members or not, please post your questions or comments here and we'll get to them ASAP!
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 31, 2007, 9:25pm
by Meg
in To post a Question/Com... |
| Instant Messaging
Please post any instant messaging program you have so we can get ahold of you. Please post yours in the correct house!
Moderators: Meg, Ashley | 4 | 5 | on Aug 7, 2007, 4:26pm
by tonks
in Slytherin |
| Trash
All deleted posts will go here.
Moderators: Meg, Ashley | 5 | 7 | |
| Dungeons |
| ![[image]](http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v104/harrypotterfreak23/slytherin_blink.gif "[image]")
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 2 | |
| ![[image]](http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3318/snape.gif "[image]")
Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons. It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls. Icy cold water pours from a gargoyle's mouth into a basin in the corner, and this classroom is big enough to hold a double class, (about 20 cauldrons). Students can see their breath in this room during the winter months.
Moderator: Meg | 4 | 6 | on Aug 6, 2007, 6:11pm
by Meg
in My office: |
| Ground Floor |
| Great Hall
Vast chamber with an enchanted ceiling that mirrors the sky outside. Four long tables for the four houses. Closest to the doors from the Entrance Hall is Slytherin, then Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and next to the far wall, Gryffindor (this order may possibly be reversed, depending on how you orient the room to the entrance hall). The teachers sit at the High Table, a table on a raised platform at the front of the room.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 31, 2007, 9:23pm
by Meg
in The Great Hall: |
| ![[image]](http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/222/ProfessorLounge.gif "[image]")
All teachers are allowed to discuss classroom plans, or whatever. Come to relax!
This is a long panneled room, with mismatched, dark wooden chairs. Inside there is also a large wordrobe in which a boggart usually resides. This room is located off the Entrance Hall. 2 stone Gargoyles reside on eaither side of the door, very rude ones at that.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | |
| First Floor |
| Club Room
Are you dying to have a club? If so, please post here!
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 29, 2007, 11:22pm
by Meg
in Have a club you'd like... |
| Defense Against the Dark Arts
Here you will learn to defend yourself against all of the evils that plague our world!
Moderators: Ashley, Meg | 2 | 3 | on Aug 7, 2007, 4:29pm
by tonks
in Class Sign-ups |
| Second Floor |
| ![[image]](http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v104/harrypotterfreak23/hufflepuff_blink.gif "[image]")
These belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal.
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | |
| Character Class
Come here to learn all baout the characters of the Harry Potter Series!
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 3 | on Aug 6, 2007, 11:34pm
by Meg
in Class Roster |
| Third Floor |
| ![[image]](http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3064/TrophyHall.gif "[image]")
Here is where staff Wizards can post an award you have recieved. Check offten, you name is the thread name.
Hogwarts has a trophy room where all the old awards, trophies, statues, cups, plates, shields, and medals are kept in crystal display cases. There is also a list of all the head boys and girls. It's adjacent to a long gallery full of suits of armor.
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 3 | on Aug 6, 2007, 11:52pm
by Ashley
in To Ash and Myself: |
| ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/charms.gif "[image]")
There's always good old Aberforth Dumbledore, who was prosecuted for practicing "inappropriate charms" on a goat. I think that's all we need to know about that particular incident...
Moderator: Meg | 0 | 0 | |
| The Hospital Wing
Well it truly sucks if you are here! 
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 31, 2007, 9:27pm
by Meg
in READ: |
| Fourth Floor |
| ![[image]](http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/139/Library.gif "[image]")
This is where you can come to study for a class. Material will be provided. Feel free to add information, i.e. Books, as you gather information!
The Hogwarts library contains tens of thousands of books on thousands of shelves. Included in its many sections is an Invisibility Section, a section with information about dragons, and a Restricted Section at the back, set off with a rope. A signed note from a teacher is required to peruse that section of the library; it contains books of Dark Magic only used by older students studying advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts. One of the books in this section screams when opened.
The library closes at 8 pm.
Moderator: Meg | 11 | 18 | on Aug 6, 2007, 6:36pm
by Meg
in Quidditch through the ... |
| ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/Transfiguration.gif "[image]")
"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."
-- Minerva McGonagall, first lecture to first-years
Moderator: Meg | 0 | 0 | |
| Fifth Floor |
| Prefects Bathroom
With white marble, a tub that looks like a pool, numerous taps that give sented bubble bath, and a picture of a mermaid on the wall. PREFECTS ONLY! ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/gryffindorprefect.gif "[image]") ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/hufflepuffprefect.gif "[image]") ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/ravenclawprefect.gif "[image]") ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/slytherinprefect.gif "[image]")
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | |
| Sixth Floor |
| ![[image]](http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/416/HML.gif "[image]")
The entrance to the headmaster's office at Hogwarts is behind a statue of a gargoyle. When given the proper password, the gargoyle will leap aside, and the wall behind it will split in two to reveal a spiral stone staircase that moves like an escalator.
Moderators: Meg, Ashley | 13 | 35 | |
| Seventh Floor |
| ![[image]](http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v104/harrypotterfreak23/gryffindor_blink.gif "[image]")
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivaly,
Set Gryffindors appart
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 2 | |
| Room of Requirement
"Sometimes it is there, and sometimes it is not..."
-- Dobby
The Room of Requirement is a magical room which can only be discovered by someone who is in need. It is called the Come and Go Room by the house-elves of Hogwarts. The Room is located on the seventh floor, opposite a tapestry showing Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance the ballet. To make the Room appear, a person has to walk past the section of blank wall three times concentrating hard on what is needed.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 31, 2007, 9:09pm
by Meg
in The Room of Requirement! |
| The Towers |
| ![[image]](http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v104/harrypotterfreak23/ravenclaw_blink.gif "[image]")
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw
If you've a ready mind
Where those of wit and learning
Will always find their kind.
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 2 | |
| Owlery![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/owl-icon.jpg "[image]")
Come here to send an owl to your friends! Post their name as the thread subject!
The Owlery was a circular stone room, rather cold and drafty, because none of the windows had glass in them. The floor was entirely covered in straw, owl droppings, and the regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles. Hundreds upon hundreds of owls of every breed imaginable were nestled here on perches that rose right up to the top of the tower, nearly all of them asleep, though here and there a round amber eye glared at the students.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 31, 2007, 9:16pm
by Meg
in How to: |
| The Grounds |
| ![[image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/ArraSails/CoMC.gif "[image]")
Come here to learn all about the exciting magical creatures that inhabit our world!
Moderators: Meg, tonks | 2 | 5 | on Aug 6, 2007, 6:08pm
by Meg
in Professor Tonks Office |
| ![[image]](http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8160/Quidditch.gif "[image]")
Come here to learn the rules, meet the teams, and get ready to play!
Moderators: Meg, Ashley | 2 | 2 | |
| Gringotts |
| Gringotts Accounts (Staff)
"Gringotts is the safest place in the world fer anything yeh want ter keep safe -- 'cept maybe Hogwarts."
-- Rubeus Hagrid
Partway down Diagon Alley, near its intersection Knockturn Alley, stands an imposing snow-white marble building: Gringotts Wizarding Bank. "Towering over the other shops", it is the place where British witches and wizards store their money and other valuables, in vaults miles below ground. The vaults are heavily guarded.
Moderator: Meg | 3 | 3 | on Jul 31, 2007, 11:13pm
by Meg
in Announcement about Gri... |
| Gringotts Accounts (Students)
"Gringotts is the safest place in the world fer anything yeh want ter keep safe -- 'cept maybe Hogwarts."
-- Rubeus Hagrid
Partway down Diagon Alley, near its intersection Knockturn Alley, stands an imposing snow-white marble building: Gringotts Wizarding Bank. "Towering over the other shops", it is the place where British witches and wizards store their money and other valuables, in vaults miles below ground. The vaults are heavily guarded.
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 2 | on Aug 2, 2007, 11:21pm
by Meg
in Announcement about Gri... |
| Inventory |
| Staff Inventory
This is where you keep the things that you have boughten, won, or traded. This is your inventory! Please update!
Moderators: Meg, Ashley | 3 | 3 | on Aug 4, 2007, 11:54am
by Meg
in Tonks' Inventory |
| Student Inventory
This is where you students will keep your belongings. Please update often!!
Moderators: Meg, Ashley | 0 | 0 | |
| Hogsmeade |
| Practical Potions Apothecary
The Apothecary is a fascinating shop crammed with all sorts of interesting things. There are barrels of slimy stuff lined up on the floor and jars of all sorts of powders, herbs, and the like along the walls. Bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage.
Moderator: Meg | 3 | 3 | on Aug 6, 2007, 7:26pm
by Meg
in Dueling Potions |
| Honeydukes
A sweetshop, owned by Ambrosius Flume and his wife, which is filled with "shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable". In addition to the standard wizarding candy that is sold there, the owners also make their own fudge and chocolate. For obvious reasons, the shop is quite a popular destination for Hogwarts students when visiting Hogsmeade on the weekends.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 5, 2008, 9:32pm
by Meg
in List of Sweets! |
| The Hogs Head
Located a block or so off High Street, the Hog's Head Inn has been a fixture of Hogsmeade for hundreds of years. A worn-out wooden sign hangs over the door, advertising with a "wild boar's severed head leaking blood onto the white cloth around it". It's known for its cheapness, at least relative to the Three Broomsticks down the street, and attracts a "shall we say... interesting clientele," at least according to Albus Dumbledore. The bartender, for at least twenty years, has been Albus's brother, Aberforth Dumbledore.
Moderators: Meg, Pansy Parkinson | 0 | 0 | |
| Zonkos Joke Shop
Zonko's is a favourite place for Hogwarts students to shop. They carry "jokes and tricks to fulfill even Fred's and George's wildest dreams," including Dungbombs, Hiccup Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, and Nose-Biting Teacups.
Moderator: Meg | 1 | 1 | on Jul 5, 2008, 9:43pm
by Meg
in Joke Items! |
| Diagon Alley |
| Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Located at Number 93, Diagon Alley, Fred and George Weasley own this shop where they sell all of their joke items.
Moderator: Meg | 2 | 2 | on Jul 5, 2008, 10:01pm
by Meg
in Joke Items For SALE! |
| ![[image]](http://img1.imageshack.us/img1/4713/Animation76.gif "[image]") - Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC
Come here to purchase your very own wand!
A narrow and shabby little shop. The window displays a faded purple cushion upon which sits a single wand. The walls are lined floor to ceiling with thousands of narrow boxes. The furniture consists of a single spindly chair.
Moderator: Meg | 3 | 4 | on Aug 4, 2007, 8:34am
by tonks
in To purchase a wand: |
| Eyelops Owl Emporium
A dimly lit shop which, according to the sign, sells tawny, screech, barn, brown, and snowy owls.
Moderators: Ashley, Meg | 1 | 1 | on Aug 17, 2007, 10:18pm
by Ashley
in Place order here... |
| ![[image]](http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1453/FlourishandBlotts.gif "[image]")
Manager is a bit brusque, but then he has to deal with strange and bothersome things like books that bite (The Monster Book of Monsters), books that are completely invisible (The Invisible Book of Invisibility), and book signings by Gilderoy Lockhart, who draws quite a crowd which can get a bit unruly at times.
Moderators: Ashley, Meg | 1 | 1 | on Aug 17, 2007, 10:33pm
by Ashley
in Place order here... |
| Job Area |
| Openings/Applications and Pay
Need money? Come here to see which jobs are open and need filling!
Moderator: Meg | 3 | 7 | on Jul 5, 2008, 9:11pm
by Meg
in List of Openings |
