GUESTS PLEASE NOTE: When you register, you will no longer be able to see the roleplaying boards until you are sorted. The roleplay boards are visible to you so that you will be able to observe activity.
Information and Registry
Informational Board Here you'll find anything from the rules of the site to guides on roleplaying, to the place to ask questions, to the announcements.
Character Creation Here you'll be able to create a character and select a play-by to portray him or her. You'll also find important lists regarding the canons and a workshop to help you move your character's progression along smoothly.
Graphics Acquisition Once you've had your application accepted and your play-by claimed, pop in here to either have your current graphics approved or have new ones made for you.
The Leaky Cauldron Located not in Diagon Alley proper but on the outside, on Charing Cross Road in the heart of London, the pub is "tiny" and "grubby-looking," sandwiched between a book shop and a record shop where passing Muggles don't seem to be able to see it. The shop is owned, run, and lived in by Hannah Abbott Longbottom and her family.
Gringotts the Wizard Bank Partway down Diagon Alley, near its intersection with 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 - as Hagrid says, "yeh'd be mad teh try an' rob it".
Ollivander's Wand Shop "Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C," Ollivander's is a narrow and shabby little shop with a window display consisting of a single wand resting on a faded purple cushion. Inside the walls are lined floor to ceiling with thousands of narrow boxes, which Mr. Ollivander chooses from when trying to find a wand to match each customer. Ollivander's closed in 1996 when Ollivander was kidnapped by Voldemort, but he reopened it in 1999 following the Dark Lord's demise. After all, it would hardly do to have students running about wandless, would it?
The Shops "Harry wished he had eight more eyes.... There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Harry had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes, tottering piles of spell books, quills, and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon...."
Dungeons The dungeon passages and rooms under the castle have stone walls and are lit by torches. The Potions Classroom, the Kitchens, and the Hufflepuff and Slytherin Common Rooms can be found on this level.
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Ground Floor The Ground Floor of Hogwarts is the floor on which all students are sorted and eat their meals. The Hogwarts Staff Room and the caretaker's office are also located on this floor.
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First Floor At the top of the marble staircase from the ground floor is the first floor. The Entrance Hall and Great Hall are several stories tall, so they extend into this floor from below. The Muggle Studies, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and History of Magic Classrooms are located on this floor.
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Second Floor Ascending the staircase, one reaches floor two of the castle. If you can avoid Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, you may find yourself choosing between the Dueling Club and the Chess Club.
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Third Floor Besides the Charms classroom, which is found on this floor, there is a Hospital Wing to treat all minor (and occasionally major) injuries and a trophy room and armor gallery.
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Fourth Floor The corridor below the prefects' bathroom leads from the nearest staircase to the prefects' bathroom on the floor above and has a tapestry hanging about halfway down the corridor. This tapestry conceals a narrower staircase forming a shortcut that leads down two floors, which contains the trick step that students often forget to jump. The bottom of the staircase is also concealed by a tapestry. On this floor you'll find the Hogwarts Library and a room down a narrow corridor containing the Mirror of Erised.
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Fifth Floor A statue of Boris the Bewildered stands in one corridor. The shortest route from the statue to Gryffindor Tower lies in one direction down this corridor, while the nearest staircase leading down to the Fourth Floor lies in the opposite direction. The Prefects' Corridor is located on this floor, as is a small piece of a permanent magical swamp.
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Sixth Floor The sixth floor is home to a few higher-level course classrooms, a boys' bathroom, and a passageway between that bathroom and the marble staircase that leads up to the seventh floor.
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Seventh Floor One of the more interesting floors of the castle, the seventh floor houses the great and mysterious Room of Requirement, the entrance to the Gryffindor Common Room, and the Divination Classroom.
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Towers There are several towers that pierce the skyline above Hogwarts Castle, the most prominent of which are the Astronomy Tower, the Owlery, the Ravenclaw Common Room, and Headmaster Strator's office.
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OOC Lounge
Chat it Up This is a good place to post a thread about anything you'd like to discuss. Please, no flaming of people, characters, or other series, and while discussing is okay, debating is not. Debating usually gets quite heated, and we'd rather not have to deal with that.
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The Arcade This is the place for all those lovely games that we all love to play in our free time while waiting for our role plays to be responded to.
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Arrival and Departure Feel free to introduce yourself here. Also, if you know that you are going to be gone for longer than a week or during the activity check, please let us know in the Departure thread, and we will label your account as such until you return.
Affiliate and Advertise Here you can apply for affiliation or post an advertisement for your site. If you are looking for affiliation, please post our button on your site first, and if you are looking to advertise, please make sure that there is a spot on your site that is guest friendly where we can place our own advertisment.
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