Hogwarts School: A Harry Potter RPG

Hello Kyle, and welcome to the site!

Your application is coming along nicely. I am definitely curious about how you imagined Kyle's early years will affect his future, or if you had anything planned yet.

Had you thought about why his mother perished? Did Kyle get adopted by a wizarding family that knew his mother already? Or did Kyle spend some time at an orphanage first?

Because Kyle was eight years old when his mother was taken from him, he probably think about his previous life... was it a good life? His years before his mother's passing and the years after with his new family definitely shape the kind of young man that he is/will become, and I would love to hear more about what you had planned for him.

Also, we write in third person, past tense form and I noticed that you slipped into current tense at about half-way into your roleplay response. If you could just make a few alterations to your roleplay response, we would appreciate it.

Once you make your additions and alterations, please reply below with the entire revised application and we will be happy to take another look!

Hello Hazel, I love all the detail you've put into your sample reply, but remember that some details should not be put into these replies because they are presumptuous at best and could upset the other writer (definitely pretend that the writer behind Hugh will be replying back).

The seemed quite arrogant, which was an understatement. His nasally voice only made it worse, making him seem even more arrogant than he actually is.

Some of this is Hazel assuming that Hugh is arrogant from his earlier statement, and that is perfectly fine. But then you cap it by expressing the 'understatement', as if she knows him, and then stating that his muffled, runny nose altering his voice made the situation even worse than reality. Again, if you mean to imply that the two know each other, then you might get away with a little bit of this, but this is a first encounter between the two of them, and you should phrase it so that all of these assumptions are clearly that, just assumptions. Example re-write:

He seemed quite arrogant, or at least that was what Hazel thought as she watched him tear up the garden. Unfortunately his nasally voice only made the situation worse, making him sound even more arrogant than she imaged him being.

You have made it a bit more believable that the rat may have come to Hazel, but remember that Hugh's writer hasn't specified much about the nature of his pet - is it friendly, feisty, does it bite. The situation has certainly conveyed a potentially feisty pet, seeing as it is dodging and avoiding capture, so it may be presumptuous that the rat would even settle down enough to come to a carrot offering.

It might be safer to present the carrots to Hugh and tell him what Hazel was thinking of doing to lure the pet... and then asking, for good measure, if the rat tended to nip or bite. If you left the interaction there, it would allow the writer behind Hugh to interact, plan along with Hazel, or flat out express his 'arrogance' and reject the offer of aid!

Hello Etepa, and welcome to the site!

Your application is coming along well, there are just a couple things that you'll need to do before we can accept you.

First, you are missing the response to one of the sample roleplay options which can be found here.

Second, I enjoyed your biography but I would like to know if you've decided to have Etepa an orphan as you suggested near the end of your bio, or a part of a family as you suggested in the beginning when you mentioned siblings. OR had you meant to suggest something that I missed, something that may have happened to the family which resulted in the moved to an orphanage? Tell me more!

When you have thought of which of the two sample roleplays to respond to (and remember to write them in third person) and have added to your biography a bit, please post the entire revised application below and we will be happy to take another look!

Hello and welcome to the site!

Your application is coming along, but there are a few things we need you to work on before we can get you settled.

First, I want to remind you that this is an alternative universe to the one depicted in the Harry Potter series, and we won't accept characters or relatives to characters from the books, which means that Scipio could not be related to the Slytherin line. For more information on character creation, please check the Site Rules.

This doesn't mean that Scipio can't exist, he will simply need a different surname and have a slightly altered family circumstance! A few changes throughout Scipio's biography will be a good start.

I'm also interested in how his life has progressed since school. Scipio is twenty-nine, he works, but does he have a family of his own yet, is he looking for love, is he avoiding heartbreak? I'm definitely curious.

Second, we ask that you take 32 points total and divide those over the four categories of Charms, Divination, Transfiguration, Summoning/Conjuring. An example might be C6,D8,T10,S8.

Finally, depending upon what surname you decide on, don't forget to submit a helpdesk ticket to change his name accordingly.

When set, please reply below with the entire revised application and we will be happy to take another look!

Accepted!

Accepted!

Hiya!

Ah that can be a challenge but another option you might try is to start your own open threads.  This might be especially good because you can set the initial mood of the thread, the setting and the location.

We also hang around in chat and have fun talking, coming up with ideas or just relaxing/procrastinating so feel free to jump in an ask questions to see if anyone else is looking for some fun threading opportunities.

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Hazel Wright
Gender: Female
Age: 38
Blood Status: Pureblood

Education: Hogwarts, Hufflepuff ‘27


Residence:  Hogsmeade

Occupation


Do you plan to have a connection to a particular existing place (for example: the Ministry, Shrieking Shack) or to take over an existing shop in need of new management?
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Requested Magic Levels:

• Charms: 9
• Divination: 8
• Transfiguration: 8
• Summoning: 7

Do you wish to be approved as a group with any other characters? If so who and for what IC reason?
Nope

Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
Marty and crew

Biography: (300 words minimum.)
It didn’t matter that her eyes didn’t entirely match the name, for there was give in its definition apparently. It didn’t matter that her name could, and did, in fact indicate how unprepared her parents had been at her birth. It didn’t matter that, save for her last name, which was a given, even her middle name wasn’t unique and offered with pride and care by two parents that had been weighing possibilities for months. Hazel had liked her name as a child, had enjoyed the name as a young and curious youth and had declared it with pride as an adult. Her middle name rarely came up in conversation, of course, for Turquoise was a strange choice without a bit of explanation – that her mom had apparently been wearing a necklace with a turquoise jewel within a silver setting, one that Hazel would later receive as a gift from her mother.

None of her first moments of life mattered because her parents made up for their lack of preparation by their constant show of love.

Hazel wasn’t special in any sense of the word and she had never excelled in any particular subject. She could easily be the poster child for ‘ordinary’, with her simple clothing choices neither in season more out and her calming entertainment decisions, mostly enjoying easy going music with only a handful of instruments.

The nearly middle-aged woman had somehow never found the right man, probably in part due to her quiet tastes – never thinking it worth her time to attend parties or search companionship after work with friends. Hazel could be defined as plain, a little boring, and simply unextraordinary – except that she was anything but.

Hazel had experience love and acceptance as a child and had learned to offer just that to so many.  Her years within the walls of Hogwarts had provided the skills necessary for life as an adult and her home provided a level of caring that molded her demeanor as a supportive soul. She could find work anywhere because although she hadn’t outperformed any in her graduating year, she had learned enough in every subject to support a respectable position in a multitude of professions, yet her interests had never truly distracted her mind from Hogwarts.

She’d flitted from one position to another, usually within an institution that worked with children. She’d become a substitute teacher at a few establishments over the years and had worked with orphanages across the country. She always found work in a supportive capacity, but had avoided that ever lingering call to the frontlines during the war. There was always plenty to do in the war-ravaged towns and war-affected big cities. Thankfully, wars do tend to end and she had been on the lookout for new employment by the time rumor of a position at Hogwarts found her ears.

Hazel was nearly overcome with joy at the prospect of returning to her school. Call it the excitement of returning to her roots or a lesser flattering need to surround oneself with familiarity, but Hazel was looking forward to walking the halls once again.

Will she find those supportive, friendly walls in tact as she remembered them?


Roleplay: 
You come across one of these posts on the site. Please select one & reply as your character:

Option One -

Roleplay Response:
It was going to be a busy day, and she had one too many items on her list to complete before days end. Normally such an understanding wouldn’t trouble Hazel, but her day wasn’t going to end with the setting of the sun. She had a school gathering to attend, or rather to babysit and then she would need to look over a few student reports that had found their way to her desk.

Maybe she should have put some of the errands off, and surely she could have found a better time to do said errands than the busiest time in Diagon Alley, but she hadn’t. Sometimes a person has to simply accept the circumstances they find themselves in and do their best to keep a smile on their face while doing it.

And a bit of strong tea never did hurt a situation either!

Hazel was contemplating which shop she wanted to visit first, when she might fit in the time for a tea break and whether she wanted to consider following a plan of efficiency over merely a plan of shop familiarity when she heard a commotion.

It didn’t take but a moment to find a woman scrambling to reach something with a small sea of people soon to engulf her.

“Oh dear, here, let me! she called over as she quickened her step towards the scene.

Whether she was requesting that the woman use her as a means to help her to her feet, or as retriever of sorts, Hazel had yet to figure out. She tended to offer aid first and figure out her position later.

A tendency that had gotten her into quite the pickle once or twice.


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