Rules//Plot//History This is where you can find the Rules to the site, accompanied by the Plot and History! Be sure to read through all of the rules, for if you do, you'll find the password to the Sorting Hat board.
Advertisements//Affiliates Here you may advertise your site or affiliate with ours so others can hear about it. However, be sure to follow the rules or your ad will be deleted without warning. Guest friendly.
Activity Checks This is where all activity checks will be posted. The will be held at random, when ever the admin sees fit. And if you have not posted by the deadline, you will be deleted, no ifs, ands, or buts.
Suggestions//Staff Board (3 sub-boards) This is the board where announcements on a plot will be, along with activity checks, and a board for suggestions to the admins of the site. And staff, there is also a staff board where the happenings of the site shall be discussed.
Surprise//Disaster A new feature to the site is Surprise and Disasters! These will happen every other month or when ever we have good ideas. Each member will eventually get to take part. Some times they'll target one person's character, some times it'll be a whole house. You never know! What the surprises and disasters are will be discussed between the staff before they are posted.
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Starting Out
Sorting Hat (4 sub-boards) Once you've read through the rules, the first thing you'll do is come and get your character sorted. There will always be at least one admin or moderator on to sort you. Here, we do not use any quiz to determine your character's house, we determine what house by what we think your character would fit best in.
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Adult Selections Seeing that we have started over, all positions are open. In this board, you'll find a form to fill out if you wish to be apart of the Hogwarts staff. {EX. Head of House, Deputy Head, Professor}
You can also apply for Minister of Magic and other things like that.
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Claiming (3 sub-boards) Stake your claims for celebrities for your characters, and their heritage. Inside you will find boards for Celebrity Claiming, Canon Claiming, and Made-Up Claiming.
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Character Stuff
Character Bio's (8 sub-boards) This is the last and final step before you can role play! Here, you'll find a form inside, and you'll fill it out, telling us all about your character. Once an admin or mod has accepted you, then you're free to play! Note, this is not an option.
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Character Relationships (5 sub-boards) Here, you'll post a thread where it makes it easier to find friends, family, love, and enemies. Trust me, it's quite easy. Not to mention that there'll be a form for you to use, but you're welcome to be creative and make your own!
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Character Pages This is a board to put all of your characters on so you don't have to fill up your siggy with this kind of stuff! So, use this at your own free will!
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OOC Area
Leave of Absences Leaving us for a while? Leaving us for good? Then post here please! If you're going on vacation, or grounded, we want to know. Remember, if you don't reply at the activity check, you'll be deleted.
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Graphic Area Want to get a signature or avatar made? Come here, we've got some good personalizers who will be more than happy to help you, but remember, a simple 'Thank You' is what really makes the personalizer feel good.
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Written Works Want to show of a poem, or maybe a fan-fic? Then this is the place to post! If your character is older, than you're welcome to write about their history, or experiences. Or maybe you want to write something funny that happened to you the other day. They're all accepted.
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Site Store Want to buy something special for your account? Or create an exclusive club, or perhaps sell things (like wands, parchment..ect), then this is the place to spend that money of yours, all of the spending dynamics will be explained inside.
SPAM Whoot! Here, we can all be idiots together! We can...uuh...rant, and talk...and SPAM!! WHOO! But if you stretch the boards, I will throw a fit.
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Classes
Arithmacy Very few Hogwarts students take this complicated course. Those who take arithmancy consider themselves intelligent, and are willing to learn and take on the challenge of this complex study. Arithmancy is often considered boring, except by Hermione, who greatly enjoys this subject! Some of the work includes studying the magical art of numbers and equations, and very complicated number charts.
Teacher: None
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Astronomy This is a laboratory course that emphasizes astronomical observations made from the field. Within a national forest in the mountains, far from bright city lights, the Field Campus area has the dark sky ideal for observing faint celestial objects and meteors. Some of the work includes essays that involve learning numerous facts about astronomy, filling in star charts, etc. This class meets at midnight.
Teacher: None
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Care Of Magical Creatures A class that used to be dreaded by every one, was once taught by the legendary Hagrid. Care of Magical creatures involves the feeding, handling, and controlling of different magical creatures. With Hagrid as a teacher, you can always expect to meet dangerous and strange creatures, such as Blast-Ended Skrewts, and creatures that others consider dangerous, but Hagrid is able to tame, such as Thestrals, and Hippogriffs. When Hagrid was in charge, many students considered the class to be full of excitement; others however, sometimes consider it dangerous, and too over-the-top.
Teacher: None
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Charms In Charms, students learn how to preform basic spells, but as the students get older, the spells get harder. Students also learn many entertaining and cool tricks to do with their wands. This class used to be taught by Professor Flitwick, Many students thought that Professor Flitwick made Charms a very fun, exciting and interesting class.
Teacher: None
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Defense Against the Dark Arts This class basically studies how to defend yourself against dark creatures and those who practice the Dark Arts. Many people think that the teacher is cursed.
Teacher: None
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Divination Although Professor Trelawney believed she possessed a rare gift of 'Seeing the future', many considered her predictions to be absolute rubbish. The Divination classroom is located in the North Tower of Hogwarts, and usually smells of burning incense. The other past teacher of Divination was Firenze. Being Firenze is a centaur, he has a very different outlook on the subject of Divination. He believes Divination is much more useful for predicting major changes and important events, rather than Trelawney who uses it to predict day-to-day events.
Teacher(s): None
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Flying Lessons Students immensely enjoy learning how to control their brooms, and how to swiftly fly through the air while maintaining control during Flying Lessons. Though, to many older student's dismay, this class is only open to first, through third years.
Teacher: None
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Herbology Most students seem to enjoy this class and find it very informative. Professor Sprout did an outstanding job sharing her knowledge of magical plants with her students, in a fun, comforting atmosphere. Though, years after her retire, the school is looking for another teacher who can inform students on plants, and their many functions, and dysfunctions.
Teacher: Jordan Halo
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Muggle Studies This class studies the lifestyle and habits of Muggles. Students learn about Muggle technology, such as the importance of electricity in the Muggle world, along with important historical events. Included as an extra course in the study of Muggle and Wizard Music.
Teacher of Muggle Studies : none Teacher of Music: none
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Potions Potions class is located in the dark, cold dungeons of Hogwarts. Students are taught the art of potion making by having his students memorize various ingredients and compositions of certain potions, prepare them. The old Potion's teacher, Snape, seemed to enjoy his student's misery.
Teacher: Christopher Toping
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Transfiguration Transfiguration is a very complex branch of magic, in which many Hogwarts students struggle in. Professor McGonagall was extremely talented in transfiguration, and revealed the secrets of this subject to her students by giving interesting lectures, and allowing students to have a practical session.
Teacher: None
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In School
Great Hall (1 sub-board) This is where all of the meals are taken, and where the first years are sorted. The Great Hall is mainly a large room with an enchanted ceiling that mirrors the exact weather outside. The Great Hall is also used for a place for students to stay when the school is on lock down.
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Hallways (1 sub-board) These hallways connect all of the classes, dorms, and other various hallways. Some students make it their life's ambition to find the best places to snog, while keeping them selves hidden from teachers and prefects, and most of all, curious students.
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Bathrooms There are numerous bathrooms throughout the school. There are two for the Prefects, a girls’ and a boys’, which not only can they use, but Quidditch Captains as well. The teachers have a few scattered around the school, but you’ll rarely see a teacher enter. The boys have bathrooms on different floors as well. And the girls…well the girls have a bathroom on the second floor, but no one really goes in there. For, it is Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. Myrtle was a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts in 1943 when she was killed by the Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets. She had been hiding in that bathroom because she was being teased by Olive Hornby. Then she heard someone come in and heard that person speaking. She realized it was a boy, so she opened her stall to tell him to get out of the girls' bathroom, only to find herself face to face with the Basilisk. Ever since then, she has inhabited this bathroom. It’s a good place to go if you want to do something in secret-like brew some Polyjuice Potion for instance…
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Library This is the library, when Hermione attended Hogwarts, when the trio was faced with a challenge, her first resolution was to go to the library. The library holds a variety of books, including the restricted section.
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Staff Room The mysterious room that no student has ever seen? Or have they? For sure the Professors keep it safely guarded against eavesdroppers, for secrets may be told in there. Lives may be changed...
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Hospital Wing A section of Hogwarts where the students, and sometimes professors are healed. Inside, a long line of beds lines the two walls, with screens available for privacy. An office is at one end, where all records are kept. Harry Potter was a frequent visitor to this wing during his years at the school.
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Gryffindor Common Room This is where the Gryffindors come to hang out after a long day of school. In the Gryffindor common room, there is also the dorms for the boys and girls to sleep in. The portal to the common room is a portrait of a fat lady.
Head of House: None
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Ravenclaw Common Room This is where those that belong to Ravenclaw come to hang out. Just like the Gryffindor common room, there are boys and girls dorms for the students to sleep in.
Head of House: None
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Hufflepuff Common Room Some times considered the rejects, those that dwell in the Hufflepuff house come here to hang out after a long day. Just like the other two common rooms, one can find boy's and girl's dorms.
Head of House: None
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Slytherin Common Room Located in the dungeons of Hogwarts, the Slytherin Common Room contains the Slytherins, legendary for their mean attitude and mind set that the Aryan race should be pure, containing no mudbloods or half-breeds. Like all the other common rooms, the dorms for the boys and girls are located here.
Head of House: Headmistress Lola Tomasa
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School Grounds
Black Lake The Lake sits in the shadow of the castle, making its waters often cold. Many creatures can be found in its murky depths, but it is mainly inhabited by the giant squid. Some students make stupid dares to swim, others swim on their own risk.
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Forbidden Forest To the east of Hogwarts castle is a large, dark forest. This forest is strictly off limits to Hogwarts students, except in the course of occasional Care of Magical Creatures lessons or detentions. Fred and George Weasley have spent quite a bit of time trying to get into it, naturally. The forbidden forest is sometimes referred to as the Forbidden Forest but often as just "the forest." The forest is thick with trees -- beech, oak, pine, sycamore, and yew are mentioned, as well as undergrowth such as knotgrass and thorns -- but there are paths, brooks, and some clearings. Off the path, the way is almost impassable, although people have moved through it and creatures as large as Acromantulas and a Ford Anglia have managed to get around.
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Pumpkin Patches These pumpkin patches are located not far from Hagrid's old hut. The pumpkin patch is known for growing abnormally large pumpkins, some as big as a human, if not bigger! Some students like to come and sit in the pumpkin patch, finding it a good hiding place to just get away from it all.
Whomping Willow The Hogwarts tree is rooted to the spot, but it will lash out at anyone who comes too close. Planted in the year that Remus Lupin came to school at Hogwarts, it has grown to a good height and become quite dangerous. In its early days, students often goaded it to attack so they could duck the blows, but this was eventually stopped as it became too risky. The tree serves as more than an example in aggressive botany, however: it was planted to enable werewolf Remus Lupin to attend the school. The Willow covers one of the few remaining secret passages into and out of Hogwarts, this one leading into the abandoned and boarded Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. Lycanthropy not being a popular trait, Lupin would use this tunnel to spend every full moon in the Shack. As a side-effect, the Shack gained a reputation as the most haunted place in Britain because villagers in nearby Hogsmeade would hear Lupin go through the painful ordeal of turning into a werewolf. The tree can be temporarily disabled by pressing a knot in its trunk, enabling safe passage. (In the film, the tree is shown being disabled with the "Immobulous Charm".) Only a few people know of its purpose and use; unfortunately, this includes the right-hand-man of Lord Voldemort, Wormtail.
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Lawns Located just outside of the castle, students come out here to enjoy a sunny day at Hogwarts, or to study. There are of course, a few oddballs who enjoy the wet, or cold weather. Many students enjoy the soft rolling grass and usually just relax out here. The lawns have a nice view of the Black Lake, close enough to enjoy its beauty, but far enough away to not be eaten by the squid.
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Hogsmeade
Dervish and Banges A shop that sells and repairs magical equipment, Dervish and Banges is located near the end of the High Street.
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The Hog's Head The Hog's Head is another pub, which often attracts a more unusual and private clientele than the Three Broomsticks, and many of the customers hide their faces. The hanging sign on the front of the pub has a severed boar's head, leaking blood onto the white cloth around it. The pub itself is filthy, with the floor covered with layers of dirt, and the windows smeared with so much grime that little light gets through. The main floor is a single room, but there are additional rooms on the upper floors. Harry notes that the pub smells strongly of goats. The bartender is Aberforth, the brother of Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
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Shrieking Shack This house is supposed to be the most haunted building in Britain, and even the Hogwarts ghosts avoid it. Fred and George Weasley once tried to get in and failed. When James Potter and his friends were in school, Remus Lupin used this house during his monthly transformation into a werewolf to stay isolated from the students. He was brought there every month by Madam Pomfrey and it was the transformations that caused the rumour of the shack being haunted. This house is where the encounter between Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger takes place. The only known way to access it is by a passageway underneath the Whomping Willow tree on the Hogwart's grounds.
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The Playground The only playground in this area. Some of the slides and swings look a bit rusty, but it's a scenic park with large oak trees and benches. Lots of students like to come here to relax on their trips to Hogsmead.
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Zonko's Joke Shop Zonko's has jokes and tricks that can "fulfill even Fred and George's wildest dreams." It closed down when Voldemort's return was confirmed by the Ministry. Fred and George had planned to buy the shop, but decide against it when Hogwarts' students are banned from visiting Hogsmeade due to heightened security after Voldemort's rebirth.
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Honeydukes Candy Shop Honeydukes is one of the most famous wizarding sweetshops in the world. It sells wizarding sweets of all descriptions, including Chocolate Frogs, Liquorice Wands, Pepper Imps, Chocoballs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Fizzing Whizzbees, Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Toothflossing Stringmints, Ice Mice, Cockroach Clusters, Jelly Slugs, Blood Lollipops, Acid Pops and Sugar Quills, among others. Honeydukes is particularly well known for their special kind of fudge. They also sell creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice, fat, honey-coloured toffees, and hundreds of different kinds of chocolate. The owners, Ambrosius Flume and his wife, live in a flat above the shop. There is a trapdoor in the cellar of Honeydukes, which connects to a secret passage. The passage leads to a statue of a one-eyed witch on the third floor of Hogwarts.
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Owl Post The post office is filled with at least two–to–three–hundred owls, ranging from Great Grey Owls to tiny Scops (the latter for "local deliveries only"), hooting down from colour-coded shelves. The shelves are colour-coded based on how quickly they will arrive at their destination.
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The Three Broomsticks he Three Broomsticks is one of the local pubs in Hogsmeade. It is known for its delicious butterbeer and its beautiful owner Madam Rosmerta, who lives above the pub. It is said by Hermione Granger that Ronald Weasley finds Madam Rosmerta very attractive. The Three Broomsticks is a favorite pub among Hogwarts students and staff.
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Madam Puddifoot's Located on a little side street off the main High Street, this small tea shop is a favourite among Hogwarts couples out on dates. On Valentine's Day Madam Puddifoot hires floating golden cherubs to throw pink confetti on visiting couples. It was at Madam Puddifoot's that Harry celebrated his Valentines day with Cho Chang.
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Diagon Alley
The Leaky Cauldron The Leaky Cauldron is a pub and inn for wizards, offering food, drinks and rooms to rent. It was founded by Daisy Dodderidge (1467–1555) in 1500 "to serve as a gateway between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley." The current barman and innkeeper is Tom. There are a number of rooms available; Harry has stayed in Room 11, which has a talking mirror and windows that allow him to look out onto Charing Cross Road. The inn also has a bar, several private parlour rooms and a large dining room for guests to dine. People often stay at The Leaky Cauldron when they come up to London on shopping trips; there is no mention of other wizarding hotels or inns in Diagon Alley. The rear of The Leaky Cauldron opens onto a "chilly little courtyard" just off of Diagon Alley, but the pub faces onto Charing Cross Road. As such, it is a means of passing from between Diagon Alley and Muggle London.
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Mulpepper's Apothecary The Apothecary sells potions and potion ingredients. The shop is "fascinating" despite its very bad smell — a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage. The inside includes barrels of slimy stuff on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots and bright powders on the shelves; and bundles of feathers, strings of fangs and snarled claws hanging from the ceiling. Some of the ingredients available are silver unicorn horns (for twenty-one Galleons each) and glittery-black beetle eyes (five Knuts a scoop).
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Eeylops Owl Emporium Eeylops Owl Emporium sells owls and supplies like owl treats. The inside is dark and full of a low, soft hooting, rustling and the flickering of "jewel-bright eyes." PS Ch.5 Among the types of owls sold are Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy. It is here that Rubeus Hagrid purchased a snowy owl for Harry Potter who named her Hedwig.
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Quality Quidditch Supplies Quality Quidditch Supplies sells broomsticks and Quidditch-related items. The store windows often draw young customers to gaze longingly at the products. Harry spent the summer before his third year gazing at the brand new Firebolt racing broom in the display window and Ron had previously longed for a full set of Chudley Cannons robes.
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Flourish and Blotts Flourish & Blotts sells a great variety of books, including textbooks for Hogwarts courses and other books of general magical interest. In the back there is a corner devoted solely to Divination, which includes a small table stacked with titles like Predicting the Unpredictable: Insulate Yourself against Shocks and Broken Balls: When Fortunes Turn Foul. Another small display contains the book Death Omens: What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming.
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Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was founded by Fred and George Weasley around 1994 or previous and they started selling, or at least advertising, in the summer of 1995. The following summer they opened premises at 93 Diagon Alley. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes sells joke and trick items, useful novelties and Defence Against the Dark Arts items. Customers include the Weasley family, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Romilda Vane and the Ministry of Magic themselves. Hogwarts Caretaker Argus Filch, however, has placed a blanket ban on all Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products at Hogwarts.
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Madam Malkin's Robes Madam Malkin's is a clothing shop next to Flourish & Blotts. It sells robes and other clothing, including the standard Hogwarts-required plain black work robes, and dress robes. Madam Malkin, a squat witch who wears mauve robes, and her assistants will tailor the robes to fit right in her shop.
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Ollivander's Wands Ollivanders is a magic wand shop described as narrow and shabby, with a sign that reads Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC in peeling gold letters over the door. The only display is a single wand lying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window and inside there are countless narrow boxes piled neatly right up to the ceiling. Mr. Ollivander, the pale-eyed, white-haired shopkeeper, makes and sells magic wands to witches and wizards as they enter school or break their old wands. He remembers each and every wand he has ever sold. To determine the best wand for a witch or wizard, Mr Ollivander measures various body parts (including, in Harry's case, between his nostrils) and then checks the reactions of various wands to the buyer, a process he refers to as "the wand choosing the wizard."
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Magical Menagerie The Magical Menagerie is a magical creature shop that, besides selling magical creatures, also offers advice on animal care and health. The shop is very cramped, noisy and smelly, due to every inch being covered with cages. Among the creatures in the Magical Menagerie are enormous purple toads, A Firecrab, poisonous orange snails, a fat white rabbit that can turn into a silk top hat and back, cats of every colour, ravens, Puffskeins, and a cage of sleek black rats that play skipping games with their tails.
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Knocturn Alley Knockturn Alley is a dark and seedy alleyway in London to which muggles have no access, and which is frequented largely by Dark Wizards. Many of the shops in Knockturn Alley are devoted to the Dark Arts; the most notable is Borgin & Burkes, which sells sinister and dangerous objects.
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London
Azkaban Wizards who violate the laws of the British wizarding world are sent here. Only one other such prison; Nurmengard, is known to exist. Generally, only very severe crimes are punished with a term in Azkaban. Many of the prisoners were supporters of Lord Voldemort, though some misunderstandings have resulted in others' imprisonment. Rubeus Hagrid, for example, was sent here in Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts because of a crime he did not commit.
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St.Mungo's Medics at the hospital are not called doctors, but are known as Healers or Mediwizards and wear lime-green robes. Founded by famous wizard Healer Mungo Bonham, St Mungo's is located in London. To enter the premises, one has to step through the window of what appears to be a derelict department store called Purge and Dowse Ltd. The exteriors of the hospital are red-bricked and dirty, which is the complete opposite of the interiors. Inside, everything is very neat and looks exactly as a hospital should. There are six floors. The emblem of St Mungo's is a magic wand crossed with a bone. Mungo Bonham could have been named after the historical Saint Mungo (also known as Kentigern), who was the patron saint of Glasgow. "Mungo" was a nickname meaning "dear one" or "darling". He is considered the first bishop of Scotland. According to the stories about him, his pregnant mother was abandoned by her family before his birth. Also, according to a fifteenth century fragment, often called "Lailoken and Kentigern," Lailoken, who is often associated with the Arthurian wizard Merlin, and who figures prominently as a trope in the Harry Potter series, has gone mad at the battle between Liddel and Carwannok. St. Mungo comes upon him, and Lailoken confesses that he is responsible for the deaths in that battle. Enventually, Lailoken begs St. Mungo to administer the sacrament of the Eucharist to him, which the saint does after some reluctance.
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Platform 9-¾ The train starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9-¾, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reached by walking through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. Prefects of the school ride in a separate carriage near the front of the train. The compartments on the train appear to be lettered; in book 6, for example, the Slug Club meet in compartment C, which is probably near the back of the train. Upon disembarking the train at Hogsmeade Station, first years undergo the traditional boat-journey across the lake with the Keeper of Keys and Grounds to Hogwarts; all other students are carried to the main entrance of the castle in coaches drawn by magical creatures called thestrals (which most students cannot see as thestrals can only be seen by those who have witnessed death).
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Houses (2 sub-boards) This is where all of the houses are located, if one wishes to occupy them, just send me a PM.
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Ministry Of Magic
Visitor's Entrance (10 sub-boards) A visitor to the Ministry of Magic comes to a broken-down red telephone box located on a dingy street which has several shabby offices, a pub, and a wall covered with graffitti. When the telephone in the box is dialed, the welcome witch's voice answers, not from the phone but from the air as if the person is standing right there. Visitors must state their business, upon which a silver badge pops out with the visitor's name and purpose of visit. Then the telephone box drops down like a lift for about one minute, after which the visitor is in the Atrium.
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Dead End
Finished Threads A place where we can all reflect on the good ol' days of past threads. Want to remember a detail, a fight, a first kiss? This is the place to look. **Please indicate when you're done a thread so we can move it here.**
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Characters Too busy for your numerous characters? Then why don't you kill on? Here you'll also find a list of characters that have died, and how. Or just a list of characters that have been abandoned.
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