Hoggiewarts

hoggiewarts is now officially closed, folks. After 4+ years, the decision to actually shut down took me a few weeks to come to terms with but seeing as I've only had one objection from a member of the community, it's obviously time for this to be happening. Perhaps it's a bit overdue considering the utter lack of enthusiasm from everybody, including myself.

I really can't explain to you all what running this comm has meant to me over the years. I've met a bunch of great people and some who aren't so great. We've had fun and we've gone through dry spells together. I'd really like to thank Amy who stuck around with me for the longest. She's been here for almost the entire time the comm has been open and even with all her other obligations to herself and her school work, she's always stuck with it.

I consider everybody in this comm my friend and I hope that it's mutual and I hope that we keep in touch now that this is over. Pretty much all of you are on my personal LJ's friend's list and please be aware that if you remove me, I will continue to stalk you. :)

Again, thanks to everyone who stuck with it and even a few of you who didn't and thanks for making these past four years so eventful and reinforcing the idea that I never want to moderate a RPG community again.

♥
Mel

Hey guys, we have a bit of a problem. Virtually nothing has been done in this comm rp-wise for just about two weeks. I dunno where everyone's been running off to lately, but if you can't get into a chat, there are other options. Mainly a thread RP. There's really no reason for this community to be an absolute ghost town. I'm trying to get more players into the comm. Who the hell would want to join seeing that nobody will do anything?? If you can't make a chat to rp, USE THE THREAD RP OPTION. And if you can't be bothered to update your character's journal, rethink staying in the comm!

The Marauders have just been flat out boring. James hasn't done anything in absolute ages, Peter, well, he should be getting back into the swing of things (?), and that limits Sirius and Remus a bunch as its hard to move forward as a group when half that group isn't around and never does anything (excluding being out of the country). Don't stick around because you think you should or that you keep planning on doing something but never, ever do. Take the other people in the comm into consideration.

That being said:

WARNINGS
jamie_prongs

Another warning next week, Kerri, and I'll have to remove you. Updating while I was doing warnings last week was just cutting it entirely too close.

So, does anybody actually remember that there's a chat scheduled for Saturday? Because I'll be surprised if you do. The Blacks are having their Pureblood Only party Saturday evening. I gave weeks notice on this thing. It'd be nice if you all would try to be there and do something with everybody else.

Also I was told to remind you all of the detention RP that some folks wanted to do. As of right now the following students have detention:

Remus - smoking
Regulus - snakes
Evan - snakes
Evelyn - snakes
Sirius - jinxing the stairs

I know that scheduling chats with you guys is pretty much pointless, but I'd like to try with this one as its been a few weeks in planning. Right now May 17 or 18 is looking good for that. Please keep that in mind.

The next warnings will be MAY 21ST and everyone should be updated by MAY 8TH.
Adults are to be updated by next time as well, so please keep that in mind.

How long and when are you going to be gone again, Genna?

Warnings are this evening, folks. Last chance to update! I'll be nudging those of you who haven't updated.

Just a reminder that warnings are TOMORROW. Those of you who haven't updated yet might want to get to it. Those of you who had warnings last time around need to update again to avoid another warning this week.

EVERYONE -

Please ADD:
alittle_strange

Our new Rabastan.

Please REMOVE:
regal_emma
darkfuriealecto

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And a note. If you are unable to update for whatever reason, I need to know before it's time for warnings. If you are invited to a chat and actually show up, I'm going to assume that you are no longer on hiatus unless I'm told otherwise. I would think it is common sense that if you show in a chat, there's not really any reason that you can't take two minutes to update your character's journal. So if you need the time off and you receive a chat invitation or even if you are simply busy that night DECLINE THE INVITATION. I would much rather have you decline than lurking around and being inattentive or coming in and immediately leaving. Nobody likes it when that is done. A little courtesy isn't all that hard and again, remain aware that if you're in a chat I'm going to assume that you're free for updating as well if you don't tell me otherwise.

Hey folks.

Please REMOVE:
dubiusmorality

And note that we are ONCE AGAIN! in need of a Snape. Surprise, surprise.

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Emmeline and Alecto need to be updated ASAP and then please also note that anyone who had a warning and already took care of it still need to update ONCE MORE to cover the upcoming warnings.

I'd like to remind you all that if you had a warning and have not yet updated, you will be REMOVED from the comm if you don't update before tomorrow evening.  This, of course, excludes those of you who have given me a valid reason for not updating.  

Firstly there's the new Term Three syllabus. It isn't as fleshed out as I would like since most of the stuff that the four people who actually left suggestions will require some in-game set up and therefore don't have a specific date set to them... Although right now it seems most people want to do the Breakfast Club-esque group detention thing. Having a play seems very popular as well, and in order to get all that in by June, it'll have to start pretty soon. I know a play has been mentioned before by Sirius, so maybe we'll go from there. But we'll discuss that later...

Term 3

April

20th - FULL MOON
21st - Term 3 Begins
26th - HOGSMEADE ~ NPC student disappears for the weekend and turns up again Monday with no memory at all after a badly done memory charm. School security is tightened.

May

5th - Personnel cut-backs in all Magical Law Enforcement divisions.
13th - Dumbledore leaves Hogwarts in the hands of Professor McGonagall and leaves the castle for a few weeks.
15th - Voldemort dispatches Malfoy and a few other Deatheaters for some Muggle torture in London.
19th - FULL MOON
24th - Quidditch Final ~ Gryffindor v. Hufflepuff

June

3rd - A bunch of Muggles spot some giants in a remote part of Wales. Obliviators are dispatched to deal with the Muggles and Ministry is put on alert.
6th - Term 3 ends
9 - 13th - Finals/OWLs/NEWTs
12th - Defense Against the Dark Arts OWL ('Snape's Worst Memory')
17th - Giants destroy a village in southern Scotland. Muggles and wizards are killed.
18th - FULL MOON
20th - Students go home.

Okay folks. Now the other stuff. The Marauders need to actually be Maraudery. All its been lately is Sirius and Remus standing around smoking and unconsciously (and consciously) flirting. The SLYTHERINS are more organized!

Over the next few days it should be pointed out that Evan, Regulus, and Evelyn are going to be found out and punished for their snake prank thanks to the baby Gryffindor they tortured for the password, the Fat Lady's testimony, and a slightly elaborated-on telling by Peeves. Sirius will also be getting a detention via McGonagall for the jinxes of the staircases. They can all join Remus. Anybody else wants a detention to get in on the huge group detention, please, feel free to have your character get into a bit of mischief. Or just forget to do their homework.

The festival idea will be good for the summer, just as a distraction and to give people something to do during the summer. More on that later, that isn't really going to be anytime soon.

Like I've already mentioned above, in order to do the play thing this term, it'll have to be done soon. So whoever wants to take the reigns on that needs to get cracking.

And I have been asked to post an announcement:

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black would like to invite all wizarding families of pure lineage  the Manor on May 10th. A party belatedly celebrating our sons' birthdays has been planned. RSVP is not necessary, as it is expected of everybody to be there. One uninvited guest per person, please. And keep in mind the many, many anti-muggle charms placed on the Manor when choosing this guest.

We look forward to seeing you.
Orion & Walburga Black

Er, right. So, I guess that's that. UPDATE!

Warnings:

_peter_the_rat  *
bellacrazyblack  
darkfuriealecto  
dubiusmorality  
mrgprewett  
regal_emma  
romantic_meda  *

I have no words people, seriously. One of you doesn't have steady internet, so that's understandable. Two of you have I *no* idea what's going on with and one of you is new so I understand that. But SEVEN warnings?? SEVEN? If you're not going to update your character any other time than when you get a warning, you should really stop to think if you even want to keep that character up. This is ridiculous. I'm sorry, but it is.

And please keep in mind that now that you have a warning, you have to update once to cover this set of warnings, and then once to take care of next time otherwise it'll be another warning. If you can't think of anything to update about, there is a chat almost every single night and the name of the chat is the same 99.9% of the time so you'll find people there. Plus there's the hoggiewarts community where you can start a thread RP to get some plot moving there as well.

Another thing I'd like to talk to you all about involves the chat room. If you can't make it to the chatroom, just hit decline. I'll understand. People have things to do. But PLEASE don't come into the chat only to leave a second later. Please don't come to the chat to lurk. Nobody bites. We're all relatively nice people, not that hard to get along with most of the time. But if you can't make it to the chat, just decline the invite! It's not like I'll sit here and cry about it.

The next set of warnings will be MAY 7TH and everyone should be updated by APRIL 24TH.

Hey there, everyone~

I'm going to be MIA this weekend, so don't expect to see me up and online. Fabian's on an surveilance mission to Bristol from Friday night to Sunday morning, and when he returns, he'll be sitting around the flat reading newspapers. Sirius will be Sirius, and shall be spelling entire staircases to swallow your legs, much like the single steps, so unless you use the banister to climb the stairs, I hope you know another way to get places~ Fenrir...well, he'll be off doing his thing.

Question - will the Blacks be hosting any balls? When I was playing our dear Lucius, he would host them all the time, sort of an excuse to pull the purebloods together. The only other dominant pureblooded house we have hanging around are the Blacks, so... Anti-mudblood parties, anyone? :D?