Hogwarts Live Blog

I'd like to remind everyone of the "No Cyber Bullying" rule, being some of you forgot it or choose to ignore the part of it that says " Personal attacks(bringing someones real life into it) and insulting remarks should be kept off the public channels such as the forums and the chats. It is preferable that you keep arguments off the site or ignore players that irritate you." The insulting remarks NOT RP related have got way out of hand as of late and need to be stopped. You may have slipped under the radar and got away with them before, but now you won't. There is a line between RP and personal insults, some of you need to take time and discover that line.

Just because one person is doing it doesn't mean its ok and that you should jump on the bandwagon and do it too.

I'd also like to remind every that staff disrespect in chat is not allowed, being some seem to have forgotten that also.

Edit: If you have petitioned about bad navs, and your navs fix themselves before any staff get to it please petition back telling us. Thanks.

This is a friendly reminder to all of you that think they can create another site like this one:

Do NOT come here and owl other players telling them to go check out your site, or so-and-so needs some help, or spread the word!, or it's JUST like OLD HL!

It's advertising, it's against the rules and you WILL be banned.
Permanently.

We have no problem banning those of you who are choosing to advertise other sites in protest to the punishment that others have been given because they could not follow the rules.

Interested in earning donator points without donating?

I have a list of actions you can complete for donator points.

Each action is really simple and only requires a short amount of time.

All actions are free and most are as easy as filling out and submitting a short form.

If you are interested email me at

I will send you a list of actions/activities you can complete in exchange for donator points.

Don't hesitate, these are really straightforward tasks and I just need a lot of people to do them hence why I'm giving away lots of donator points!

If you do enough of these tasks there's even the possibly of earning a title change. ^_^

UDPATE: The directions don't fit in owls so please just email me that way I can send you the full directions. Anyone I owled the directions to needs to email me to get the full details.

UPDATE: I'm no longer doing this. I will be doing it again sometime in the future.

Dear HLer's from AislingBlack:
My family and I would like to express our deepest gratitude to everyone that showed their love and concern for my beautiful niece, Mikyla. If some of you don't remember or know the situation, Mikyla is 5 months old now but when she was 4 months old, we learned that she had two holes in her heart and a pinched aorta. She was hospitalized to fix the pinched aorta but during surgery, she flatlined. (Code Blue) They bought her back and since then she had to spend several weeks in Riley's Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. About two weeks ago, Mikyla was released with some restrictions of having to use a feeding tube. I would like to report that, my Meke is doing GREAT! She started taking her bottles on her own shortly after she returned home. When I finally met her on Easter Weekend, she didn't have the feeding tube because she was playing with it and pulling it out instead of using it. She takes her medications through a bottle nipple and growing. She started gaining weight again; going from 7 pounds and 2 ounces to 8 pounds and 8 ounces. She is so tiny but so strong. When she grabs your finger, you can feel her strength. When I was up north, I remember that Meke did not sleep more than thirty minutes on three different occasion. (One time falling asleep in my arms, aww's) She didn't want to miss anything. I still hear that she is thriving. Attached is a Photoshopped picture of just her and of me holding her. (I had to wear latex gloves and a mask for safety reason since I was getting over Shingles.) Meke has her heart surgery still coming up but I know she will make a full recovery and be the best flower girl an aunt could ask for. I will keep everyone updated as I know something or you can go to her site and read her journals.
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/mikylahoward



Thank you ALL again,
AislingBlack and the Howard Family of Indiana

Here's a new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince due out later this year!

Unless you are Staff or a Prefect DO NOT use these options in bios. And the same warning that was in the previous MoTD that apparently was ignored, you WILL get a 3 day ban for it. This will be fixed just give it time.


ADDED: PvP is not broken. This is how the original code is designed- players log out and may be killed ONCE while they are offline.

We previously had an edit to the code that was forcing players back into PvP multiple times while they were logged out and this is why there was always so many people in the Dueling Club. With our recent upgrade, this edit has just not been redone and this is why it's been so empty. Edmund or Danilo will get to it as soon as they have time. Thanks.

Some people are having issues logging in. It appears that usernames and passwords are now cAsE sensitive.

Also cAsE sensitive are Flirts, Bank Transfers and Ressurections. Please be sure to use capital letters where needed.

Edit: If you use the Award/Penalize House Points options in bios, you WILL get a 3 day ban when caught.

We're going to start the upgrade process within the next few hours or so. The site will likely be down for about an hour. After the upgrade please report any errors via the Petition for Help link.

Include these details in your petition:
(1) The URL/web address from your browser's address bar.
(2) Any error messages and/or a description of the error.

Some of the texts may read strangely, let us know by providing the same information as requested above.

Update: Upgrade complete. Start reporting errors!

Hey if any of you are interested in promoting yourself, your brand, breaking news, or just keeping in touch please follow me on Twitter:
@ariadoss or http://twitter.com/ariadoss

I'll follow anyone who follows me right back as long as you're not a spammer!

Still not interested? Here's 15 good reasons why you should join.

If you're my friend on here you can request to follow my private updates @danilosapad

Once you join be sure to learn how to use Twitter, here's a good mini-guide.

Also, Alchemist Edmund is on Twitter too @nickmoline so be sure to add him!

And finally, Hogwarts Live has a Twitter account as well, but it's not being updated just yet.
You can follow @hogwartslive though and we'll be sure to let you know when we start updating it.

For those of you interested in attending Azkatraz, the Harry Potter Symposium, they have extended the $145 rate until April 15th, if you can come, think about it, it's going to be a lot of fun.

I, along with SerenityRose and MikeCrim will be hosting a panel discussion at the event on "Wizarding Physics: Gamp and beyond" where we will dig a little deeper into Rowling's magical world and hopefully understand the limits of magic in the Potter universe.

In addition, we are hoping to have a HogwartsLive meetup at the event for people attending Azkatraz who play on HogwartsLive.

I hope to meet you there.