Hogwarts Live Blog

The time has come to announce that some of us will be going to the Azkatraz Harry Potter Symposium and Convention in San Francisco this July 17th through 21st at the Parc55 Hotel.

If any of you are planning on going to the convention, we are wanting to organize a little HogwartsLive Meetup there.

For more information about Azkatraz, visit hp2009.org.

Will you come?

Click here to vote on "Join HogwarsLive at Azkatraz" poll »

There is NOTHING wrong with it. Do NOT petition, do NOT complain in chats, do NOT OWL/IM staff.

I realize that you are all used to having everyone put back in after the maintenance boots, but that was not their intent and there was no way to avoid it. Since the boots have been disabled, PvP is back to normal.

When a person logs out, they are ONLY supposed to be able to be killed ONCE until they log in. That is the way the code is written and that is the way the game is SUPPOSED to be played.


Note:PVP was not broken yes it was effected but not broken. maintenance is back on and will happen like it normally does.

Congratulations to MellanyRiddleKrum, Cedric, Hailey, Xandrictheruthless, and Perks for winning free copies of J. K. Rowling's latest book for charity, The Tales of Beedle the Bard!

Winners will be notified concerning how they may claim their prize.

All accounts that were deleted in the crash are now restored. However that meant the site had to be restored from noon(Pacific Time), so everything you've done since then is now gone. You'll have to earn that all back.

Hello everyone, we hope you are having a wonderful holiday and we wish you and yours a safe and happy New Year.

We have temporarily allowed entry into the Hog's Head Inn from the Great Hall, so if you are wanting to pick up your christmas presents, head there, and you can find your presents.

Congratulations to: RoyalXavier, Red, Pinkmagicz, ilymoonsnare, and kraftykaye who are the 5 winners of the Hill of Beans Candy Raffle.

They have each won the jackpot of 35,069 beans.

We will be giving away 5 copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling on New Years. To win a copy just go to the Candy Raffle page for details!

Several players have reported getting stuck in a bad nav in the Dueling Club. I was able to use all of mine with no problem, but until Edmund can get on and do his magic, please be aware that you may get stuck as well. So in other words, USE PVP AT YOUR OWN RISK for the time being.

In the event that you DO get stuck, please use the Petition for Help link. Thanks.

Warner Brothers is releasing the new US Trailer of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince next week in front of the new movie Twilight. But they've given Fan Sites an exclusive jump start on the action.

Here is the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince for your viewing pleasure:

Hard to see that youtube version? They've released it in several downloadable versions as well, some of them in amazing High Definition

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Thanks to the Leaky Cauldron for being the source of this awesome news.

Just so you can see how agonizingly long of a wait it is, here is Leaky's countdown timer:

Get this and other HP countdowns at LeakyNews.com

we've had a major database crash. We've had to roll back all data 30 hours, as it was the last fully successful back up. All backups after that point have had something wrong with them. Edmund was able to save the user and stats information from a later backup about 14 hours ago. So he has restored that information from that backup so there isn't as much loss to users.