Hogwarts Live Blog

It has come to our attention that personal attacks are getting out of hand lately. This MoTD is a warning to EVERYONE, you will only get one other warning before you get muted for personal attacks. A reminder of what personal attacks are (taken from the Rules):
Taunting opponents is fine as long as it is roleplayed, but personal attacks are not allowed. Keep all teasing site-related. 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.

If you would like someone to leave you alone in owls that are not breaking site rules, go to your Friends List and click Friend Search. From there you type in the name of the player and when its finds the player, click ignore next to their name. If they are breaking site rules, for example: harassing you, do the same thing, but Report the Owls to Admin which can be done when you open the Owl.

LOS ANGELES - The release date for the sixth Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," was pushed back on Thursday to July 2009 from its original slot in November 2008, movie studio Warner Bros. said.

Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc, said it had decided to make the change to bolster its release schedule for the lucrative summer moviegoing season -- a period that can account for as much as 40 percent of Hollywood's annual box office receipts.

To read the full article, click here

Beastmaster audrik has won a brand new blue iPod Shuffle. To all of you who entered the Candy Raffle and lost better luck next time!

It was announced today that The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be made available to all Harry Potter fans in December. Here is what J.K. Rowling said about it.

There was understandable disappointment among Harry Potter fans when only one copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" was offered to the public last December. I am therefore delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support of Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon (who bought the handwritten copy at auction) - and with the blessing of the wonderful people who own the other six original books - "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" will now be widely available to all Harry Potter fans. Royalties will be donated to the Children's High Level Group, to benefit institutionalized children in desperate need of a voice. The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters' Archive.' 'Dumbledore's commentary on the Tales, which was discovered among his papers after his death, includes some historical notes, personal reminiscences, and insights into that most mysterious branch of magic: wandlore. I very much hope that readers coming to these classic wizarding fables for the first time will find his commentary both entertaining and helpful.

The Standard Edition includes the five fairy tales from the original The Tales of Beedle the Bard sold at Auction to Amazon last year for $4 million dollars.

In addition to the Standard Edition which will be widely available there will also be a Collectors Edition of the book sold exclusively by Amazon. The Collectors Edition includes an outer case disguised as a wizarding textbook from the Hogwarts library, exclusive reproduction of J.K. Rowling's handwritten introduction, 10 new illustrations by J.K. Rowling not included in the Standard Edition or the original handcrafted edition, a velvet bag embroidered with J.K. Rowling's signature, metal skull, corners, clasp, replica gemstones, and an emerald ribbon. Pre-orders are being taken now on Amazon.

Many players have petitioned or commented in chat about Live Chat not updating for them when they post. All of those users had been using Internet Explorer at the time, which is what causes it to not update quickly and post properly. So we suggest that you use Firefox while on here, the chat works fine on it.
Click here to download Firefox!

If any of you are interested in writing articles for donator points please send a writing sample to and I will send you the full details if I like your writing.

Points will only be awarded to well-written original articles that cite sources (Wikipedia is not a valid source).

Any experience with journalism, medicine, or paraphrasing is a plus as the purpose of these articles is to raise awareness for a type of lung cancer.

You have less than 10 days left to enter the raffle to win an iPod on Harry's Birthday. Trade in those beans now.

The Site Rules have been updated. Please be sure to read them as "Well I didn't know..." is not a reason to not follow them- especially for the older players.

You can find them in the FAQ on the left hand side.

I'm afraid today's crash took the accounts table with it, and I was forced to roll back to last night's backup of the accounts table, some VEs, leveling and new accounts may have unfortunately been lost. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please do not petition to get your stuff back. You will have to earn it back playing the game.

Be sure to check out the Candy Raffles for this month.

We are celebrating the month of Harry Potter's birth by giving away a brand new iPod Shuffle!

This Raffle will last through the month of July and the winner will be announced on Harry's Birthday!