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.
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Write Articles - Earn Donator and House Points
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.
T minus 10 days and counting...
You have less than 10 days left to enter the raffle to win an iPod on Harry's Birthday. Trade in those beans now.
Site Rules
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.
Today's Crash
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.
Celebrate Harry's Birthday with a new iPod!
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!
Need some points?
Have some Bertie Botts beans just sitting in your pocket? Use them to win some points, both for your house and for you. A Raffle is going on right now, the prize? 500 points for your house, and 5,000 donator points for you, that's a good prize, so trade in your beans and win some points! 5 winners. Enter fast, this raffle ends tomorrow!
PvP, Alignment and the House Cup- What You Need to Know *UPDATED*
PvP and its affect on the House Cup AND Alignment has been changed. It now costs your House AND other Houses points. Here are the highlights:
Attacking
- If you kill ANY person in PvP, you GAIN 3 points.
- If the person you kill is in another House, you gain 2 EXTRA points.
Being Attacked
- If you are attacked and WIN, you GAIN 10 points IF the attacker is from another House.
- If you are attacked and LOSE, you LOSE 2 points UNLESS the attacker is in the same House.
Alignment
- If you are Good OR Evil and kill a GOOD person, you lose 10 alignment points.
- If you are Good OR Evil and kill an EVIL person, you gain 10 alignment points.
- If you are Good OR Evil and kill a NEUTRAL person, you will lose 5 alignment points.
To make it more fair and random, alignment does not show in Bios anymore. You risk losing/gaining alignment points when you PvP.
Harry Potter Prequel now online!
It's here, the 800 word prequel to Harry Potter is now online.
The original sold today for 25,000 pounds, just under $50,000 US.
But now you can read the original at:
http://www.waterstoneswys.com/.
Click on "Read our authors stories" and then on "JK Rowling" and you can read the story for yourself. It involves James and Sirius, and two policemen.
Enjoy!
If you want to have this story in a limited edition book, you can pre-order the limited edition book here. Proceeds to go to charity, so you get words from JK Rowling, more story, and you help a great cause.
Reminder
This is just a quick reminder to everyone: When a staff member is handling a situation in chat where players are breaking rules, DO NOT interfere and make comments, it only makes things worse. If a staff member tells you to drop it, drop it. Do not try to get in the last word, if you do you will only get one more warning before you're muted. If you have any thing else to say about it, owl that staff member or petition it for another staff member to look at.