Hogwarts Live Blog

The Music Shop that was in Hogsmeade has been removed as it was causing problems. At this point, we do not know if it will be brought back.

We are less than a month away from the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD and HogwartsLive, Wizards.FM, and Wizards.Pro are giving away a copy of the two disk special edition. The Candy Raffle is open in Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, come trade in your Bertie Botts beans for raffle tickets to win!

Again, sorry for the problems. I temporarily fixed the issue that Witchy mentioned, until Edmund has time to look into this, I'll try to make sure the site gets recovered faster if it goes down again. I'm currently under a lot of pressure from school, with midterms this week for my on-campus classes, and a final for one of my online classes nearing. I've just been swamped with project after project. Please be patient, we will trying something out in the coming weeks that should fix the any issues regarding crashing, though it could be pricey so first we'll have to explore whether or not it's a viable option for HL.

The site is still experiencing problems. We are aware of it and are trying to correct them. While most people can log into the site, once they are in, they get a call stack error and are stuck. Petitioning to fix navs will not work as Staff is stuck too (and the fact that its not a navs issue anyway). All the names you see in the Online List are people who have tried and failed to get onto the site...myself included. Please bear with us while we try to sort out the problems. Edmund and Danilo are doing all they can to get the site back up and running properly.

Thanks :)

ADDED:You may also visit http://harrypotter.wizards.pro and check the forums there or just poke around that site. We are trying to keep that updated as well.

We are well aware that there are problems with the site, and people are getting code pages, call stack error pages, and white screens. PLEASE stop petitioning about them. Thank you.

Sorry, for the recent downtime the site crashed again, and Edmund was only able to recently get everything back up. Edmund also was able to move the database over to the new hard drive, which hopefully should speed up the site a little. Thanks for your patience. :)

Earlier this afternoon, the site crashed again. Edmund did all he could to try to restore it, but the only way to get the site back up was to do a rollback. This means that all the data from the past day and a half or so is gone. We cannot restore stats because there is nothing to restore. It's like going back in time..it hasn't happened yet. Please do not petition concerning lost stats as they will not be answered.

JKR has announced something about Dumbledore. If you want to read the article, it is the top article on http://harrypotter.wizards.pro/

Any rude or hateful comments about this will not be tolerated.

On a brighter note I will be adding a Halloween gift sometime tonight. Niki

I'm working on something that may potentially speed up the site right now on the code side of things, so please don't lose heart. You can expect it in a week or two depending on my schedule. On the hardware side I'll be purchasing an extra hardrive, if this speeds things up I'll get a another one after that.

Now for the warnings, if you're going to cyber do it somewhere else where no one but the parties involved can see you. This site is rated 13+, not 18+! Also, for you pedophiles out their if you even try to proposition a minor we will immediately ban you and send your ISP a nice message about how you committed a sex crime, which is in direct violation of our Terms of Use. They may in turn suspend your internet access and even contact your local authorities.

Live Chat is now back, it was temporarily disabled as an exercise because some people were suggesting that the slowness of the site was a direct result of the live chat module, by disabling live chat, that theory was proven wrong (as I knew it would)

Also, a reminder of the way things have been for over a year so people stop petitioning saying that the math on temp hp is wrong (because it is not).

Your current HP cannot exceed 50% more then your max HP. This means that if, for example, you have a max HP of 100, and you go and try to buy temp hp, the maximum temporary hp you will have when everything is said and done is 150.

There is no faulty logic that says if you give Cedrik 1000 gems at 5 gems per hp that you only get 50 hp. In fact, the change to cedrik that WAS put in place is that if you attempt to give Cedrik too many gems, he will actually give you back any excess (read the message, go to Cedrik, try to pay him 1000 gems for HP and you will almost undoubtedly get the following message:

You place 1000 gems on the counter. Cedrik realizes that you have asked him for far too much health, and graciously gives you some of the gems back. You drink the potion Aberforth hands you in exchange for your gems, and.....

Now the only problem that IS with this message, is that in one place it says Cedrick and another place says Aberforth. I shall fix this textual bug this weekend (and attempt to standardize everything at Aberforth).

Also be sure when you are doing this test to look at the number of gems you have both before and after, you'll see that you did not lose 1000 gems in the process.