Hogwarts Live Blog

Most everyone knows that Edmund and I met here and fell in love. Everyone was really supportive of our Real Life Marriage. I think everyone should know that today is the one year mark Edmund and I have been married for one year today. It was all because of Hogwarts Live. Thank you to everyone and to Danilo for making this site and bringing the love of my life to me.

...you haven't seen the latest raffle, here it is!

Buy your Book!
Beans per Ticket: 10
One winner will win a $20 Amazon.com gift Certificate which can be used to pay for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, due out this month! Already bought your book, use your $20 on anything your heart desires at amazon.com
Raffle Runs From 2007-07-01 to 2007-07-13
There are 11 days, 16 hours and 20 minutes left to purchase tickets in this raffle.

Just a reminder, there is just an hour and a half left in the "Custom Title" raffle, and less then a week left for the Order of the Phoenix Movie Ticket raffle, so trade in your bertie botts beans for raffle tickets now if you want these items.

Also, yesterday three of four Wizards.FM panelists were able to catch an Advanced Screening of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and we can't wait to tell you all about it, look for a special episode of The Looking Glass on Wizards.FM coming up with our early review. This show will also contain a way to find your way back to my lab.

Just to clarify what IS and what is NOT allowed as far as content... NO sexual comments and NO innuendo. NONE. Doing either will get you a warning and depending on severity, a mute. No private body part naming. No kicking, pinching, hitting, licking, poking, tapping, touching, or ANY other verb you can think of to said body parts. Balls and nuts have been refiltered. No using these two words or any other regular word in a way that could be deemed inappropriate by staff. Staff STILL has the final say on what is suitable for chat and what is not, so if you are warned, please do not argue in chat. Any other words that have been recently removed from the filtered list WILL go back on if they are abused. Please use common sense. You may petiton if you feel you were wrongly warned.

See OotP on us!!
10 beans a ticket, see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on us! One winner of this raffle will win $15 in Fandango Bucks (please only enter this raffle if $15 in Fandango Bucks would be in any way useful to you, we recommend going to fandango.com and seeing if you are able to buy tickets for your local theater before entering).
Raffle Runs From 2007-06-26 to 2007-07-05

Get a FREE Custom Title!
This raffle will end on Friday so hurry and buy your tickets! For only 20 beans per chance, ONE winner will receive a custom title with one change to last until reset! So, hurry up and find those beans and get raffling! (Custom title rules will be owled to winner)
Raffle Runs From 2007-06-26 to 2007-06-29

In light of recent events, we would like to remind people that the sharing of passwords and/or accounts is NOT allowed. We will not tolerate any situations in which someone complains of their friend taking gold from their account, their friend spamming while on their account or their friend doing something else which gets that account holder in trouble. YOU are responsible for your OWN account(s). We WILL mute and we WILL ban for problems arising from password sharing.

Despite the fears of several staff members, I have been able to positively verify that only one account was lost in tonight's server crash. I have recovered the said account from last night's automated backup without rolling back anyone else. We thank you for your patience during this problem.

I also apologize for my personal slowness in addressing this particular crash. I am on vacation in Texas to attend my younger brother's wedding, and so my online time is a bit less active then usual, at the time of the crash I was enjoying myself in the swimming pool, and didn't know anything of the problem until much later.

Have a wonderful weekend and be sure to wish your Father a happy father's day if you can.

I will be in the Philippines from June 17 - July 8. I will most likely be very difficult to reach during this time period, meaning any issues I usually handle will either be taken care of by someone else or put on hold until my return.

Here is a reminder (again) of the site rules so no one has any excuse to not follow them. This is the version used by all Staff so please do not question if it is not in another part of the site. And please be sure to read through them even if you think you already know what they are; something might have changed.

Reasons for muting:

1. Fighting: I do not mean RP fighting, I mean verbal assaults. Violence is NOT muteable unless it is a REAL threat. Roleplaying fighting is not a threat.
2. Sex and PDA: Use your common sense- we are a PG 13 site, half of the things done here should not be done and this WILL be enforced.
3. Evading the Filter: If a word shows up as !@#$ when it posts, do NOT change it so others can read it. Using foreign languages in open chat is also considered evading. Don't do it.
4. Drugs, alcohol and other bannable subjects. Any reference to drug use, alcohol use other than site-related, cutting, suicide or other forms of self-mutilation will not be tolerated. There is no need for any of that on this site.
5. Rape: This will NOT happen on this site. This includes any references to rape.
6. SPAM: Ok here is the tuffy. We have said before that anything more then 3 characters is SPAM. But in all reality we do NOT mute for this. Only if the person is taking it to extremes such as:.
!Dementor AuroraBorealis says, "dfkjlsdhgkjfkjghfmnvcm,vnfkghrouityerioutyjkgvnmc,vnfdj"
Get the point? Good.. However, please try to keep extra letters/symbols to a minimum. It CAN mess the page up for some players. Smilies are included in the no more than 3 guideline.
7. Link SPAM and Messenger addresses and emails: This includes other personal info such as phone numbers, addresses, myspace profiles, etc. Some people post these things in open chats. They are not to be there. If you want to give it to a friend that ASKS for it, OWL it. And no random owling of players to advertise other sites. We ban for that. This is why we have a link exchange. Please use it.
8. Advertising your clan in open chat: This is ok in the clan waiting place. But it has no place in Diagon or Hogwarts.
9. Personal Attacks: This is the offense that makes me angry, bringing someones personal life onto this site to attack them. Leave outside information outside.
10. Cheating and exploitation of glitches. If you find a glitch or bug in the game, please petition it. If you are caught telling other players of the glitch, you may be muted and/or banned.

In the end, listen to the admins and other staff, do not argue with them. If you have an issue with a staffer please Petition for Help so another Staffer can handle/look into it. If instead you decide to lash out of them or disregard their authority you will be punished.

These rules are made so everyone can enjoy their time here on HL. Please abide by them so all players can have fun.

All old, unowned dwellings have been purged from the system. This means that new construction in all villages can begin again. But please keep in mind that it's not for those who already have multiple dwellings to rush out and buy more but to give those who don't have a dwelling the chance to purchase/build one. Please don't take advantage.

Also, the upkeep module has been turned off for all types of dwellings so you no longer have to worry about spending turns, gold and gems in order to keep your dwelling looking spiffy ;)