Hogwarts Live Blog

If you get stuck or your account gets frozen whatever you want to call it, please take note of the area in which you got stuck in before petitioning the staff. Also, please try to avoid the area you got stuck in after we fix your account. I am aware of various locations that are needed to play the game such as the Forbidden Forest, the Clan Halls, and the Dueling Club that have bugs, I will try to have these worked out by April.

Thanks.

I know I said there shouldn't be anymore database connection errors but this one was not caused by something else. The problem is still unfixed, though I can easily bring back the game I still do not know what SPECIFICALLY is causing the database to crash. Yup it crashed and then shut me out so I couldn't log in and fix the problem till today. If it goes down you can always try http://www.usharrypotter.com/forums.ushp and post the problem there, cause I was not immediately aware of the site going down.

You may have noticed that A LOT and I mean A LOT of features of the game are missing, I had to deactivate a lot of stuff in order to figure out, which modules are slowing down the site. Please be patient!

Fortunately, I have finally transferred the Hogwarts Live database to the new server! What does this mean? Well for one you should experience A LOT LESS downtime, that means this site SHOULD be up most all of the time!

A new rule regarding admins or mods (people with specially colored names) has been established. To even be allowed to send us your application (including a personal statement) you must either be a God or Goddess. Also, at the current time we are NOT accepting applications for Aurors. Any submission or questions relating to becoming an Auror will be ignored.

Thank you for understanding. :)

I would just like to check that everyone who currently has an open petition still needs their problem fixed. The following people should owl me (ArchAuror Scellanis) if they can now log in properly and play the game without any errors:

Firstyeargirl Khradijah, Gladiatrix Aliana, Firstyeargirl coreyschic, Secondyeargirl KathrynHawk, Elphie and Nortney, Firstyeargirl hermione, Firstyeargirl harryrocksmysocks, Viscount leejordan and lastly Archtitaness FoxyStarr.

If I don't receive an owl from the player I will assume the problem is not fixed yet.

P.S. This does not mean everyone else gets to owl me directly with their problems. If you are stuck submit a detailed petition. If your friend is stuck then they should submit a detailed petition and you should get on with your game.

Please accept my deepest apologies for the site being down for the greater part of February 1, 2005. It was down because the data from the old server was being transferred to the new one and that is a very timely process when you are dealing with gigabytes of information. Anyway, everything is up and running now and a lot faster than it did before I might add! Enjoy the absence of lag while it lasts!

And remember to check out: http://www.usharrypotter.com

http://www.usharrypotter.com is now available for public viewing. It is not finished so I need all the input and suggestions I can get!

Part of the reason a lot of people have been getting stuck is because of the houses. I removed them so that I can work out some bugs. Please do not owl/petition admins with problems like "where did something go?", if you get stuck make sure to tell us where you were right before you got stuck.

Thanks.

Prize:

1 Free T-Shirt (we will ship to anywhere in the world)
+20 HP, +10 Attack, +10 Defense
1,000,000 gold (deposited into account at Gringotts)
150 gems (deposited into account at Gringotts)
500 points (to be used in the Prefect's Lounge)

The other top 5 entries will all get discounted T-shirts and custom titles prepended to their usernames!
All top 10 entries will receive gold, gems, points etc., just at lesser amounts than the 1st prizewinner!

Details:

Create an original piece of artwork by hand or on the computer that you would like to be displayed on the back of an HL T-shirt. All designs must have the term "www.HogwartsLive.com" somewhere on them. Send your attached designs to using the subject T-shirt. Acceptable image formats are jpg, gif, png, tif, bmp, psd, and raw. You may choose to compress your image using WinZip or a similar method of file compression (.rar or .bz2).
Your image must be large than 400 X 400 pixels!

Legal Issues:

Design entries may be used on T-shirts before winners are announced, any T-shirt submitted will be considered the property of HogwartsLive.com, we may even use your design if you don't win and you give us the right to use your submitted design on things besides T-Shirts like the Forest Specials or Mouse Pads. Entries with images or words that are not the property of the submitter (you can't use HP logo's or likenesses of HP characters or trademarked words like brand names) will be disqualified for violation of U.S. Copyright Law. Do not use the word "Hogwarts" except when used in the term "hogwartslive.com".

Contest entry deadline to be announced.
Post further question in the forum topic labeled "Fundraiser: T-Shirt Design Contest".