The Discord Digest

What the Digest Posts

One message, once a day, with three lines and two buttons. The first line reports current House standings. The second is a short dispatch from Hogwarts or Hogsmeade, which changes every day and is accurate in roughly the way a weather forecast is. Sometimes a third reports the current Magical Numbers jackpot and last night's winner. Below that sit two buttons: Play Now and Support Hogwarts Live. Both lead to HogwartsLive.com and nowhere else.

The message also closes with a standing request to run /bump in the server now and then. The castle is listed on Disboard, a directory that ranks Discord servers by how recently their members bumped them, so a regular bump keeps the server near the top of the listings where wanderers might stumble in. Nothing is paid for bumping; it is visibility volunteer work, and entirely optional, like holding a door open.

Some days carry a second, shorter message under the title Streak watch: how many students have a login streak on the line today, and nothing else. It names nobody, because the message knows a headcount, not a roster; the students themselves hear privately, in their own Owl Post, from the Login Streak Office, which regards a public roll call as a drafting error. On days when no streak is at risk, nothing is posted, the Department seeing no editorial value in the number zero. It carries the same Play Now button as the daily digest, and not one word more.

Play Now

Takes you to a page on HogwartsLive.com. Signed in already? You get the current House standings, each House in its own colors, and a Play Game button back into the game itself. Not signed in? You get two options: create a character or sign in, both handled on the website the way they always have been.

Support Hogwarts Live

Also takes you to HogwartsLive.com. A signed-in visitor goes straight to the VIP Membership office in the Prefect's Lounge, where the membership, the gift options, and the fine print all live. Payments there run through PayPal, exactly like every other donation to Hogwarts Live. An anonymous visitor has to sign in first, because PayPal needs to know whose account to credit.

The donation itself never touches Discord. Discord only shows you the button. PayPal handles the money, and HogwartsLive.com handles the receipt.

What Never Happens in Discord

Discord will never ask for your Hogwarts Live password. Nobody official will message you for it, and nothing on the digest requests it either. Discord collects no payment, hands out no Donator Points for clicking a link, and sells no VIP Membership. Every one of those things happens on HogwartsLive.com, through the same PayPal flow the site has always used, and only after you have actually paid for something. Clicking a button earns you a page load, not a prize.

Unexpected or Broken Links

A Discord link that does not point to HogwartsLive.com, or that asks for anything before it gets you there, deserves suspicion rather than a click. Report it through the game's Petition System so the Department can look into who is impersonating a signpost.

Why the Tag on the Link

Each digest link carries a short campaign tag, remembered in a browser cookie for seven days and nowhere else. It records only that you arrived from a particular Discord message, not your name, your House, or anything you did while playing. Donate within that week and the tag rides along, so the Department can tell which digest messages are worth writing and which ones are just noise. It never changes what anything costs, what you receive, or how PayPal handles the payment; it only tells the ledger where the visit came from.