We made a change to the Site Rules today:



What's different? Well, it used to say "no older than 10/11". It feels like people have been getting a little carried away creating their characters several years before they want to sort them or creating accounts for infants. While we admire your forethought, we want it to stop. ><

(Please don't feel like we're picking on you, Baby Vhers. We love you and your crazy alumni parents for giving it a try).

I hesitate to say it yet again, but... VH is about Hogwarts. Tempting as it is to expand more past Hogwarts than we have, we feel strongly that a roleplay site such as this needs to be focused to work well. We know that a character's family life is important to who they are, but it is peripheral to our big group roleplay. Your student or alumni character and the interactions they have with their (former) schoolmates and teachers is our focus. Everything else is just scenery and context.

So, if you'd like your much younger sibling or child to show up in your roleplay, please include their actions and dialogue in your own posts.

"What do I do if I have an account for a character who is younger than 10?"
Simply stop making posts with that account until he or she turns 10. If you'd prefer that we make the character inactive for whatever reason, please PM me, Dumbledore, or Wigglesworth.

We're reopening the applications for Muggle Studies. We are looking for a goofy, Arthur Weasley-esque character for this position. Someone who is fascinated with the muggle world, but doesn't necessarily understand how things in the muggle world actually work. They can feel free to make up their own functions of a rubber duck! Sound like a character you would like to play? Keep reading... the ap is below. Send it to Derwent or Dumbledore.

These are your Mods, with the areas they oversee (in alphabetical order):

Admin: Weasley (which means he's in charge of everything!)(please PM one of the other mods first unless it's an issue only Admin can handle, and then PM Dumbledore (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) )

Alumni: Snape
Ambiance: Black and Dumbledore
CCE: Dumbledore and Wigglesworth
Duelling: Fortescue, Lufkin, Wilkins
Event Requests: Dumbledore and Wigglesworth
New Members: Black, Lufkin, and Wilkins
Professors: Derwent and Dumbledore
Quidditch: Derwent and Snape
Shops: Dippet and Fortescue
Sorting: (All Mods)
VHOT: Dippet, Derwent, and Wigglesworth

Anything not mentioned: Black, Derwent, Dippet, *Dumbledore, Fortescue, Lufkin, Weasley, Wilkins, *Wigglesworth, and Snape

Note: You do not need to stick to this list. We all have our hands in everything and we communicate about all questions. So, if you are more comfortable with one of the mods for some reason or another, feel free to PM them even if it's not their primary area of responsibility. We can all answer or get an answer for you.

And it's ok to add us to your MSN; just check our profiles!

Mini-mods:
(contact these first with any questions in their area, please! They know more than their mod, probably (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) )

Death Eaters: Tobias Grymsonn
Duelling: Madam Patton
Quidditch: Madam_Hooch
Order of the Phoenix and Aurors: Kingsley Shacklebolt

(For reference, Ambiance includes the DEs, the Order, and Aurors as well as all the creatures of VH)

The bank and shop software is all set. Yay!

Big thanks to Faraz Memon for conjuring the code so nicely for us. He did a great job catering to our every whim and change patiently and efficiently. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I should also thank Erica Jean, who though she couldn't come through with the code, helped with some nifty ideas for how it could work. We miss our EJ.

So, I have to go to work and I stayed up past 6 am this morning to fix the errors last night (again thanks to Faraz and Invision's Jason for some helpful advice). Here are just a few guidelines and some info about both the bank and shop for you. I'll have more info for you later.


Bank Info

1. You may not transfer money to your alter accounts!

1a. You may not launder money through other people so that it eventually ends up in your alter account! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

We have records of the bank transactions, so if we find out you've done this, you will lose all the money in all accounts involved. There are a couple groups of people exempt from this rule, and they will know who they are.

2. Member accounts are only able to transfer money to Shopkeepers. There are reasons for this, and I'm sure you oldies will know why we made it this way.

3. For now, new accounts start only with 7 galleons. AT THIS TIME THERE ARE NO REQUIRED ITEMS A NEW MEMBER MUST BUY FOR SCHOOL! But you are welcome to shop!

4. Prices will be much lower since we now can put prices in sickles and knuts, not just galleons. Harry Potter Lexicon has a handy wizard currency converter, but for example 7 galleons is about $70 US or 35 British pounds. So there won't be any 1000 galleon brooms.

5. Yes, you will get allowances. Once a year, sometime after the first term starts.

6. You also earn money through doing your homework and posting in roleplaying forums. I think it's 15 knuts for roleplay posts (min 100 word count) and 1 sickle for homework posts (min 200 word count).

7. If you delete a post, the money goes away again so don't be gross and try to cheat the bank. If you do find a way to cheat the bank, we'll clear out your bank account for you.

8. YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DOES NOT EXIST UNTIL YOU CLICK ON THE BANK LINK. Up there under the banner.

Shop Info:

The Shops are open! Please read the FAQs in each shop on how to make your purchases!

Hey there VHers!

Are you at least a second year? Do you want to make VH more exciting for others on the site? And have a little fun in the process? (Remember: This character would be in addition to your student, not a replacement!)

We want to fill VH with ambiance characters, so if you think you can handle the responsibility, read on!

Hogwarts is home to over 100 house elves, at least 20 ghosts (quote from PS7: "about twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall”), unnumbered paintings and portraits, countless School Owls delivering messages all over; other possibilities are boggarts, ghouls, imps, gnomes; also centaurs and other denizens of the forest and grounds (Just remember, if a creature can’t speak you won’t be able to either).

• 1-Applications will be open year round for second years and above, or alumni of any year.
• 2-Term of service is one VH year, with the probability of renewal.

What we expect from Ambiance Characters:

• 1-Roleplays with students. This is your primary reason for being.
• 2-Serve the best interests of VH as a whole, by adding to the enjoyment of the student experience.

That’s it. That’s all we want.

If you think you would like to join this privileged group of people, please send your application to Dumbledore.