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Once your character has been accepted, you may apply for extra titles and privileges for them to hold and take part in. These include joining their house Quidditch Team and becoming Prefects and Head Students.

All threads involving plots between characters are posted here.

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Here is where you can find (and supply!) different resources for characters, whether that be for icons, helpful guides or tutorials, or anything neat you'd like to share that could be considered an aid or resource.

Here, photos of your character's family and friends are published in an album, for all to see.

Sub-boards: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, ’76–’77 Graduates

Want to know what’s going on around the schools – when’s the next club meeting, who’s playing who in the next Quidditch match, maybe you’ve lost something and it’s listed? All those academically inclined notices (as well as a few handwritten mentions from students) can be found here.

Sub-boards: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin

For all things pertaining to Quidditch games, you may come here and view. Members only.

Sub-boards: 1976-1977 Season, 1977-1978 Season

Are you too busy studying to stay caught up with the goings-on of Hogwarts and want a quick, informative recap? Or do you have a lot of opinions and just want your voice heard? The Hogwarts Herald has all that and more.

Ever wanna know about the happenings around Hogwarts? Rita Skeeter is here with the answers. “Around here we report nothing but the truth – the dirty, dirty truth.”

Sub-boards: Ree’ta All About It, Ask Rita

Version 2.0 – last updated June 1st, 2010

Welcome to the 1976–1977 ISS Yearbook! The first and only one of it’s kind! Inside you’ll find a hard copy of the yearbook, full of personalized messages and fun photos! The first time you enter, please click as follows for the full effect:

Project Yearbook > Headmaster’s Message > Gryffindor > Ravenclaw > Hufflepuff > Slytherin > Collages > Awards > Love, Your Staffers > Credit Where Credit’s Due

Sub-boards: Project Yearbook, ACKERMAN, Isadora Sophiya, ADAMS, Tristan Leo, AUTUMN, Jennifer, AVERY, Rowan Victor, BAGMAN, Ludovic, BAKER, Anette, BAKER, Jordan Cosette, BARJAQUE, Delain De Castro, BEAUFORT, Catherine Mae , BENNETT, Lucas, BENOIT, Juliette Jolene, BINGBLOTT, Audrey Jocelyn, BLACK, Andromeda, BLACK, Bellatrix, BLACK, Narcissa, BLACK, Regulus Arcturus, BLACK, Sirius, BONES, Amelia Susan, BRENNERMAN, Kovu, BROWNELL, Suzanna Peyton, BURKE, Benjamin Edward, CARRINGTON, Wesely James, CARROW, Alecto, CARROW, Amycus, CARTIER, Ethan, CHASE, Ryan Evangelista, CONRAD, Owen Matthew, CROISSEUX, Marielle Colleen, CROUCH, Bartemius Kharon, Jr., CUTTING, Amista Kay, DANVERS, Emily Rachelle, DARLEY, Tristan, DARWIN, Rosalie, DEARBORN, Caradoc, DE LUCA, Alessandra Sofia, DEMINOV, Damien Alexander, DEMPSEY, William Mason, DEVEREUX, Julian Alexander, DONNELLY, Aidan Cian, DONNELLY, Fiona Yseult, DRAKE, A. Dariana, EDWARDS, Jacob Lee, EDWARDS, Jenna Rain, EVANS, Lily, FAIRFAX, Matthew Toivo, FENWICK, Cassidy Raylene, FINN, Keller, FLEMING, Sebastian James, FLETCHER, Nikolas Declan, FONTAINE, Jacqueline Juliet , GIRARE, Kay Orion, GRACE, Indigo Rena, GREEN, Anthony Jonathon, GREENGRASS, Cecilia Naomi, HARVER, Leah Belle, HOLLOWS, Renata Eliza, JACKSON, Trey Shasta, JUAREZ, Lucas , KAY, Jason, KHAN, Jada Kiriann, KENNEDY, Gabrielle Alexis, KORIN, Kasey Rose, LaCROIX, Autumn Alexis, LAURENTINE, Isabelle Madeleine, LESTRANGE, Rabastan, LESTRANGE, Rodolphus, LINWOOD, Ansel Everett, LIRIDON, Lilura Licia, LOGAN, Alice Mairwen, LONGBOTTOM, Frank Wesley, LOVEGOOD, Xenophilius Cinaed, LUPIN, Remus John, MACMILLAN, Victoria Diane, MAIER, Chace Morgan, MALFOY, Lucius, McCALLY, Arthur, McKINNON, Marlene Sophia, MORETTI, Adrienne Mina, MORTIMER, Heathcliff Adam, MURPHY, Lucy Emma, MYERS, Johnathon Marcus

A Large cavernous foyer with arching stone ceilings and stain-glass windows. Directly behind the giant oak doors leading into the castle from the grounds. First years assemble here before sorting.

Sub-board: The Staff Room

With four grand tables particularly placed side-by-side and a high table at the very end of the hall, this place was donned with immediate superiority. All meals are eaten here and feasts occur most often on holidays.

The common rooms and dormitories of the the four houses. Come to chat, play games or just doze-off by the fire.

Sub-boards: Gryffindor Common Room, Ravenclaw Common Room, Hufflepuff Common Room, Slytherin Common Room

All classrooms are located here.

Sub-boards: Astronomy, Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Divination, The Greenhouses (Herbology), History of Magic, Potions, Muggle Studies, Transfiguration

Every winding stairway, every hallway, and every secret passage way leads somewhere within this castle. Whether you're roaming around or even trying to get to class, these are the paths throughout the castle.

Number one, number two…look, no one wants to know what business you have in the restrooms. Just go in, come out, and move on.

Sub-boards: Prefect's Bathroom, Myrtle’s Bathroom, Bathroom Walls

The place to come for any Hogwarts resident when they are ailed with injuries and illness.

Every single book is located in this library. It is commonly used for studying, but even if you need some peace and quiet, this is a great place to be.

Sub-board: The Restricted Section

The Concourse is not only a place for kids of all Houses to go if they need a place to hang out or study, but it is also the only place visitors may enter or exit the castle. Filled with comfortable chairs and couches, as well as roaring fires and study tables, the Concourse is a perfect place for some inter-House unity. Visitors must sign in upon arrival, and must have a visitors pass (signed by Dumbledore) in order to floo into the castle. Passes may be requested and acquired by owl at least four days in advance. Visiting hours from three o'clock to ten o'clock.

Anyone who allows someone to stay late is subject to detention, and the visitor may not visit again for a least three weeks.

Situated on the second floor of the school, the Practice Room is a safe and secure environment for students to go and practice spells for classes. Whether it be for an exam, or just students wanting to improve their skills on a certain spell, any and all can do so in the Practice Room. Teachers often hold after-school sessions as well as actual lessons in this room to prevent damage to the school and its various antiquities.

Secret room in the castle that can only be reached when you’re in great need of it. Located on the seventh floor of the castle, its hidden entrance is in front of the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance. To make the room appear, a person has to walk past the section of the blank wall three times concentrating on what is needed. Not everybody has the brains to decipher this, though. So those who manage to enter, be welcome!

The entrance to the headmaster's office is behind a statue of a gargoyle on the seventh floor. When given the proper password, the gargoyle will leap aside and the wall behind it will split in two to reveal a spiral stone staircase that moves like an escalator. The staircase leads to a highly polished door; the door is not sound-proof. The room behind it is circular, with windows that view the mountains. Portraits of passed headmasters and headmistresses adorn the walls. There is an enormous desk and high chair, with a visitor chair opposite to it.

Filch's office is a small room with a single oil lamp hanging from the ceiling. It smells of fried fish. In it are filing cabinets with details of the misdeeds of students, another cabinet marked as "Confiscated and Highly Dangerous," chains and manacles (not used these days but kept polished just in case), and lots of forms to write up malefactors.

A steep spiral staircase leads to the top of the tower, with a door (which has an iron ring as a handle) leading out onto the ramparts, which are crenellated.

A large lake in the front lawn of Hogwarts is a nice place to relax. A large tree is placed directly next to it for shading.
But beware of the Giant Squid!

Sub-board: The Boathouse

There is a small river the runs northeast from the lake. Its course runs around the greenhouses and vegetable garden, then near the Quidditch Pitch (where two small bridges are placed in order to get across), and then finally enters into the Forbidden Forest. In the Forest is where the river turns more stream-like and eventually is absorbed by the forest environment. Students often like to sit near the shore and throw pebbles, and other daring students attempt to follow its path into the Forest.

A large field surrounded by different pillars is the main playing grounds for Quidditch practice and games.

A huge willow tree planted not far from the school itself. Although it may look a harmless climbing frame, it's not all it may seem.

This very dangerous area is out-of-bounds to all students. Many wild creatures lurk this wide territory.

Sub-board: Thestral Clearing

Professor Sprout, in an attempt to encourage students to actually use the skills she teaches them, created a student-run vegetable garden. Anyone particularly interested in Herbology can go out and tend the garden whenever they choose. It contains normal veggies such as carrots and lettuce, as well as some more...interesting menu items.

Built on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the stables house the array of horses that are looked after by Hagrid, the school Groundskeeper. While there are no formal horsebackriding classes offered at Hogwarts, Dumbledore thought it would be good for Hagrid to be able to house at least one type of creature that didn't have the capacity to destroy the school. Because of this, for as long as Hagrid has been Groundskeeper, the stables have become a favorite visiting place of the Hogwarts students.

The general area around the Hogwarts castle that is not part of the courtyard, lake, river and so on. It mostly consists of grassy plains with the occasional tree or rock littering the area.

Diagon Alley is a magical highstreet, situated in London, but hidden from muggle eyes. The only way to reach this enchanted place is through the inn, The Leaky Cauldron.
Once through, you can buy anything your heart desires. From magical pets to wands and school robes, this is an essential destination for all Hogwarts students.

Sub-boards: Scary Square, Quality Quidditch Supplies, Gambol & Japes, Daily Prophet Offices, Magical Menagerie, Apothecary, Flourish & Blotts, Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions, Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Ollivander's, Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Twilfit & Tatting's

Just around the corner from Diagon Alley lies a dark, twisting alleyway devoted to the Dark Arts: Knockturn Alley. the shops and the street vendors one can purchase, among other things, shrunken heads, poisonous candles, human-looking fingernails, and Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent.

Sub-board: Borgin & Burkes

A mansion that sits just outside the city of England, surrounded by a large plot of land to keep away the "commoners." Heavily guarded by not only spells and other magical defenses, but by seers who hone their skills specifically to "see" any potential visitors. This used to be the property of the elderly Dorea, one of the esteemed Black family, but when she passed away it was given by the family as a meeting place for the Death Eaters. It is also Voldemort's safehouse and headquarters. Enter at your own risk.

The Order of the Phoenix has started recruiting, but in order to stay discreet they created a training area for new members to brush up on dueling skills. This field is in the middle of a twenty-acre farm a few hours outside of England, is unplottable, and is out of sight of any Muggle city for at least five miles in every direction. Meetings are held in the barn on the far side of the field, which is guarded by an abandoned border collie that has since been dubbed "Phoenix."

The Ministry of Magic is the governing body for the magical community of Britain. The Ministry connects the British Government to the wizarding world. Its headquarters is in central London, deep underground. It is headed by the Minister for Magic.

Founded nearly 500 years ago, St. Mungo's Hospital is located, hidden, in London.
With six floors of healers treating all kinds of magically-inflicted injuries, Hogwarts students sometimes visit the hospital on work-experience trips, or else to visit ill relatives or friends.

Running late? Make a dash for the Underground—or the tube, however you wish to call it. Public transportation is definitely not for everybody, so make sure your pockets are guarded when you step inside it.

Here is where you may post threads located at your character’s homes. These muggle communities have lately seen magical activity due to the heightened fear and caution caused by The Dark Lord’s rise and the sudden exodus of our finest wizarding families from their previous residences. Anything to keep death at bay.

Sub-boards: Godric’s Hollow, Tinsworth, Otter St. Catchpole, Upper Flagley

Inside is a list of sub-boards for general downtown locations. Downtown is a term primarily used to refer to a city's core or central business district, usually in a geographical, commercial, and community sense.

Sub-boards: Restaurants, Cafés, Bars & Pubs, Borders Bookstore, Library

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Eyes drooping as you listen to the sound of your professor drone on and on? Why not slip a note to the person next to you? You never know - they may just write back.

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