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Once you have joined ISS, you will be able to view this board. Reserved for member-only announcements, information, etc.

After you've read through all the rules you may apply for a character here. You may only begin roleplaying once you have been accepted.

Every accepted character application is moved here. A complete list of characters is also included in here with listings for the Heads of Houses, Prefects and Quidditch Teams.

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.

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.

Think all that hard work you put into your character goes unnoticed?
Think again.

Here you can create a Character Log for your character. It is a simple and organized thread that lists the relationships your character has with others.

Have too many threads to keep track of? Come here and post a list of all the RPs you participate in for each character that you play!

This is the board where your character may spill their inner most thoughts out on paper. It is their personal journal published for all to see what exactly they're thinking on the current situations.

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

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.

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

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.”

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

The second half of the yearbook contains all students with last names from N - Z.

Probably one of the most impressive parts of Hogwarts once you’ve managed to get over the Quidditch Pitch and The Black Lake (not to mention the castle itself). It houses a huge clock—isn’t the name a clue?—and it doesn’t start at the ground floor. It starts on the Third Floor level because it’s on top of a hill. It has various corridors connecting it to different parts of the castle, but careful! The view may be breathtaking, but you can easily get lost here.

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.

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.

All classrooms are located here.

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.

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.

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.

All owls are sheltered here as well as school owls, which are provided here, for the use of stuents who don't have access to one of their own.

In the very middle of the castle is a courtyard with nothing but grass, trees and benches for your sitting pleasure.

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!

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.

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.

Once a month, every student who is in the third year or above is permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade. Provided, of course, they have got their permission slip signed by a parent or guardian. It is the only all-wizarding community left in Britain and although not technically in the school grounds, close enough to merit a place in this category.

Built by Daisy Dodderidge around 1500 "to serve as a gateway between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley", the Leaky Cauldron has remained a famous and popular place for five hundred years. Located not in Diagon Alley proper but on the outside, on Charing Cross Road in the heart of London.

The tavern sees quite a lot of traffic and is frequently crowded. While this can be partly attributed to its reputation as a welcoming place, it also seems to largely be due to it location as a hub for Diagon Alley.

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.

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.

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.

The Knight Bus is a heavily enchanted, purple, triple-decker bus that transports witches and wizards. It’s faster than travelling by broomstick, but not as fast as near instantaneous Floo Powder and Apparating. The bus charges for the service; amenities such as hot-water bottles, toothbrushes, and hot chocolate are available for an extra fee.

King's Cross Station is the muggle location of platform nine-and-three-quarters. In addition, since number twelve Grimmauld Place is located within a twenty minute walk of King's Cross, it must be located within about a mile of the station, so you never know. You may run into our esteemed Black family from time to time. On September, you can see it full of kids with trunks and cages and running straight into a column. Funny thing, eh?

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.

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.

Are you tired of sitting around at home? Wanna get out and do something? This is the place to do so. All of your leisurely pleasures rest inside this board.

This board is meant to be your everywhere and anywhere – if you have a certain place you’d like to role play and isn’t included within our main boards (i.e. unlisted stores, houses/homes, rooms in Hogwarts – rarely used locations, in short) then please post threads here.

Want to roleplay an event that happened before term started?
Just sling the chain around your neck and turn, turn, turn...

No plot history applies in this strange parallel-universe-in-a-board, so the sky really is the limit. Post games and strange scenarios for your characters to play out.

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.

You’re back at school and you’re away from home. With all these weird and scary happenings going on, your family must want to keep contact with you. Either that, or you’re getting messages from an anonymous admirer, or maybe there’s been a spiff of blackmail going on. The mail arrives daily in the Great Hall during each meal, and you never know! One of those Howlers might be just for you.

Are you new? Come say hi! This is where you can make a post/thread about you and the characters you play! There is also a sub-board where you can post any absence notes.

General discussion about anything you like. Get to know the people you roleplay with.

Any online message board games are posted here.

Find all threads concerning graphics in this board.
This includes Image Studios, Ratings and Requests.

The old thread graveyard.

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