Hogwarts (RP)

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 6:06 PM

This is (yet another) Harry Potter type RP. (: But, this is not your usual Harry Potter RP, we actually go through all the steps and everything of being a Hogwarts student!

Rules:
~No telling what the results are if you shoot a spell at someone. (Example- You cannot go like this: "Timmy shot a Crucius curse at Lizzy and she died from the pain."
~No picking your house (I will use your character's personality to pick their top 2 houses that they could be in and then raffle them off)
~No using any Harry Potter characters or scenes: I will be creating a headmaster, professors, and any other characters that we might need, such as the Minister of Magic.
~We all start at home, when we get the letter.
~I will ACCEPT OR REJECT your form.
~You must use proper grammar (rejecting your form if you don't) and be a serious RPer.

Letter and forms will be posted when someone posts. (:
This will take a while for me to post all the info, so. I have a copy of the letter that I have to post (it's really long). XD

@hedwig68
@graceseggs
@xxpandaxx
@leafpelt
@takatheeeducatedkid

whispers • 2 April 2012 at 6:09 PM

Post 😊
I have never read Harry Potter or seen the movies, so I can't join XD
@cotton

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 6:22 PM

@whispers Thanks for your post, though! I'll need another one 😉

~Form~
Full Name:
Gender:
Age (11 or 12):
Personality:
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggleborn:
Looks:
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None:
Wand type:
Other:

~YOUR LETTER WILL SAY:~

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Dear ________,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,
Deputy Headmistress

whispers • 2 April 2012 at 6:24 PM

POST 8DDD

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 6:25 PM

@whispers Lol, thanks! XD

The second page with requirements says:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

UNIFORM
First-year students will require:
1.Three sets of plain work robes (black)
2.One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
3.One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
4.One winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings)
Please note that all pupil's clothes should carry name tags.

COURSE BOOKS
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)
by Miranda Goshawk
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi
by Phyllida Spore
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by Newt Scamander
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection
by Quentin Trimble

OTHER EQUIPMENT
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales
Students may also bring and owl OR a cat OR a toad.

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

rawrcookies08 • 2 April 2012 at 6:29 PM

Come on, doesn't anyone want to join? ):

hedwig68 • 2 April 2012 at 6:41 PM

~Form~
Full Name: Alex Newton
Gender: Female
Age (11 or 12): 11
Personality: brave, kind to all creatures (wizards and other magical creatures), funny.
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggle-born: Pureblood
Looks: She has shoulder length hair with red streaks, forest green eyes, and the usual wizard clothing.
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None: Owl with reddish feathers, hazel eyes, and is named Flare.
Other: She has a wand made of Sycomore and a phoneix feather.

@cotton

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 6:44 PM

@hedwig68 Thanks for joining! I will add the wand thing. Good idea. 😉 Form accepted!

hedwig68 • 2 April 2012 at 6:46 PM

@cotton your welcome and thanks for accepting. By the way you forgot Gender.

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 6:49 PM

@hedwig68 Oops! XD Thanks for catching that too, hahaha XD

hedwig68 • 2 April 2012 at 6:51 PM

@cotton welcome I will ping

@graceseggs
@hay7199
@22fireboy

Want to join?

graceseggs • 2 April 2012 at 8:47 PM

Full Name: Grace Valen
Gender: Female
Age (11 or 12): 11
Personality: Kind and caring. Brave, willing to stand up for others. Other than that, she is quiet most of the time.
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggleborn: Pureblood
Looks: Long, dark brown hair. Brown eyes.
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None: Owl-Vex
Wand type: Cherry with dragon heartstring
Other: Knows several useful spells her parents taught her over the years but has never used them. Good reflexes. She is hoping to be in Gryffindor. *hint hint*

@cotton
May I join?

@hedwig68
Of course I do!

fillory • 2 April 2012 at 8:56 PM

Full Name: Jane Tieal Mofoy (Daughter of Draco mofoy)
Gender: Female
Age (11 or 12): 11
Personality: Dark unknown loves to Be-wich things,is happy sometimes but most of the time not,is very stubborn and really hates team Gryffindor in Quididch
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggleborn: Pureblood
Looks: Black hair dark brown eyes light skin wears a long silky black dress
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None: Black Owl Named Tyto
Wand type: Pheniox Feather and Dragon heartstrings with a hint of Mahogany wood outlining it
Other: She is really good a spells and wand movements and her father taught her many things

WILL RP FROM HAY7199 THIS IS JUST MY SIDE!

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 9:01 PM

@lyly1234 @hay7199 Sorry, form not accepted. You aren't allowed to use real characters at all. Also please fix your grammar; it's not bad but it could be better. If ou fix those things I will definitely accept your form! (:

@graceseggs Gret, added! (:

trish • 2 April 2012 at 9:26 PM

@cotton Total Potterhead here.❤️

~Form~
Full Name: Jason Ebba
Gender: Male
Age (11 or 12): 12
Personality: Rarely Good-natured, easily annoyed, he makes snide comments but oh well. X) He still has a heart. Sort of. 😉 But still, partly meanie. :c
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggleborn: Half-blood.
Looks: Windblown White-Blonde hair, blue eyes, one-dimpled smile which you'll rarely ever see, and Caucasian skin.
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None: Snowy Owl.
Wand type: Ash w/ Phoenix Feather Core. 9 and 3/4 inches. Unyielding.

Other: His family's rich. >;D

silver_winged • 2 April 2012 at 10:01 PM

@cotton Nice roleplay! ^^ May I join?

Full Name: Phoebe Shephard
Gender: Female
Age: 11
Personality: Meek and soft-spoken--a bit shy. Highly intelligent. Bookish. Adores floral or other feminine symbols and prefers to wear long skirts or dresses. Rather cowardly.
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggleborn: Muggleborn
Looks: Pale blonde hair cut into a short, angular bob with front bangs. Soft brown eyes. Thin face, with a sharp nose and large, almond shaped eyes. Wears a pair of rectangular glasses. Slight build.
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None: Bi-colored brown tabby Norwegian Forest Cat (Phineas)
Wand type: Willow with unicorn hair core, ten and a half inches, supple
Other: Being a muggleborn witch, she doesn't understand much about magic.

Other other: I have to say, I'm on the fence about her familiar. I originally wanted it to be an Indian Eagle Owl (they have such pretty orange eyes) but everybody was using owls. X3 Also, I have early access to Pottermore, so if anybody wants a description of their wand wood/core, just say the word. I'll copy it off the site.

22fireboy • 2 April 2012 at 10:12 PM

Full Name: Lucas Caster
Gender: Male
Age (11 or 12): 11
Personality: Brave, out going, mischevous, funny, and sarcastic.
Pureblood, Half-Blood, or Muggleborn: Pureblood
Looks: Shaggy black hair with blood red streaks and dark blue eyes.
Pet-Cat, Owl, Toad, or None: Pet owl named Silver He is a silver snowy owl.
Wand type: Ash wood 11-inches dragon heart string.
Other: Likes fire crackes 😊. Also sells prank stuff
@cotton

graceseggs • 2 April 2012 at 10:20 PM

@cotton
Areas we allowed to start?

@silver_winged
Could you please check my wand (Mahogany and dragon heart strings)? I chose it randomly and would love to learn about my random choice.

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 10:59 PM

@trish @silver_winged Added, we can start! (:
@silver_winged ; I am SO jealous! 😱 I can't wait to join Pottermore when it comes out. Could you find a wand for me? 😃

Name: Ella White
Age: 12
Gender: F
Personality: A prankster, fun-loving, sweet but not at all when she doesn't like you. Outgoing but can be serious. She is also very intelligent, even though she might not show it.
Looks: She is short and thin with light blonde, short, wavy hair and light blue eyes.
Pureblood, half-blood, or muggleborn: Pureblood
Pet: A small, medium length haired cat with shiny, silvery hair and dark blue eyes.
Wand type: Dogwood wand with dragon heartstring core, 12 inches, hard.
Other: None yet.

silver_winged • 2 April 2012 at 11:09 PM

@graceseggs
Mahogany wands aren't produced by Ollivanders, but as for dragon heartstring:

As a rule, dragon heartstrings produce wands with the most power, and which are capable of the most flamboyant spells. Dragon wands tend to learn more quickly than other types. While they can change allegiance if won from their original master, they always bond strongly with the current owner.

The dragon wand tends to be easiest to turn to the Dark Arts, though it will not incline that way of its own accord. It is also the most prone of the three cores to accidents, being somewhat temperamental.

@cotton
I'll need you to answer some questions. ^^; Is she a big personality or a small personality? How stubborn/easily swayed is she? And to match wand wood, I'm going to need a more detailed explanation of her personality. Does she like big, flamboyant magic, or careful, precise magic? How naturally gifted at magic is she? Is she particularly talented at any field (magical creatures, herbology, transfiguration, etc)? Is she particularly adventurous? How self-assured is she? If you an answer all these, I SHOULD be able to match her correctly.

cotton • 2 April 2012 at 11:21 PM

@silver_winged Ok! 😋
Uh.. Big personality, I think..
Stubborn.. She is stubborn.
Big magic
Pretty good at magic already
Transfiguration
She is adventurous
Self-assured? I forgot what that means. XDDD

Pottermore sounds like the most detailed Harry Potter site EVER. It. Sounds. EPIC. I can't wait!!!!!

graceseggs • 2 April 2012 at 11:22 PM

@silver_winged

He doesn't? Hmm, maybe I should change the wood. Does he make, umm, cherry?

Awesome, thanks!

hedwig68 • 2 April 2012 at 11:29 PM

@silver_winged whoa tell me of the wand with a Phoneix feather

silver_winged • 2 April 2012 at 11:31 PM

@cotton
Based on my nonprofessional opinion, she'd have a dogwood wand with dragon heartstring core, twelve inches, hard. For your reference, here's the description for dogwood (these are from Ollivander's point of view):

Dogwood is one of my own personal favourites, and I have found that matching a dogwood wand with its ideal owner is always entertaining. Dogwood wands are quirky and mischievous; they have playful natures and insist upon partners who can provide them with scope for excitement and fun. It would be quite wrong, however, to deduce from this that dogwood wands are not capable of serious magic when called upon to do so; they have been known to perform outstanding spells under difficult conditions, and when paired with a suitably clever and ingenious witch or wizard, can produce dazzling enchantments. An interesting foible of many dogwood wands is that they refuse to perform non-verbal spells and they are often rather noisy.

EDIT: No room left, can one of you post? ^^;

graceseggs • 2 April 2012 at 11:35 PM

@silver_winged

Post.

silver_winged • 2 April 2012 at 11:36 PM

@hedwig68 Phoenix feather core:
This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike.

Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.

@graceseggs Cherry wood:
This very rare wand wood creates a wand of strange power, most highly prized by the wizarding students of the school of Mahoutokoro in Japan, where those who own cherry wands have special prestige. The Western wand-purchaser should dispel from their minds any notion that the pink blossom of the living tree makes for a frivolous or merely ornamental wand, for cherry wood often makes a wand that possesses truly lethal power, whatever the core, but if teamed with dragon heartstring, the wand ought never to be teamed with a wizard without exceptional self-control and strength of mind.

If you think this doesn't fit, you can answer the same questions @cotton did and I'll see if I can match you. ^^ The list of wand woods is pretty long.

hedwig68 • 2 April 2012 at 11:40 PM

@silver_winged thanks can you tell me what wood would be best for Alex

graceseggs • 2 April 2012 at 11:41 PM

@silver_winged

Wow, I'm a matchmaker. Eh, I think I'll go with cherry. Thank you!

silver_winged • 2 April 2012 at 11:44 PM

@graceseggs Exceptional self control, huh? Glad to have helped. ^^;

@hedwig68 You have to answer the questions. Your personality description in the list isn't nearly enough to work off. XD

If anybody wanted to know about Phoebe's wand:

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.

Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard.

Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may 'die' and need replacing.

hedwig68 • 2 April 2012 at 11:47 PM

Is she a big personality or a small personality? big
How stubborn/easily swayed is she? stubborn
Does she like big, flamboyant magic, or careful, precise magic? depends
How naturally gifted at magic is she? very
Is she particularly talented at any field (magical creatures, herbology, transfiguration, etc)? Defense Against the dark arts
Is she particularly adventurous? yes
How self-assured is she? very sure of herself but not boastful

@silver_winged