Congratulations, everyone! We survived our first term! I know we had some bumps along the way. We lost some members and gained other members, but overall, I think the term has been a huge success! I want to thank everyone for that! You're all amazing and the members of the site really do feel like a family of accepting individuals no matter our differences and disagreements. Great job everyone! Give yourself a hug since we can't hug each other!

On to business!

Term 1 has officially ended. The administration team has been hard at work this morning (mostly Nana and Ruth) getting everything ready for the new term to start in July. It's officially summer vacation on INH, yahoo! No school! But what does this mean?

All threads that had not been posted in since Jan/Feb have been archived. All ball threads have been archived. All class threads and sign ups have been archived. If you want any of these threads back, please contact an admin to have them moved back. They will go into the "Past Threads" board to continue RPing in them. Likewise, if you have threads that are complete or you want archived, please utilize the "Need Something Archived?" thread so staff members know and can take care of that.

House Points: Due to the mix up in timeline, there is still one Quidditch game to be played next weekend. Once that game is complete, the winner of the House Cup and Quidditch Cup will be announced (with a cute graphic in the Trophy Room). Until then, we will not be awarding any more house points unless Professors have not submitted their points from classes (Guilty!). The "More Ways to Earn House Points" thread will be locked.

Year Bumps: Everyone has been bumped to their correct year based on who has passed and who has not. If you feel you have been missed, please contact to admin to look into the details for you. If could have been an error, or you might not have met the requirements to pass (posting 3 times in classes).

Prefects/Head Boy/Head Girl/Dorm Lists: New Prefects have been assigned as well the new Head Boy and Head Girl for the upcoming term and the dorm lists have been updated. If you notice something is wrong with your characters, please let an admin know so it can be corrected.

Quidditch: Some of you may have already noticed that the Quidditch Sign Ups have been cleared out. Members who actively participated in Quidditch Games throughout the Term have been given first dibs on keeping their positions or changing their positions. Those members have one week to let the admin team know by posting in the thread otherwise their position will become open to everyone. This goes for Captain positions as well. Please note that we are enforcing the rule that if your character is a Prefect you cannot be Quidditch Captain now that we have a large number of active members therefore some of you may have lost your Captaincy. The Quidditch dates will be posted closer to the start of the new term and we will be continuing with Quidditch as we have played it. Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll! Democracy!

Graduates: The Available Jobs thread now has a spot for you to fill out a short code in order to apply for your job, keep in mind you will be an Intern/In-Training for three IC years. All graduates have been resorted into the adult group and once the Available Jobs list is updated you will be resorted accordingly. There will also be a Graduate's Yearbook coming once I finish the graphics.

Updates to Character Creation Rules: The admin team has made some changes in the Character Creations Rules. There is no requirement for characters if a member has between 1-10 characters. Members with 10 - 15 characters require 1 RP post with all their characters in a 2 week period prior to posting the application and must wait 1 week between making characters. Members with 15 - 20 characters require 2 RP posts with all their characters in a 2 week period and must wait 1 week between making characters. We would rather seen members have a few well developed characters than 20+ undeveloped characters.

Modifying a Character: Some members have asked about things like changing a character's house after the 1 month restriction in place for modifying a character. The admin team has decided that if the month has passed since creating the character, a member MAY re-apply ONCE with said character in order to make changes. However, all current rules are in effect so for example, if I wanted to change Sebastien's house but the current rule states I can't make a 5th year, then I cannot change Sebastien's house unless I make him younger as well. Also, when modifying a character, you will automatically lose any titles (Prefect, Quidditch Captain, Quidditch Position, Creature Status, etc.) that you have for that character and will have to apply for those things again based on whether there is availability.

The 18+ Discord has been a happening place this past week or so, but please don't let it take away from actual threads. We are here to write and are all writers! If I notice the discord is becoming more active than the site, I will have to consider closing it down and it's fun so I don't want to do that!

Site Wide Plot: Just a quick update, there will be some group threads popping up over the "summer" in regards to the site wide plot so be on the look out for those so you don't miss out on the action!

Crackship Month: And so it begins! I'll have the pairings posted some time today. I'm just surviving work first and we're gonna eat some cake soon! It's Andrea's last day -cries-
That's all! Sorry for the massive announcement! If you have questions, please feel free to DM on discord/PM on site/Or post in the questions!