Hey Everyone!

Thanks for being here on Inside New Hogwarts with us! We love you all <3

I just wanted to take a few moments to tell you about a few changes and give you a few reminders! Nothing bad, I promise!

First off, you may have noticed the return to our Halloween Themed Skin! Thanks Nana for resurrecting/fixing this up for our viewing pleasure once again! It’s as lovely as every and puts me in the spirit of Halloween! With that being said, there is a Halloween Event running over in the Ball Room so don’t forget to check it out and have some fun. There’s still some apple prizes left for people to claim!

You may have also noticed a new board called New Members Start Here – this is for new members, obviously! A wonderful member of our site pointed out that they were rather overwhelmed about where to start when they joined and made a suggestion we could not turn down! Within this board are the main things we thought new members needed to view before beginning their journey with us as a way to help them.

We’ve brought in an idea that we know others have seen on various sites, an RP Buddy. Check out the information HERE and sign up to become one if you think this interests you and you can handle it!

Another small change we have implemented is a modification to our character application in regards to the activity check section. As you all know, whenever we do our site clean outs we are checking EVERY account for activity. We took note of accounts that have been with us since the dawn of time (site opening) that have as little as 30 posts made. While we understand life gets busy and sometimes muses are not there it’s important to be aware of what you can handle in regards to character numbers.

With that being said, if you have a number of characters and you can’t seem to find muse for them, don’t have plots for them, and just don’t have time to dedicate to them, no one will be mad at you if you decide to cut them from your roster in order to focus on characters who have more going on and create better rounded characters. This might also help if you are feeling overwhelmed.

The new criteria for the activity section of the character application are as follows:

The first 5 characters are free, but you need to wait 1 week between making your first character and your second character and so on.

6-10 characters require all active accounts to have a min of 25 posts and post ONE DIRECT roleplay link per character from the last two weeks based on the day this application is finished.

11-15 characters require all active accounts to have a min of 50 posts and post TWO DIRECT roleplay link per character from the last two weeks based on the day this application is finished.

16-20+ characters require all active accounts to have a min of 100 posts and post THREE DIRECT roleplay link per character from the last two weeks based on the day this application is finished.

Tagged: Andrew Douglas  @erika  Timmea Lacroix  Adrien McCree  Deri Ellis  Anashka Markovic  Jack Adelinde  Boyd Nightingale   Kai Shimada  @eric  Beauregard Nott  Daven Cursive  Levi Hilfiger  Dean Stewart  @maia  Paris Aurinko  Artemis H. Hwang  Bellamy Saffron  Sutton Bane  Henry Franklin  Remington Grebe  Rosie Huntington  Elizabeth Kingston  Sally Byrne  @cassi  Hina Avaiki  Arianna Stewart  @vivian  Declan Hawthorne  Bryn Taylor

Good morning, afternoon and evening everyone! It's election time!

That's right!

Inside New Hogwarts will be holding an election for a New Minister for Magic and Senior Undersecretary for the Minister. Currently, the roles are vacant but in staying true to Democracy, we shall be voting.

Guidelines:
- Characters MUST work for the Ministry.
- Characters may NOT have a criminal background.
- Characters CANNOT be in-training. They must have some experience.
- Each member is allowed to make 2 characters to run for Minister and/or Senior Undersecretary. You cannot use the same character to run for both positions.
- Members are expected to be active during the election and throughout their term should they be elected.
- Members will have 1 weeks from today (Nov 10) to submit their applications for Minister for Magic and Senior Undersecretary. Please send them to me (Dean Stewart) and when voting begins your applications will be post for the members to read and decide who they want as their new leadership team.


[b]Alias:[/b]
[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Position:[/b] Minister or Senior Undersecretary
[b]Brief Description of why your character wants this position:[/b]
[b]Ideas you have for potential plotting:[/b] this is important to know you aren't just going to sit and do nothing in your position

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In other news, I want to do something fun for everyone and I have two ideas. Please check out this thread

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Tagged: Andrew Douglas  @erika  Timmea Lacroix  Adrien McCree  Deri Ellis  Anashka Markovic  Jack Adelinde  Boyd Nightingale   Kai Shimada  @eric  Beauregard Nott  Daven Cursive  Levi Hilfiger  Dean Stewart  @maia  Paris Aurinko  Artemis H. Hwang  Bellamy Saffron  Sutton Bane  Henry Franklin  Remington Grebe  Rosie Huntington  Elizabeth Kingston  Sally Byrne  @cassi  Hina Avaiki  Arianna Stewart  @vivian  Declan Hawthorne  Bryn Taylor