We love involving members in the process of developing the site and making it more our own instead of JK Rowling's world. We invite members to add their own lore to the site to improve and explore new opportunities and basically grow Inside New Hogwarts to something more amazing than it already is.

However, in opening up this option, we do need to have some rules and criteria for all members (staff included) to submit their own lore to the site.

Please read through carefully and don't hesitate to ask questions.

If you look through the site lore expansion archive, you will see all sorts of things that staff and members have brought to the site over the years; things such as their own businesses, creature reserves, inventions, new departments in the Ministry and St. Mungo's, etc. All of these things have developed through site plots and character's personal plots and that is the sort of thing we want to start exploring and adding to our site.

Please note that ONLY adult characters may participate in submitting lore because it does not make any sense for a 13-year-old to be discovering a new dragon and doing the research to figure out what the dragon breed is. HOWEVER, children of adult characters can be minimally involved - participating in the required threads, etc. but do not receive credit.

Other members, not involved in the development of the lore being submitted, are not permitted to use this lore in their own threads and personal plots until the lore has been approved, accepted and completed. Being completed means that the member submitting the lore has completed all required aspects of submitting their lore and it has been added to our archive. Once this is complete, other members are permitted to create plots around the lore submitted by other members as it becomes a part of our INH Canon.

Members will receive credit for any of the lore they contribute to the site.

Submitting your lore will be a two part process.

Step 1: Submit a description of what you wish to be added, whether is it a creature, an invention, a business, a new form of magic, etc. and be as detailed as possible without over explaining and writing 500 words or more. Include what it is, what it looks like, what it does, how it's been discovered, and anything else you think is important.

Once your initial submission is approved, you can begin working on the second step which involves actually threading out the creation or discovery of these ideas you wish to be added to the site. Because we want this to be fun and to add more opportunities to RP and explore the Wizarding World in our own minds - we all have our own ideas of what should be included and we want to encourage that creativity.

Step 2: Submit your threads. Some ideas might require 1 thread some might require more than 1 thread. It depends on what the idea is that has been submitted. EX: If you are opening a new business, well, that doesn't happen over night and will require more than 1 thread because there is research involved, there is planning involved, there's reaching out to the proper contacts, purchasing a location - all these sorts of things are a potential for threads and while you are not expected to RP out all of them, it's a nice direction to take your character and explore. However, something like discovering a new breed of dragon might only be 1 thread because there isn't a whole lot involved in traveling somewhere and going "hey look! I don't recognize that dragon" and then doing a bit of research.

You will be notified how many threads your idea require when you submit Step 1 and an admin approves it.

Once you have completed step 1 and step 2, your new site lore will be added to the archive AND written about in the Daily Prophet!

Step 1: Submit Your Idea
[blockquote][justify][b]Step 1: Idea Submission[/b]
YOUR IDEA DESCRIPTION GOES HERE. Please include as much detail as possible, point form is acceptable, and keep the length reasonable.

[b]Alias:[/b]
[b]Character Involved:[/b][/justify][/blockquote]

Step 2: Link to Threads
[blockquote][b]Step 2: Links to Threads[/b]
[b]How many threads were you required to make?[/b] Put the answer here from the admin approval
[b]Links:[/b][url=link goes here]Thread Title[/url]
[url=link goes here]Thread Title[/url]
[url=link goes here]Thread Title[/url][/blockquote]