Hogwarts Realm Rules (Updated: June 6th 2020)

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Roleplay

It is understandable that different users will want to roleplay differently to others on the site. Here are the accepted types.

Using 'I' instead of 'He/ She'
Generally, 'He/ She/ They walked over' is preferred over 'I walked over'. Both however are acceptable. Try to stick to just one as it can become confusing if you switch between first and second person.

Are you a one liner, two-three paragrapher or advanced RPer?
We used to ban one-liners, however sometimes a reply doesn't warrant an entire paragraph, especially in fast moving threads. This being said, I would implore you add some descriptiveness to your posts to give something for the other thread participants to bounce off! Your average post should be one-two paragraphs. This is to avoid spam posts and any threads that are full of continuous one-liners will be locked.

If you come across a thread with an advanced RPer (4+ paragraphs per post) please maintain that level of posting if you choose to reply. It is rude to not reply with a similar effort to the previous poster when advanced RPing.

This does not apply to OOC general chat!

Spelling and Grammar
Personally I'm not too great when it comes to spelling and grammar and understand the struggle, but we do have a spell checker, please use it!

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Adult Content

This is possibly the most important rule as breaking it is a ProBoards TOS volition and can get the entire forum deleted. We've been around almost 15 years so I'd rather not have that happen.

Basically, even though I know a lot of you RP adult content on other sites, it IS NOT allowed on this forum. Everything must be pg13 complacent! So that means, no sex or sexual references, suicide, Illegal drugs, alcohol, pornography, nudity, hate, "spam," fraud, racism or any other Adult Content. References to fictional alcohol is allowed (Butterbeer and Fire Whisky are served in the Cassys tea room, The Hogs Head and The Leaky Cauldron) but we implore you not to promote alcohol and avoid the subject if you are underage.

To clarify, let's keep second and third base off this forum! Honestly, you can always take it to twitter or tumblr or somewhere else to RP that part out if you feel your character requires it.


Any type of hate/ fighting in your roleplaying posts is allowed, sometimes characters are in fact, assholes. However, this should remain purely in roleplay ONLY and any hate moves to OOC chat (within the forum or via PM's) you will receive a warning. A second strike will result in a ban. We do not tolerate ANY hate on this forum. We try our best to create a friendly community for EVERYONE.

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Pregnancy and Marriage

Members under the age of 16 cannot become pregnant. Please make sure you relate back to the rule 'Adult Content'. Also there is to be no marriage under the age of 16, but over that age it is allowed.

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Advertising

Advertising on Hogwarts Realm is banned, this means in signatures and also you cannot advertise through PMs, if I'm told of anyone doing this it will result in a warning and if it happens again, a ban. The only place you can post a link to your board will be the part of your profile which says 'Website'.

You are of course welcome to advertise in the advertising board and if you would like your site to become a HR affiliate please fill out the forum in the Affiliates Thread.

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Apperation

Hermione would be utterly exasperated at this, but seeing as I've seen many students saying they're apperating within the school grounds I suppose this rule is required.

Firstly, students cannot apperate unless you've passed your test and you can't apperate in and out of Hogwarts regardless. You would think this would be obvious however clearly some of you have never read Hogwarts: a History.

This means that Ministry, Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley workers also cannot apperate into Hogwarts.

Hate to pull a Hermione on you but the charms are still around the school like they were in the books so 'No Apperation' means no apperation! You're just going to have to rock up at the gates.

House Elves are excluded from this rule.

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Magical Abilities

We used to grant Magical Abilities very sparingly, however now everyone is allowed whatever MA they want. This isn't really a rule, we just realised that we don't want to place any restrictions on your OC's, they're your characters to roleplay however you wish and have whatever cool abilities you desire. Even if that means we end up with a Hogwarts filled with Parseltongue-Werewolf-Occlumens with multicoloured hair.

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Other Wizards

This is quite simple but please be nice to each other. The last guy who called me an idiot and sent my newsletter back to me outlining all of my spelling and grammar mistakes got an instant ban. He definitely had a point but his downright rude approach really rubbed me up the wrong way. So please remember that we're all human and being respectful is important.

If you don't like someone, sort it out between yourselves or simply just don't speak to each other!

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Spells

Hogwarts students, please stick to spells within your year group and the years below. Sure, the odd advanced spell is acceptable (Harry could preform a patronus in his third year when even some adult wizards couldn't!) but not everyone is as advanced. I'd also like to point out that whilst Harry could preform a patronus he also managed to turn one of his eyebrows yellow during transfiguration class in his sixth year.

Please don't go to classes and say 'I can already do that spell, my dad taught me.' What would be the point coming to school if your parents have already taught you everything?

If you want a list of the spells, click here

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Thank you for reading the rules. We hope you enjoy Hogwarts Realm.

If you have any questions please PM me!

[Professor Lavender Finnegan]

Welcome to Hogwarts Realm, thank you for taking the time to read the rules.

Please abide by the rules written below, if you do not then warnings will be given.

Warning System:

[One Rule Broken]
You will receive a private warning. If you PM Professor Lavender Finnegan, it can be removed after a month.

[Two Rules Broken]
You will receive a private warning and a message in your profile with an expiry date. Please PM Lavender to remove this after one month.

[Three Rules Broken]
Depending on all the rules you have broken, you will either receive another profile warning or your account will either be suspended/ disabled for a few days/ weeks or your account will be banned, in extreme cases you will be permanently banned.