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New Developments and Not-So-New Clarifications

Nowe, ich imagine ye are going “what the swyve?” (WTS?) right nowe, by cause that thinges aren a littel different around heere than what ye haue seen bifor. Wel, ich am heere to telle yow that chaunge is good. Sum peple think of chaunge as the werkinge of a capricious fortune upon the blisful stabilitie of lyf, but ich prefer to think of chaunge as the force that kicketh boring people off of the island. All webbes must be blown by the winde so that the spider maye re-cast them, and thus yt is wyth thys websyte, blown by the wind of clene and pure chaunge into the newe and awesome shape yt taketh bifor yower eyes. — Thomas Favent, for the Lords Appellant

1. Layout

We have one! That is, we have a new one. We hope it is clearer and more legible. More to the point, we can use it and update it with a Basic Account. The links in the sidebar have been reduced to the ones we feel are immediately useful. Rather than link to each professor's CV individually, the sidebar now links to a staff roster that houses all those CV links. The link to the years-old HH wiki has been taken down entirely, as it is by now more a historical document than anything.

Credit for the new layout goes to Kusuriyuri-mun. The header and userpic remain those that our dearly-missed Ryuuji-mun made for us at the beginning of time.

2. Contact post

The contact post is quite out of date, and we understand that its structure is part of the reason why it doesn't get updated as often as it needs. Therefore we're going to put up a new contact post. The major difference here will be that the entries go by character, not by player. You'll see what we mean when we post it.

3. Professorships!

Congratulate our new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor

curlybrain and our new Muggle Studies professor

i_am_harkonnen!

There remain two professorships presently unfilled, both due to popcornings. Hogwarts has openings for a Transfiguration professor and an Astronomy professor. If you already have a professor character, you can't play a second professor. If you don't have a professor character yet, and one of your characters has skills and/or interest in teaching Transfiguration or Astronomy, think about it. Grant-mun some time ago posted some advice for writing HH classes that can give you an idea of what's involved.

4. Computers and television at Hogwarts

A while back, we added a computer lab to HH!Hogwarts. Strong Bad was responsible, and the machines are typical of his canon. We are happy that the compy lab has been used for good and for crack, and not abused for fourth-wall breakage! As we stipulated, the Hogwartsnet is an intranet within the school, not a gateway to the larger Internets. This prevents people from, oh, looking one another up on Wikipedia.

Now we are happy to announce we have a new Muggle Studies professor! There will be television! We therefore want to make some things clear about television, internet, etc at Hogwarts, with regard to fictionality:

The television shows and movies watched at Hogwarts need to be nonfictional programming only.

This includes reality shows, documentaries, the evening news, and such things.
This does NOT include scripted shows that contain characters who'd be playable in HH.

The new Muggle Studies prof is completely OOCly aware of this and has plans for his curriculum. However, we wanted to make it clear from the outset for everyone else's benefit.

For what it's worth, the same thing should be true of the Hogwarts library. Sorry, you can't pick up Pride and Prejudice on the shelves of the Hogwarts library. We have a Lizzy Bennet and a Fitzwilliam Darcy, after all. Nor can you pick up Tolkien off the shelves and start rumors about our elves and dragons. People have mostly understood this intuitively. Consider the fourth-wall issues with TV and computers to be a logical extension of that policy. If the work contains appable characters, you can't access it at Hogwarts.

A final note and/or question: Would it be helpful for us to compile some sort of List of HH!Hogwarts places? Examples might include the Compy Lab, the Mangosteen Grove, and other features of the HH campus that don't appear in HP canon.