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Post by Luna Lovegood on May 8, 2013 16:27:58 GMT 10
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Post by Luna Lovegood on May 8, 2013 16:40:23 GMT 10
REGISTRATION TIPS
This is the easy part. Just click on "Register" near the top of the page. You'll need the following information:
* A valid email address. This is essential because a validation email will be sent to this address. You will not be able to post on the board until your account is validated. * A Password. Choose something easy for you to remember, but very difficult for others to guess. Including numbers or capital letters increases the security of your password. Never give they password to your account to someone else. * Your Zap username. This is to be placed in the 'Username' field. If you do not have a Zap account, simply put in anything. Please make sure the name you choose:
- is not your real name
- is not excessively long
- is not of a salacious or sexually connotative nature
- does not contain any bad words
Examples of proper names: nancybutterscotch567 Josephhandsome_
Examples of improper names: slutface spammingisfun1
WHAT DO I DO WHEN I SIGN IN?
* Change your display name. This can be found in your profile. Click 'Edit Profile' >> 'Personal' and put in the first text area your character's name.
Examples of proper names: Jodie Handsome Nancy Butterscotch
Examples of improper names: Harry Potter Hermione Granger Any other Harry Potter Character from the books
The Hogwarts of Zap's administrators reserve the right to alter any member's name at any given time without reasoning if they find it is inappropriate for the site or violates one of the above-mentioned rules.
* Post in the sorting ceremony. This can be found in 'Great Hall' >> 'HZ(Number) Sorting Ceremony'. A good time to post is week 1-3 or any other number of weeks you think is alright. Otherwise, you'll have too many lessons to do as the sorting ceremony is open all year. If you do not wish to sort your character in that particular year or are unable to, there is a Pre-Hogwarts Primary program in 'The Wide Wizarding World' forum.
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Post by Luna Lovegood on May 8, 2013 17:12:56 GMT 10
STARTING OUT AS YOUR CHARACTER
Your character is your pride and joy and a fantastic creative outlet. Don't abuse it, just use it! Down to the nitty gritty now:
* When you register at The Hogwarts of Zap, your character must be either 10 or 11 years of age. After you enter first year, your character may turn 12 at any given time, depending on when you decide to make it so. You can find more in depth assistance in this in the next post.
* Your character is purely human by default. Should you wish to change that, you need to contact the Committee for Character Excellence. You can find their application form in 'The Wide Wizarding World' >> The Ministry of Magic' >> 'Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures'. Be sure to read those rules carefully and be aware that approval is very rare. No student may possess any special powers or advanced magical ability upon entering the school. As you succeed through your classes, your student character will begin to learn spells, transfiguration, and how to make potions which you will be able to use in your role-plays at that time. All special abilities (Occlumency, Animagity, etc.) must be approved by the Committee of Character Excellence. Be sure to read their rules carefully and be aware that approval is very rare.
* Remember that you are at a boarding school and, although it is fictional, you have a dress code (your school uniform, school robes and the optional hat). Try to imagine the sorts of rules that would be associated with a boarding school.
* Your character cannot be a person from another movie, book or similar. You also can't be a celebrity that really exists nor can you be related to people that really exist. For example, Frodo cannot be your cousin, Polgara is not your aunty, you didn't go to kindergarten with Luke Skywalker, and Johnny Depp is not your daddy.
* Your character may not be related to any of the characters that appear in the Harry Potter universe. There are no applications for this. If there should be characters that have a canon relation, they will have received permission for good reason.
* Recycling puppeteers is risky business! We mods would ultimately prefer that you didn't ever hire new puppeteers to fill roles of characters who have already been sorted by another, but if it's going to happen, it absolutely may not be advertised for on OT. Any characters we know to be operated by a different puppeteer than the one who originally sorted them will not be considered for any "special" positions (prefect, head student, CCE, etc) as that character.
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Post by Luna Lovegood on May 8, 2013 17:15:36 GMT 10
PICKING A BIRTHDAY
HZ has always been about the Hogwarts experience. Because of this, you'll not find much to do with graduates or Pre-Hogwarts students. Keep in mind: when you register at The Hogwarts of Zap, your character must be either 10 or 11 years of age. After you enter first year, your character may turn 12 at any given time, depending on when you decide to make it so. This means please do not post in these sections until your character is 10 or 11 years of age.
A good resource to determine what year it is, your character's birth year, what "HZ Year" they are, and all that, is in 'General' >> 'How to Enroll' >> 'Unsorted FAQ' which is updated yearly.
In order to start school, your character must be at least 11. This means that if you register a character that is 10-years-old, they must turn 11 by September 1st or they cannot be sorted until the next year. Your character may turn 12 during first year but cannot turn 13 until second year.
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Post by Luna Lovegood on May 8, 2013 17:22:23 GMT 10
SPECIAL POWERS AND DISABILITIES
Short Answers:
- You cannot have a special power. You cannot be a werewolf, vampire, veela, giant, alien, tellytubby, or any other miscellaneous creature you can think of. Your hair cannot magically change color with your mood. Neither can your eyes.
- You may not have tattoos or piercings. Hogwarts is a boarding school with a dress code.
- Your character cannot cause him/herself or others harm. He/She cannot commit suicide or engage in self-mutilating behavior. He/She cannot have a mental illness or other disability including but not limited to deafness and blindness. Any disability that could be had would be immediately fixed in the Hospital Wing.
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Post by Luna Lovegood on May 8, 2013 17:24:51 GMT 10
LOOKALIKES
On HZ, we do not require you use a previously unused lookalike. If, for some reason, you prefer to use a face that has not been used, there is a list available here of most of the faces used on HZ.
However, you are welcome to use any lookalike you want as long as your pictures are appropriate and you DO NOT use pictures of yourself.
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