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Today marks the Leaky Cauldron's 5th year birthday! *claps hands* Over the next week or so, you'll see tons of anniversary activites and such, incuding the 2nd annual LC Oscars, which is underway as we speak. (I am still taking nominations for each category).

Tons of new things will be showing up here in the next week or so, so join in the Special Events forum for the celebration.

So, if you all check the calendar, we have the LC's 5th year anniversary this Wednesday! Woo-hoo! Can you believe the LC's been around for 5 years? Yay! So we have TONS of fun stuff planned for you all. One of them are the second annualLC Oscars, whch is a huge red-carpet event for us here in the castle. So, what I need from you all is the put your thinking caps on and spare a little time and go through these 35 categories and nominated the person here on the board that you think best fit the category.

Will there be duplicates? Can you nominate the same person for a different category? Absolutely, but we'd like for everyone to get an award. But please only one nomination per category.

Nominations will be open for about two days so you don't have much time. Please PM me your nominations. Any questions, just ask.

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Most Exciting Poster
Most Dedicated Member
Best House Spirit
Most Likely To Be Online
Best Breakthrough Performance (Most Improved Member)

Most Interesting Thread So Far
The Gryffindor Award For The Bravest Character
The Ravenclaw Award For The Smartest Character
The Hufflepuff Award For The Most Loyal Character
The Slytherin Award For The Darkest Character

Best OOC Comment
Best Duo (not necessarily a couple)
Member Most Likely To Reply To A Thread
Lunar award - Most out-of-it person:
Best New Member:

Best Class Participant:
Most Welcoming Member
Best Use of an Animagus
Best Shoulder to cry on:
Best Siggie/Banner Maker:

Best in inventing excuses:
Most Likely to be in the Order:
Most talkative:
Best RPer:
best are you kidding me? moment

Best Suitable Celebrity Choice
Most 'Dirty Minded'
Best Smiley User
Best Avatar-Maker:
Easiest member to talk to:

Funniest Comedian (always make you laugh):
Most Loveable
Role model award (person we most want to be like)
Most House Oriented:
Best Prank of the Year:

If you haven't read the Notice Board, the Halloween Festivies have have opened! If you go pass the Hogwart Grounds, you can locate all the excited Beyond the Grounds.

I have posted a closed sticky thread in which I'll update each day announcing the activites for the day. So make sure you keep any eye out for this thread, it may be updated in the middle of the day.

Also, have a few other surprises in store. Gotta get a niffy Halloween banner with my new celebrity (c'mon Iknow you've noticed!) but the grounds have been magically transformed to the Halloween theme.

Enjoy and have fun!

The LC Newsletter #11

Already we're a week into Term 5 and what a roller coaster it's been! But rest assure, the rest of Term 5 is ready to take off and be filled with tons of fun and suprises.

1. Magical Classes
2. Hogsmeade Weekend
3. Shop Owners
4. Halloween Festivites

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1. Magical Classes
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This year Magical Classes will begin tomorrow (Oct. 17) so make sure your character is the first in the classroom. If you have role played going to Diagon Alley retrieving your books, and other things you'll need for class, please do so. Let's make Term 5 one of the best

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2. Hogsmeade Weekend
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As the annoucement said, Hogsmeade Weekend is here. So those forums are now opened for you to visit and have a good time in Hogsmeade. New shop owners can use this as a good opportunity to get sales and such.

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3. Shop Forums
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Currently, our shop owners are being re-organized. The LC has a total of 15 shops, the most we've ever at here! There's already a thread for avialble and current shops that need owners. If you're interested, please visit that thread in the Student Notice Board.

A huge congratulations to Solie for being elected as the new Head Shop Keeper position! I know you'll do a fantastic jobs! To all new/current shop owners, Solie will be in contact with you soon and letting you know how to proceed with your shop.

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4. Halloween Festivites
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Halloween is just around the corner. A group of members have already strated forming ideas. Take a look in Professor Dumbledore's Office to give your opinion. But things to look for:

[+] Scarecrow Building Contest

[+] Halloween Ball

[+] Cornfield Maze

[+] Hay Ride

A lot of things to guarentee tons of run for everyone. The calendar has been updated for the rest of the month. Halloween Activites begin October 26th. Make sure you're here for a Haunted Hogwarts!.

Hot Topics

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• Get your party hat on! Throw the confetti! It's Tinks & Scar's Birthday Bash!
  
• James was a bad boy. Look at what his punishment is.
  
• Whose taking another ride at the Hogswarts Express?
  

Do you have a thread/plot that should be featured in the Hot Topics in the next newsletter? If so, send a link with a short summary to me.

The LC Newsletter #10

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1. Feast/House Cup
2. Graphic Challenge Winner
3. New Pipes
4. Teacher's & TA's
5. Term 5 Begins

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1. Year End Feast/House Cup
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So if you haven't noticed, the year end feast has begun! Make sure that your character is in attendence. Join me in congratulating Gryffindor on winning the house cup with an outstanding 1307 points!


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2. Graphic Challenge Winner
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Your patience has been appreciated. The votes are in for our very first Graphic Challenge and the winner is Leona! You can see her perading around in her crown. The winning userbar was her Dobby the Elf. Congrats and watch out for more challenges in the future.


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3. New Ranking Pipes
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Most of you have probably already noticed, but each yearly rank has a new pipe. With has many new features we have on this forum, I wanted to explore them all a bit more. I even made one for myself, the headmaster and the prefects. I haven't got to the Year 7 and I think I'm going to create some for the in-between titles like "Visiting the Burrow" sometime in the future. Hope you like!

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4. Teachers and TA's
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Thanks to everyone who took the teacheing interview for this year magical classes. Here are the results:

Charms:
Twyla - Professor
Solleia - TA

DADA:
Scarlett - Professor
Arrianna - TA

Potions
Morgan - Professor

COMC:
Gwen - Professor

All student professors and teaching assistants will be recieving additional information via Owl as to what the next step is. If there are any questions, feel free to shoot me a PM.

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5. Term 5
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Just a week at a glance, but with the House Cup awarded, Term 5 is right around the corner. Right now, I'm shooting for it to begin October 1st, but this date might change. Just wanted to give you all's a heads up.

Hot Topics

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• A group of friends are Sitting Round Campfire just to sing songs? Yeah right!
  
• What happens when students are Trapped in a Classroom? Nothing good, that's for sure!
  
• Everyone loves a nice, relaxing, hot STEAMY Bubble Baths!. But in the boys bathroom . . .with a group of girls? What's really going on here?
  

Do you have a thread/plot that should be featured in the Hot Topics in the next newsletter? If so, send a link with a short summary to me.

Just a very quick announcement for everyone. I'm pleased to announce that Knockturn Alley is officially open for business! So be sure to stop by if you're looking for cursed artifacts, potions, tattoos or to get a makeover. I am interested in opening more shops there as well so if you have an idea of a shop that can opened which has a slightly sinister feel to it somehow, whether it's in the name or what you're selling and the products are completely unique to any of the other stores currently open, then please feel free to PM me. When you do please tell me what your shop would be called, what it would look like and what items you would like to sell in it. There is also an RPG section of Knockturn Alley so if you feel like sneaking into the seedy side of London's wizarding world, now you've got a place to do it. Have fun!

The LC Newsletter #9

Greetings all. I'm out of breath because this was a very busy week here at the LC. No comnplaints though! I saw a LOT more activity from members and that's always a plus.

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1. Home Forums Opened
2. New Chatterbox
3. Teaching Interviews Wrap Up
4. Graphics Competiton Update
5. Hogsmeade Last's Week Opened
6. New Joinable Group
7. End of the Year Feast

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1. Home Forums Opened
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The Home forums are official opened! Some of you beat me to the punch by creating threads already for your home forums. That's okay. I've moved them to the correct continent, if I've made a mistake just PM me and I'll move your thread to the correct forum. Have fun and enjoy taking trips back home.

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2. New Chatterbox
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As you've probably noticed, we have a new chatterbox on the front pages! Righ now it's here on a trial bases, I know we had some strong opinions about the limits of our old chatterbox. So please, give me feedback here on what you think of it.

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3. Teaching Interviews Wrap-Up
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If you're still interested in becoming a teacher or teaching assitant for the magical classes, you should send in your interview asap. Teaching interviews will wrap up this Thursday and I'll make my selection on those who made the cut. I will be Pming those individuals, perhaps even make an annoucement.

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4. Graphics Competiton Update
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The Graphics Competition #1 will wrap up this Wednesday and a poll will opened be opened for you to vote for your favorite graphic. The poll will be opened for 3 days and the winner announced in next week's newsletter. Again, a great way to earn some last minute house points.

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5. Hogsmeade Last's Week Opened
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If you haven't made a trip to Hosgmeade, you better do so this week. Because Hogsmeade will close again later this week. Right now Rogue is at the Hogs Head and you all should stop by...I hear there's about to be a concert...

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6. New Joinable Group
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If you all go to your Perences, you will see that we have our first joinable group. Joirnable groups are another new featuer of this great software. They are groups, kind of like clubs in which you have a leader and such. I've created the first group, "Apprentice Assosiation". These are elite members who have been with the LC for awhile. This group is of invitation only, and these members will work closely with the moderating team. They will be first to get the scoop of all the new things we're doing here at the LC and will help with getting ideas and gathering feedback on things. A secret forum will be made for these individuals.

Sounds exciting right? Well, don't fret if you're invited into this group. This is the first joinable group here at the LC and certainly not the last. More information on how to create a group will follow soon.

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7. End of the Year Feast
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Term 4 is about to over and we're about to begin Term 5. You know what that means? The end of the year feast is already up on the calendar and is scheduled to be September 14th in the Great Hall. At this time, the House Cup will be awarded to the house with the most points. Right now it looks like Huffelpuff is in the lead... those points haven't been updated for awhile, but we'll see who wins it!

Whew! Did that seem like a lot? It was! Now's the perfect time to be active here at the LC. There's plenty to do.

That's all folks.
~Professor Rogue

The LC Newsletter #8

Greetings all. Things picked up a bit this week here at the LC. This week is guarenteed to be even better.

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1. New Wizardy World Forums
2. Hogsmeade opened
3. Zeta Upgrade



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1. Forums Re-arranged
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You might noticed that I re-arranged the forums around here, got rid of a few unnecessary ones like Witch Weekly and added a few more. A lot went on under the LC Extras category. Ron's Darkroom and Hermione's corner are now sub-forums. The Congrats and LC Snap Cabinet are under the Hospital Wing (which I'm thinking of changing so it doesn't get confused with the RP Hospital Wing...let me know if you have ideas). A couple of more changes like that occured, so just so you're aware and can't find your favorite forum. I suggest using the Forum Jump under every forum.


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2. Hogsmeade Opened
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Hogsmeaded is now opened to all students. So grab your friends explore it because it'll close again in a week's time.

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3. Class Interviews Started
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The teaching interviews have started for Term 5 magical classes. If you're interested, submit your interview here. And hurry, the interviews will wrap up this week.

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4. New Ranks
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I've changed the rankings here at the LC. No, nothing that will change what rank you are currently at. I wanted to make the rankings more fun and give members an opportunity to advance to the next level, sooner rather than later. So I created a lot of in-between categories that are easier to advance to. You can find the new ranks here. Tell me what you think.

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5. ZetaBoard Upgrade
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Our forum software, Zetaboards released an update last week which came with many different features we can now use here at the LC. With this update came fixes to some of the problem's we'd had, like when you replied to someone, it wouldn't show it in your inbox. That's been resolved. Here are a few key features for the LC:

Automerge
Doubleposts in topics before 24 hours of the last post are now set to merge into one post. After 24 hours they will remain two separate posts.

Spoiler Tags
You can now add a title to your spoiler tags, yay!
For example:

[spoiler=Spoiler Titles]yay! :woot: [/spoiler]

Image Resizing
Is an image really large? You can resize it using the baord [img] tag! Just use this format: [img=width,height]image url[/img].
Example:
[img=400,100]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Shonk/no1.jpg[/img]

BBCode Buttons
New BBCode buttons and the ability to control BBCode buttons was also added in this update, so that's why the order of BBCode buttons has changed in the past week.

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6. Graphics Competition
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Just a sneak peek of what to look for this week. But para the calendar we have our first Graphics Competion coming up this Thursday! It's a great opportunity to ear some last minute house points before the end of Term 4. Also, I'll have another prize for the winner.

That's all folks.
~Professor Rogue

So I'm going to be starting a bi-weekly/as-needed update thread to keep you guys in the know of what's going on, what things we've added to the site, etc.

August 25, 2009

1. Magical classes & interview
2. End of qudditch
3. End of clubs
4. Board updates



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1. Class Selections & Teacher Interviews
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Classes are just around the corner and have lots to do. You all can start off by casting your votes in this poll and vote for your top 3 favorite classes. The top 3 classes will be required with 2 electives.

After this, all those who would like to be professors will have a chance to sign up. From there, we'll conduct the teaching interviews. The voting for the classes will rap up this Wednesday, so make sure you vote!

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2. Qudditch Match Results!
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It was a long Qudditch match with Ravenclaw vs. Hufflepuff, but Game 5 has officially ended. Congratulations to Henry from Ravenclaw for catching the snitch! Good job Ravenclaw!

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3. End of Clubs
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The Club forum is about to disappear, this is one of our least used forums and I don't really see the clubs being active. Right now the only clubs I've left opened are the Drama and Graphic clubs. If anyone is interested in these clubs, please PM me ASAP. Otherwise, I'm going to close the clubs.

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4. Board Updates
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Thanks to our awesome member Leona and Shonks, we now have top banners rolling out with our forum themes. All of them aren't done, but if you take a look at the Halloween theme and the Blue Reach Optical, you'll see new headers for it. Thanks guys!

Also, something to watch for this week is the re-arranging of our forum boards. I'm organizing things a bit by taking a few forums we don't need, adding news ones and things like that. So that is something to watch for this week.

That's all folks.

~Professor Rogue

Some of you may have already noticed and some of you may have already heard, but I am making a lot of changes with the shops around here.

The Hogsmeade Forum is temporarily closed down due to some exciting stuff that will be happening with it. There will be a Grand Opening for it on September 1st which will be celebrated with a Class Trip. (Check the new calendar that the Headmaster talked about in recent announcements.)

I'm please to announce that we are opening up a Knockturn Alley forum which will be complete with shops and have it's own RPG forum the same way that Diagon Alley does.

I have a couple of shops that I am hoping to open in Knockturn Alley so if you would like to be a shopkeeper, don't mind working in the bad part of town and you are an active 2nd year or older then please PM me to let me know that you are interested.