Au Hogwarts OOC

[Poll #1818835]

Just an FYI:

At the request of some players a few weeks ago, I agreed to shift the timeline of the Jobberknoll by 5 years because some of the timelines for some adult characters worked better than way, to make the game war + 22 years instead of 17.

Aaaand then I forgot to update the info post, because I suck at remembering to do things.

I don't think this seriously affects anyone, but let me know if it does!

CAST LIST Title: The Elusive Jobberknoll
(This name means nothing. I like the sound of it)

Setting: Hogwarts. 22 years after the war (so seventh years were born five years after the war)

The war was mostly fought in Britain, but the effects were global. Knowing that many Death Eaters joined his ranks of the premise of blood purity, a strong reaction has been gaining momentum against the longest lines of purebloods. Under the mantra of "Never Again", witches and wizards have begun to look at their neighbours with distrust. In Britain, there is distrust. In Europe, there is rising conflict. Beauxbatons has recommended to many students of the oldest families that it would not be safe if they returned this year.

In Hogwarts, it's technically business as usual, except there are more exchange students than anyone really remembers happening. And the knowledge that this should be a Tirwizard year at Beauxbatons, but no one went anywhere. And the students with parents who work in the ministry are hearing worrying rumours. Dumbledore's Army is still going; although technically it's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts hobby group, there are some students who elect to keep their membership secret even from the teachers.

Classes are still happening, the Quidditch cup is still on. There's a ball at Christmas. Business as usual.

(This is a SETTING. I won't be running any plots. I don't have time! Players may ignore it or run with it)

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The events of the books took place, but the people involved may change to fit the characters in the game.
World rules apply regarding magic, creatures, school rules, but the Rule of Cool overrides canon in all cases, as does the Rule of Fitting Your Character To the Books.
e.g. No Discworld werewolves; but there's no upper limit on who can have canonically 'rare' magic or abilities. If you can justify your character being a metamorphmagus or a half-giant, then do so.

Characters Allowed:
Fandom characters (with altered backstory) and OCs.
No Harry Potter characters in game or as relatives to characters. Dumbledore existed, maybe even Harry Potter existed, but no epilogue characters, and no long lost grandnieces of Sirius Black.
The one exception: ghosts

Notes:
This is an open invitation to continue (or reset) continuity from the first experimental Mixed Muses post. Threads on that don't have to be canon, but you can play from them if you like. The app process is just so I can stick up something like a cast list and establish roles - so we don't end up with seven Seekers and five potions masters, unless someone thinks that's a great idea.

The fact that the setting above wasn't mentioned in the MM post should give you an idea about how little that setting might actually effect day-to-day life at Hogwarts :)

Time is flexible. I'm guessing something approximating real time would be easier for people, but we'll see how it goes. (So threads starting today would be two weeks after the start of the school year)

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Application (please comment to this post with the character journal and the following:)

1) Your name

2) Character name/fandom

3) Role:
- Student (Give year, House, role in the student body (prefect, Quidditch position, clubs. I will draw up a roster when there are apps to draw up from).
- Teacher (Give subject, House affiliation)
- Other member of staff
- Hogsmeade resident

4) Any relevant backstory details, including how you plan to merge pup's canon with HP canon.



EXAMPLE APPLICATION

1) Debi (IB)

2) Dinah Lance / DC Comics.

3) Student: 7th year Gryffindor. Head Girl. Leader of Dumbledore's Army.

4) In canon, Dinah Lance was the daughter of the first Black Canary, and grew up in the shadow of the Justice Society of America. In this universe, Dinah Drake was an auror who was in the Order of the Jobberknoll, and her husband Larry Lance, a muggle police officer who died at the hands of a remaining Death Eater when their daughter was a child. Dinah Lance was brought up primarily by her mother and by other members of the Order, upon whom she looks as secondary parents. At school, she's driven almost entirely by her burning desire to follow in the example of her mother and uncles. She excels in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Dueling, and is surprisingly good at Herbology. She's adequate at Potions and Arithmancy, but only enough to get by in her NEWTS.

She was a Chaser on the Gryffindor team until last year, when she gave it up to focus on prefect and Dumbledore's Army duties. Her Patronus is a canary.