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I'm constantly refreshing the guild every hour or so to see if this has any posts.

I've got it bad already, guys.

Yeah me too.

Nice to know that your habits haven't changed one bit Super xD

But yeah.... I've been doing the same thing. I really like the relationship sheet idea since it really is interesting to see how each character views the others so I've mainly been lurking to see if any more of those have been posted or updated.

Where's your avatar from Gisk?

I've been adjusting my character sheet by expanding my likes with hiders, after which I'll expand dislikes an fears
Kind of my way of checking with a positive attitude

I should do that as well, I've figured outToby more so ill have more things to put in there.
By the way do you guys think we should make a class schedule for who's with who in what class?
Granted we still don't know how classes work in the story given that it's an entirely different setting.

Yeah... I was wondering about that as well.

Like are we all going to be taking the same classes?

It wouldn't make too much sense real life wise but it might help with the story since we only have a limited amount of teachers.

There's so many of us, separate classes might be for the best. Otherwise our classes will be kind of clusterjams.

Athos: it's early concept art from The Dark Knight. Before they had cast Ledger, I think. I've been meaning to change it, but I think people recognize me by it at this point so I'm loath to switch.

Eek!
Class scenes are such a plot dragger, I hope they're limited

I've see such scenes sap the life from a plot by taking several days to resolve
Remember in school the greatest fear is that the clock has stopped and the bell will never ring
"No! Not the Infinity effect"

It's like the required lecture where the speaker has no set time limit
You sit there realizing that He/She is now repeating themselves and seem gifted with the Stamina of an Olympic Marathoner

Yeah... I could never keep a single avatar for that long ^^;

Or signature.

Or really single anything.

Maybe 3 classes for each student? Or we take the same classes but time block style so that you would still see everyone but not at the same time?

I don't know, I mean, I could write a CS for a teacher but I'm just worried that my Harry Potter lore isn't exactly up to snuff ^^;

I had a pretty hard time just writing the student CS because of that haha

I read the entire series before, it's just been a few years since then.

Or we can just only bother with class scenes when relevant to the plot.

Gisk said
Or we can just only bother with class scenes when relevant to the plot.

This.

:) Or, you know, when the teacher players have something particularly interesting planned (in the spirit of Moody's classes from Goblet of Fire).

Imperfectionist said
This. :) Or, you know, when the teacher players have something particularly interesting planned (in the spirit of Moody's classes from Goblet of Fire).

That I can get behind

My fear is that we'll spend. More time demonstrating how magically awesome we each are by being the best or worst student in the class

Remember in class our interactions will be described by curriculum and the Professor's law, outside of class by our own limitations

Well that took forever to update. I had to change the file type from jpg, to png, then finally gif before it would let me update my avatar lol

Anyways I forgot but wasn't Moody the guy in charge of Defense against Dark Arts in the books? I forgot what his class was like but I like the ideas that have been tossed around. Truthfully (As Superfly already knows), Academy RPs aren't exactly my home field ^^; So I don't exactly know how much focus should be on the actual classes.

I'm more used to writing from the perspective of sociopaths, murderers, and other villains of that ilk.

Remember Madeye was Kidnapped by Barty Crouch Jr., who disguised himself as Moody who was the actual DATDA professor

Yeah... I remember that.

Like I said, it's just been a while so bear with me ^^;

For the most part I suggested the whole class thing because whenever there's a school setting and no one knows who's with who things end up being too chaotic. As to how it's important to the plot It's not really that essential other than solidifying the school aspect of the story. For the most part I think we won't dwell too much on the classes, but since we are in a school setting they are important.

i agree with Athos in that schedules should be blocked so that at least everyone has the chance to meet with a character outside of their little groups, this way the whole "I bumped into you for no good reason" situation is avoided. If I remember correctly in the HP world core classes are divided among the houses so two houses share the same class with the same proff at the same times, while they have another class with a different house. This applies to all core classes, and major subjects. The only classes that don't follow these rules are the electives, i believe.

For the classes themselves there are seven core classes in the HP lore, Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, History of Magic, and Astronomy. Now in the RP we have four extra classes in the story, Oriental, Voodoo, Natural Arts, and Shamanism. That makes up to at least 11 possible classes total, and the various electives.

Within the HP world not everyone is required to take all seven core classes when in their later years. Lets say that in the story the 10th to 12th year students are only required to take at least four core classes so they can drop the classes that they do not want to specialize in, they only need to take one of the specialized classes so they can focus on their chosen magic, and two electives. for the purposes of the RP let's get rid of the electives for now and leave it as flavor text for the RP.

With the above information in mind we can say that everyone must have five classes total, four of the seven core magic, one specialized class.and one elective,

Using that information I'll make an example using Toby.
Let's say that Toby is only taking Potions, Herbology, Defense Against the Dark arts, and Transfiguration. For the Specialized Class he's taking Voodoo, and two electives. Let's say that Eleventh year Luna's have Potions with Astra, Herbology with Solis, Defense Against the Dark Arts with Astra again, and Transfiguarion with Terra's. For Voodoo classes since it's a specialized class anyone who's interested in the subject as long as they're in the eleventh year. As for his electives since they're normally one to two year only classes anyone who meets the classification can attend the class regardless of year and house.
Using the above we can figure out that Toby has Potions with Cliodhna, Charlotte, and Thomas (but probably not Thomas?) if they're taking potions as well, Herbology with Nova and Jay if they're taking it, Defense Against the Dark arts with Cliodhna, Charlotte, and Thomas again, and then Transfiguration with no one since there are no 11th year Terra characters. In his Voodoo class he can have it with anyone as long as they're taking it as well. And as for an elective hr can have that one as well.

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I've asked HOAH about all this class stuff, but he hasn't replied yet so I don't know if this helps or a total waste of time, but knowing me I'll be making a schedule of the seven core classes, and the special classes, and where the electives go.

It all sounds pretty good to me honestly ^^;

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I have a question, if we do manage to make a schedule who would be in what class? The four core subjects, the one special, and any electives you have in mind.

I'm making a excel spreadsheet schedule for all students, but without knowing who has what I don't know who arrange the classes and stuff.

Also here's a link to the list of all known classes that were seen in the HP series.

Well, I haven't put much thought into beyond what you've said (And wow did you put a lot of thought into it.)

I've no idea what the GM intends but right now I'd say Clio would take: Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms, DADA, Care of Magical Creatures and Voodoo.