[OOC] Harry Potter - The Riddle Years

[Lady Avalon]

Harry Potter - The Riddle Years

A semi-open world RP set in the Harry Potter universe, in the 30's when Tom Riddle was at school. Year one starts in 1938. In this roleplay you can take classes, learn new spells and make new best friends. It's up to you if you follow the rules strictly or if you want to explore and bend them a little.

Hogwarts is everything you expected it to be and more. You can hardly wait for the year to begin, to start an adventure of your own. Tales you've heard about the secrets yet to be uncovered. It's all you can do to not let excitement spill over.

However, for some, trouble calls them and soon they uncover some of Hogwarts most guarded secrets. Why are students going missing? Isn’t Hogwarts the safest place in the Wizarding world? And why does that Slytherin boy seem so suspicious?

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Your characters will embark on uncovering and solving the mystery, as well as living in the Hogwarts universe. I ask that you make your characters either first years or second years. A deep knowledge of the world isn't required as I will provide extra information for those who want it. This is a casual roleplay so I don’t expect tons and tons of writing, just a paragraph or two. If you have any questions about anything, then feel free to ask me.

Rules

Respect each other; a little in character rivalry is okay

You may play two characters if you wish

No Godmodding/Metagaming

Please post your character sheets for approval first

Mention/tag anyone you interact with in your IC posts

Have fun!

HOUSE INFORMATION

Slytherin: The most notorious house of cunning and ambition. The common room is located in the dungeons, next to the lake. The inside is decorated in mostly green and silver and the light is slightly green too due to the large window from the lake. The passwords are often related to the superiority of blood status.

Gryffindor: Bravery and daring coupled with recklessness. The common room is in one of the highest towers in Hogwarts. It is a circular room, decorated in warm hues of red and orange, filled with comfy armchairs and a roaring fire.

Ravenclaw: Wit and wisdom defines this house so much so that students have to answer a riddle to gain access into their tower common room. An eagle doorknocker asks the riddle. It has graceful arched windows, and the walls are hung with blue and bronze silks. The domed ceiling is painted with stars, which are echoed in the midnight-blue carpet.

Hufflepuff: Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play. The common room is accessed through a pile of large barrels, found stacked in a shadowy stone recess on a right-hand side corridor near the kitchens. The common room is a large, earthy, round room with low ceilings. The view from the round windows is of dandelions and rippling grass.

CLASSES AND STAFF

Headmaster - Armando Dippet

Head of Houses:

Slytherin – Professor Slughorn
Gryffindor – Professor Heartbury
Ravenclaw- Professor Auerbach
Hufflepuff- Proffessor Burandt

Transfiguration – Professor Dumbledore
Potions – Professor Slughorn
Charms - Professor Greenberg
History of Magic – Professor Binns
Defence Against the Dark Arts – Professor Lowe
Astronomy – Professor Visco
Herbology – Professor -Widner
Flying – Madam Twain
SECOND YEAR ONLY – AN ADDITIONAL TWO
Arithmancy – Professor Lugira
Muggle studies – Professor Roberts
Divination – Professor Zheng
Ancient Runes – Professor Ortiz
Care of Magical Creatures – Professor Smirin

CLUBS

Potions
Gobstones
Magical Creatures Club
Quidditch (Second years only)
Chess
Dueling
Book
Charms

CHARACTER SHEET

Name:
Age:
House:
Blood Status:
Patronus:
Appearance: (Description / Image)
Relationships :(Friends/ enemies / siblings)
Personality: (Minimum of one paragraph; at least two flaws)
Best class:
Worse class:
Any Clubs:

[Sigurd]

Hello.

It would be fun if the GM sorted the players out. I'm talking about the Houses.

[Lady Avalon]

Sorted the players into houses?

[Virani]

I would like to join this, I'm thinking of making a hufflepuff character. I'm assuming blood status is whether you're muggle or not?

[Lady Avalon]

pure blood, half blood or muggle born ^^

[Virani]

Rowena is not considered a beauty with many having said that her mouth is a little too wide and too prominent a chin but most agree that she is pretty, particularly when she smiles. Her smiles seem to light up the whole of her heart shaped face and giving warmth to her pale grey eyes. She is pale and as she is prone to sunburn she avoids prolonged sunshine never gaining a tan, she has rosy cheeks particularly when she smiles and also blushes easily.

Age:

13

House:

Hufflepuff

Blood Status:

Muggle born

Patronus:

Irish Wolfhound

Relationships:

Twin Brother - Robert "Robbie" (also attending Hogwarts and is in Ravenclaw)
Parents - William and Miriam Wood
Friends - TBD
Enemies - TBD

Personality:

Rowena is usually described as cheerful sometimes to the point of irritating, she is the person who is wide awake first thing and far too chirpy with it. She is a bubbly character who seems to see the world with eternal optimism and always tries to see the good in any situation and the people around her. Perhaps her biggest flaw is how easily she trusts others. She finds it very difficult to be unpleasant or nasty to others doesn't understand why others are. Because of this she takes others at face value and doesn't hesitate to trust them.

Rowena isn't shy and has always been able to talk to other people easily even if they are strangers to her. She is without doubt a chatterbox and has a habit of talking too much and too quickly, especially when excited, and her friends often nicely tell her to slow down or be quiet. She doesn't like uncomfortable silences and will often fill them with chatter yet, perhaps surprisingly to those who don't know her, she likes her own company and can often be found alone reading or writing.

Rowena doesn't like conflict or confrontation and does her best to avoid such situations by trying to please those around her. She finds it difficult to say no for fear of upsetting someone and has often been taken for granted in the past because of this. Growing up her twin brother Robbie would often be the firm one refusing on her behalf as he knew how hard she found it. Rowena wears her heart on her sleeve with her emotions easy to see on her face and so is a very bad liar. Between the blushing and feeling guilty she is usually caught out very quickly and so tries to avoid lying where possible.

Best class:

Potions

Worse class:

Defence against the Dark Arts

Any Clubs:

Book club, Potions Club

[Lady Avalon]

@Virani Accepted ^^

[Weird Tales]

Name: Isaak Boyars
Age: 12
House: Slytherin
Blood Status: pure blood
Patronus: draught horse
Appearance:

Relationships: His parents' names are Feodor and Anya. He has two brothers and one sister, and their names are Dimitri, Alexei and Anastasia. Dimitri is eight, Alexei is nine, and Anastasia is ten. Because he is a pureblood, Isaak has a lot of magical cousins and he gets along fairly well with them. Since he is only twelve, he obviously is in no relationships with anyone and will have no interests in having a girlfriend until he is older.

Personality: Like with most Slytherins, Isaak is arrogant, ambitious and harsh when it comes to voicing his opposition against something he does not believe in. But despite those aspects of his personality, he does have good qualities about him such as being very loyal to his friends and very determined to do his best at becoming a great wizard. He also holds his family in the highest regard and loves them very much. His views on muggleborns is not as ignorant as some of his fellow Slytherins, but he does feel that they do not belong in the prestigious houses like Slytherin, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. He also looks down upon Hufflepuffs and thinks of them as underachievers. And finally, Isaak is incredibly proud to be a Slytherin and will argue fervently with anyone who insults the house.
Best class: charms
Worse class: Muggle Studies
Any Clubs: Charms and Quidditch

[roonilxwaslib]

Oliver Terrance Boot

Age:

12

House:

Slytherin

Blood Status:

Pure Blood

Patronus:

Silver Fox

Relationships:

Oliver has one older sibling, Madeline, who is a sixth year in Ravenclaw. They get along fine, but they are not very close.

Personality:

Oliver is boring – or so the other kids tell him. A little too mature for his age, Oliver prefers to sit quietly with a book rather than run around with the other children his age. Oliver longs for friends, although he will never admit it. Making friends can be difficult, however, when you have a sharp tongue.

To escape his loneliness, Oliver tends to bury himself in his school work. He is smart, though not uniquely so, and most of his success in school comes from hard work rather than innate intelligence. Oliver suspects this is why he wasn’t sorted into Ravenclaw with the rest of his family. In truth, Oliver was likely sorted into Slytherin for his ambition. He is not the type to stand idly by when an opportunity presents itself.

Classes:

Best: Potions
Worst: Flying

Clubs:

Potions and Dueling

[Sigurd]

Sorted the players into houses?

@Lady Avalon

Yeah, that's what I meant. Not necessary, but I thought it would be a nice element of surprise/anxiety.

I will make a character today!

[Sigurd]

Name: Rayner Edward Melville

Age: 12

Year: Second

House: Ravenclaw

Blood Status: Half-Blood

Patronus: Unknown

Appearance:

My Hider

Relationships:
Brother: Roland Stephen Melville (Sixth year, Slyherin, pictured with the mother - Edith); not on very good terms with him

My Hider

Sister: Dolores Imogen Melville (Seventh year, Ravenclaw); his greatest role model who greatly influenced his love for books and creativity

My Hider

Mother: Edith Melville (Pictured next to Roland), who is a pure-blooded witch (Slyherin) employed as a healer in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries where Rayner hopes he can work one day too and become a healer like her (unless he makes it into a Quidditch team!)

Father Aloysius Melville, a muggle teacher and publisher from whom Rayner inherited his love for sports

My Hider

Friends: TBA

Personality: When it comes to the display of his character Rayner is hard to sort, because he tends to keep to the margins of the social circles at Hogwarts; but in his thoughts and private affairs he is truly a Ravenclaw. He fancies himself to be a creative and conscientious student with a knack for the more ‘open’ and practical disciplines.

Rayner is often very quick to get attached to people who fit into his idea of what an ideal friend/companion should be like, although he does not speak of it often because of his shyness. This shyness is perhaps what prevents him from leaving his comfort zone and actively seeking ‘adventure’ which he greatly longs for and wishes would find him instead.

He is also a fan of sports and enjoys playing them as much as watching them. Unexpectedly to those who think him to be more on the passive side, he is very competitive when it comes to sports and games and he found the discovery of Quidditch one of the most pleasant things that happened to him at Hogwarts, more so than magic itself, and he dreams of playing for the Ravenclaw team one day as much as any other (wizard) boy his age does.

Two of his biggest flaws are: 1) that he is dependent on his sister’s guidance, help and protection more often than he should be – or at least he was during his first year at Hogwarts; and 2) that he can be quite oblivious to how things actually are around the school and in the world at large because he gets so caught up in his vision of how things ought to be that he does not know how to react in face of reality.

Best class: Charms

Worst class: Divination

Any Clubs: Book club, Quidditch

[Weird Tales]

two Slytherins so far

[Lady Avalon]

Both accepted ^^

[burnski]

Name: Alexander “Alex" Grayson
Age: Eleven
Year: First
House: Grifindor
Blood Status: Pure Blood
Patronus: Bear

Appearance:

Relationships:
- Siblings: None
- Friends: TBA
- Enemies: TBA

Bio & Personality: Alex is a pure-blood wizard, the only child and son of Aiden and Amelia Grayson. Alex's parents were well-respected Aurors. Aiden became Head of the Auror Office when he was thirty three and that was when Amelia decided to stop working to train and care for Alex. It was no surprise that he became enamoured with duelling and completely taken by the study of dark wizards and witches. He incessantly asked his mother daily for information around being an Auror and asked for lessons whenever he had the opportunity. He is a perfectionist and because he refuses to accept any thing shot of his very high-standards whenever he does anything. He pushes himself and strives to be the best he can be. This has made Alex short tempered and critical of others. He is not shy to voice his displeasure towards someone who he feels is being incompetent or inept. Because Alex was not raised with a lot of the pure muggles he is somewhat prejudiced against them. He thinks that they generally aren’t able to master magic as a pure or half blood can. While he wouldn't treat them with malice he doesn't really care for them or even have the time of day to be interacting with them.

Best class: Defence Against the Dark Arts
Worse class: Muggle Studies
Any Clubs: Dueling & Magical Creatures

@Lady Avalon

[Sigurd]

@burnski

The Order of the Phoenix did not exist in the 30's. Voldemort is still a 'harmless' teenage student in this RP.

[burnski]

@Sigurd Of course that makes sense. I'll update it and remove the fact that his parents were in the Order of the Phoenix.

[Lady Avalon]

@burnski looks good

[Sigurd]

@Lady AvalonCan you give us a hint or two about the story you have planned? :)

[roonilxwaslib]

Year one starts in 1938.

Just to clarify, Tom Riddle will be a first year, right? (Am I doing my math correctly?)

[Sigurd]

@roonilxwaslibI think so. Maybe the game should be moved a few years forward, making him at least fourth or fifth year? Him being 11 does not leave much room for anything suspicious or malicious.