RULES
Yep, the rules. Read these before you do anything stupid.
You didn't know there were rules? Well, I didn't either. But there are now!

#1)YOUR CHARACTER ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE A FLAW! In other words, no perfect characters. *looks at certain people-you know who you are, SLYTHERINS* Your character can have the smallest, stupidest fear or weakness in the world (like, oh, I don't know, they're scared to death of spaghetti or something) but there MUST BE A WEAKNESS.

#2)IF YOUR CHARACTER IS "SPECIAL" YOU MUST CLEAR IT WITH THE HM's! "special" includes anything from 'unusual' parents (ie: Voldemort, a god, or whatever) to being an animagi, shapeshifter, or half-whatever (half-dragon -phoenix -etc). Also includes people who want their characters has exceptional magic (ie: plant and weather magic). Yes, there are some exceptions to this. For example: If you "normal" HH character is an elf, then you will have special abilities (like talking to trees). You don't need to bother us with stuff like that.

#3)NO CHARACTERS ARE PERFECT! This may seem the same as #1, but it's slightly different. In other words, we want (in addition to all of you "special" people) 'normal' students. Yes, maybe they're exceptionally good with magic. Or maybe they're an expert archer. Or they're awesome at swordfighting. But they are probably not (yes, let's accept the fact, nobody is perfect) perfect in all three areas. Use your common sense, please!

#4)IF THERE ARE BATTLES.. You may absolutely under no cirucmstances kill another person/opponent in one strike. You must give the other person a chance to defend themselves. Of course, some people are going to be better at battling than others. So someone might die. But you can under no cirumstance walk up to another character and say you killed it in one post. If you do this, your post will be deleted and ignored (if we're too lazy to delete it). HOWEVER: If you are fighting..oh.."mass-produced" evil things (ie: hoards of giant spiders, orcs, or any other minor-evil character) you MAY kill a FEW in one post. Because there is most likely nobody who's going to bother playing six hundred evil "things" and reply to a person's post everytime they're trying to kill one. But please be practical: even though the evil "things" may not be as good as you are at fighting, chances are there are a LOT more of them than there are of you. So...you will get tired/etc. Which leads us to...

#5)YOU CAN"T KILL 100 EVIL THINGS IN ONE GO. Okay, not even Harry Potter can do this. Don't be ridiculus! You can NOT wipe out an army of 'things' in one go. Or even two. It's just not possible. You will be laughed out of the patrollers if you try it.

#6)THIS IS A MORE-BATTLE ORIENTED..um.."THING". So, if you don't like battling, what are you doing here? And if you have never battled before..well...good luck, you're going to need it.

#7)KEEP THE BATTLING REASONABLE. Don't turn into clouds of magic. Please. *looks at SOME PEOPLE*

#8)DON'T GANG UP ON PEOPLE! You can fight in groups, or gang up on an evil person, but don't gang up on people just to be cruel (especially don't gang up on new people!). *glares at certain SLYTHERINS*

#9)YOU CAN BE EVIL, BUT BEING EVIL DOESN'T MEAN YOU GET SPECIAL POWERS! You can have the same amount of special powers that a "good" character can have. Yes, they may be a different TYPE of power (ie: Darkness, instead of weather or water). But being evil will NOT make you stronger. Sorry.

#10) HAVE FUN! This is supposed to be challenging. And FUN.

#11)IF....the storyline gets too out of control or very very very strange (ie: everyone has turned into random clouds of magic), WE (as the Headmistresses) reserve the right to "redirect" it. Yes, we do.