Haunted Chambers, HP RPG Run by Adults, Moving to Year 6

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Haunted Chambers, a message-board style Harry Potter Role-playing 
game is preparing to enter Harry's 6th year at Hogwarts.  We are 
owned and run by adults, and welcome both canon and original 
characters.  We have a straight-forward screening process that 
ensures that our players have a solid understanding of book-canon so 
that even our Original characters blend well into JKR's universe.  
We do not allow `cross-overs' from other genres, but do encourage 
imaginative invention and blending of ideas gleaned from other 
sources into the wider magical world.

We have forums for all time-frames within the Harry Potter world, 
from MWPP era through to `present-day'.  We encourage our players to 
feel free to `bounce back' to student days to explore the history 
and interactions of their characters with other characters on the 
board.  Year 6 will be conducted in a chronological fashion going 
forwards—but people are always welcome to play threads in earlier 
time-frames to establish relationships and histories with new 
characters.

We currently are especially looking to fill two important roles.  
First, a creative Original Character to fulfill the role of the DADA 
Professor in year 6.  Whether this character is loyal to Dumbledore, 
sympathetic to Voldemort, a lackey of the Ministry, or even a 
planted Voldemort spy (which Voldemort would greatly appreciate!) is 
entirely up to the applicant.

Second, the new Minister of Magic.  JKR tells us that Fudge will not 
be Minister in book 6, so for the purposes of our `game world' we 
have decided Fudge is up for re-election.  Fudge obviously will not 
win—but who will?  Again this entirely depends on the creativity of 
the characters involved, and we encourage `campaigning' either by 
the candidate him/herself or by those who wish that candidate to 
be `elected'.  Assuming we have at least two `candidates', we will 
even conduct a vote through Private Messangers with the 
Administration Team to chose the `winner'.  Again, will this person 
be sympathetic to Dumbledore or Voldemort?  Or simply another 
politician who loves only power and tries to stay oblivious to the 
world around him/her?

Other important needs include Muggle-born and Half-blood witches, 
wizards, and students
 particularly if you are willing to have your 
character's "extended family" be a ready target for DE games and 
attacks.  The war is coming out into the open, and we need plenty 
of "canon fodder" without killing off our player-characters!

Malfoy Senior and Junior would like to have the Crabbes and Goyles 
in play.  Many canon Death Eaters and Order Members are still 
available.

We prefer mature players (age 16 and over).  The vast majority of 
our players are adults age 20 and over.  We maintain a high-quality 
of character development and a good balance between encouraging 
people to be creative with their characters without becoming "Mary 
Sues" or "Gary Stus".  Currently we have more female characters than 
male, and more `good guys' than `bad guys'.

If you are curious, the homepage can be found here:

http://www.hauntedchambers.net