Summer Camp Is Here!

It's Summer Time!

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is opening its gate once more to host a summer camp on its Campgrounds. All international schools have been invited to join this camp too. This year, the camp will officially be open from 1st July to 31st July 2023. Students who wish to attend will be required to participate for the whole month before they go straight back to their respective countries. Hogwart students will go home via the Hogwarts Express, as usual.

Over the course of the month, students will be able to participate in a variety of activities. There will also be plenty of free time to explore the campgrounds and hang out with friends. The castle will be closed and off-limits during this time and everyone will be provided with a cabin to stay in, including the professors.

Advice for First Years:
IC you will be sorted in September, at the official Sorting Ceremony. However, you are welcome to attend Summer Camp two months earlier (arriving at Hogwarts on 1st July instead for a month).

You will have received a letter from Hogwarts/International School staff, in which we invite you to come and spend the month in our company already. This is to prepare you for school regulations. Hogwarts first year students will be asked to meet in Diagon Alley, where they'll be able to portkey to the school. You will still do your usual train + boat entrance on 1st Sept with all other first years who didn't come to camp. (iNPC first-year students will come & leave as per the Advice for iNPCs).

If you are attending summer camp, please remember that in character you have not been sorted yet. Your character will be unaware of the house they are going to be in. They will be sorted in Sept, on their first day.

Advice for iNPCs:
iNPCs are welcome to join the camp too. Each school will be providing a portkey from their respective schools for their students on the morning of the 1st of July directly to Hogwarts, for those wishing to attend camp.

Advice to those who wish to have dNPCs:
No dNPC parents or guardians can attend the event, nor can any siblings or other dNPCs that do not attend Hogwarts. No dNPCs from any of the other schools are able to attend.

If you have a dNPC sibling that goes to Hogwarts, you can briefly mention them as being there. However, brief interactions are left to private threads. They cannot be roleplayed at moderated events or activities or official threads and details cannot be mentioned (i.e. you cannot say they are in a specific cabin, because they aren't on the official allocation list). So, essentially, a vague mention of them being at camp and existing is fine but please don't include them heavily in your posts.

The Important Details

Travelling to Camp:
In character - On the 1st of July, students from Hogwarts who are staying for camp will move from their dorms to the campgrounds. All international schools will provide a portkey from their respective schools to Hogwarts. First Year Hogwarts students will also come by portkey.

Accommodation:
Students sign up for camp in advance and they will be given their cabin assignments on arrival. To sign up for camp and receive a dormitory, please visit this thread [LINK].

[OOC Note: Cabin assignments will be allocated as and when we can. You will not be able to visit other cabins in character but there are plenty of activities outside]

Activities and Events:
More information on activities and events will be released at the start of camp. There will be Quidditch, Broom Racing and Duelling games, as well as a variety of camp activities for people to partake in. There will also be plenty of free time for their own activities, as well as descriptions of various areas that they may wish to explore.

Currently Revealed List of Summer Events:

⇾ Sugar Fair: On the 1st of July, Hogwarts students move from their dorms down to the cabins and iNPCs will portkey in shortly before the fair. This is the best place to meet people once you arrive. [LINK]

⇾ DIY Fair: On the 4th to 6th of July, the DIY fair is open for students to come along and get crafty. There are several options of what you can make! [LINK]

⇾ Niffler Hunt: On the 14th of July, there are nifflers around and they'll help you find some prizes! Plus you get to hang out with cute nifflers! [LINK]

⇾ Pet Fair: Got a pet? Or perhaps you want to meet some pets? On the 15th of the month, check out the pet fair and show off your adorable pets! [LINK]

⇾ Gnome Racing: Students can make their own garden gnome at the gnome workshops during the first fortnight of camp and then race them on the 17th of July. May the best gnome win! [LINK]

IC Calendar:
1st - Travel to Hogwarts, Sugar Fair
2nd -
3rd - *
4th - DIY Fair [LINK]
5th - DIY Fair [LINK]
6th - DIY Fair [LINK]
7th -
8th - Reserved for broom racing
9th - Reserved for broom racing
10th -
11th -
12th -
13th -
14th - Niffler Hunt [Sign up thread]
15th - Pet Fair
16th -
17th - Gnome Races [Sign up thread]
18th -
19th -
20th - Build-A-Bug Hotel
21st -
22nd - Duelling Tournament
23rd -
24th -
25th -
26th -
27th -
28th -
29th - Uagadou-Mahoutokoro vs. Ilvermorny [Game|Spectator], Mahoutokoro-Koldovstoretz vs. Beauxbatons-Castelobruxo [Game|Spectator], Hogwarts vs. Durmstrang [Game|Spectator]
30th -
31st - iNPCs portkey back to their schools, and then go home from there. Hogwarts students will all go back by train.

* As a special note for the 3rd of July. This night involves a full moon. All werewolf children will be escorted by Professor Iwasaki to the shack, where they get to spend the night like they are used to. The day after (4th of July), they will be escorted back to the campgrounds. For non-werewolves, please remember not to metagame and 'know' their character is a werewolf without OOC permission from the player.

Daily IC Schedule

7am - 9am: Breakfast
12pm - 2pm: Lunch
6pm - 8pm: Dinner

Curfew Rules:
Students are not permitted to leave cabins before 6am, without permission.
Students may not be outside of the cabins after 9pm, without permission.

Important OOC Notes

• Any Summer Camp threads that take place must be in the Campgrounds board and you can't roleplay elsewhere on the grounds/castle (aka IC, in July, you have to stay in campgrounds if at camp).
• All students will be required to go home on 1st August. You cannot stay at Hogwarts/school.
• Every student is required to have a parent/guardian to stay with and a home to stay in for the entire time they aren't at school.
• Summer Camp [July] is optional. However, if you attend, you will there for the entire camp and can't 'go back and forth'.
• Incoming First Years are permitted to attend but your character won't know their house until Sept 1st, when the official sorting ceremony takes place.
• All students will be allowed to forward date threads by three months, until 1st of Sept. However, we advise that if you are attending camp, you avoid forward dating too much as the events of the camp might affect your character in unexpected ways or meet characters that you already met at camp. Have a read of the latest forward dating guide here if you plan to do this.

The Cabins are to be the students' homes for the next month. Students are allocated to a cabin, once they have signed up for the event. When students arrive at camp, on the first of August, they are given their cabin assignments and led directly to the cabin so they can settle in.

OOC Note: If you haven't got a cabin and would like one, please sign up for your cabin assignment here [LINK].

Eight log cabins provided lodging for campers, each one with a beast-bearing flag for which they were named. Three were the Avian cabins: Augurey, Occamy, and Phoenix. Across from these were the three Equine cabins: Thestral, Kelpie, and Unicorn. At either end were two cabins intended for adults only but for this year's festivities repurposed for student use: the Hippogriff and Dragon cabins. Those creatures occupying the enchanted flags mutely flexed in a constant show of "friendly" competition: beating wings, clacking beaks, stamping hooves, and soundlessly tossing their heads.

Every structure appeared deceptively humble in size on the outside, while the interiors were enlarged by extension charms, making them wide beyond means and quite comfortable. These were fully furnished with curtained bunks, personal chests, dressers, wood-burning stoves, and plush floor rugs. The layouts were strikingly similar to the dorm rooms back at the castle. Rather than having House themes, however, they featured nuances of the beast on their flag.

Augurey [LINK]

The muted but beautiful furnishing of the cabin is a combination of grey-brown woods and muted green linens. What it lacks in colour, it makes up for in its serenity. An expansion charm leaves adequate, comfortable seating. [Image Link] [Image Link]. The space always smells like a field after a soft rain and when looking out the window, regardless of the weather outside a gentle patter can be heard on a tin roof that sounds like rainfall as well as evidence of a light drizzle when gazing out a window. There is something rather tranquil and serene about the whole atmosphere of these cabins. It was almost like they were on a peaceful retreat, in the middle of nowhere.

The sleeping arrangements were beds that were simple bunks, each privately curtained for some semblance of privacy [Image Link] with a personal trunk assigned to each student at the bottom of the bed. Regardless of the weather outside, the gentle patter continued at night to help people sleep to the soothing sounds of the rain.

Augurey Cabin Members:
Chaperone: Sabine Blumenthal

1. André Lebedev as Ritsu Okazaki
2. Simon Kincaid
3. Lily Isobel McCoire
4. Duvessa Ember as Angelique Selemine
5. Anastasia Varney as Astrid Olsen
6. Mellani Miller
7. Cassie Jiang
8. Alexandra Hampsworth
9. Kayla Realma as Estelle Hughes
10. Mahlioz Evethisawe as Zophyr Qethnis
11. Bubba McGarry as Christopher Runnels
12. Lucian Mornstern as Alaric (Leopold) Havertz
13. Avery Chen
14. Cicely Woods as Hana Kokoro
15. Courtney O'Riley
16. Pax Zhang as Chiaki Hiroi
17. Serena Bowen
18. Delilah Stewart
19. Hanako Tone as Sara Kohana
20. Monica Evans
21. Cassandra Ironwoods
22. Topaz November

Occamy [LINK]

The brightest and most 'modern' appearing cabin, clean lines and white walls. The furnishings are brightly coloured - deep purples and bright teals. The light fixtures look modern, but in truth, the shades hide several brightly burning candles. [Image Link]. There are no precocious silver eggs to protect, a true academic in this setting the house protects their books which they proudly display. The books describe a number of mundane and fascinating subjects, however, students need to act quickly if they wish to steal a book from the wall. A child that is too slow will find a dozen or so ribbon bookmarks reach out for them and attempt to tether them (or simply tie them up) in place. They would require the rescue of their peers. (No, the ribbons will not cause any harm). One would think that students would simply leave the books alone at this point but far too prideful and upperclassmen too humoured to warn the lowerclassmen, it is almost a right of passage for first-time dwellers to make this mistake.

The sleeping quarters is as the youngsters would say "extra" [Image Link]. While the beds themselves appeared rather humble, the walls perhaps even plain, there was a large communal space in the centre of a large room. Many nights the students would forego their bunks and sleep in the heart of the room on oversize beanbag pillows or spend the night chatting.

Occamy Cabin Members:
Chaperone: Nancy McLoughlin

1. Sage Willows as Sabrina Ortega
2. Zach Zaphiere
3. Aida Mòrsgor-Ama Ellwood as Valentin Schnell
4. Ara Villa
5. Raizel Voltrouz as Miharu Goto
6. Emma Wynn as Louca Dufort
7. Regina Miller as Henri de Bourbon
8. Tristan Theramin as Gellert Shroeder
9. Avery McCall
10. Opeila Winters as Theodore Duncain
11. Julia Jenkins
12. Cassie Jiang as Mira Hawkins
13. Clair Fernandez
14. Daphne Sapphirus
15. Jacob Shank
16. Menia Eve Calin
17. Vale Ashwood
18. Victor Steiner
19. Mari Alves
20. Hera Green
21. Jaime Doon as Einin Volkov
22. Elijah Ace

Phoenix [LINK]

A more rustic alternative inspired by fire and rebirth. Reclaimed wood, exposed rafters. The actual cabin truly resembled a... cabin. [Image Link] One of the most distinctive features here is the fireplaces [Image Link] which are large, imposing and beautiful. Another unusual attribute that sadly has not extended to the rest of the school is that the cabin is fireproof. A fact that is not well-known to students as historically children did not casually set one another or their setting on fire (this crop being the exception) but attempts to set oneself, others or the furnishings on fire would be met with a temporary, painless cool flame (unless the fires started in the fireplaces).

Another aspect of interest is the bunk beds. Simple, clean and comfortable. These bunks do not possess the curtains the other bunks boast, however, there is a bit more privacy in this cabin regardless because rather than a single, large shared room or a small handful, each room only houses two students. The rooms are well lit, clean, and comfortable. Although a bit small, they offer a pair of bunks, a pair of writing desks and ample trunk space for their belongings as well as the privacy of a shut door. [Image Link] Professors do not trust students enough to allow boys and girls (or couples) to cohabitate in the same very private bedroom (nice try).

Phoenix Cabin Members:
Chaperone: Octavius Baird

1. Akina Briarwood
2. Ethan Smith
3. Fang Hui-Ying as Klaus Havertz
4. Bubba McGarry
5. Alyssea Brown
6. Ara Villa as Kanae Suzuki
7. Hannah Blossom as Lorelai Diniz
8. Beatrice Dupont as Maila Aurora Laine
9. Beatrice Langstreth as Agata Rios Matos
10. Julia Jenkins as Olli Laine
11. Opeila Winters
12. Koko Riddle as Cyrus Darsel
13. Alma Stoll
14. Colin McCoire as Izîl Izri
15. Daphne Sapphirus as Seraphina Thakore
16. Lucy Hendriks as Théo Lefèvre
17. Rebecca Loops as Kissa Nasir
18. Lindsey Springhall
19. Illowy Magnard
20. Annie Morgan as Milosh Rehnquist
21. Cassius Eden
22. Diana Bushey

Thestral [LINK]

An eerie sort of cabin, the truth be said. Like the ephemeral nature of death, this cabin is also quite... odd. Visible to those assigned to it, students would be seen walking towards an open space and then they would simply... disappear. When students unassigned walk close to the cabin, they can see the humble features of the dwelling quite plainly. Slats of wood laced together neatly, dark and tired, but solid and firm. The door imposing, the image of a thestral embossed on the frame. Inside, the cabin was brighter than one would expect. Not a space full of dread, but rather a space reflective of misunderstanding. [Image Link]. Comfortable with adequate seating, the actual cabin is uniquely quiet, as in the students within cannot hear anything going on outside and those on the outside cannot hear what transpires within. This being a source of a great many rumours. Those who try to peer inside the cabin uninvited would see through the panes simply a dark, empty space. A field of ash and death, one needs to belong to the thestral cabin to understand its strange mysteries.

An outsider can be temporarily offered admittance, much like a vampire entering an abode. Just that time, just that day. Once they cross the threshold to the outside, they wont be able to enter inside. If their invitation is revoked, they would feel themselves pulled away, out the front door and expelled. At least that is the rumor, nobody ever gets past the front door. A professor is often sitting in that common area and often revokes the invitation as soon as a student utters one. The sleeping quarters are simple and clean. Canopied bunk beds, the lowest very close to the floor which some might find unusual and the second a short climb. [Image Link]

Thestral Cabin Members:
Chaperone: Orion Lécuyer

1. Amadea Campbell
2. Jürgen Hess
3. Sage Willows
4. Alexander Harland as Yevgeny Isaevich Ogarev
5. Aly Salinger
6. Kim Sato as Hiro Bakugo
7. Aisley Solace
8. Mellani Miller as Reuben Garcia
9. Kayla Realma
10. Olive Campbell
11. Edward Foxe as Alemayehu Ngeni Bekele
12. Clark Baird as Vladislav Liam Gunther
13. Astrea Soleil Neptune as Johannes Sauer
14. Lucy Hendriks
15. Pax Zhang
16. Vale Ashwood as Chuki was Mwanamke
17. Monica Evans as Maksim Levin
18. Dealla Prince
19. Eun-ji Lee Hunt
20. Akari Kato
21. Ronan Collins
22. Lihn Song

Kelpie [LINK]

Another strange dorm, the actual description of the dorm is ever-changing much like the demon it represents. The sitting area is always the same in terms of the placement of the furniture and what is where (such as a couch being to the left and the right of a space and an ottoman being in the center. Yet sometimes the couches would appear larger, or smaller, the cloth might be leather one day and cloth the next, the colors change wildly as well. Sometimes muted and tasteful hues, other times it looked as if a flock of parrots exploded in the room. However the basic format is always the same: Image Link.

The setting would change at midnight most nights and knowing this most students would leave the "furniture for the changing of seats" as many would call it. Those who decided to ride out the change often found themselves thrown off the unstable chair and thrown across the room. As for the bedrooms, thankfully those changed at noon each day. Built-in bunks in the walls would shift and change, and on occasion spew lazy (it is noon guys, get up) students from their confines. Again the appearance would frequently change but the format would appear roughly the same. [Image Link]

Kelpie Cabin Members:
Chaperone: Mateo Sáez

1. Clair Fernandez as River Fayre
2. Bloom Silverton
3. Aurora Henderson as Roksana Nikolayev Volkov
4. Nico Cirillo
5. Alexx Séverin
6. Danielle Emberwood as Haruka Hayashi
7. AngelFyre McCubbin
8. Ava Winchect
9. Tristan Theramin
10. Avery McCall as Nikolai Ryzhkov
11. Mathias Pride
12. Logan Baird as Rosella Sokolov
13. Aries Scythe
14. Guinevere Russetwood
15. Nara Alora as Mathis Aloysius
16. Winnie Harper as Felix Kolbeck
17. Oliver Brown
18. Tesla Stone
19. Hanako Tone
20. Nora De Carie
21. Meenauh Silmataurea
22. Aaron Jones

Unicorn [LINK]

A house of nightmares to some students, burning retinas to others or perhaps just a bundle of joy. A few students, at some point, exposed the Professors to the muggle representation of unicorns. It was a mistake. This technicolour nightmare - for some - tells you that not everything is art, but it is pretty neat. Other students would likely think it was heaven, it really depends on who you ask or who was lucky (or unlucky) enough to be housed here.

Crawlspaces and nooks can be found throughout this place. [Image Link] There is no large, communal space for gatherings but rather small areas found by trap door, a strange out of place ladder or at the end of a meandering tunnel that students would find themselves in. [Image Link] The bedrooms are almost as comfortable as advertised, however they do in fact resemble clouds when laid upon. [Image Link] Each room is private but there is no space for much besides the king sized bed (only one per bed, we check) and the closet that each student fills with their belongings.

Unicorn Cabin Members:
Chaperone:

1. Piérre Marchonné as Romeo Marchonné
2. Madi McQuade
3. Howard White
4. Danielle Emberwood
5. Anastasia Varney
6. AngelFyre McCubbin as Stephen Schwartz
7. Jack Burnett as Ginyami Midorimori
8. Serena Towers as Arjan Oberoi
9. Ruby Cazares
10. Beatrice Langstreth
11. Erin Ryan
12. Xailah Alptraum
13. Alma Stoll as Annika Novikov
14. Avery Chen as Akira Shimizu
15. Estelle Nyx
16. Ami Procoppio
17. Delilah Stewart as Milo Durand
18. Rafael Waincroft
19. Zykeal Lane
20. Linda Ramirez as Kaya Rose Bennett
21. Nora De Carie as Zendra Blanchet
22. Percival Rainwood as Mikael Halldorson

Hippogriff [LINK]

Eerily similar to the Gryffindor common room and dorms, for those that happen to know. It would still be a very new or different colour scheme for most of Hogwarts, at the very least, or for the visitors. There were lots of red velvets and rich woods. A common area is surrounded by curtained bunks. Each bunk had its own curtain for privacy, with a trunk at the bottom of each dorm. [Image Link]. This dorm was likely a little stricter on the curfew to prevent noisemakers from staying up in the common area all night and preventing anyone from getting any sleep.

There is a minor contrast between this and the Gryffindor area, however and this reason made it one of the most sought after cabins. This is one of two cabins with its own small indoor dining space [image Link], small kitchen and an indoor bathroom [Image Link]. This is because this cabin used to only house the adults. Many of the Professors fought over the honour of staying in this cabin as opposed to the rest due to the self-sufficiency offered here.

Hippogriff Cabin Members:
Chaperone:

1. Simon Kincaid as Miles Thatcher
2. Aurora Henderson
3. Alexander Harland
4. Fang Hui-Ying
5. Seven Finney
6. Aly Salinger as Manu Macedo
7. Lea Hirsch as Katherine Felix
8. Emma Wynn
9. Serena Towers
10. Sophia Fan
11. Ruby Cazares as Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Preobrazhensky
12. Vladimir Athanatos
13. Fang Hui-Ming as Aryaan Shamsi
14. Lilliana Havenmore
15. Percival Gray
16. Phaedra Stavrou as Lysander Stavrou
17. Dealla Prince as Raphael Aveline
18. Hugh Lowe
19. Galton Lansdale
20. Reyna Evergreen as Amber Frost Hart
21. Vivianna Waywater
22. Nerissa Astor

Dragon [LINK]

The greatest tragedy was forcing the Professors out of this cabin [Image Link] Large open seating, this former bar area has had those barrels of Jensen's favorite wine replaced with pumpkin juice and she is none too happy about it - and she made a point of telling Lear her complaints.

There was plenty of dragon motifs that graced the rustic walls and furniture. [Image Link]. This cabin also has a kitchen and a private bath, as it was previously one of the teacher's cabins. The sitting area is comparatively small to the rest of the other cabins, but many found it cozy. [Image Link]. The cabins were recently renovated to accommodate the student population, so large private suites were replaced with sturdy, but plain bunk beds [Image Link]. Yes, students who got this cabin (and Professor(s)), the majority of the faculty officially hate you.

Dragon Cabin Members:
Chaperone:

1. Jack Burnett
2. EmmaLee LeDames
3. Piérre Marchonné
4. Amadea Campbell as Sylviane Favreau
5. Kim Sato
6. Raizel Voltrouz
7. Duvessa Ember
8. Amaris Knight
9. Fang Yun-Xin
10. Pyxis Hellebore
11. Edward Foxe
12. Gideon Athanatos
13. Winnie Harper
14. Fang Hui-Ming
15. Lilliana Havenmore as Kierce Kimball
16. Phaedra Stavrou
17. Paige Mallary
18. Lindsey Springhall as Maximilien de Fostoncy
19. Axyen Dragonclaw
20. Annie Morgan
21. Nicholas McCowan
22. Lief Starr

Description credit goes to Pericles Dralt and Solomon Lear.

OOC Guidelines:
1. Each cabin has a link to a thread that takes place on the first day.
2. It is an optional thread for all members of the cabin, serving as a 'meet and greet' thread if you need it. You do not have to post there but please feel free to.
3. You are permitted to create your own cabin threads at your leisure. Please tag it with the name of your cabin. I.E. [Unicorn]/[Dragon]/Etc and mark it as [PV]/[Open] as usual.
4. Only named cabin members can enter the cabin. Students cannot visit other cabins. The exception is the staff who can enter any cabins for staff matters.
5. Please assume that there is a chaperone in each cabin, regardless of whether or not they actively post. You are not left alone in the middle of the night. Do not godmod them without permission, though.
6. Do NOT post as your iNPC if they haven't been approved. You can sign up and might have been assigned a cabin but do not post until they have been approved.