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Please Help 1 Million+ Children in the Philippines - Donate to UNICEF
!Headmaster Danilo
– 2009-10-13 01:15:07
Over 1 million children have been affected by Typhoon Ketsana, and UNICEF is working around the clock to meet their needs. You can help.
If you'd like to make a donation to this cause I will give you donator points in exchange for doing so. Either make a donation on UNICEF's secure online form by clicking here. Please note you will need to provide me with a receipt of your donation to receive donator points.
Alternatively, you may owl or email me, headmaster@hogwartslive.com, your PayPal transaction number after making a donation via the "PayPal Site Admin" button and I'll add your funds to my next donation to UNICEF at the end of the month. Keep in mind this method is not tax deductible as is the case when you use UNICEF's official form.
There are also other ways to support UNICEF aside from donating, please visit: UNICEF's Other Ways to Give Page
Message from a Player
!TheLegacy SpinalRemains
– 2009-10-08 18:51:47
***Update from Diana***
Hi everyone,
I have some good news for you! Turns out Rosie doesn't have cancer! The reason we found out now was because a new doctor was given charge of her case and analyzed the scans she got completely wrong. She says she still loves emails from you all, and she wants to thank everyone who has emailed her already. :)
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Diana
Message from DianaTheDaring:
My friend Rosie has cancer. Bone cancer to be exact. She just had her first chemo treatment last week and didn't react to it all that well. [Normal stuff, but a little worse, shes so delicate. :(] Well, she is my best, and only real life friend. She is going to have chemo once a month for 6 or so months, then a surgery to remove the tumor. Rosie should be better in a year at most. When she played here on HL, her name was "HarryPotterLover", though she never talked. She used to come over to my house, she would watch me play sometimes. I just need lots of prayers and support for her.
She also loves getting emails, and since I'm her only real life friend, I'm the only one who visits her, other than family of course. But Annabelle, Leto, and ADS have emailed her a few times already, and she loves it.
Her email is:
rosieposiepuddingpie101@yahoo.com
She'd love encouraging emails, and she always answers them (when not to weak to type).
Referrals Now Working
!Headmaster Danilo
– 2009-09-28 09:16:49
Some of you may have noticed that referrals weren't working properly.
They should function perfectly fine now.
Don't know what referrals are?
Under the --Other-- section in the left-hand navigation click on "Refer a Friend." This will give you a referral link (URL/web address) that looks something like: http://www.hogwartslive.com/r/Username
Give this link to your friends or post it on forums, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and when people sign up for HL using your referral link they will show up under "Accounts which you referred:" on the "Refer a Friend" page you got the link from.
Once any player you refer reaches level 10 you get 50 free referral/donator points, which can be used inside the Prefect's Lounge to get cool stuff like a custom title.
Awesome right? I thought so, now go get some free points and maybe make some new friends!
Bad Navs
!TheLegacy SpinalRemains
– 2009-09-12 16:10:06
Many of you are getting bad navs, and lately I've noticed a lot are user errors. Here are a few things that cause bad navs:
1.) Refreshing your page with your browsers refresh button. If you need to refresh, you the refresh under chats.
2.) Playing in multiple windows(or tabs). You don't need to chat and level at the same time.
3.) Clicking the back button on your browser. It won't bring you back to your previous page, so its pointless to click.
4.) Timing out and logging back in during a special/event. Also, if you die in PVP and time out before clicking Daily News, you'll end up being killed again and losing experience again when you log back in.
5.) Typing or pasting the URL instead of clicking.
6.) Pressing F5 or Ctrl R(which will refresh the page) can cause them too.
7.) Clicking something before a page is fully loaded.
These are some things that cause it so avoid doing them. Sometimes it can be the code itself, but a lot of petitions lately are user caused errors.
If you have bad navs you cannot get off of, petition right away. Do not sit there and wait days and then send rude petitions because of it. If you choose to wait to petition, that is not our fault do not take it out on us.
PETITION ONLY ONCE. Petitioning more just takes us longer to get to fixing because we have to sit there and close all your petitions. We'll get to it when we get on.
Getting rid of Hogwarts Live Downtime!
!Headmaster Danilo
– 2009-08-14 09:57:08
So, I'm sure you've noticed the site crashes a lot. Alchemist Edmund has had a solution to this problem for a while now. Guess what? I finally decided to implement it. This solution is likely to cost a lot more than our current setup. Because of this we'll be testing it to see if this price is within reason (i.e. can be covered by our average monthly donations). If so you'll all get to experience a relatively stable (meaning little to no downtime) Hogwarts Live. I know I've promised no downtime before but considering the nature of this solution and its ability to scale it should effectively eliminate prolonged periods of time where you can't access your favorite game! I should warn you though it's possible that we'll be trading speed for stability. With that said I think we'll all prefer a slower HL as long as we can get on whenever we want. ^_^
Azkatraz is Over, Listen into the Fun
!Edmunds Ghost
– 2009-08-06 11:17:02
The podcast of our own session at Azkatraz (Wizarding Physics: Gamp and Beyond) will be up in a few days (I just got my copy of the recording of it), but in the mean time, you can hear the Wizards.FM panel in another podcast recording at Azkatraz which went up last night.
While at Azkatraz all 3 primary members of the Wizards.FM panel, myself, my wife Barbara (SerenityRose) and Mike Johnson (MikeCrim) auditioned for parts in the SpellCast Podcast Play.
I was cast as the role of Hagrid, Barbara was one of the Narrators, and Mike was a Love Sick Dementor... and he was playing the role of... a Love Sick Dementor.
Anyway it was a lot of fun, and I hope you like it.
Check out Summer: Live from Azkatraz on the SpellCast podcast, and if you like fanfiction and radio drama, give SpellCast a listen in general, they do dramatic readings of Harry Potter Fanfiction, and more Podcast Plays, it's a lot of fun, you can find them at SpellcastPodcast.com.
Stay Tuned for Wizards.FM Live from Azkatraz, later this weekend.
Harry Potter's Birthday
!WooHoo WitchyWoman
– 2009-07-26 22:25:31
As you can see by our Countdown to HP's Birthday, the day is drawing near. In celebration of this, we are having not one, but two raffles!
To enter, simply click on Candy Raffle on the left and use all those Bertie Bott's Beans you've been saving to buy your tickets!
As always, it only takes 1 ticket to win! Good luck!
It's Harry's Birthday, but you get the present, Real Bertie Botts Beans
Beans per Ticket: 5
Trade in your fake Bertie Botts Beans for a chance to win a bag of real Bertie Botts beans! 4 Winners will be announced at 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Harry Potter's Birthday (July 31st)
Raffle Runs From 1969-12-31 to 2009-07-31
There are 4 days, 20 hours, 38 minutes and 39 seconds left to purchase tickets in this raffle.
Ride in Style, a custom mount!
Beans per Ticket: 15
1 Lucky Winner will win a custom mount, don't like the brooms and dragons we have available, always wanted something a little special? Enter this raffle for a one-of-a-kind mount available just to you! Winner will be announced on Harry Potter's Birthday, July 31st at 7 p.m. Pacific Time.
Raffle Runs From 1969-12-31 to 2009-07-31
There are 4 days, 20 hours, 38 minutes and 39 seconds left to purchase tickets in this raffle.
New Day Timer
!WooHoo WitchyWoman
– 2009-07-21 12:00:23
The live new day timer which counts down until the new game day is not working right now. The game days are still set to be 1h 30m and that IS functioning correctly- just the time displayed is off.
Each village has an in-game clock however and so when that reads 12:00am (midnight) the new day will start.
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