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I'm pleased to announce that, continuing with Christmas tradition, the Academics Department will be holding a 24 Hours of Classes! This will take place on Saturday December 21st, from midnight PST until 11pm PST!

How does it work?

• On the hour every hour, a new class will start!
• Each class will be approximately an hour in length to give yourself time to get to the next one if you choose
• The normal class schedule will be suspended for 24 hours - none of those classes will happen, and we will follow the special 24 Hours of Classes schedule instead.

You can find the schedule for the day below, showing which professors will be teaching, what subject and when during the day they will happen! Note that there is a chance this schedule could change slightly if necessary.

Hopefully we can see you all there!

Hello everyone!

As we have reached December, a very beloved holiday month, we have enabled all holiday items on our webstore found here.

In addition to this, we have released some new store items:
We hope you'll enjoy these new items!

The Winter Waltz is here and this year it is being held at Dormunstrad! Though the people of Dormunstrad were prepared for a wonderful holiday, they’ve come to face a terrible problem. An unknown force has cursed Dormunstrad, freezing many of the main locations of the school with cursed ice. Talk to Kevin, in Hogsworth’s Great Hall Courtyard, to begin your adventure.

Gameplay
Forge Bluefyre in order to unfreeze five key locations in the castle! Bluefyre requires a few items found around the castle, as well as Holiday Spirit, which can be earned from most gameplay in the event. Unfreezing each location will unlock new rewards to purchase with Snowflakes. There are also many puzzles that can be found throughout the castle and a unique Escape Room challenge!

Additionally, Sledding, Snowballing and Wand Spleef has been enabled while the event is active. Enjoy these exclusive minigames for the next month!

Advent Calendar
The Advent Calendar has returned this year! Every two days, a new reward is available to collect from the Christmas trees at the entrance of Dormunstrad.

Rewards
Old favourites have returned, as well as new ones! The list of rewards is as follows:
- NEW! North Pole Wand Appearance
- NEW! Bluefyre Staff Wand Appearance
- NEW! Wreath Hat
- NEW! Snowman Bag
- NEW! Scarf of Perseverence
- NEW! Bluefyre
- Dormunstrad Staff Wand Appearance
- Mistletoe Staff Wand Appearance
- Christmas Tree Broom Appearance
- Sled Broom Appearance
- Green Christmas Hat
- Cowboy Santa Hat
- Snowman Hat
- Christmas Tree Hat
- Snow Beanie Hat
- Reindeer Lights Antlers Hat
- Holiday Antlers Hat
- Mistletoe Crown Hat
- Christmas Snowball Spell

Hello everyone!

We are celebrating Black Friday with 30% off all items until Monday, December 2nd!
Check out the store here.

As the holiday season approaches, it is time to prepare for the Winter Waltz tournaments! The way these work are similar to normal tournaments, however you get to pick your teams and there are no qualifiers.

This year, both Dueling and Flying will have two tournaments, Duos and Teams. Duos are teams of two and Teams are teams of four. The Duos tournament will be held on December 7th, while the Teams tournament will be held on December 14th. You can sign yourself and friends up for Dueling here, and for Flying here.

As is now tradition with Winter Waltz tournaments, along with the regular rewards, special collectables are up for grabs! The firework launcher will be given to the winning teams, and a collectable with a custom spell to display the winner's Minecraft heads will be given to the winning duos.

Hope to see you all there!

Hello everyone!

The Media department is pleased to announce that we are reopening the Director Intern application after the role has been reworked. We are very excited to welcome new members to the team!

What has changed?
We have made the Director Intern more like an intern. As a Director Intern, you will be creating videos for the Potterwatch channel under the supervision of a Sr. Director or a Media Lead. As a Director Intern, you will be learning skills to help you improve video creation and editing, and you will learn the standards we have for Potterwatch. The major difference between the old Director Intern and the new Director Intern is that now we do not expect people to already have great video creation skills. We welcome people who know the basics but who are also still learning.

Applications will be open indefinitely. Take your time with filling in the application and creating a test video. There's no rush to apply! If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Head of Media or another member of Head Staff.

Click here to find the application, and good luck!

Hey everyone! It’s been nearly a week since the release of the daily streaks login, and here’s what we’ve learned from it, what we’re doing about it, and what to expect.

Reverting the update
After careful consideration, we’ve come to the decision to revert the streaks update, whilst we take the time needed to fix the bugs that has been occurring with it. We know that reverting updates is not fun, and trust me, it is even less fun for us, but with the amount of bugs the daily streaks is having, it’s something we have to do at this point in time to ensure a good gameplay experience for everyone.

Why we’re making this decision
We want to be transparent with all of you and explain why we’re making this decision:

1. We miscalculated the bonus experience rewards by a long shot. In some cases, players were rewarded over 20 million experience.
2. A lot of player’s streaks were resetting at random times, when they were not supposed to reset.
3. The daily login streaks itself weren’t optimal. Some of you might have noticed, but the bonus rewards were delayed by 1 second. If someone logged out before this 1 second arrived, they would not get the reward which is bad player experience and unwanted.
4. We didn’t test this release carefully and thoroughly enough.

So, what now?
We’ll be reverting the daily login reward to the old one. For the next 7 days, every time you claim the reward, you’ll be rewarded 25 gold as an accommodation for this release. This will only last for the next 7 days, so be sure to get on to get the bonus!

We don’t know when the daily login streaks will be back, but we promise it’ll be back much better than before, as we will be improving the functionality as well as fixing the bugs.

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Witches and wizards, today we bring you an update from the development team! A new method of earning gold and Potter Points is here!

What are daily login streaks?
Daily login streaks are our new way of encouraging players to join the server on a consistent basis. This way, if you log in multiple days in a row, the reward you get for claiming your daily reward gradually increases, and continues to do so based on the streak amount. Graduates receive a larger gold bonus, whilst non-graduates receives a very large experience bonus.

Once you’ve reached the tenth consecutive daily login, the login streak will reset and you will be rewarded 25 Potter Points.

Balancing changes
With this, we’ve made a few changes to graduate rewards. Instead of receiving 50 gold for simply claiming your daily reward, you now receive 25 gold by default. However, as your login streak increases, the total gold reward will exceed 50 gold.

The daily reward also no longer resets at midnight, but instead receives a 23 hour and 30 minute cooldown from the moment you claim your reward.

We hope you enjoy this update! Thank you all for your continuous support!