More Information-Hogwarts Student Life

General Information: Hogwarts Changes

The largest magical school in the UK Hogwarts has had to adapt recently after centuries of status quo due to the blooming numbers of Muggleborn surviving long enough to receive their letter.

Wired:

Easily the biggest change to the school is that every building is wired for electricity. What had stumped many Muggleborn was no problem for five Time Lords, a Fact, and several of the best Unspeakables from the Department of Mysteries. Because of this torches are no longer used to light rooms and corridors, having been replaced by modern electric lighting.

The Hogwarts Phone Network:

With the electricity on Hogwarts has updated. One of the major updates is the new phone network. Each room has a landline, students too, and the whole network is controlled by three switchboards manned by specially trained House-Elves. Each phone can call to any other phone on campus and for a fee any muggle phone in England.

Computers:

There are at least five hundred computers and typewriters in the castle itself. Most are in the Computer Labs. Each unit is numbered and the students sign in with each use. There are also six dozen fax machines, copiers, and printers.

Each staff member has a personal computer or typewriter, printer, copier, and fax machine. The staff fax machines are on a separate network to allow faxing between colleagues as need be.

General Information: Students ID Card:

All Hogwarts students are given identification cards the day after the Sorting. This card holds an up-to-date photo of the student and information such as Full Name, House, Year, Gender and a student ID number containing the first two letters of the student's first name and then three to four digits. This card is all important to life at Hogwarts as to do anything but eat, go to classes, and sleep you use the card. Each card is also attached to a funding account. Parents, siblings, guardians, or other family members can input funds which can then be used at the Student Shoppe to buy treats, sweets, and supplies. Students can also earn funds by earning House points (10 points=1 Knut(US $.01, UK £.02)) however the loss of points does not mean the loss of funds. That is illegal.

Classes:

Classes are an hour long each. Both magical subjects, such as Potions, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and muggle subjects, such as Sciences, Mathematics, and Language Arts, are taught at Hogwarts for a well-rounded education and to allow future adults to walk in both the Magical and Muggle Worlds. The days switch off between muggle and magical subjects, (i.e. Monday might be magical day for First, Third, and Fifth Years while Tuesday is muggle day for them).

In Seventh Year students are required to take three more classes, although they won't be tested for NEWTs in them.

-Home Management: Here they are taught both the magical and muggle ways to run a household, cooking, cleaning, and such. They are also taught how to manage finances.

-Magical Laws: A course in the laws of the magical world of the UK, Commonwealth Countries, and most English-speaking communities.

-Muggle Life: A course in the ways of Muggles in the UK, Commonwealth Countries, and most English-speaking communities , such as customs, traditions, common laws, culture and such.

In Year Three Students must choose at least two electives but no more than four. Students have many subjects to choose from including Foreign Languages.

The Foreign Language Classes are grouped into two groupings, Ancient (Dead or Archaic) and Modern (Living). These classes are offered based on surveys and sign-ups. Meaning one year may have some classes while the next may not others.

The Ancient (Dead or Archaic) classes are:

Classical Latin

Ancient Greek

Early English

Middle English

The Modern (Living) classes are:

Gaelic

Irish

Welsh

Portuguese

Spanish

German

French

Russian

The Potion Complex:

Due to the dangerous nature of Potion and Chemistry classes, a new state of the art building was constructed. This building has 24 classrooms, on two floors. The walls and floors are warded and constructed to withstand any sort of explosion or fire or any sort of accident that could happen. Each classroom has large windows that can and usually are opened, an emergency shower stall that can fit seven adults at once, a sprinkler system, and a specialized venting system for the fumes.

The first floor is for Potion Classes and the second floor is for Chemistry.

There is are the third and fourth floor which house the Teachers that teach those classes. The Potion Complex is close to the Greenhouses.

Tutoring:

There is a school wide tutoring program for every class offered. Either the teachers or students with good grades are the tutors although if need of a subject is great the school will hire a professional tutor.

The Student Shoppe:

Run by the same woman that pushes the sweet cart on the Hogwarts Express, a squib named Elizabeth Johnson, The Student Shoppe carries all manner of things. Most importantly are school supplies, such as writing utensils, notebooks and parchment, and textbooks and workbooks. The Shoppe also sells sweets and goodies and apparel, both themed and not themed. Plus microwaves, kettles, tea cups, and teas. The Shoppe is the main reason that Hogwarts instituted the Student ID Cards and Fund Accounts.

Sports:

Two sports are played at Hogwarts in an official capacity, Quidditch and Football. To qualify for any team a student must maintain a GPA that averages at Acceptable. And be able to complete the try outs of course. Games are alternated on weekends and both use the same pitch.

Each House fields two teams for each sport;

(House) Junior Quidditch Team ((H)JQT): First to Fourth Years.

(House) Senior Quidditch Team ((H)SQT): Fourth to Seventh Years

(House)Junior Football Team ((H)JFT): First to Fourth Years

(House) Senior Football Team (H)SFT): Fourth To Seventh Years

Clubs:

There are many clubs and organizations at Hogwarts, each being overseen by a sponsoring staff member. GPAs of Acceptable are the baseline grade to join and maintain membership in a club.

The Hogwarts Herald:

The school newspaper, put out twice weekly, Sunday and Wednesday. This newspaper includes a timetable for upcoming events, a sports column, an advice column, a fashion column, personals (lost items found, services offered, things for sale, and dating things), political column, and a comics section. Articles rotate in appearance although the timetable is in every run. Sixth and Seven Years allowed to join only, unless a student is personally recommended by a professor. Members are identifiable by the small beaded trumpet worn below their House patch. For a galleon a student can buy a year –long subscription or they can by the paper for a sickle as it is published.

Student Lounges:

In the castle itself there are four student common rooms, open to all students. These have comfy furniture and a bar for snacks and drinks.

Study Halls:

There is a study hall for each subject for the students to use. Each is designed for that specific subject and is overseen by a staff member. Years are sequestered in different places within the rooms themselves. Each room also has a small bank of computers, three fax machines, four copiers, and a printer for every two computers.

Gymnasiums:

The castle has four Gymnasiums for the students to use and one for the staff. Each Gymnasium has changing rooms and lockers for the students to use. Each student is assigned a combination lock at the beginning of the year. The student Gymnasium on the ground floor has a heated indoor pool.

House Halls:

General Information: Kids are paired up and two share one dorm room. Their dorms are supposed to be their homes away from homes. Each room has a sliding panel of wood going down the middle along a groove. This is for privacy reasons.

Dorm Room Set Up

Pairing Up the Students:

At the beginning of each school year students are sent a package of a questionnaire in order to match them with a dorm-mate, of their House, of similar temperament, interests, and sleep schedule. Dorm-mates will always be the same gender, unless there is blood relation and the parents request so, and year.

The Standard Room:

Each dorm room has the following furniture provided.

-Two Metal Framed Loft Beds. Saves space. Usually decorated in the house colors (IE, Gryffindor will have golden colored frames and lion paws as feet, with red or scarlet school given linens.)

-Two chest of drawers under the beds. These chests have multiple compartments, including a large one for the potion supplies.

-A bookcase. Wood, color coordinated with the walls.

-Wall hooks.

-A hamper for dirty things.

-A landline phone.

Any other things students must bring from home or buy from the school or shops in Hogsmeade. Many will coordinate with their new dorm-mate.

Students Usually Bring:

-Shoe caddy

-Alarm clocks and radios

-Comfy chairs

-Calendars

-Night-lights (Usually used by first and second years only, though some older kids still use them too)

-Family Photographs.

-Welcome mat.

-Kettles and tea services.

-Microwave

Dorm Life:

The students are responsible for their own rooms and obeying the rules. Failure to do so will result in loss of points and/or a detention for repeated offenses.

Lights Out:

To force students to actually sleep, bedtimes have been instituted for the lower years.

First Years have a bedtime of 8 pm.

Second Years go at 9 pm.

Third Years and Fifth Years (because the stress of OWLs can cause insomnia and students trying to pull all-nighters) have a bedtime of 10 pm.

Contraband:

Items that are illegal by law or school regulations. Most only earn detention but a select few will earn immediate expulsion and being handed into the custody of the Department Magical Law Enforcement. These items include:

-Love, lust, or other behavior-changing potions not prescribed by a certified Healer for a medical condition. (Such prescribed items should still be in the control of the student's Heads of House.)

-Muggle Medication or drugs. (Such prescribed items should still be in the control of the student's Heads of House.)

-Dark objects such as cursed jewelry and Blood Quills.

-Guns and other explosives. (Unless given special permission by several officials).

House Structure:

Because of the large number of students the structuring of the house system had to be remodeled.

Heads of House: Each House has two Heads of House, one woman and one man. This is so that boys and girls who are not comfortable talking to a staff member of the opposite gender about personal problems do not need to. The Heads stay in the Halls with their students and have no other permanent duties. Most have trained in psychology or mind-healing. They also handle all medication, muggle and magical, and distribution at the required times.

Head Students: Each House has it's own Head Boy and Head Girl who oversee the Prefects and coordinate with the Heads of House as best as they can. These two students are always Seventh Years. Out of the eight combined total of Head Students the staff pick out the Head Boy and Head Girl of Hogwarts. If a Prefect has a problem they go to one of their advising Head Students who will then go to the Heads of House if they can't fix it. Outside of the House Hall House-Head Students are subordinate to the Hogwarts Head Students.

Prefects: The glorified Hall-monitors, minders and adopted Big Brothers and Sisters of the Houses. There are twelve, six boys, six girls, in total. Two pairs from Fifth Year, two pairs from Sixth Year, and two pairs from Seventh. They are the ones that enforce curfews, the ones breaking up fights and other day-to-day things in the House Hall. The Seventh Year pair is always assigned to watch over the First Year students. The Prefects tend to be kind, compassionate, and very family driven.

Other Info:

-Members of other houses can enter House Halls during a specific time of day, usually afternoons.

-Prefects and the Head Students have single rooms, due to their hours of duty. These are half the size of the usual two-person dorms and have all the same amenities.

-If a student has a medical condition, physical, mental, or emotional, that may disrupt the sleep of other students, they can be assigned to a single room. These are half the size of the usual two-person dorms and have all the same amenities.

-Every two dorms share an en-suite with two toilets, two showers, two sinks, and a bathtub.

Teacher Quarters:

Most teachers reside in the castle itself but a few reside elsewhere.

The Potion and Chemistry teachers live in The Potion Complex.

The Herbology and Botany teachers live in a Hall near the Greenhouses.

The Care of Magical Creature teachers live in a Hall within the first few feet of the Forbidden Forest tree-line.