Lessons don't work. No one goes. Members complain when there are none. Members never go. Teachers don't make them because students never attend.
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What we've been discussing is making a handful of smaller groups so that, essentially, classes are more like tutors and those who dislike large threads but still want the interaction can have them and, hopefully, we'll mix characters heavily embroiled in their own personal plotting with ones that aren't so that the two sets meet, etc.
So, for example, we'd have a teacher.
Say it's Eli - for a start. He teaches DADA.
Instead of having the world and his wife turn up for a massive thread that dies two pages in he'll have four students so there's five people in one thread.
E.g. Eli, Hallie, Cerelia, Della, Grace.
Eli would post, then Hallie, Cer, Della, Grace, Eli etc.
(I stress the need for order here, people. It's necessary and polite - just a general footnote, there)
It's smaller, more likely to create some plotting and it gets the teachers talking more candidly with some of the students.
What I've also been thinking about is getting rid of closed threads in Hogwarts and making it so teachers wander about through them.
As per the teachers - I can't remember who they are but we're going to overhaul Hogwarts and most of the other important jobs and remove those who aren't interested and refuse to be active in favour for the enthusiastic, eager and active.
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