Hogwarts Overhaul

I remember that. With how you separated characters into smaller groups and grouped some students that don't get along or wouldn't normally be paired together.

It went well for a bit, but even with that people stopped replying and the class just kind of died.

When I taught CoMC with Jake, there wasn't much I could find to make up assignments. I don't even remember what I did. All I know was that I couldn't find much to do and then it just died like always.

If classes lasted limited amounts of time it would make a bit more sense, because then it would always be new, and there would be fewer lessons to worry about. We could still keep some of the old ones, and then add new ones as well.

They were supposed to last only two weeks or so, but then comes the problem when two weeks has come and there's only been two posts. Or it's midway through the lesson. It's hard to end it when it's barely begun.

I was thinking that perhaps we could have class threads last a month before being locked down. That way the "professors" have a bit of time to address all the questions, and only have eight or so classes to use for their "grading."

Just a thought.

Just never try Alchemy again.

I taught a class or two.

I ended talking with myself...


Nobody likes Alchemy but me, it seems.

Sorry, friend. I tried to be interested. I tried. I researched. And I tried.

But I failed.

I'm just going to keep using Baird while I'm logged in on him. I'm really enjoying all the blue. Anyway, irrelevant.

Potions is a winner then. Charms is the problem.

I see a lot of potential for Charms though. That's why I'm quite sad.

Sadly I feel as though no one really thinks outside of the box when they teach and they get bored and then everyone else gets bored and it's just a mess.

By making the classes smaller I sort of wanted it to be more like a "normal" thread.

It's weird. Someone shed light on it for me if they can.

Here's the weird part.

No one seems to treat class threads like the would normal threads and that always confused me. Like, they bring so much energy and eccentricities into their own threads but for class it's something like ...

"Cerelia fiddled with her quill and scowled openly at her Professor, unimpressed, already with the method of teaching at hand."

God, I've still got Cerelia's in class moodiness down to a fine art.

Anyway, it'll be mundane like that and then nothing happens again and, like Hit said or Jackles said, they say hello to each other and that'll be the end of it.

Why is it so dull?! D':

I know on other sites, it would be the same way. Take, say, DADA class for example.

Professor comes in, says what's what, sends students to it.

Several things happen:

1. The handlers of the students forget about the thread, if they don't put it in their trackers.
2. If the thread is required, it often isn't as fun.
3. Having characters who hate a certain class make it harder to post there and it just makes people avoid doing so until they forget entirely.

Were it up to the handlers which classes they wanted their students to participate in, it would probably be different than if they had to be in certain ones.

I think on here we can choose though, yes?

There are only a few reasons, I suppose, I can think for it dropping off - though I don't have hardly any authority in this argument having not been here (throwing out experiences from other sites. Idk.. *you can ignore me if you like* )

1. People grow to enjoy roleplaying with certain people more than others. If that handler isn't in the class, sometimes other handlers who wanted to work with them avoid it. (when really, branching out could do them some good, let's be honest.)
2. The tracker thing.
3. If the lesson doesn't give much to go off of, or it's hard to imagine, it's hard to reply to.

I think DADA is a popular subject among Harry Potter fans and in terms of characters it's something for everyone really. The death eaters like learning about the dark side within the subject then the good guys like learning how to defend and fight the dark, plus it leads to a career in becoming an auror.

HERBOLOGY PLEASE! No seriously you don't understand how much I would love to role-play in that lesson! (I will make a professor character to teach herbology if needs be! )

Divinations would be a fun class to role-play in and I think, as Jack said, a teacher who can actually predict would make for interesting plots and that could, in turn, get the teachers more involved with plots!

I think only have one of charms or transfiguration? I know they're different but in a way they are too similar just learning spells. Probably charms because we actually know more charms from the books and films than we know transfiguration from the books and films (conjure, vanish, switching spells and then a lesson on animagi? Other than that we don't know much about transfiguration).
Also with charms, JK always said that was a good class to talk in because there was so much going on so Harry Ron and Hermione used to talk about stuff. Maybe if students did stuff like this between them to, referring back to their own plots and recent threads in a lesson like charms it'd make the whole lesson experience part of their roleplay as opposed to just a lets-get-this-over-with kind of thing.

Potions is a good lesson I think because it had the practical essence so I reckon we should keep that, and I guess it ties well with Herbology and the plants that they learn about. In addition it's always fun.

COMC. I feel like the only reason to keep this would be because there are a number of characters who like the subject and on PA the department of magical creatures is one of the main departments so it leads on well. Although, I don't know. It can be a bit boring depending on the creature and the activity.

Astronomy would be good to do like the odd lesson or so as a change, and we already have the astronomy tower but I don't know if people would actually attend that class.

Then yes, do an odd apparation class and flying class

OH! It'd be cool if the teachers came in and out of our normal role plays. I know most people like private topics but it would be good to have more open topics where anyone can go into and you don't know who will appear in what topics, much like you don't know who will walk round the corner in the actual Hogwarts castle?


Back onto lessons. Like you said the lessons need to be fun, even if the teacher just sets a task if the students put zest in or something big happens like in potions Henri caused chaos and made the thread more fun. It doesn't always have to be chaos but in DADA we could pair up or give each character the chance to practice with a boggart to get the RPer thinking more about the characters fears and incorporating that into the roleplay.
I used to teach herbology on another site and it would rather fun, or at least I thought so.
Muggle studies would be boring. Just saying. Don't go there.

Umm. I think that's all my views haha.
DADA, Herb, Div, Pot, Charms

I do want to stress, though, that no matter how fun a teacher makes it, it is up to the students to keep it going. I made Milo for the sole purpose of being a fun teacher - he wasn't even qualified. I gave points for social interaction rather than doing your work. I had him tell the students to decorate the dungeons. He listened to Backstreet Boys. But there came a point when classes dragged, and not for the professors want of trying.

@Amy - I don't know why people don't use classes for personal plotting. I was super excited because we were going to have an Erika/Henri show down in each class, but there ended up being only 3 classes. And we could post about the girls actually fighting, and rarely did students (and even teachers) respond.

If people want Divination, I'm sure Jemma would love to go back to teaching. I don't have so much to do with her atm (one of the reasons I'm not so active, since she is my fave charrie) but I did love her as a Professor, back in the day. (Also loved being HoH as well ^^).

And liking lessons atm . Though some aren't very active/frequent, but I guess there's no way to really control it. I'd like a more convenient way to give hosue points though, b/c it seems a bit...muddled, maybe? Idk. Maybe that's just me.