Hogwarts Online
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The Background
After leaving WIKTT in the wake of the Pawn to Queen debacle, and having already had some connections to the Snape slash part of the fandom, Auror Borealis, Darkrose, and Damiana started spending more time on the snapeslash Yahoo! Group.
So, what was Hogwarts Online, you ask?
JayKay had a dream in May 2002-- she wanted to play a Harry Potter-based LiveJournal RPG. But she didn't want to organize it. Darkrose thought it sounded like fun and volunteered to organize it.[1] In short order, the majority of BNFs in Snape slash fandom had signed on to play parts.
Thus was born: Hogwarts Online.
Was this a good idea or a recipe for wank ? Well, given that this is here, you already know the answer.
Some might say this was a BNF deathmatch in which the BNFs participated voluntarily...
Major Roles and Players
- Harry Potter: JayKay
- Remus Lupin: JayKay
- Hermione Granger: McAmy
- Severus Snape: Darkrose
- Sirius Black: Ailei
- Ginny Weasley: Damiana
- Neville Longbottom: Khirsah
- Lord Voldemort: Sushi
- Lucius Malfoy: Xandria
- Ron Weasley: Unknown
- Mandy Brocklehurst: Atalanta Pendragone
"Major" is defined in terms of the ensuing wank, and some of the roles ended up being recast. This will be important later. Other minor roles
The Timeline
- May 16, 2002: The game begins! Things are fun.[2]
- May 18, 2002: The game is closed to new players.[3]
- May 20, 2002: Still going well.[4]
- May 21, 2002: Still having fun. A threesome between Snape/Sirius/Lupin has already begun.[5]
- May 29, 2002: Darkrose resigns as moderator to spend more time playing; Damiana and McAmy take over.[6]
- June 3, 2002: Atalanta's Mandy's booted...[7]...but there was a reason...[8]
- June 8, 2002: Original Ron Weasley player's about to be booted...[9]
- June 9, 2002: Damiana's settling in as moderator, things are peachy.[10]
- June 16, 2002: Damiana seeks replacement players for some characters.[11]
- June 20, 2002: Nope. You didn't fix Ron enough. So, he's dead.[12]
- June 20, 2002: "Looks like the mod's are getting a bit death happy, here."[13]
- June 27, 2002: "I'm not going to complain anymore."[14]
- July 1, 2002: Hmm. The game's lost another Draco player. How odd.[15]
- July 21, 2002: Damiana resigns as moderator and leaves the game.[16]
- August 21, 2002: "I was going to write a why-I-quit-HO post."[17]
- August 21, 2002: "No fucking comment on fucking anything."[18]
- August 22, 2002: "How many other people are just pretending to like me?"[19]
- September 6, 2002: Ailei decides to leave the game. Her Sirius had been involved in an in-fic threesome ("the trio") with Darkrose's Snape and JayKay's Lupin. Sirius is killed instead of replacing the character.[20]
- September 7, 2002: Ailei posts her game postmortem, which suggests some deeper problems.[21]
And it seems that we are all doomed to wonder just what went wrong, until...
- September 9, 2002: Damiana's had time to think...[22] (for added special drama, make sure to read the comments)
And Darkrose continues "to be stunned by the capacity of human beings to delude themselves."[23]
Coda
Hogwarts Online officially "ended" several months later (some time after JayKay's Harry married McAmy's Hermione, actually), and later spawned a spinoff on JournalFen called incantatum. Clearly, some of the original cast didn't make it that far.
