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Basic Information:

Hogwarts Returns is a Harry Potter RP set eleven years after the events of Deathly Hallows. It is mostly Original Character driven. We are also looking for those willing to be Professors or other Staff/House Ghosts. Information can be found in the links below. We allow for players 13 and up, as we don't deal with mature content. Please join up if you want to be involved in the goings on!

IMPORTANT: We are currently on hiatus as we are making big changes to HR. The site is in maintenance mode, so only staff can log on. Do not fret however, we will be back online at 12 AM PST on Tuesday April 21, 2009!

Backstory:

(NOTE) Hogwarts Returns started around a year and a half ago. We completed one term before setting up the next one on an accelearted time line. We were about halfway through our third term when we decided that due to inactivity around the site, we would close down for a month and make some big changes. The following back story will reflect where HR is picking up after the hiatus.

The magical world changed faster, and in more ways, than any witch or wizard could have expected. After a series of investigative reports by the Daily Prophet's Josiah Hurwitz were published, the Ministry of Magic, headed by Kingsley Shacklebolt, came under intense scrutiny. Mr. Hurwitz's investigation revealed past misdeeds and current corruptions that the public could not readily forgive. With few options available to them, the public turned to the one wizard they could count on ---Lucius Malfoy.

Though plagued with a checkered past of his own, Malfoy's image was successfully rehabilitated through his honesty and charitable acts. He provided the wizarding world with a sound mind and a voice reason during one of its most trying political times. When people were whispering about a violent revolution, Malfoy was undeterred and unafraid to raise his voice about peace and harmony in the magical world. His message caught on and the violent whispers soon turned into easy silence.

Shacklebolt was ousted from his position. At the public's urging, Lucius Malfoy was named Minister for Magic. Two controversial moves clearly differentiated the Malfoy-run Ministry from that of Shacklebolt. First, several key Ministry workers were relieved of their duties in effort to start with an entirely clean slate. Hermione Granger and Harry Potter, among others, were safe in their positions. Second, the Department of Aurors was severely downsized. In his "Time of Peace" promises, Malfoy sought to redirect substantial funds from needless defense expenses to more worthy and needing Ministry departments. Fearing corruption within the magical justice system, Malfoy has recently ordered re-trials of several prominent witches and wizards locked away in Azkaban.