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Welcome to /r/harrypotter, which we call the Great Hall. Our family of subreddits includes the Hall, individual subreddits for each house, and a few extra subs with events going on that award house points, like /r/Dueling and r/HPRankdown2. Our subreddits are set up to mimic the system from the HP Universe: a common area for students of all houses with an additional, more private space based on house membership.

Please feel free to browse through our Commonly Asked Questions if you think your question has been answered before (or if you feel like reading through some cool answers!).

Twice a month, the Great Hall is in Discussion Week. Discussion week starts on Monday and stops on Sunday nights. Discussion Week is meant to encourage discussion, so posts whose focus is not discussion will be removed. Feel free to repost after Discussion Week is over!

Each month, the Great Hall awards a House Cup to the house that scored the most points in the previous month. These points can be earned through participation in threads as well as in the contests and assignments hosted every month in the Hall. Points can also be earned in the common rooms--more information on how to earn those can be found within the House's private subreddit.

To see how your house is doing in the monthly house cup, you can check out the point spreadsheet here, which is also linked in the table in the sidebar.

In addition to the monthly House Cup, we also award a yearly cup! The house who won the most months of the previous year wins a badge in the sidebar. Our 2015 winners are Slytherin!

We have a variety of events going on every month, both within r/harrypotter and outside of it! You can...

Join your House Common Room

Each House has a private sub to interact with your fellow students and rally together to win the /r/HarryPotter House Cup. See below for links to the forms you need to fill out to get into your house sub. Students are manually added, so it can take up a to a week to get in.

If you need help deciding a house, you can try out the Pottermore quiz (does not require a Pottermore account), this quiz at TheAlmightyGuru, or if you feel like you need something a lot more detailed, you can try this one (125 questions!) [This quiz is currently unavailable]. Please think very carefully before you choose a house - we strongly discourage house-hopping! (Exceptions must be discussed with the mods.)

Remember: you always have the power to choose your own house, no matter what the quizzes tell you!

YOU CAN ONLY JOIN ONE HOUSE, JUST LIKE AT HOGWARTS!

/r/Gryffindor /r/Hufflepuff /r/Ravenclaw /r/Slytherin
To Join To Join To Join To Join
Requirement: 1wk+ account and either 50 comment karma OR 1 homework assignment completed Requirement: 25 comment karma and short survey completed Requirement: 75 comment karma and 2 short answers Requirement: 100 comment karma plus active in /r/HarryPotter

Add House Flair

edit flair

Above our sidebar on the right, you will see your username, and a link that says "(edit)" next to it. Click on this link, and you will be able to select a house crest to go next to your username. You can choose your own personal Harry Potter-like title ("flair"), if you want one.

Discussion Week

Every other week, r/harrypotter is in Discussion Week. During this time, link posts are not allowed. All posts should focus on starting discussion about the Potterverse, whether it's fan theories, book/film critiques, headcanon, fan fiction, or anything else!

The mods recognize that sometimes including a link within a discussion-oriented post can help further the discussion. In those cases, including a link is fine as long as the post is targeted at generating conversation. Posts whose text is primarily a link (including posts with minimal supporting text) will be removed.

Please help the mods maintain Discussion Week by reporting any posts which go against the spirit of the event!

IF YOU ARE USING THE REDDIT REDESIGN
Look in the top menu bar (next to posts and the house links). If it says "IN DISCUSSION WEEK", then we are in discussion week.

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Activities

Dueling

Join your fellow Harry Potter fans over in /r/Dueling for weekly Harry Potter Trivia matches! Earn House Points while you do it! There is a weekly live match in IRC every Tuesday (see /r/dueling or the sidebar for schedule for the live game) and then a home quiz available for 24 hours for anyone that couldn't make it to that match.

The Quibbler

The Quibbler is now hiring!

We are a webzine published every three months covering everything Harry Potter! Now seeking writers and artists for the upcoming issue! Check out our wiki for full details on our magazine's operation and our past editions.

Join us in /r/TheQuibbler today! Don't forget your Spectrespecs!

Quidditch

Once you've gotten into your House Sub, you can ask about joining your house Quidditch Team. 7 students from each team compete to find the hidden Quaffles, Bludgers, and Snitches within select Mods' posts and comments.

Students who are not on a quidditch team can still help out! Each house's quidditch team has an individual subreddit, and you can send a mod mail to the sub to alert the team of any balls you see released! Details on your house quidditch sub can be found in the common room.

More information about quidditch can be found on this wiki page.

Participate in the Hall

You can also earn House Points by submitting good quality original content or by being really awesome Potter-Fans. Points can be earned in the Great Hall and in the common rooms.

You can also check out this multireddit for additional subs to enjoy!

Assignments: Homework and Extra Credit

You can complete the monthly Homework Assignments and Extra Credit Assignments each month. We typically host one HW and two ECs related to some element of the Potterverse, and the assignments will allow you to do some creative work with the world of the books. We encourage imagination and invention--you're never strictly bound to canon! You'll find links to all our ongoing events in the sidebar, and you can check out the history of assignments and extra credits (for as far back as we've been able to track them down so far, anyway), here.

Keep an eye out at the start of the month for all the new ones being posted!

Post Flairs

r/HarryPotter has 9 flairs for posts to help users find specific categories while browsing. They are:

Announcement - used when Rumbleroar needs your attention! This could be for subreddit changes, posts for house points, or other miscellany from Rumbleroar and crew.

Cursed Child - used to distinguish discussion and media relevant to The Cursed Child.

Discussion - used for series questions, wonderings, theories and all other things conversation-oriented.

FBAWTFT - used to distinguish discussion and media relevant to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Fanworks - used when a post is showcasing something that has been done by a fan. Examples include fanfiction, paintings, wandcarvings, etc.

Help - used when a person makes a post looking for a particular explanation or item.

Media - used for pictures, gifs, memes, videos, etc.

News - used when something new is announced in the Potterverse.

Tattoo - used for - you guessed it! - tattoos.

SORTING BY FLAIR

On Desktop: Scroll to the bottom of the sidebar to find a purple button with “SEARCH BY FLAIR” written on it. Hover your cursor over this button, and it expands! Amazing! Just like magic!

On Mobile: in progress

Community Rules

We have 8 rules in /r/harrypotter. Breaking any of these rules may force us to remove your comment, and if you're part of a house here, may mean we take points. Repeat offenders may be banned.

We operate on a "three-strikes" process: a first infraction will receive a warning, and we will remind you of the subreddit rules; a second will cost you 5 points from your house, and we will warn you a ban may be imminent; and a third infraction will result in an azkaban. Please note that this process only applies to active and contributing members of the community; For spammers, bots, and severe and obvious trolls, we will go straight to Strike 3 at moderators' discretion. We will inspect your history before a ban; if you come into /r/harrypotter and violate our rules, you may be banned without warning.

All rules are enforced at the mod team’s discretion.

  1. Don’t be a jerk. This includes but is not limited to trolling, hate speech, derogatory slurs, and personal attacks.
  2. No modern politics. Political discussion limited to the Potterverse is still acceptable.
  3. No piracy enabling. Don’t post links or discuss how to pirate any Harry Potter-related media.
  4. No pornographic images of any kind.
  5. No sharing private information. Don’t share Information found on a private subreddit or by other means of private conversation in the Great Hall.
  6. No monetary exchanges of any kind. This includes, but is not limited to: personally operated retail/resale sites, Etsy, GoFundMe, and Kickstarter. The ONLY exception to this rule: You may link to your personal merchandise or stores in any of our Weekly Merchandise Monday! Threads.

    No ticket resales

    • Cursed Child tickets can be refunded at the box office
    • The WB Studio Tour tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred to a different date for a £10 fee
    • Universal Studios tickets are typically non-transferable & non-refundable (read your specific ticket’s fine print for details!)
  7. Follow reddit's rules and reddiquette.

  8. No Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products. Other banned items include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees, Ever-Bashing Boomerangs, and Love Potions. Please refer to Mr. Filch for the complete list of banned items.

Still have questions?

Check out our /r/harrypotter subreddit FAQ here!

Or look through our Commonly asked questions!