Line #12 Roleplay/ModelHogwarts


1	"Model Hogwarts" is the name of a Harry Potter simulator launched in April 2017, after an initial poll on the Harry Potter subreddit ( /r/harrypotter ). It aims to provide an experience as similar as possible to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as described in the Harry Potter series, by providing a space to take classes, learn spells and solve mysteries. Although roleplaying is not mandatory, it is encouraged and is generally the main way users choose to interact with each other.
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3	The project features a fixed body of professors who impart classes, assign homework, and give or take points, and a rotating body of students. A single school year on the model lasts three months, and new roleplayers are always encouraged to join and create new first-year characters. The link to join is here: https://discord.gg/56z6GMM
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5	Note that this page lists tropes that apply to the whole model, or events within it, or are common to a multitude of characters. Tropes for individual characters are listed and maintained on the [[Characters/ModelHogwarts Characters]] page. Also, the tropes listed here are generic in flavour. Events that were amazing enough to go down in Model Hogwarts folklore go [[Awesome/ModelHogwarts here]], stuff that left us in stitches goes [[Funny/ModelHogwarts here]], moments of cuteness overload belong [[Heartwarming/ModelHogwarts here]] and anything that made us blubbering wrecks belongs [[Tearjerker/ModelHogwarts here]].
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7	!!Model Hogwarts currently contains examples of:
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10	* AmbitionIsEvil: A classic Harry Potter trope since the house of Slytherin prizes ambition, this is mostly averted in Model Hogwarts. Slytherins are mostly as nice as those in any other house, with a couple of noted exceptions being Donatello Rolland and Klaus Kruger.
11	* {{Animorphism}}: As in the Harry Potter series, a handful of characters are Animagi, able to transform into an animal at will. Some examples are Ivy Su, Maverick Amaturo, Valeran Levi and Pamela Resfeber.
12	* BerserkButton: Very common among the student body. Some current examples include:
13	** Franco Bonventre, if he even ''suspects'' that a girl is in danger or distress.
14	** Maz Hatter, when you insult or threaten her bibliovorous alligators. [[spoiler: As Alva Ainsley found out.]]
15	** [[NiceGuy Ricky Brown]] and [[AlphaBitch Adalia Audrey]] whenever someone mentions their involvement in the Dragon Adventure. They do ''not'' take it kindly, even though neither of them have directly attacked anyone who mentions it.
16	* BlackCloak: Everyone wears this.
17	* BoardingSchool: As this is a role-playing game about students and teachers at Hogwarts, this trope is pretty much a given.
18	* CastFullOfGay: Or, at least, EveryoneIsBi. The number of same-sex relationships probably outnumber different-gender ones by about two to one. The roleplay is, to be fair, proudly inclusive.
19	%%* TheCavalry: The professors, frequently.
20	* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Professor Calloway burst onto the scene where a group of first years (and Riley) were attacked by Valeria's dragon... ''after'' Val had already saved them and lured him away. She basically arrived in time to heal them and call for Payson to come and punish them.
21	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Naturally, players sometimes lose interest, and their characters have to be disposed of. Those for whom it's harder to pretend they never existed are PutOnABus instead.
22	%%* CoolShip: Half the school wants to live on Maz Hatter's ship on the Black Lake.
23	%%* CoolTeacher: Most of the professors have a case for being in this category.
24	* TheCutie: This fits a number of characters, including Isabelle Reyes, Kylie Whitehorn, Marianne Blanchard and Mei-Xing Xue. All Hufflepuff females... hmm. I'm sensing a pattern.
25	* DisproportionateRetribution: In their first year, two Ravenclaw girls, Shane Mason and Quinn Gallagher, were caught attempting to steal a potion. Their Heads of House, the Glamii, punished them along with their completely innocent dormmates by instructing the house elves not to clean their dormitory. ''For an entire year.''
26	** On the other hand, their Hufflepuff partner-in-crime, Sami Lutece, merely got a talking-to from ''her'' head of house.
27	** The same duo, along with Xia-ji Feng, were at it ''again'' later that year, putting googly eyes on portraits in the Portrait Hall, leading the Glamii to [[TheWallsHaveEyes charm eyes onto the ceiling of their dormitory]]. In a classic case of DisasterDominoes, this ultimately led to a dramatic falling out between [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Adalia Audrey]] and most of the other Ravenclaw first year girls.
28	* DoingResearch: Being Hogwarts, there are Ravenclaws, and with Ravenclaws comes a lot of research. And quite a few non-Ravenclaws fit this trope, as well.
29	* DontGoInTheWoods: The Forbidden Forest. Despite (or perhaps because of) its name and reputation, there are always a few students in every generation who try to enter the forest. Sometimes repeatedly.
30	** To be fair, however, werewolf students (yes, there are werewolf students and they are [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent surprisingly common]]) ''do'' need to go into the Forbidden Forest on full moons, less they transform in the castle and end up hurting someone.
31	** At one point, in a desperate attempt to deter unwanted explorers, the forest was surrounded by barbed wire which removed your hair upon touching it. It didn't work out so well.
32	** By far the worst incident occurred in the IC year 2024, when a group of first years (with one second year) entered the forest to try and find a ''dragon''. Which they did. See TooDumbToLive.
33	** In the aftermath of this, the teachers came up with the seemingly simple, foolproof and [[IShouldHaveDoneThisYearsAgo long overdue]] solution of placing an Age Line around the forest. A brilliant plan... except that it ''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom prevented anyone who was already inside the forest from getting out]].'' [[spoiler: Which resulted in Valeria Chovnik's death. [[NotQuiteDead Well, nearly.]]]]
34	* DressCode: This is a school. What do you expect, naked Fridays?
35	* DysfunctionJunction: Nearly everyone has a DarkAndTroubledPast of some description.
36	* EveryoneIsRelated: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Ironically, the three Browns are all unrelated. We think.
37	%%* FantasticNuke: Noah Brown tried to do this with Transfiguration. It didn't work. Thank God.
38	* FantasticScience: It is a school which teaches magic, after all.
39	* FunetikAksent: A number of heavily-accented characters have their thick brogues written out in full:
40	** Lisa Edgley and Riley [=MacAlistor=]-Kirkwood are ''extremely'' Scottish.
41	** The Casey family (aside from adoptee Phoebe) is Irish.
42	** Maz Hatter is from... [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent er, somewhere.]]
43	* HeelFaceTurn: Cyrus, the xenophobic ghost that terrorized the students during the first year of the roleplay, became the school's librarian and is quite happy to help students.
44	%%* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Forbidden Forest.
45	* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Veela. By association, their children: Augustin Moreau and Valeria Chovnik are a couple of known half-Veela. Both of which have been known to be the cause of major [[LGBTAwakening gay or bisexual awakenings]] for other characters.
46	* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality: Lots of dark magic is this. Sure, it's really powerful and leaves un-healable injuries, but it's also highly illegal and nearly unusable outside of combat.
47	* ItsAllMyFault: After [[spoiler: Valeria Chovnik's presumed death]], a lot of people fell into this mentality. Particularly those first years that went into the Forbidden Forest and the Professors.
48	** Those who had nothing to do with the situation, however, are divided on who exactly they believe it is at fault, with some blaming the first years, some blaming the teachers, and some blaming [[spoiler: the victim, Valeria, due to the fact that she was the one who had brought the dragon to the school]].
49	* KaleidoscopeHair: Model Hogwarts has a few Metamorphmagi, most notably Christine Marilyn and Cecilia Evans, who can often be distinguished by their unusually coloured hair. Being young, they are still learning control of their abilities and, especially early on, their hair would [[ExpressiveHair respond to their moods]].
50	** Also, since charms and potions for dyeing and colouring hair are relatively simple even for first years, it is fairly common for odd hair colours to be sighted in the halls even among non-Metamorphmagi.
51	* KillItWithWater: Valeria Chovnik plugs her dragon's nostrils and uses Aguamenti on his head whenever he tries to char-broil anyone. [[TheDogBitesBack Typically, his response is to try to maul her.]]
52	* KillingInSelfDefense:
53	** Narrowly averted with Emrys Hughes who, in a fight, pushed their mother out a window after being stabbed by her. She got better.
54	** Played straight with Ben Green, who killed a man in his rescue of Phoebe Casey.
55	* LoveDodecahedron: What happens when your crush's roommate's crush's crush is [[spoiler: in an arranged marriage]] with their best friend's crush? Model Hogwart's Class of 2031.
56	* MagicWand: Come on, this is Hogwarts.
57	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: An Age Line around the Forbidden Forest following the dragon attack in 2024 was, to be fair, the perfect solution to students continually going in there. Unfortunately it stopped Valeria Chovnik from getting ''out'', and she soon [[DyingAlone died alone]] of exposure and blood loss. [[spoiler: Or so everyone thought.]]
58	* OffscreenBreakup: This happens fairly often on Model Hogwarts, most often when one of the roleplayers [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome drops off the face of the earth]].
59	* PlotArmor: Of a sort. Because expelling a student effectively excludes their roleplayer from the roleplay, characters tend to get away with detentions and house points as punishments for even actions as extreme as property damage, kidnapping and ''attempted murder''.
60	** Also literal, because killing or dealing serious injury to a character requires OOC consent.
61	* PuppyLove: Model Hogwarts has many, many examples of relationships between students that are far more serious or advanced than their ages would suggest.
62	* PutOnABus: If the character of a departing or inactive roleplayer is too important or influential for ChuckCunninghamSyndrome to work, an in-universe explanation for the character's departure is often invented. Most commonly this takes the form of a transfer to another school, such as Durmstrang or Ilvermorny, although a classic excuse is "(s)he ran away to Ibiza".
63	** Occasionally, if the roleplayer and their character returns, TheBusCameBack.
64	** Even more occasionally, the character is simply [[BusCrash killed off]].
65	* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: Lisa Edgley has her own amateur paper, the Hogwarts Press, which has exposed a few ''very'' notable secrets.
66	* SecretCircleOfSecrets: Seveal fifth-generation students have formed an eerily cult-like group. They even have a [[TheProphecy prophecy]]. Their goal? TakeOverTheWorld.
67	* {{Seers}}: Again, consistent with the Harry Potter universe, Model Hogwarts has a few of these. One of the Divination professors, Professor Wen, will soon be [[BlindSeer blind]], although he is [[spoiler: not actually a Seer]].
68	* StickyFingers: The school's resident kleptomaniac, Savannah Rey. Never more so than when she stole 60 Galleons from the school bulletin board ''in broad daylight.''
69	* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Played straight with a number of characters with AbusiveParents, but spectacularly averted when Emrys Hughes is rescued from the Audreys.
70	* TooDumbToLive: A group of first years in 2024 (and one second year). Ooh, there's a ''dragon'' living in the Forbidden Forest? Let's go looking for it! What could ''possibly'' go wrong? [[spoiler: They found the dragon, nearly everyone got hurt, and Valeria Chovnik disappeared, presumed dead, for six months.]]
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72	!!In the past, Model Hogwarts contained examples of:
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74	* AfterActionPatchUp: Students get injured a lot, which used to result in a lot of these scenes. More recently, though, students tend to just skip the infirmary after fights.
75	* TheAllegedExpert: Healer Phil and Professor Dobs were both believed to be experts before running away to Ibiza.
76	* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: When possessed by the ghost-entity Cyrus, the students forgot what they'd done afterwards.
77	* BigBad: The villain of the story in the beginning was a mysterious ghost-like entity, known only as Cyrus. Then he became the librarian and a new villain arose: Elizabeth Bathory.
78	* BigBrotherInstinct: Jem Hapunda's older brother Lalo was quite protective of her at times. Even more after his best friend was brutally murdered at school.
79	* BodyHorror: Alexander Lyons' hand was a bit of a gory sight after he decided to punch a ghost. A ghost known for burning things that touch it.
80	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Everyone who drank the underground lake water or ate the underground tunnel's mud was susceptible to this
81	* CoolTeacher: Most past professors fit this as well. The coolest among them was Professor Dobs, the groove-obsessed History of Magic professor. Another contender was Sir Comorant, the DADA substitute, noble knight and boisterous story teller.
82	* CursedItem: Played straight with every single item "gifted" to students by [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Natalia Caline]].
83	** In all fairness to [[spoiler: the now deceased Caline]], she didn't know [[BoobyTrap the items were cursed and hurting students]].
84	* DeadlyGas: The ghost-entity Cyrus emitted a dangerous gas all around him that burned anyone who passes through it.
85	* DemBones: A weak skeleton army attacked several students.
86	%%* DiscoDan: Professor Dobs was this to a tee.
87	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Allegedly where the Hufflepuff house was heading for due to its massive amount of Slytherpuffs and its shifty prefects. See: Conan Lebrowsky as an example of both items.
88	* GhostlyChill: The first indicator that the ghost-entity Cyrus was nearby was an unnatural chill.
89	* InsistentTerminology: Seen a lot with Alexander Lyons, Jem Hapunda, and Julian Rhodes, when talking about muggleborns. Alex casually and mockingly used 'mudblood', Julian insisted on 'normal', and Jem didn't like either of those terms.
90	%%* MindControlDevice: The underground lake water and the underground tunnel mud.
91	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The ghost-entity Cyrus was not a normal ghost, even by the standards of the Harry Potter universe.
92	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Mainly, because they're not werewolves at all. They're [[spoiler: girls on their periods, which, to be fair, is a bit TooMuchInformation.]]
93	** [[spoiler: Except Jem, who was actually a werewolf.]]
94	* TheParalyzer: In the IC 2017-18 school year, the Full Body-Bind Curse, Petrificus Totalus, was popular amongst the more talented students for its ability to decisively end most fights without any lasting damage. Ivy Su was particularly infamous for judicious use of the spell. Medraut Prince favoured the Freezing Charm, Immobulus, which has similar effects.
95	* PlantPerson:
96	** Danae, the dryad the students met when venturing into the Forbidden Forest with Professor Thropp, who spoke of a mysterious "Lady of the Wood".
97	** Also the numerous wood nymphs the students saw at the Ithaca Institute of Magizoology.
98	** Also the other dryads in the forest, who became evil for some reason.
99	* SerialEscalation: The ghost-entity Cyrus' threat level escalated with every appearance. In the second year of the model, things only intensified with the outright ''murder'' of the Head Boy.
100	** Although, on the other hand, since the opening few years of the roleplay, things have really quietened down on the life-threatening plot event front.
101	* SnakesAreSinister: Played straight with Sthenis, a snake god that had the ability to possess those who drank the water of his underground lake. Subverted with Boop, the Basilisk that lived at the Ithaca Institute of Magizoology, who was fitted with special sunglasses that allowed him to live in captivity.
102	%%* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: The Hogwarts Potioneers Society experimented with potions regularly.
103	* TooDumbToLive: Through taunting and a slip of the tongue from Professor Seward, Alex Lyons found out that Seward was a former Death Eater, and what did he do? He kept taunting her until she was angry enough to not just threaten him with torture and death, but to ''actually consider going through with this.'' Luckily, she kept her composure just enough to simply stun him instead of torturing him.
104	* TornadoMove: At one point, Professor Mahoney, the Herbology professor, taught several students how to work together to create a dirt tornado.

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