Announcements! (PLEASE READ, IMPORTANT!)

[ADMIN LACEY]

Alrighty, we have a few announcements for WATR!

- Congratulations to the Of The Month Winners: Leyshell Conner, Ryne Sanders, Leyshell + Matthew, and Aaron! You are deserving of your awards and should be pleased to know that our members have chosen you/your characters to be featured on the sidebar for the duration of one month. Again, congrats!

- Remember that each character has the possibility of being featured on the header at the end of the year as reward for our First Annual Poster of the Year contest! We will tally your in-character posts (per character, not per member) and whichever character has the most IC-posts for the remainder of the 2013 year will be the winner! Get posting!

- We (obviously) have a new skin! We hope you like it - Paige and I think it's a great skin and pops a little more than our previously brown skin, and we hope you agree! If you feel the skin isn't aesthetically pleasing for you, then don't fret - we'll change the skin eventually

- PROFESSORS & STUDENTS: Hogwarts Finals will begin on January 5th (RL) and end January 25th. Professors, please ensure that you begin working on your 'final exam' for your students by gathering a little of the information you think you'll be presenting. I will PM all of the professors soon with explanation of the exams and how they'll work. Students, if you are signed up for a class on the class claims list, YOU MUST TAKE AND PASS THE FINAL EXAM PRESENTED BY YOUR PROFESSOR. If your character does not take the exam (YES EVERY CHARACTER YOU HAVE MUST TAKE THE EXAM PRESENTED BY EACH PROFESSOR OF CLASS YOUR CHARACTER IS TAKING) then your character will not 'graduate' to the next year, or graduate from Hogwarts for that matter if your character is a seventh year. Please pay attention to this notice; you will have a total of 25 days, beginning January 5th, to finish your exam and PM it to your Professor.

- An activity check is about to be posted: 1 post is required for an original character and 2 posts are required for a canon character to be considered active. The time frame for which the post, or posts, need to have been or be posted is November 1st through December 15th. Please make sure you make the necessary post or posts to keep your characters, otherwise they will be deleted. The only exception will be characters whose applications were accepted after November 20th. If your character was accepted before November 20th, you will be urged to meet the post requirements of the activity check to keep your character. We hope to delete as little characters as possible!

Thank you for your activity, support, friendship, and love, and we, the staff, wish you the best as the Holidays approach us!

Always,

Lacey, Paige, Emily, Jess