There are five ways you can earn money here at Hogwarts.

1. 1.) Your Common Room-- every house has a common room. In fact the common room is a place you will want to visit daily to collect your stipend/scholarship as this is currency that you can use in the shops.
2. 2.) Being part-Goblin. A racial passive of Goblins is earning a small amount of money daily. Only part Goblins get this. To become a part Goblin (you can only be one thing, be it fully human, part Veela, metamorphmagus or Goblin) you can refer to here.
3. 3.) Applying and successfully joining the Newspaper Team, becoming a Quidditch Captain, a Broom Racing Captain or a Duelling Captain. This requires an application and does come with out of character obligations. Please contact your Head of House if you are interested in joining any of the above teams.
4. 4.) Participating in some special Errands. Please refer here for the Errand System. Errands are sporadic and the reward is more often House Points.
5. 5.) Opening up a shop where you use your skills to assist other users. Shops can be found in the Leaky Cauldron subforum Out of Character Shops.. Please be aware that the staff does not actively moderate these interactions, they are considered to be private deals you have made with other users. We will not serve as arbitrators of deals (as in someone fails to pay or someone fails to deliver a product) so participate at your own risk.

More Information About Shops

Opening up a shop where you use your skills to assist other users is a popular option to earn a little bit of extra cash. Shops can be found in the Leaky Cauldron subforum Out of Character Shops.

Out of Character Shops are just that, placed where players can offer their services to other players be it sharing their artistic skill, making unique encyclopedia formats or some other creative service. For the most part this is a player-driven activity but there are some very basic restrictions.

1. Real life information and real life money should not be exchanged. This is for your safety. If someone is asking for real-life money for work, please solicit elsewhere (Deviant Art or Etsy for example) because we cannot serve as a platform for actual monetary exchanges. Any shop that is requesting real life money or is being used to advertise products that they sell for real money will be removed without warning.
2. Illegal or morally questionable offers. Illegal being in-game currency in exchange for a real-life item (drugs, clothes, jewelry), sexual favor, or assistance cheating on exams or doing someone's papers/homework in exchange for real life or in-game currency. Shops that offer this will be shut down without notice and if there is an illegal aspect, we will notify the proper authorities.
3. Post writers. We are a roleplay site, you are free to offer them inspiration (I have seen shops that offer services such as "I will describe your character's appearance or scent" for example) but we will not accept shops that offer services where a user will write posts for another user. This would be considered plagiarism when the user uses the post so the post would be taken down, if the post was used to gain an ability or earn a spell (prodigal learners) then the ability or spell will be removed even if previously accepted in error and the user will be expected to re-write the post. The shop would be closed without warning. The administration will not offer refunds for purchased works that are plagiarized.

You simply start a thread in this forum. Players can make (1) shop each. The reason for this is because the front page is "premium" space so if a single user has three shops, they are pushing 2 other users to the second page. This ends up reducing their ability to get customers and encourages spamming.

Your first post in the thread would be your "shop" and it would explain the services that you offer as well as prices. The posts that follow would be the players that make their orders. Most shops have a form of some sort that they ask users to fill out. This streamlines their process and makes them appear more professional.

When you complete a project, it is not required but many shop owners will post what they have completed. This serves as advertising for the shp, people can see the great work that is done and they can show their speed and professionalism.



You have specials, you have changed what your shop offers, you gained a shop partner, etc. Many find it tacky to write a post in the shop thread announcing that they have made (a possibly minor) change but the want to communicate that they have made a change professionally. The best way of doing this is #thread-sharing on discord and the Advertisements Thread, a thread where players can advertise (please don't double post) their services or changes to their shop. Please do not spam



Payment is entirely player-driven. Every user Year 2 and above has access to the Donation option in their profile. You would find the payee's profile and click on the GIVE button to the right of their "total wealth".



When you click on this, you will be brought to a donation page that looks like this:



You would give the amount of money you wish to pay to the shop owner. We recommend writing a reason for your own paper trails. The shop owner will be alerted to payment in their Remembrall. The administration can also see all transactions.

First years do not have the option of sending money, but they can trade items. This will open up for them at the start of their second year. Shop owners will often have instructions for what to do in terms of payment. A common form of payment is to trade them an item because trading is open to first years. Please be aware that the sell-back price for items is roughly 80% of the purchase price.



The shops are player-driven, meaning the administration does not oversee trades. Purchases done here are done at your own risk. Meaning, a shop owner that does sub-par service or underperforms is something that will be managed between the user and the shop owner. The administration will not hunt down a shop owner because something was ugly or not timely. The administration will also not force a player to pay for something that they ordered. If they are using the item, they will be forced to take it down because they are using the art or code or work without permission (and that is considered plagiarism) but we will not police accounts or deals. The consequence of running a shop poorly, being a rude/demanding or demeaning customer is that nobody will work with you. Players get (1) shop, they can look back at your work (or purchases) and see your attitude. People talk. The administration will not mend the bridges that you burn.

The administration will intervene if we discover a shop is being used to harass someone or a group of people. We take complaints of harassment seriously but we also take false complaints seriously also. If someone creates a product in good faith that is ultimately underwhelming, that is not harassment. So please no political memes, no anti- religious or gender, or region works here please. No porn. No using the real life images of other site members without their expressed permission.

There are 4 ways you can earn House Points:
1. Completing homework. You can earn up to 5 points per completed homework assignment. An O earns you 5 points, 4 for an E, 3 for an A, 2 for a P, 1 for a D and 0 for a T.
2. Voting for the site. In the rememberall daily you will be given a reminder (it turns red) to vote for the site. If you use the link provided to you by your rememberall daily you can earn house points which are added to your account every monday. If you vote daily you can earn up to 5 points each week.
3. Errands. Some errands reward users with house points. Errands vary month-to-month, but you can learn more about Errands here.
4. Winning a Quidditch, Broom Racing or Duelling match. Members that participate and win their match without going inactive (they need to post every round), they will earn an additional house point.

House points will earn the house the lauded House Cup. Every month users who are part of the winning house that participated enough (17+ HP) will get a prize. The prizes differ monthly, but can be found here. In the canon the house cup is an annual celebration. In this community that would be hard to engage a community with so we track monthly, you can see who has won in the past by going to the Trophy Room. It is assumed for the sake of canon recognition that students and professors casually watch monthly gains and know who gained the most each month and gossip/celebrate accordingly. So players can celebrate the fact that they won. It is logical that the top three contributors (we have them announced on our splash page each month) would be in-character known and recognized. Professors talk about who is doing a good job, other kids talk about hearing about all the points someone has been getting and of course the student themselves knows that they contributed a lot of points in a given month and might simply brag. It is presumed that people know who the top earner is, they might not know your face or you personally if you are the top earner but they will know that a student by a certain name is among the top three. It is considered to be common knowledge.

The summer months are difficult to reconcile. It is presumed that communications over the summer (such as kind and polite owls) or homework assignments that were completed late over the summer or were delayed in grading contribute heavily to these winners. Behavior at Summer Camp can be another cause. For the rare first year that has decided to excel in earning points before you ever step foot in the school, I am unable to offer many ideas beyond early studies, coming to summer camp or vigorous, polite owl writing leaving a good impression. You will have to reconcile this part of your story.