Businesses and Employment
Below you will find information on open businesses and employment options, including the Ministry, St. Mungo's, local options, and guidelines for choosing a job for your character. If there is a particular place with no given NPCs, but you need them for reference, please let us know and we can create them or add the ones you've created.
All canon business information gleaned from the extremely useful reference tool that is The Harry Potter Lexicon, with references to source material for fact-checking. Non-canon businesses and jobs are creations of the bloodlinesmod.
Names listed in italics are NPCs. Names listed in bold are player characters. Names listed in bold italics are original characters.
Catapult (upscale cafe) Dervish and Banges Fletcher's Market Gladrags Wizardwear Gobstones (pub w/ games) Good Omens (Divination shop) Holiday Haven (travel agency) Hog's Head Hogsmeade Healing
Thomas Bell
Honeyduke's Sweetshop Madam Puddifoot's Once Sold Tales (new and used books)
Luna Lovegood (previously played)
Jonah Cornfoot - owner
Post Office (unnamed) Quicksilver (dance club; no live music) Rise (breads and pastries) Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop Slice (Italian cafe; pizza) Swiggers (liquor store) The Three Broomsticks WWW2/Zonko's
Ridge Market (groceries) Chameleon (a blend of Muggle and Wizard clothing) Pendragon's Pub (high class establishment without the high price)
Hannah Abbott - General Manager
Sylvia Bane - sous chef
Eli Long - bartender
Stir Crazy (bakery)
Other
Curse Breaker
Bill Weasley
International Dragon Cooperative (IDC)
Charlie Weasley - Cardiff Office
Professional Quidditch Player
Oliver Wood - Keeper for the Falmouth Falcons
Gwenog Jones - Captain of the Holyhead Harpies
Collin Haussler - Seekers for the Falmouth Falcons
Broderick Bateman - Chaser for the Falmouth Falcons
Isaac Cornfoot - Beater for Falmouth Falcons
Ginny Weasley - Chaser for Falmouth Falcons
Hogwarts
Minerva McGonagall - Headmistress
Terry Boot - Transfiguration Professor
Adrian Pucey - DADA professor
Private Investor
Blaise Zabini
Owner
Alicia Spinnet - Golden Spigot (Muggle bar); Chelsea (previously played)
Artist's Apprentice
Dean Thomas
Various Freelance Private Practice Choosing a Job
When choosing your character's job/profession, please keep game balance in mind. Having too many characters in one particular area limits the opportunities for unique exploration of that area of their lives. Under normal circumstances, there should be no more than 2 played characters in one business, type of job, or department (of a larger establishment). Due to the nature of this game, there are two immediate exceptions--we will allow up to 5 total members of the Auror squad 1 and up to 4 total Healers. The other departments within those organizations should hold to the maximum of 2. Special exceptions can be made to this limit by request and justification to the mods.
Also in the interest of game balance, we will be attempting to maintain a relatively even spread of professions across the different areas listed below. You do not need to do anything in particular to track this; however, please know that we will be looking at this type of thing, so it's always possible we could let you know that too many people have chosen a particular area, and that you'll need to rethink your choice. We will likely have alternatives to offer, when such a thing is possible.
You can assume that all businesses of certain types will possibly have the following jobs available: