Accio Goblet!

Holds for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students are now open! If you have made a request for a hold in the previous mod post, then you'll find it in the holds page - but please repeat your request there so that we can notify you whenever your hold is about to expire.

Also, the links to the info pages for all three schools have been added to the navigation table, and some extra info has been added to the rules and FAQ. Check out your character's school page for details on their learning environment prior to arriving at Hogwarts - and remember that if you have a question that doesn't feature in either page you can always ask. :)

Run the button, as Heather brings us our very first foreign student, Anaïs Bolduc (_dumspirospero_)!

Hi all! Through the wonders of copy/paste and five minutes' tweaking (though colour coding the bio took WAY longer, urgh!), I bring to you our first foreigner (though naturally she won't be writing quite yet) - Anaïs Séverine Bolduc! No prizes for guessing which school she belongs to ;)

Having said that, she's not actually French. She was born in Canada to a Quebecois father and French mother, and spent the early years of her life there. Thus, when she speaks English, she sounds Canadian (and her English is excellent because of the practice she's had). When she speaks French, she sounds Quebecoise - and to a French ear, that sounds like someone from the Deep South would sound when they speak English. Just as a guideline!

These days, however, her family are based in Paris, as her father is a Canadian government attaché to the French Ministry of Magic. Her mother is a Squib who works a magic-free office job in the French Wizengamot, and her brother studies at l'Université de Montpellier, as he wants to go into Muggle Relations later on.

She's a Quidditch nut, Chasing and Captaining the Linottes side to victory in the school championship last year. She's totally going to be backseat captaining all the way from Scotland - pity the poor girl who has the job this year! She plans on going to tryouts this summer, either in France, Britain or Canada. She aims on playing pro and is going for the best offer she can get.

Even without the French uniform, she's noticeable. Standing nearly 6'0 in bare feet, she has Weasley-red hair and an innate sense of self confidence. She'd totally be a Gryffindor. She's taking Runes, Astronomy, Charms, Muggle Studies, Potions and Transfiguration. Her main interest is art related stuff, and she's bringing her art-textiles and knitting stuff with her to Hogwarts. She has no intention on hanging out in the Beauxbatons carriage all the time all year - you'll definitely see her chilling out in the library, more often than not.

Plenty of time to do so, so plot with me, people! Are you planning on picking up a BB kid and want to do backstory? Let me know. Friends past and new? Classmates? Potential Yule Ball date? Have at me!