Awards

In order to reward the most active and original members of the forum, we have decided to introduce an award system. Here is a list of awards currently granted. If you want to suggest a new award, please post a reply in the Awards Suggestions thread.

There are two types of awards. On one hand, each professor can, if he or she wants, grant an award for the student who was the most deserving during their class. The choice of the winner and the reward are entirely up to him or her. If any professor wants to introduce such awards, please suggest it in the Awards Suggestions thread and it will be added here once it is accepted. On the other hand, there are also general awards, most of which can be won by any member of the forum. There are various kinds of general awards and you can find a list of them below. Everyone can suggest a new general reward (to do that post in the Award Suggestions Thread) and if it is accepted by one of the administrators it will be added here.

Professor Awards:

• Defence Against the Dark Arts:
  
  - Award name: The Remus Lupin Award
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most deserving student in Defence Against the Dark Arts class. He or she will not necessarily be the one who succeeded all the spells from the first try, but the one who attended all classes, actively participated by giving answers and interesting comments and worked the hardest.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every student who attends Defence Against the Dark Arts classes.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): Ambrosius Umbranox (Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor)
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year
  - Reward (what do you win): 50 House Points
  
  
• Charms
  
  - Award name: The Filius Flitwick Award
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most deserving student in Charms class. He or she will not necessarily be the one who succeeded all the spells from the first try, but the one who attended all classes, actively participated by giving answers and interesting comments and worked the hardest.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every student who attends Charms classes.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): Tarik Terzic (Transfiguration and Charms Professor)
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year
  - Reward (what do you win): Invisibility Cloak (it is not real invisibility cloak it is regular cloak enchanted with Illusion charm sand thus it lasts for short time period (usually a 6 months, and still can be discovered by closely observing it)).
  
  
• Potions
  
  - Award name: The Horace Slughorn award
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the hardest working student in potions class
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): each potions student that attends potions class
  - Judge (who determines the winner):Nikkita Carter
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): at the end of every month
  - Reward (what do you win): 50 house points or a set of potions including a book and ingredients
  
  
• Transfiguration
  
  - Award name: The Albus Dumbledore Award
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most deserving student in Transfiguration class. He or she will not necessarily be the one who succeeded all the spells from the first try, but the one who attended all classes, actively participated by giving answers and interesting comments and worked the hardest.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every student who attends Transfiguration classes.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): Tarik Terzic (Transfiguration and Charms Professor)
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year
  - Reward (what do you win): Opportunity to teach him/her how to be an Animagus, who refuses will get 50 House Points as second award.

General Awards:

• Best Professor Award
  
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the best professor in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He or she will be the one who has seriously done his or her work, regularly posted lessons and held interesting classes.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every Hogwarts professor.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): The forum administrators will choose three nominees for the award (from the group of Hogwarts professors). Then, all the members of the forum will be able to vote for the one candidate that they think most deserved the award. The vote will be held in a specific forum only available to the members who have more than thirty posts, in order to avoid having new members who haven't attended many classes yet vote for Best Professor. The poll will be open for seven days, after which the winner will be proclaimed. The winner of the award is the professor with the highest number of votes.
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year.
  - Reward (what do you win): 50 Galleons
  
  
• Best Student Award
  
  - Award name: The Hermione Granger Award
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most deserving student in general, which means in all subjects. He or she will not necessarily be the one who succeeded all the spells from the first try, but the one who attended all classes, actively participated by giving answers and interesting comments and worked the hardest.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every student who attends any Hogwarts class.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): An assembly composed of all Hogwarts professors chooses the winner of this award.
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year.
  - Reward (what do you win): 50 House Points
  
  
• Best Character Development Award
  
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most the member who has the most well-developed character. A well-developed character is one that has been thoroughly characterised, with many traits shown in the narrative. He or she acts according to past instances provided by its visible traits unless more information about the character is provided. The better the audience knows the character, the better the character development. However, characters whose behavior is completely predictable can seem underdeveloped - flat, shallow or stereotypical; a greater sense of realism occurs if the characterization makes the characters seem well-rounded and complex.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every member of the forum who controls a character.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): The forum administrators along with all professors will choose three nominees for the award (from all the members on the forum). Then, all the members of the forum will be able to vote for the one candidate that they think most deserved the award. The vote will be held in a specific forum only available to the members who have more than thirty posts. The poll will be open for seven days, after which the winner will be proclaimed. The winner of the award is the member with the highest number of votes.
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year.
  - Reward (what do you win): 30 galleons and the opportunity to come up with a plot or story arc that will be executed by the rest of the forum according to the instructions of the winner of the award.
  
  
• Best Writer Award
  
  - Award name: The J. K. Rowling Award
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most skilled writer, the one who conveys ideas and images through words with great ease, for who metaphors and allegories hold no secrets, and who succeeds to charm the readers with every new word coming out of his quill.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every member of the forum.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): The forum administrators along with all professors will choose three nominees for the award (from all the members on the forum). Then, all the members of the forum will be able to vote for the one candidate that they think most deserved the award. The vote will be held in a specific forum only available to the members who have more than thirty posts. The poll will be open for seven days, after which the winner will be proclaimed. The winner of the award is the member with the highest number of votes.
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year.
  - Reward (what do you win): To be determined
  
  
• Most active member
  
  - Description (what do you receive it for): This award is given to the most active member of the forum, which means the one who has been here for already some time, who is often online, who participates in many threads, creates new topics, interacts with many other members, ...
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every member of the forum.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): The forum administrators decide the winner of this award.
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year.
  - Reward (what do you win): To be determined
  
  
• Best Moderator Award
  
  - Description (what do you receive it for): A moderator is a member who is in charge of one part of the forum (for example one of the clubs). This award is given to the most deserving moderator, which means the one who has the most developed the part of the forum that he or she controls.
  - Contestants (who is eligible to receive it): Every moderator of the forum.
  - Judge (who determines the winner): The forum administrators decide the winner of this award.
  - Periodicity (is the award given every month/year?): At the end of every school year.
  - Reward (what do you win): To be determined