Dumbledore's Army Role-Play Wiki:Setting-up guide

So you've decided to join this roleplaying wiki. That's great! However, you may struggle at setting up your character. Here is a guide on what to do.

First steps

 * 1) Create your character page. Click on this link and RENAME the page to your characters name. Please uncheck the redirect box:
 * 2) Type a brief description of your character. If you have an image, feel free to add it. If you want to make an image you can use some online things to draw them for you (such as http://www.dolldivine.com/), but you may want to do it yourself. You are not limited to any certain style, for instance George Robertson's image is that of some sort of angry stick figure.
 * 3) On the character's page put Category:Characters at the bottom, as well as a the category for character is in (e.g. Category:1st Years, Category:2nd Years, etc.)
 * 4) On Special:MyPage, put a link to your characters page.

Currency

 * "AAARGH!"
 * – Manga Maniac, on trying to figure out what 37 Galleons minus 16 Knuts was manually

Each person starts off with 40 Galleons, before the person goes and buys all his stuff and anything else. However, wizards seem to have an aversion to the decimal system, so it can be a bit annoying to figure out what a Galleon take away a Knut is.

Here I present the Lexicon Currency Converter. It's great. As you can see, you start of with 40 Galleons, which in pounds is £200. Think that's nice? Just wait until what's left after you get all the basic stuff. I'd advise sticking to UK Pound on the converter, since Harry Potter and Hogwarts are set in England, and the maths works out roughly the same.

Diagon Alley
Go to Diagon Alley and visit each of the places and buy things according to your list. Remember, you only need either an owl or another animal, not both.

An admin should respond to all of your things with a comment accepting it or charging you for it. Except for Gringotts, which can be set up by yourself. Simply go to CHARACTERSNAME's Gringotts Vault and start it up yourself, no admin needed. Remember to categorise the page under Category:Gringotts Vaults

Sorting
To be sorted, go to Forum:Sorting, and say both which year and house you want to be in. An admin should come later to sort you.