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Title: Looking Back
Post by: ~Harry Potter~ on September 16, 2006, 06:44:14 AM
Looking back at the site, I can't believe how much it changed.  I wasn't even here for the age of .:~*Shuiliya*~:. but when I joined, the site was really different.  The site was pretty much run by Kaira, Max, Ginny, Lavender, Isis, Brian, Zack, myself and Ron.  Now look at it, most of the veterans have left leaving on me and Ginny and now just returning Kiara and Max -cheers- Now our charries are grown and somewhat forgotten.  Now, a new gaggle of kids run the school and we are left in the dust.  Does anyone else have memories of the old HPFF?  And what was it like when you joined?

For me I would have to say that I joined in the time of Kiara and the Shadow.  When I first joined the Harry postion was vacant and I was lucky enough to get it.  And Kiara helped me adjust to the new idea of the books, all written by herself that became law during her time here before the absence.  That was a major time and Kaira, you leaving marked the new age that we are now living in here. 
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Ginny Weasly on September 16, 2006, 07:05:24 AM
I remember the first person who talked to me. It was Ron, he sent me a message, and as a joke put "How are you, sis?" I can still remember my first thread, and the few after that that helped shape my character into who she is, how she acts. I remember how badly I used to type, and still do sometimes!

Kiara, being the saint she is, made room for me in her RP's. Lavender, with her wonderful kindness, had patience for me! People took time to help me when I was stuck. People gave me time to reply before the topic was long gone. Someone was almost always on. I miss the old forum.

However, I do like the new way some things are done. I used to spend two hours on here everyday, and as aresult, I didn't get outside much. Now I spend a few minutes unless someone is on and we begin to have fun.

Because of everyone, I've gotten much better at my spelling, typing, and grammar. I can think up a story for English and have it written out--with few mistakes-- faster then a lot of kids in my class. I've learned stupid little facts, that really don't matter. I have fun.

And let's not forget what drew us all her in the first place. Our love of reading and watching Harry Potter. Our love of discussing theories for the storyline, cutting the movies down, forming our opinions.

I really love this place, and though I may not be on as much as I used to--I bought a life!!-- I will always take out at least five minutes to check and see who's on.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Kiara Johnson on September 16, 2006, 01:16:00 PM
OMG!  Do I have memories?? I WAS here in the age of Shui... god how I miss her and Em and Hermione (The first one)  d**n, Ron and Draco (Ryan)  Man I do miss them all so much, I so wish they would return for at least a time.

I a, here, have always been around, I just wasn't posting for quite some time, after Max left, Kiara really had no future, but then, I also had so many thing happen in my own personal life that made being on HPFF a bit hard, well, ok then, really hard.

I as well, have grown and started my own sites to R/P in as the restrictions here left me little to grow with so I had to find more, and so I did.

I think however, that this site has been and always will be my 'home' It was what got me started in my r/p and it gave me a good outlet for my writing.  Without it, I would have probably never even shared my writings with the world.  NEVER.  I mean, I had no idea that there could be so many writers out there that loved and or had the passion that I do for what I do.  This place.. HPFF gave me that free rain to do as I pleased, to make myself known. 

My fondest memories are of the simple chats I would have with people.  I remember gaining the authority from Shui to give out them purple elephants to the newbies, it was one of the saddest and happiest days in here.  I was to take over where she had left off, and now... we don't even give them anymore.. but meh, I 'supose times must roll on.

I really do mean it when I say I love you all, I hope you all know that... I really do, you have been my escape from reality, my friends, my 'people'  you all are the ones who helped me stay happy when things were REALLY down for me, you have been the ones who have (unknowingly) helped bring me up from a point of dread so deep that I was lost, you all have been my heroes in so many ways I couldn't even begin to describe.  YES.. HPFF is my HOME.

I love you all

Huggles always and foreva
~K~
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Kiara Johnson on September 16, 2006, 01:18:24 PM
OH and a little PS here


I plan on begining a total NEW erra too just start reading, and we will soon understand. heehee 
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: _Lavender_ on September 18, 2006, 02:55:12 AM
pSHA! My, the memories...

Wow.
To think where I would be right now, without HPFF. I have stated many times before, IC, 'friends are the life that holds this character together'. That statement is both true for Lavender, my first, foremost, and most endeared character of mine, to my heart, and me, myself, as well. I remember the times where it was proven to me, again, and again, that there actually was kindness out there in this world.

I remember when I started off.
HPFF was the starting point for me. For all and any of my ideas, writings, and such. Had I not gotten enough courage to join, and without the patience, acceptance, and kindness of the other members - I would not have progressed. And most definately, utterly NONE of my writing would ever leave the confinements of this brain mine.

Because of the old member's influence, I look at the change in the writing of the forum, my own.. I am dazzled. Truly.
When you think about it, HPFF was, and is, simply a great thing. The getting together and just writing, imagining, letting loose of ideas and creativity.
HPFF was my start. And my outlet.  I learned, created anew from a shell of a character, to a character that I now love with all my heart. Ask any writer - the characters they create are like their children! After a while I branched away, created and joined some other forums to extend in different areas..

I never could, never did, actually leave HPFF.
There were a few spells in which I simply could not get online... but HPFF, is also my HOME.

I remember Isis, Kiara, Max, Zack, Xaver, {Osiris moved away =<} Ginny, the old Hermione, Ella, Sebastian, Draco{Ryan}, Brian, Harry, Sher, Emily, Ron, Meg, Fawkes, Goblet, 0612, Josh, Neo, LavyBrown, Damion..+++

I RP'd most with Isis, Kiara, Brian, Harry, Damion, Ella and of course, Ginny. RP'd the most with Gin. =>

I love this place..
Love you all, forever.

-Lav.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: pig on September 18, 2006, 05:03:47 AM
I remember those little purple elephant's hehe i still have mine its saved on my computer.

When i first came here  (i think about two years ago,it maybe more) all of the members that were on made me feel welcomed particularly Ginny, Lavender, Harry and kiara. This site was the first forum i had ever joined  I did join others but none of seemed as good and spacial as this one.

Through this site I have learned about many diffrent cultures as many of us come from all across the world.

I remember when I was a newbie and how i knew nothing about RP,o how things have changed and how Ginny helped me form my character and her powers.

This site its self has changed quite a lot, i still miss the black layout for the forum it was the best.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Kiara Johnson on September 18, 2006, 08:13:32 AM
Lol, oh yes, I just can't help but post again in this one, man this is perhaps one of the greatest ideas for a thread I can think of, great job Harry!  And a purple elephant for your imagination on this one too. Heehee

I remember all of you, when you first came in here, I remember welcoming each and everyone of you, I truly wish I could still hand out them purple elephants for really again, it was so much fun coming up with way to present them, I truly miss it.. a lot.

But now, on to what else I truly wanted to reminisce about and that is a couple people Lavender has mention, one being my bestest friend in the world Sebastian aka Josh, the other is Damien, I miss him so much... and Ella OMG how could I forget about her, Josh is still head over heals for that girlie. Heehee.    Heck I truly do miss them all, Brian, as I have mentioned in me new story, I really wish he'd come grace us again too.

Alas, I do tend to ramble quite a bit and so, will say ttyl cuz I know someone is bound to post something else in here that I will want to comment,

Huggles Always
~K~
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: admin on September 18, 2006, 09:59:03 AM

The Purple Elephant still resides on HPFF in http://www.harrypotterfan.com/forum/Smileys/secret/ along with all the other little gifs, unfortunately after a major upgrade some years back the plug-in code that made it easy to enter them was overwritten. Anyhow just click on the image you want and copy and paste the URL into your post using the insert image button. It's really great to read some of these "looking back posts", such a cool topic guys :)

(http://www.harrypotterfan.com/forum/Smileys/secret/elephant.gif)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Kiara Johnson on September 18, 2006, 02:25:45 PM
Glomps and then huggles Admin muchly for the elephants and much much more.  I so wubs you. heehee

Huggles always
~K~ (http://www.harrypotterfan.com/forum/Smileys/secret/elephant.gif)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: goblet_fulla_fire on October 14, 2006, 01:51:14 PM
I remember this site. Long time ago. I suppose the reason I liked it so much is because it was the first forum I participated in daily. RP's were fun, but they were slowly getting boring. I remember I looked down at the keyboard when I started participating in the forum, now I haven't looked down at the keyboard for awhile now.

I thought that all members on HPFF were cool. But as I began exploring the forum, I saw lots of childish stuff. What bothered me was the grammatical and spelling errors people would type. I especially didn't like it when people typed "lol" or "rofl." Then I learned it's common throughout the net that people didn't type like they are litterate and I gradually accepted it.

Lavybrown and I posted many times in a few particular topics, mostly because we both had DSL. I didn't like that I did that because it seemed so... I don't really know. It just bothered me.

I remember how many people went off topic, especially in Harry Potter Mistakes 3. People would try to stay on topic, but I suppose it was practically enevitable that posts would eventually go off the subject.

I'll admit that I didn't get along with a few members. One that NOBODY got along with is Banastre, since he added spoilers and spammed. He apologized, but I know that he is going to get a hold of the seventh book, and come back and do what he did before.

I didn't get along with Neo. Then I didn't get along with Ginny and Em. Then I realized I didn't like Lavy as much anymore, mostly because internet chatting is really inpersonal. I didn't like Jon Weasly (I will not say why.) 0612, Lavender, and Josh Weasley were cool, but they weren't at HPFF much. So how could I keep coming to this site? I couldn't really. So I went to another forum.

A year or so later, I came back here. It didn't change much. In fact, apart from the new posts and topics, it was as exactly as I left it.

No matter. This was the first forum I really liked, and I will always remember the good times here.

Goblet
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: LavyBrown on October 15, 2006, 02:16:16 PM
Yep I pretty much feel like goblet. I've been here for over a year:


Three layouts, at least a hundred new people, most of then have never come back, over 13,000 posts. Dang, It seems like forever ago that I wrote my first topic. I miss the fun of this forum, it seems like everyday it dies a little more. It's lost it's spunk. Oh well. I remember the first person who talked to me was Josh Weasly, I miss him, he barley comes on anymore. There are so many old people who don't come on anymore.


I think they could come back more often, it would make coming here even cooler. I use to be here all day long, but now I come once every three days if I'm lucky. We're all getting older, some of use now in high school and other in university. I just hope some day soon we're all on at the same time and can talk.


                                                                          I miss you all

                                                                                          Lavy B.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ateenangel on April 12, 2007, 05:21:22 AM
Wow, the site had changed quite a bit since the last time I visited... in 2004. :) The layout is different, the new home page is gone, and I barely recognize anyone. I started back in the "age of Shuiliya," so I do kind of remember Ginny, Lavy, Lavendar, first Hermione, Kaira, MrsRadcliffe0480, emily824, etc. This was my first favorite internet site. I'd spend hours online posting. My dream was to get 500 posts. This site even inspired my first ever fanfiction. (It was awful! ;D Reading it now, I have the desire to run and hide.)

I was pretty childish back then. (In my defense, I was eleven. ;)) I remember trying to seem older than I was and using "sux." (How embarresing...) Still, this was my favorite site for nearly two years, so I've got a lot of great memories. :-*

P.S. Yes, I remember the purple elephants. I still have mine saved. ;D

P.P.S. Ah yes, and I listed my age as 999.

P.P.P.S. One of you ought to make a facebook group for all of us who grew up on HPFF. (I don't think I'm notorious famous enough, too. ;D)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Ginny Weasly on April 30, 2007, 04:36:33 AM
I took ateenangel's advice. If you are on facebook, join this group!


http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2534445509
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: cho chang on June 4, 2007, 02:10:49 AM
ah yes. I first joined when i was only ten or eleven, i think. I still had the illusion that Hogwarts was going to send me a letter  ;D
Back then the character Cho Chang was still not despised, and i thought it was soo cool to be her.
The site has changed so much now, haven't been on for quite a while. i think it's changed for the better.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Fawkes on July 11, 2007, 03:05:21 AM
Ah.. HPFF.

My first forum ever! For me, this forum is like my hometown on the internet.. where I began my journey. :)

Ella, journal415, Lavender, Neo, Ginny and the rest of you guys, I'll never forget you.  :-*
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Naroto Mashima on July 24, 2007, 03:21:47 PM
I wasn't here for anywhere near as long as you guys.
However, I remember Ginny taught me how to RP, and become literate.
I became myself, and this was the place that taught it to me.

Neo and Lavy were always up on the "Chain" and I was at the bottom.
Ginny was always nice to me, and Neo was a jokester.
I never really knew Kiara very well, neither Fawkes.

This place was kinda like where I'd go to cheer up.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: dobby888 on August 3, 2007, 03:08:09 AM
i just joined like this week so i havent gotten that manny posts done (as you can tell...) but its amazingly funn!!!
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: HermioneFan on August 12, 2007, 11:41:02 AM
^^ lol are u joking?! U have more than 500 posts! I have like 100 and i joined last month :( Last month i remember more activeness in the members... more posting mostly :)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: dobby888 on August 15, 2007, 01:37:04 AM
but i said that on august second..... its the 14th now.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: fudge0604 on August 15, 2007, 01:57:07 AM
Quote from: ateenangel on April 12, 2007, 05:21:22 AM

I was pretty childish back then. (In my defense, I was eleven. ;)) I remember trying to seem older than I was.

P

Hehe when i read this my face got a littel bit read........ :P :P ::)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: HermioneFan on August 15, 2007, 06:01:52 AM
Quote from: dobby888 on August 15, 2007, 01:37:04 AM
but i said that on august second..... its the 14th now.

u still have over 500 posts ;)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: dobby888 on August 19, 2007, 08:33:34 AM
yeah but if you join enough posts, thats easy as pie!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm shooting for 1000 soooo I don't know how long that will take, but if I keep joining posts, then it shouldn't take much longer. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ~Harry Potter~ on January 6, 2008, 09:12:34 AM
Wow, I come back after talking to Ginny and I want to weep for this site.

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(


No offence but I am glad that I left when I did.  I could see the path this site was going down, and now I can see I was right.  The characters are new, not models of the book characters, but they are small and poorly written.  There is a saying to let your character 'grow' on a forum...but there should still be a basis for that to grow down.  I know that my bio here, it 'is' still here, is not much bigger, but that is because I chose to ignore a history and a description, since mine was so well known.  Why type something out when everyone knows it. 

I come back to see all of these...people based off of High School Musical?!  Okay, that is worse then stealing from HP, at least then you are stealing cannon characters...not cannon characters from another series that has nothing to do with this site. 

If you would post like you do now, with Lavender, with Kiara, with Max, you would never be able to keep up.  They wrote such long and descriptive posts, that added great detail and entertainment to the thread.  A forum is supposed to age like fine wine, with the older ones, getting the new people to post longer, post better, but this place is ageing like old sweat socks.

I weep for this site, since the Harry Potter Fan Forum, that I know, started on, and loved, is gone. 


RIP HPPF of Olde

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Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ChoChangHP118 on January 6, 2008, 09:53:35 AM
I joined about a year ago. It was interesting for me then just being able to express my writing without a care. Until i started reading the old posts with Ginny and you and the others. Now I'm trying to avoid these High School Musical characters. I understand why Ginny gets so angry. It is sad and i agree with you. I just wish I could have joined back then, when posts took up a page instead of these one liners. I feel bad for the likes of Ginny, after reading the older threads where you guys make fun of one liners I have greater respect for her and anyone else from back then that has stayed or come back, now she and some others have to post one liners How sad, I love posting longer threads, it makes it more interesting...I like some of you High School Musical characters, just when I'm looking for a random laugh. When i want to be serious about posting good threads, its hard now a days to find anyone who is willing to post long.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ~Harry Potter~ on January 6, 2008, 10:07:55 AM
Here is how a RP should be...I believe this is one of the last RP's before I left...

A New Headmistress (http://www.harrypotterfan.com/forum/index.php?topic=3515.0;topicseen)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ChoChangHP118 on January 6, 2008, 10:14:52 AM
Those were the days that I so wish I could have been apart of. You guys were able to make it seem like you were all one big family. Now a days people are just so different. Man I wish I could have been apart of those RP's...
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Xaver on January 6, 2008, 10:40:41 AM
I joined in August 2005.
I'm not a n00b anymore, I suppose, no? ;D Eesh, I feel ancient.

Harry, you should come back, and RP! Help revamp this place. XD
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ~Harry Potter~ on January 6, 2008, 10:45:14 AM
Nah, I cannot, I am on other forums now, but I must admitt, I will never forget this place. BUT!  If you ever need a place that has a bit more...'substance' hit me up or bug Ginny to get me.  I belong to a very nice school site that is past teh bumpy stages of new birth and finally hit its stride.

But, just for you guys, and to show how it is done, I will post in one last RP ^^
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: fudge0604 on January 7, 2008, 11:55:34 PM
I read that RP.... I wish I joined then. It would have been fun to be here then.
And now I also understand why Ginny is mad. I will improve. That is a promise to myself and all of you, who are reading this.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ~Harry Potter~ on January 8, 2008, 09:00:22 AM
From what I saw of your past posts, you seem to be really getting better at the language.  And with that your posts will become better.  I see potential in you yet though.  You will eventually get all the finer touches of the English Language such as the rules for certain past rules.  (There are a lot, so just take your time, lots of special cases and stuff)

But even with all of that going against you I can see that you try to post longer, at least a paragraph or a bit less if you don't got much.  Good posts overall though.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ChoChangHP118 on January 8, 2008, 09:05:48 AM
Yes I totally agree. I don't consider you a 'newbee...' only a short period of time did I because of the fact that you were new to the site. Ha, I find great irony in that. Anyway, I think you are good at posting, better then me half the time that's for sure. = )
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: fudge0604 on March 19, 2008, 09:06:36 PM
I just want to share my experience now and how HPFF was when I came...

I joined last Summer, July( Or August).
Then a lot of more people was here. For those who can remember them:
Cho, Sky, Blaze ( He is on sometimes but not much) And others that not are so active today.
It is, in fact, depressive looking at this site and then, comparing it to the site when I came here.
Yes, one liners was a big part of the site but the site was more 'alive' .

Jessie, Blaze, Cho and Draco, was some of the people that welcomed me.
We had these fun topics of duels, and what that had happened with death eaters and so on.
This was the place I was at least two hours a day. My first forum.
I loved this place and Rp like h**l. It was really fun here, and you could join a topic and just post.

Now, people don't come here so much. I believe that it may is connected to that it is winter and not so much freetime, with homework and other freetime activities. And a lot of older people is here, who are at college or at an university. I've looked over it and have seen ( As others too have) That Summer time is the time when most new people come, and stay. It is also when the most posts is submitted to HPPF. So I can't wait what Summertime brings.

I hope that HPPF will come back to itself, and it would have been fun to be here when all of these oldies whas here.

Sincerely, Albus
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Shara2007 on March 19, 2008, 10:43:18 PM
Well I do go to college and I get on when ever I have a chance.

I used to feel as if Sarah really fit in with everyone. I mean you had Ginny and Lavy taking me under there wing as the one that need help with powers. I don't even seem to post with them or see them on any more.

Then you had the awesome 4.  :'( :'( :'(  (I miss ya.) I mean it was Me, Cho, Devon, and well Sirius. I don't ever see them on any more. I remembered when we would stay up till like 2 in the morning sometimes posting and they were not one liners when we could. I mean I missed those days. I mean we were all different but seem to never fight. Sarah was the one that did not know as much magic but would do what every she could to protect them. Sirius was the love of her life. then you had Cho, What is there to say about her. She rocked she was one of my best friends. I don't know much about Devon he just slid in when him and Cho hooked up.

Then there was this one he should have been added to our four except for one reason. I was a muggle-born. Yes I'm talking about Draco. I bet if Sarah would have been a pure blood things might have worked out. I think thought that it was fun back then having an enemy. This allowed for me to have someone to pratice my new tricks on. How many times have I did something to him and he went and tattled to Snape and did not get in trouble. I mean no one believed I could do it. So well we might try to heal up the wombs we have but I know one thing. I'm glad that he never left and wanted me to say. I mean he was a great fish. (inside joke between us).

Then there the older of the newer group. You have Jessie, Blaze, Albus, and Mira. Out of all them I think I still post with Jessie and Albus the most of everyone besides well Draco. I remember when they first joined and well we were still a normally post. I mean we would go to class, eat in great hall. Man we even had our own little Quiddich matches. Witch we all know I was the best. One thing that I remember and well I know that it made me first think do I want to post with Vanessa was that before she came Blaze and Jessie were dating. That made it hard because instead of them breaking up and everyone knowing. I had to post with Jessie and realize that it just happened. I know some of the behind the post things going on with a certain 2 people and well I hope they will realize they like each other and hook up. I mean and keep posting I miss it.

Then there you other noobs. I mean everytime a new group join it changes. I was not expecting it to turn from the classes, eat, praticing Quiddich, and hang out at hogmead to parties all the time. I mean it is fine. I just as if though ya are never in class or praticing.

So if your new then then group I'm talking about and wonder why Sarah seems so mean it is because her best friend it no longer here. The one that she loves is not on as much.(I do not blame you ok. I miss you though.) Then I really do not want to be part of the group that makes this site just a party site. I miss it when we had classes, the common rooms for when we just wanted to sit and hang with friends. I remember post and saying I was sitting out side the common room door because of the fact that I forgot the password. Then I would run into Draco coming up and we would get into it about how he should not be up here. Then I some how not know why turned him blue. So that why Sarah is always out praticing her powers, or working at her shop after graduating, well even working in the Ministy of Magic. I don't want to be the one in every dance. So that why she seems upset and alone all the time.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ChoChangHP118 on March 20, 2008, 06:32:43 AM
I don't remember this day how i found this website but no matter what began has begun and hopefully it won't end anytime soon.
Upon arriving at this website i was a newbee, a big one too. I used to many exclamation points when ending my sentences, i posted without thinking, I didn't use proper spelling and punctuation (etc.), I didn't have just one character, and I did so much more that would mark me a very BIG newbee.

I met Cho when I posted in her name on the first day (She didn't take to kindly to that) and shortly later I met Sarah. I miss the old days too how I remember them so well. My mom literally would come down stairs to the computer and disconnect the internet because I was caught on in the early hours of morning hanging out with my favorite friends. A few times I was invited to actually go to the mall and other places but I turned it down so I could stay on here. Unfortunately everything slowly died down here and that's where it has turned just so different.

For starters Cho started school and everything again and sadly she left us but then the worst of it happens. High School Musical is what happened. All of a sudden I get on one day to find more High School Musical characters then I can handle. I mean, I felt like HSM had taken over and that soon it would become a HSM website! I seriously hated all of you then. I never had so many newbee's entering our threads in my entire time on here. It was crazy! I suppose that's why I've slowed down. Even though I try to get on a lot its still diffrent. HPFF has lost something, the old times. Sarah's right, I remember when I didn't even know how to RP a party and now all there seems to be is parties. I never pictured Harry Potter characters going to the movies or going on camping trips I mean, my goodness...

This site used to be my life but lately I've just been getting sick of it all.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Shara2007 on March 20, 2008, 06:37:27 AM
Siruis black I miss you so much. I hope that you will start posting again. Yes then maybe we can get it back to the way it was. I hope so/
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: fudge0604 on March 20, 2008, 03:39:29 PM
Yeah... The old times was fun... ( One time, I stupyfied myself in a duel  ;D  THOSE WERE THE DAYS!)

We should make some of the practising threads. Or class threads.
It is bad that Draco hasn't been on for a while! I'm starting to miss his arrogant butt.

Maybe Cho, Draco will come here more in the summer? Along with other oldies?
Hope so...

I remember the group I was in... We still post sometime but not so much as we did before.
( Me, Jessie, Izzy and Mira)

So anyone wanna have an oldtime RP?

P.S Here's my first rp http://www.harrypotterfan.com/forum/index.php?topic=3915.150

I was such a n00b then.... saying: little Albus, little Albus all the time.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Shara2007 on March 20, 2008, 10:03:17 PM
"Oh you dont know how I would do for just any old time rp play.

Draco still gets on. I mean come on me and him are starting to be friends on some post since it as is we only have each other now. I mean when you were talking about what you miss Albus you did not say nothing about me.

So I had to say it but I think me and fishy are going to become friends I hope.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: iNinjuh on March 21, 2008, 12:19:25 PM
Haha...
Thanks for the remembrance.
It makes me feel loved.

Great knowing not one of you had no good memory with me.
I think I was too busy checking all the spelling and criticizing you guys.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Shara2007 on March 21, 2008, 12:31:59 PM
WEll duh how could I forget.

;D *Hugs Al* I mean I was about to go crazy with you. I mean you were always saying no godmodeling and checking our grammer.

I missed you to so much I mean with out you I don't think my elements would have been as great as they are.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Ginny Weasly on March 21, 2008, 11:53:15 PM
I feel it is necessary for me to post here once again.

For all of my complaining, and b!tching, I really do love most of you guys (even the newer ones.) I get upset because I know the potential to which a forum can go...I know most of you are capable of posting strong, intelligent replies...and it just aggravates me to no end when people don't do their best.

My character is old...she's far past the prime of being a child and even has her own. Soon, there will be no story left for her, because after that who would want to read it? Ginny is slowly becoming what she had always feared; useless. She is still stronger than the students, but she is twenty years of age...plus she won't be on HPFF all the time anymore.

I will always sign on...it's a habit...but I will never post like I used to. It is rare that I have any reason to post in anything...what with all the one liners and horrible plots...but once in a while, I will make a new RP in which I expect at least a few to reply to. But soon I will make a story line in which Ginny and her son have reason to be missing...It all depends.

Nonetheless, I love this forum. I always have and always will. But the books are over now...and it takes out half the fun...no new things to look forward to. No new ideas residing within those wonderful tomes of excellence. (GOD JK! Why'd you end it?) Slowly, this forum will become even more mutated than it already is...and the result will be something none of us even wants to recognize.

I miss my old friends...when my grandmother died all those years ago...they were there for me....when Kiara first moved out of her parents house, we tried to be there for her...through everyone's problems, we tried to help...

Does anyone remember Allie? She used to play Hermione...I remember back when she was in the hospital...how we missed her...I miss all the old people...when I showed up, the first members of this site were leaving...I like to think of myself as second generation, you know? But we were happy...all of us. We had fun! We were silly, and serious, and  crazy, and angry, and loving...we cared about each other. Not just because if something went wrong in someone's life it would mess with their charry's...but because we meant alot to eachother.

That's not to say I hate all the newbies. Xaver is like...one of my best friends in the whole world...Sirius, Sarah, Lavy, Albus, Neo (whom I talk to all the time), Al...all of you are close in my heart. But I will always miss when I was younger and when I was amazed by Kiara's ability to pull words out of thin air and make them into something fantastic...when we made storylines that changed until we settled on ones we liked...I miss them all...

I love HPFF.
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: fudge0604 on March 22, 2008, 12:11:57 AM
Quote from: Shara2007 on March 20, 2008, 10:03:17 PM
"Oh you dont know how I would do for just any old time rp play.

Draco still gets on. I mean come on me and him are starting to be friends on some post since it as is we only have each other now. I mean when you were talking about what you miss Albus you did not say nothing about me.

So I had to say it but I think me and fishy are going to become friends I hope.
ops Sarah... Hard to remember everyone,,,,

Hi Al! Long time no see! Good to have you back again.

And I really hope J.K Rowling is going to write something about Albus's experiences at Hogwarts.
Would be fun to compare
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: dobby888 on March 26, 2008, 05:30:32 AM
Now I realize that I still am considered somewhat a newbie (I joined in august) but even I have noticed the dramatic changes that have occured.  Around October I believe was when the floodgates were opened and newbies began the flow into HPFF and left their RP waste in their wake.  After a while I couldn't take it, and stopped coming on HPFF but then I forced myself back on and couldn't beleive my eyes.

I would like to thank all of those who were and are my circle of friends.  To those who welcomed me (Sarah, Sirius, Albus, Cho, Sky, Blaze etc.) and to those whom I know consider my closest friends (Mira, Iza, Sarah, Albus etc.). Thanks so much guys... I love you!!!  :-*  (Sorry if I left you out, but consider the etc. that's right it means YOU). To Ginny and Xaver and Kiara, whose Fan Fictions and Rp's would take hours to read... thank you for keeping alive the older HPFF (I think of it as HPFF Senior) and I hope that with some help HPFF Senior will live once again.

I hope that with a little help and guidance that all of the Newbies and HSM people will either die out, or become improved and that they can help to create a better HPFF future.

Thanks everyone so much!!  Together WE can make a better future!!

(Vote YES to HPFF... lol that sounded like a president's speech!!)
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: ~Harry Potter~ on September 4, 2008, 04:58:25 AM
I am in an in between stage with HPFF that is really bugging me.  I come on here every once in a while without logging on just to see what is going on in General threads, see what Ginny has ranted about that day, and to whoop all your butts at riddles.  But when I don't come here looking for RP any more.  I really want to avoid using Harry if I can since I look at him and think... "This is totally flat...I can do so much better"  But I don't really 'want' to try and revamp him.  It is so weird trying to be a character that is so...well made.  I can't even get close to J.K. in making Harry. 

And then, there is Rhyme.  He is my latest and so far greatest brain child and I need to get around to posting my others just so people can see what can be done.  Rhyme is far to young to RP with the old people they have already grown up, and I would feel really out of place with Rhyme there.  On the other hand, I don't want to RP at all with the people who consider 5 lines a 'long' post.  I just don't find it worth it anymore...

I look at the simplicity here and smile, I remember all the old times I had here.  It was still simple, but simple in a good way, like when you just look at certain things in nature, or that piece of artwork that has almost nothing there, but invokes so much.  Now I look at it and see simple as in a piece of work someone made the day before since they forgot they had to turn a piece in the next day.  This site is bare basics of forums.  No ordered classes, or races, or powers or weapons, it is all from our own heads.  This is a blessing and a curse.  A blessing since it never limits our creativity.  A curse since, well, if you don't have any creativity, it doesn't force any into you. 

>.> Now I feel like I am just going around in circles in my own memories/boredom, so I will end this here before I blather any more <.<

-cough- ... -cough- ... -vanishes-
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Kiara Johnson on February 14, 2009, 03:40:26 AM
There were reasons I left, reasons beyond that which is HPF and even beyond HP itself.  I however, like ~Harry Potter~ Used to check in from time to time without signing in, but I just not have the strength to do anything about what was going on in this world, or my own for that matter for quite some time. 

My personal life has turned around though and my rl structure has become something of a mess again and I feel I need you guys again.  That is why my fiancĂ© urged me back here.  In hopes I think that I might focus on things that would make me happy again.  I chose this place above and beyond all the rest of my old dwellings and trust in me when I say, there was a lot of them.  But I am not here to talk about my rl situations, they are mine to deal with, I will just say that they are growing again to a good spot.

I think I miss r/p with people like Ginn and Harry and yes I miss Ryan(Draco) and our Hermione.  I still have their pictures in my old photo albums and some times go back and look at them wondering how they are today.  Then of course there was Brian and Ron and of course then we had, Shui :D  God I miss Shui....then Em and well.. Max, Max was a very divan force in our R/p's and one that Kiara was heavily based around, it was like without him, why even bother posting Kiara at all?  When he left here, the Character Kiara all but died out because of course, I refused to re-write her in any way, but I have grown and with that, so can she.

I am back, and I will be here for quite some time.  My intension for now is to try and pull something of the old times back into this joint without pulling them too far in.  A sort of re-vamp if you will on the r/p structure of this place, a challenge, yes however I hate to see what has come of HPFF's R/P section and will fight to regain a certain amount of HP dignity back into it, with or without Max.  I urge people like you Gin and Harry to make new r/p's show these new people HOW to r/p  as I truly don't think they are up to the challenge, then again, I have been proven wrong in the past.

Well, aside from making this a book, I will end it there and like I keep saying, if for any reason any of you really want to see what a R/p site is truly about, go look into mine.

Ttfn (That's ta ta for now, to all those non Tigger fans)

Huggles
~K~
Title: Re: Looking Back
Post by: Kiara Johnson on May 14, 2013, 06:58:25 AM
Wow and yes indeed this was so long ago... I still think about this place quite often.  I kind of miss it in an odd sort of way.  Its been far too long since I have even dwell here and am certain that I should have gone to the J K Site, but just never did for one reason or the next.

A lot has gone on in my rl and not so much in the writing department, most unfortunately, for the past six years.  I don't know exactly what happened.. I guess I just grew tired and oh so distracted.  I am writing with friends again on my own site.  Though it is going a bit slowly at the moment.  We are warming up again.  (Gods I miss what this place used to be for all of us.)

Well for any of you reading this, I will check back soon enough and see if there are any I know, or anyone. 

Huggles always
~K~