Thank you everyone who replied! I am thinking some casual introductions and meetings are in order to get started and set the tone, and then we can take it from there and see what fun can be had with some plotlines.
So if any of you have capacity for an easy thread, feel free to let me know (maybe via by DM?) and we can get sth started.

(June 11, 2024 – 12:22 PM)Gus Lissington Wrote:  Staff wise I play the DADA professor Gus here, who is almost like an overgrown child. I'm not sure how well they'd get on, but Gus sure would try.

Reading his profile, I do see a few situations where they'd butt heads and have very different opinions and manners. They could be great .. frenemies?

(June 11, 2024 – 12:14 PM)Aldous Crouch Wrote:  For students, I have Abraxas Crabbe in Alchemy (also Hufflepuff prefect!). He's an engaged student in lessons and quite capable, but has been a bit adrift this past year. For hogwarts staff, I have Elenora Brierley. Not sure what she'd make of him!

Since his speciality of alchemy is all about magical materials and needs a lot of creature parts like blood, feathers, hair etc. he would be eager to leave a good impression with Prof. Brierley!
I hope to see Abraxas in the classroom then, once the new years starts

(June 11, 2024 – 8:28 AM)Winston Umbra Wrote:  Winston Umbra is the Ghoul Studies professor and an eccentric weirdo. He is well-meaning and sweet though but a bit 'head in the clouds'. Think Luna Lovegood but a Victorian Man.

They should get acquainted! I wasn't aware of the subject Ghoul studies, it sounds rad

(June 11, 2024 – 7:25 AM)Francesca Garlick Wrote:  Currently, I think of 3 specific characters I have, though they are inactive for now unless enough interest is there for them.

01. Amarantha Valenduris is the granddaughter of the potion's professor. She graduated and debuted this year, but she was the president of the potion's club and a star student in alchemy. She also had a very secret dark arts club that she ran. Her speciality is poisons and the darker side of magic, though she denies it all.

02. Dorian Rosier is currently in half mourning so idk how interesting he'll be for a while, but he will be in his final year in September. Also, a brilliant potions and alchemy student. Beauxbatons teaches alchemy early so it was expected for Dorian to self study it since childhood. That being said, he's a bit advanced for his level, and studies at the Flint Institute during the summer. He's the type to pile so much work on himself he induces a panic attack, but he has very high ambitions.

03. Nataliya Vulchanova is a descendant of the family that founded the Durmstrang Institute, and former Head Girl, so she's nothing to sneeze at. If he was teaching in 1890, he'd know her as one of his alchemy students. She's got an intense, sordid family history and tends to have a haunted, gaunt look about her. But, she really does try to be proper and sweet. Though she can be morbid.

I like these character descriptions a lot. One could bump into each other in Hogsmeade, or at an event in town?

(June 11, 2024 – 7:12 AM)Millie Potts Wrote:  Right now, my main hook would be Millie Potts, who is entering her 5th year this fall and will be taking her OWLs in spring. If Samuel is looking for students to tutor, she might catch his eye. Her Transfiguration scores are near the top, and she does well enough in Ancient Runes. It's Potions where she's still below her level (I keep her grades on my profile, btw, if you want to look). So if he's scouting for Alchemy potentials and offered her tutoring, Millie has a personal incentive to accept an arrangement like that.

He is indeed interested to scout talents for his class, since its offered only when the demand suffices. That could make an useful arrangement. If her family has sufficient connections, he can also be persuaded to tutor students in preparation for the coming year.

(June 11, 2024 – 6:34 AM)Violetta DeCroix Wrote:  Ignatius Prince is the ancient Runes professor at Hogwarts, he could certainly do with more stories, he has also travelled a lot as a cursebreaker so can share tales of an evening.

For students I have

Benedict Hunter who is about to get his OWL results. Alchemy is one of the courses I am considering for him to take but I'm not decided yet.

Violetta DeCroix is my European (french) she is a very sweet but quite snobby young slytherin going into fifth year. Depending on his personality she might look up to him as an UC slytherin professor.

Especially Ignatius would be interesting and I'd be delighted to see Benedict in Alchemy class.
Samuel lived many years in Paris, so he and Miss Decroix could have a chat in french