it’s the year 2016 and the wizarding world has been overthrown by minister theodonius frumpald, a blood purist with enough money in gringotts to buy everyone a small loan of a million galleons. over the past two years of his reign, frumpald has severed the uk wizarding world's relationships with the ministries and governments of several other nations, halved enrollment at hogwarts by smothering their funding for muggle-born witches and wizards, and spent a fortune on a new blood registration program. though the world has not yet devolved into violence and turmoil, tension is high and many wizards can feel the possibility looming over their heads. to combat this trouble, many magical folk have moved into a small village just off of london—away from frumpald’s rule—named hogsweed, a tiny little town where wizards who are sick of frumpald can take solace in like-minded friends. though the group are still more than welcome to filter in and out of london, they find the comfort of the safety of their mayor bernum santers to be too good to give up.

in case the description above didn't make it abundantly clear, the core principle of this gpsl is: abandon all fucks and have as much fun as possible. the rules will be pretty simple. we’re going to point out that, first and foremost, this is indeed an offset (and a trolly one at that) of sorters. while we would love to see new characters come into the mix, please expect that everything will have a degree of ridiculousness and dramatics and general over-the-top-ness that has become synonymous with sorters. if you enjoy crazy group threads, public fights, polyjuice potions gone awry, mini plots like no one's business, and maybe even some demons (just kidding that was traumatic enough the first time around), this place for you and we can’t wait to have you! if not, we still love you, but you might want to try a different community. to make sure you’re up for the kind of interaction we are striving for with this gpsl, you will have to post an intro after joining the community or we will remove you with the next set of adds. there will also be at least 2 group threads on the fp each month, and you are required to participate in at least 1 of them or you will be removed. you can reply with a one-liner, a war and peace-esque novel, a gif, it doesn't matter to us; as long as you reply and then don’t leave your reply hanging when other people respond, you’re good. after that, our only rules are that you have to post in your own journal every two weeks (again, this can be a word, a harrative, an image with a hover one-liner, a gif, whatever you want), and be reasonably active on the friends page. if you don’t comment any posts for two weeks, we’re going to consider you inactive and remove you. for this to work and be as fun as we want it to be, we can’t all hide in our customs!