This is great! I agree with so many of the posts prior to mine! And personally, I'm certainly hoping that my charrie won't be sitting in Potions class and the stranger sitting next to them starts going off on being an Animagus. Quite frankly, my character is an ickle first year and is most likely horrendous at mixing potions the first go. She will probably be a bit preoccupied measuring out her ingredients and not letting her potion get too watery...

As for a few hundred veelas, vampires, and other such creatures running around Hogwarts, I think I'd tend to avoid them a bit... I mean, quite a few of us in real life would enjoy being a Metamorphmagus and tend to want to be able to do things with our charrie to make up for it, but how special and fun is it if half the class is also?

Flaws... I can't stress enough how interesting I find flaws. I know, it sounds very odd, but I love seeing something different or just plain wrong with someone. I mean, if I'm going to make a character who is imperfect, as I've done, I'd rather not be eternally overshadowed everywhere I look. I think a charrie's personality development over time is rather endearing too.

First years in relationships that serious... I just would rather not picture it. Crushes and puppy-love, yes, but I just can't see an eleven year old understanding love in that form so well when people far older than them can hardly understand. How many sixth years can tell someone that they like them, nevermind LOVE them as I've seen someone RPing as a first year do before?

As for first years being way above their age in skill and knowledge, nobody who steps into a Hogwarts classroom for the first time is already going to know the subject perfectly. More to the point, Hogwarts is first and foremost a school. You're supposed to practice magic there, yes, but I hardly know anyone who can practice something before they learn it. People can claim all they want that they have an older sibling who taught them everything they learned, but first, it's not exactly easy to learn and control magic without a wand, and second, I'm fairly sure that wandless magic requires learning it by wand first.

Just another add-on to this vent of mine... I don't know how often this problem runs up on SS, but, as a roleplayer, I've come across a lot of people claiming to have an extremely powerful wand, even rivaling the Elder Wand... It's just a bit tiring to me.

Now, I don't like leaving people out, but if someone is going to come in and try to turn all eyes on themselves I'm probably going to be looking in the other direction. Sorry, I'm just like that.

I don't mind charries having distant relations to canon characters to an extent. As long as they're not boasting about it or bringing it up constantly I don't really mind. I'd love to be related to Ron and Hermione, personally, but I'm never going to because I don't want to have to make my character walk around Hogwarts asking people how they are related to her...

Well, I figured I've droned on enough and I realize that everyone makes their own choices. I'm not going to try to stop you if you choose to have a few extra abilities, I'm just asking you not to get too carried away and spoil other peoples' times on here. I hope that we can all just have fun and I myself am looking forward to this so much!

If you've read this whole post, thanks for your time and I hope you don't think I'm too uptight... I just like people to know my opinions in advance so it doesn't lead to awkward moments in the future. Terribly sorry for anyone's time that I've wasted...