Good point; however, Jo did have characters of all different ethnicities. African-American [African-British? How about just black? ] (Dean, Angelina, Lee), Asian (Cho), Indian (Parvati and Padma), and let us not forget our peeps at Beaxbatons and Durmstrang. The books are set in Britain; the hero is British; it just follows logically that the characters were British, but the character's backgrounds were all over the place, and there are characters in the RP that come from different places too. Maybe there were American students at Hogwarts; they just weren't important to the plot

Really? Why?

Canon characters can, from time to time, get out of hand. There are lots of people who RP students from the Black family, even though we all know that the Black line died out with Sirius. Maybe they're some other kind of Black But I digress. Setting down rules for how you can create your character is limiting and just plain sucky, and I'm glad SS doesn't do that, because we'd have a much smaller school RP. I would much rather people follow the other rules of the RP, like not riding around on dragons or being an a first year Animagus. I was reading that FF by that guy...I forget his name, but he released his FF online in December and it caused a minor stink. Anywho, little James Potter and his friends decided to use some sort of toy to communicate, with a Protean charm on it. I ask you...a Protean charm!??!!? That is NEWT level, for crying out loud, Hermione didn't even do it until fifth year!! *huffs, puffs* My point is that my canon freakinesss stems more from realism about that sort of thing than it does from last names and family lines. You want to RP a charrie that's descended from Draco? Knock yourself out; just don't run around with a pet quintaped. I find that sort of thing infinitely more annoying