a. Keep them as realistic as possible! This meaning you’re character can’t be emo, anorexic, a metamorphmagus, a werewolf, and can read minds.
b. Use variety! Honestly, not every single character needs to be emo or scene. Nor does everyone have a horrible past.
d. ‘Special’ characters must be given permission by the staff. This includes all werewolves, parselmouths, animagi, vampires, and metamorphmagi.
e. There is a uniform, just like in the books, and on the movies! The same exact one too! (Along with this I'd like to note that electronics don't work at Hogwarts, so your characters aren't going to be using CD players and the like.)
f. Students are only allowed to have small pets, as in cats, toads, rats and owls. If you wish to have any other sort of animal, please ask permission from a staff member.
g. All Canon Characters are to be treated as NPCs unless we, the staff, get plotty and want them to actually be played. Remember in creating Canon Descendants that your likely to have already existing relatives in the characters on the site.
h. Obviously, if your character is a 1st year, it won’t know killing curses, and it won’t be allowed to be an animagus. We do stress you use common sense.