modofthehat | MINISTRY APPLICATIONS

M I N I S T R Y A P P L I C A T I O N S

R U L E S
1. Only players who already have characters in the game may apply for ministry spots.

2. One Ministry character per player.

3. Ministry characters can be corrupt or they can be for great justice.

4. We'll decide how many ministry members qualify, so if you see 4 apps, you can still submit your own.

5. Do NOT apply for these positions with a character who is not suited for the role. Also do not apply for these spots just to give another character a Ministry BFF. It's cool if they know them a bit, but please, no BFF's.

6. Mods may contact in terms of certain plots that need to be carried out.

7. Ministry characters are able to punish students for misbehaving. They can only takes points if they do anything evilish. For points taking, they have the same restrictions as TA's.

8. All other in game rules apply to these characters as well.

A P P L I C A T I O N

Player Information
Name:
Timezone:
Personal Journal:
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO:
Email Address:
Former/Other Characters in the RP:

Character Information
Name:
Canon Origin/Series: [A link to information for particularly obscure canons/characters would be appreciated (other than wikipedia unless it's particularly thorough because we'll check there either way)] 
Gender:
Age: [Late 20's and up only]

Personality:
Brief History in Canon [This is just to give us an idea that you know your character. No copypasting, please.]
Background (AU!Canon; HP): [200 word minimum.]
What do they do at the Ministry?:

Sample Interaction Post in First Person: [No minimum here, but this is an opportunity to showcase your character's voice, so more than a line or two would be helpful.]

Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: [200 word minimum]

Why should this character be accepted for a ministry position?: [For the LULZ need not apply]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

His father's letter was soon followed by a Howler from his mother, instructing him under no circumstances to listen to his father. Thus began a series of angry letters, seemingly directed more at each other than at Christopher, which caused him no end of embarrassment in front of his peers with the end result that he would have preferred not to stay with either of his parents. In the end, though, he went with his father. As it turned out, his father had already arranged a summer job for him-- an internship with the Ministry of Magic. At thirteen-going-on-fourteen he was mostly assigned pageboy duties, but his father was very optimistic that if Christopher showed promise, he would be asked to stay on the following summer, and could work his way through the ranks. After losing his (wife's) money, Christopher's father had fallen out of favour with the rest of his family, and was looking to Christopher to gain it back for him.

Christopher hated Ministry work. When he thought he could get away with it, he would skive off to visit friends, or to visit Uncle Ralph, who was glad to have his help again. He managed to avoid too much punishment merely by being young and charming: a talent that he had always had, but only recently begun to purposefully exploit.

While he was working in the Ministry, he began to hear other employees talking about a Dark Wizard called the Wraith, who traded in dark objects and cursed artefacts. No one knew where he got these things, or how he managed not to get caught, but he had a steady supply of merchandise flowing into Knockturn Alley, seemingly out of nowhere. As the summer wore on, Christopher realized, sickeningly, that some of the suspected accomplices sounded a bit familiar. His Uncle Ralph was the Wraith. This realization of course broke Christopher's heart, but with his information and help, the Wraith was soon discovered and caught. This, of course, made sure that he would be back in the stuffy Ministry offices the next summer.

The next year at Hogwarts was sickeningly easy. Now that he was able to do magic at all, he discovered that he could just as easily slack off. He'd figured out how to work the system: now he could get good grades with the bare minimum of effort. Some of his classmates began to hate him. Others were so charmed by him that they couldn't hate him. Christopher enjoyed himself even more immensely than ever. Even when he returned to his internship the next summer, he found he could enjoy that as well, with the same tactics of minimal effort expenditure that he used at Hogwarts. Now that he was a bit older, they had begun to give him a salary as well (a pittance, but still a salary-- 122 knuts an hour, since he couldn't accept payment in sickles), which he mostly spent on quidditch supplies and clothes. In his time off with friends, he found himself growing closer and closer to Millie, a Hufflepuff girl in the year below his. They started dating in his fifth year. In his seventh year he was made Head Boy. After leaving school, he applied for a full-time job at the Ministry, and was accepted with open arms. The following year he married Millie, once she had left Hogwarts as well. Christopher moved quickly through the ranks, becoming one of the higher-ups in the Improper Use of Magic Office within five years. He takes great pleasure in his job, and even more pleasure in putting together new and fabulous outfits for every day of the week (and he owns more dressing gowns than the average person has clothes).

What do they do at the Ministry?: He works in the Department for Magical Law Enforcement, specifically the Improper Use of Magic office.

Sample Interaction Post in First Person: So, it's off to Hogwarts for me again in the fall. I say, that does take me back. It ought to be nice to take in a quidditch match again. I used to play a bit, back in the day. It seems Roger and Julia haven't got much interest in the sport, more's the pity.

What is it that young folks are interested in these days? Tell me, I shall be fascinated to hear about it.

Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: Christopher woke up early that morning. He woke up early nearly every morning, as he was a firm believer in the morning constitutional, and the quiet, dewy minutes just after dawn were the best time for that sort of thing. He rose from the bed (that night he had been wearing pyjamas of red silk, decorated with Chinese-style dragons picked out in gold thread) and summoned the house elf with his morning coffee. He sipped it slowly as he walked to his closet, considering what he ought to wear that day. It was his first day on the new assignment, after all, and one had to make a good impression, without seeming like one was trying too hard.

His closet was quite spacious-- much larger on the inside than it was on the outside-- and completely full. Despite the selection, however, Christopher knew exactly where everything was. He first picked out a dusky grey suit with faint mauve pinstripes, enchanting first the trousers, then the waistcoat and the jacket to float after him on their hangers while he continued to assemble his ensemble. A silk mauve shirt completed the outfit, and then-- aha! He picked out a royal blue dressing gown which seemed to change colors in the light, to purple or green depending on the angle. It was covered all over in tiny, five-pointed stars, reminiscent of the sky on a clear night. Very appropriate for Hogwarts, if he did say so.

Why should this character be accepted for a ministry position?: In canon, Chrestomanci is in charge of regulating proper use of magic for not only his world, but for every known world in the universe. He does his job so well that many people don't even realize that he's doing it.

Magic Words? Mouth Grape

-SORTED: Staff watcher person!

T O D O ;

-Comment to this acceptance with your character journal of choice. Using said journal do the following:
-Join the communities

sortinghat_rp,

shooc_up and

sortinghat_logs.
-Make sure to add your time zone and messenger contact, as well as your character's year and house to the character chart and player contact list! (http://modofthehat.livejournal.com/6027.html)
-Post your information at taken characters (http://modofthehat.livejournal.com/8638.html).
-Reply with {friend add journalname} over at the mass add and remove (http://modofthehat.livejournal.com/2001.html).
-Have an idea for an event (http://modofthehat.livejournal.com/1592.html) you want to share? Feel free to express it!
-Introduce yourself to the ooc comm

shooc_up! Give us a little something about yourself and your character and then get posting.
-Don't forget to join

iseeyourcrack! This is the crack!community for SH. Art, graphics, memes and other such nonsense goes here! Involve yourself if you dare!

Thanks for joining and we hope you enjoy Sorting Hat!

Woohoo~! /o/

MINISTRY APPLICATIONS

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6/Okay that's it.

Accepted as a Ministry Member!

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