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I don’t really have time to run an fic-writing event (I have no experience with that), but today I was overcome with Inspiration to design a Harry Potter Worldbuilding Bingo Fic Challenge. So, here are the rough potential categories, subcategories, and specific prompts I came up with today for that (under the cut, based largely on my own interests, I will admit).
Category Example: Crafting and Workmanship
Subcategory Example: Fashion in the Wizarding World
Specific Prompt Examples: A Week of Albus Dumbledore’s Wardrobe Choices OR an Overview of the Best-Dressed Professors and Students of Hogwarts OR Designing New Yule Ball Outfits for Characters
Excerpts of my fav potential specific prompts (from below the cut):
Luna Lovegood and Colin Creevey start a Hogwarts newspaper in their first year (and nobody knows what to do about this)
It’s Card Game Night in Gryffindor Tower (People May Die)
the Seventh-Years of 1992-1993 face their NEWTs with Gilderoy Lockart as their Defense teacher (someone help them)
Hermione tries to discuss university options with Harry and reacts with horror when Harry reveals he had no idea that there were magical universities
A Hogwarts teacher writes journals/papers for a publication and gets into an academic feud with a Beauxbatons teacher
The poor Ministry worker who has to deal with the sobbing preschooler whose parents jokingly told them they’d go to prison for performing Underage Magic even accidentally
Slughorn quizzes his students in a fun and relaxed lesson in a game called “Is this an alcoholic cocktail or a potion?”
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By far my favorite “weakness cancels out strength” dynamic in Harry Potter is that Remus has such a naturally strong and persuasive personality. People Listen To Him and he doesn’t have to even try. He stops whole arguments in their tracks, he is capable of cutting right to the heart of someone and making them feel So Bad.
but then he’s deathly afraid of ever telling anyone to do anything because they might get mad at him
Two years ago, I asked people what they would call a group of Boggarts from the Harry Potter series. Two years later, here are all the answers I got!
Original post (responses in notes): lullabyknell.tumblr.com/post/155484191443/
Posted with commentary: lullabyknellficlets.tumblr.com/post/181959823589/
An Ambush of Boggarts
A Boggie of Boggarts
A Boggle of Boggarts
A Bother of Boggarts
A Braggart of Boggarts
A Cackle of Boggarts
A Circus of Boggarts
A Comedy of Boggarts
A Creep of Boggarts
A Depression of Boggarts
A Dread of Boggarts
A Farce of Boggarts
A Fear of Boggarts
A Fright of Boggarts
A Gaggle of Boggarts
A Giggle of Boggarts
A Grimace of Boggarts
A Haze of Boggarts
An Insane Clown Posse of Boggarts
A Masquerade of Boggarts
A Mischief of Boggarts
A Nightmare of Boggarts
A Joke of Boggarts
A Rattle of Boggarts
A Redonkulous of Boggarts
A Scare of Boggarts
A Scream of Boggarts
A Screech of Boggarts
A Shudder of Boggarts
A Smog of Boggarts
A Tangle of Boggarts
A Terror of Boggarts
A Trepidation of Boggarts
A Trick of Boggarts
A Wardrobe of Boggarts
Thanks for playing!
AN: HP OC-SI fic: hallow things
1.5k rough beginning to an OC-SI fic, in which a modern OC gets inserted into the HP universe as the older sibling of Severus Snape, into the Snape family as a 11-year-old child. I wrote this about a year ago as a warm-up exercise and, though I don’t intend to ever properly write it, I occasionally revisit this fic idea to write warm-up meta snippets.
+500 words snippet of an OC-SI thinking about the mechanics of HP magic through the Reparo spell.
Never posted to tumblr or AO3 before; fic under the cut.
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AN: Harry Potter Fic: holding a handful of flames
4k of rough Regulus Lives fic, in which RAB is somehow held in stasis in the Inferi Lake and is fetched and revived by Kreacher after Walburga’s death (1986 or 1987-ish). I think this was written as a potential FTH auction fic back in 2017, but put aside in favor of focusing on my RAB-centric fic FDITH.
Never posted to tumblr or AO3 before; fic under the cut.
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Just darting in here to say that I would love love LOVE to read (more of) that Harry & Remus penpal fic, should inspiration strike you in 2020
Man, there are SO MANY fics I’d love to write in 2020 if time permits. (I already have a PS AU in “In the Name of the Brave”, a POA AU in “because he strayed across the path”, a GOF AU in “another bend in the road”, and a DH AU in “face death in the hope”. Why not a COS AU too?)
Anyway! Found the letters I’d written between them in one of my notebooks and I’ve posted those too now. Here’s Part One of the fic (1.4k words):
https://lullabyknellficlets.tumblr.com/post/189837643709/an-hp-fic-wolf-at-the-mailbox-14k-words-of-a
And here’s Part Two (3k words) with the actual letters:
https://lullabyknellficlets.tumblr.com/post/189858000764/an-hp-fic-wolf-at-the-mailbox-3k-continuation