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Summary: It's that time of the year for the ubiquitous holiday movie. Let's do it Hogwarts style this year! Your challenge, to write a Christmas movie-style story that is at least 3 acts long (no maximum) that involves Snape and Harry and a common Christmas movie trope.

Example movie tropes:
  1. Snape is Scrooged and is visited by 3 ghosts (who are your ghosts?)
  2. Snape &/or Harry gets stuck in a time loop and have to do everything right to get out.
  3. Santa is real and grants a wish
  4. It's a Wonderful Life style - someone wishing they were never born.
  5. Somehow Christmas is threatened and Snape &/or Harry needs to save it.
  6. A grinch type plot
  7. Someone becomes/helps Santa &/or the House Elves are involved
  8. Someone gets a 'glimpse' of what their life could have been.
  9. Home Alone type plot
  10. Someone goes back in time to a key moment at Christmas to change their life.
  11. Other holiday movies also allowed.
  12. Etc.

The sky is the limit! It just needs to follow the Christmas movie formula and be at least 3 acts.
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Summary: I literally just want a story where Harry wants to be a healer. So it's during his years at Hogwarts. Which year is up to you. Id prefer if it wasn't something that everybody knew-- Harry deserves to have something that the whole world doesn't know and judge him for! I'd also prefer if it was a Severitus or Sevitus. Whether Snape knows or not about Harry wanting to be a healer is up to you.

IDEAS:
* Harry could be working with Pomfrey or interning at st. Mungo's or someplace nobody even knows about
* Maybe Dumbledore knows about Harry's aspirations and lets Harry floo to that place on the weekends so he can volunteer there
* Maybe something big happens and it's revealed that Harry has a good bit of healing knowledge (if this happen, I'd prefer if it didn't end up with a bunch of Ron whining about Harry not being an auror with him because honestly, I think Ron would be the absolute worst Auror ever anyway and it's really just cause Ron knows if Harry is with him, he can skate into an auror position)
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Summary: Harry has just been told that he has to die because of the horcrux in order to finally end Voldemort. He remembers that muggles tend to go to church when something big like this happens. They do one of those confessional things or they just sit in a pew and wait for...whatever. He decides .. he'll do it. He'll die for the wizarding world. But first, he wants to go to church.

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REQUIRED:
*For whatever reason, it must be Snape that takes Harry to the church
* It cannot be anti-religion. It doesn't have to be like Harry is now a Christian or Catholic or whatever but it cannot be flat out anti.

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IDEAS:
*You decide whether it's Dumbledore or Snape or someone else who tells Harry about the horcrux
* You decide if he gets anything out of the church visit. Maybe he decides it's for other people but not him. Maybe it gives him some sort of strength to go forward with the plan.
* Maybe snape tells a story about a time he went to church (with or without Lily)
* Maybe there's a priest there who gives Harry an encouraging word (without knowing the full truth of the situation obviously)

This can be a great little one shot or maybe even turn it into a full story and this is just the beginning. Maybe the priest or Snape while at the church gives Harry a great idea for how he can get rid of the horcrux without dying 🤷 and it can go into a full story from there. Entirely up to you
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Summary: Harry decides he's had enough abuse at home and decides to run away for the summer. Simultaneously some other character we know decides to run away (reasons up to you, but has to do with their family somehow). They end up running into each other and decide to stick together.

Ideas:
- Draco is the other person to run away. He's tired of either his parents not caring about him/ not paying attention to him, or decides to change his family from this point forward by not being involved with Voldemort/Death Eaters... basically his family's involvement ends with him.
- Ron runs away. Maybe he feels like he's not getting enough attention at home, or feels like he can't live up to his older brothers accomplishments or his mom's expectations of him, or maybe he had a falling out with his father.
- Some other student character we know (or don't know that well) is the one who runs away. Are they abused? Did they run for some other reason?
- The two runaways (or just Harry) finds out there is actually a whole group of homeless wizard kids who attend Hogwarts. A bunch of kids lost parents or guardians before Voldemort vanished. Maybe these kids grew up on the street, or ran away from orphanages or foster homes. Maybe Hogwarts knows about these homeless kids (a bunch of whom stick together), and provides them with uniforms, school supplies and books when they get back to Hogwarts each year. Harry maybe becomes one of this group. Note: just like in real life with real life governments, maybe the Ministry doesn't have the resources to deal with the issue, or give homes to the kids for whatever reason. The Ministry knows about the issue, but isn't dealing with it or can't, or maybe only provides some resources like vouchers for food/clothes.

Snape's involvement is up to you. Does he find them at some point over the summer? Does he decide to help them? Does he bring them food or something? Does he tell on them? Try to convince them to go home or to Hogwarts? Are the two runaways content to stay where they are over the summer or do they want shelter with Snape or at Hogwarts? All up to you.

Requirements: No slash, no drabbles. Must be at least a one-shot.
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Summary: Harry has been treated as a house elf all his life by the Dursley‘s, because of this treatment, Harry actually turns into a house elf. Of course, this upsets his aunt Petunia. You can decide if Harry runs away or if the Dursley’s are forced to deal with his new identity. Perhaps Harry isn’t too upset with his change because now he’s no longer the Boy Who Lived, he is a house elf! What’s the big deal anyway. He always treated as was one anyway! What does Dobby think about Harry’s transformation? I leave this idea up to you and your interpretation. I myself am not a writer, so I would love for someone who is able to create to be able, to do something with this idea. Thanks.
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Summary: It is well known that Harry is a talented parselmouth; however, after a accident of some sort, Harry has been blessed/cursed with another hidden talent- the ability to see people’s natural auras. Hermione and rons are naturally lovely shades of yellows and pinks and all sorts of bright, positive colours, as are many other auras Harry comes across in Hogwarts. Malfoy’s; a horrid shade of green, no doubt signalling the underlying jealousy and envy the boy harbours towards others. And Snapes. Now that’s a funny one. His is black- a deep, dark, all encompassing black. But that’s not what surprises Harry. Because among the thick black hue that hangs around the potion masters form, is a single, barely visible drop of Pure Gold. And that, of course, makes Harry very curious to try and pry more of that beautiful colour from the man.
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Summary: I want to read a non-slash werewolf story in which Harry is bitten and is a werewolf but nobody knows. He's hiding it (at least for the first third or even half of the story). All other details up to you!

Questions you may want to answer:
- Who bit Harry? Remus? Greyback? Someone else? Was it an accident or on purpose?
- How old is Harry? Just starting Hogwarts or is he a few years into it? I don't really want to see a post Hogwarts story.
- Who ends up finding out and how? Severus? Does he help Harry or report him right away? It'd be cool if it was kept a semi-secret for as long as possible.
- How is Harry handling this on his own? What are the logistics of hiding it and how do things happen on the full moon since no one else knows?
- I'd like to see it be at least a very long one-shot or multi-chapter fic, not a drabble or series of drabbles.
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Summary: Dumbledore is tired of Snape’s continuous complaints about Harry Potter and how Snape keeps trying to convince him that Harry is too much trouble for what he’s doing for the boy. Dumbledore tells him that he has permission to spy on the boy for authors preferred amount of time and if he can convince Dumbledore with his memories of what he found then he would stop speaking so highly of the child. Snape being slightly petty agrees to this and proceeds to spy on Harry (whether it’s the holidays or not is the authors choice) . He does not find what he was expecting however and ends up confronting Harry.
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Summary: During Occlumency, Harry relives his mother's death.
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Summary: An abused Harry discovers there are house-elves, and that these creatures do all the cooking and cleaning. Since Harry had been treated as one for as long as he could remember he decides to join them in their duties. I would really like it if Harry starts living with the house-elves and refuses to go back to his dorm.
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