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Most Recent Prompts and Challenges
Summary: Uncle Vernon replaces someone for work in the area of Aunt Petunia's childhood home. Aunt Petunia inherited her parents home but in the past it was rented out. The Dursleys move to Aunt Petunia's childhood home for the summer while Uncle Vernon is filling for someone at work. Harry runs into his potions teacher and learns more about him. No sexual content or foul language please. Takes place after 4th year.
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Summary: From the HP Idea Story Generator ( http://hpideagen.blogspot.com/ ): Someone sits broken, In Hogsmeade, During Easter Break, While Having An Asthma Attack, [Genre: Action/Adventure].
Your challenge is to take this sentence and run with it (hopefully into a multi-chapter story). I don't mind if you change the genre, or Hogsmeade to Diagonalley or another magical town.
Questions to get your story rolling:
Who finds Harry?
Where is Harry found?
Was he missing or did Snape or someone else stumble upon him on accident?
What happened to Harry?
What does Snape do when he finds out?
I really don't mind where you take this story so long as there's no slash. I may even respond to this challenge myself at some point.
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Summary: Crossover with 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. Harry thought he had fulfilled his destiny when he defeated Voldemort (at the ministry in 5th year). He finds out this is a wrong assumption when he becomes the first male slayer. Snape, who comes from a family of Watchers and still has access to the resources, agrees (is forced by Dumbledore) to become Harry's Watcher. Giles, Xander, and Buffy must make appearances, while other Buffy characters are optional.
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Summary: Crossover with 'Doctor Who'. While running from Deatheaters (anti-apparition and anti-portkey wards keep them from escaping magically), Harry and Severus take shelter in a blue police box.
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Summary: Having a piece of Voldemort's soul shoved into the front of his head, Harry simply wasn't normal. After all, there's only so much space in his head, now isn't there?
Somehow, the piece of Voldemort's soul affects Harry, both physically and mentally.
Required:
- Harry must either be blind or have extremely bad vision, due to the soul placing pressure on the optic nerve.
- Chronic headaches, worsened in the presence of Voldemort's magic. (This includes Dark Marks).
- Damage to the frontal lobe of his brain (the frontal lobe does "involve the ability to recognize future consequences resulting from current actions, to choose between good and bad actions (or better and best), override and suppress socially unacceptable responses, and determine similarities and differences between things or events." It is also involved in long term memory not associated with tasks.) To what degree is your choice.
- Severus is the first to notice the damage, and for whatever reason, is the one who leads the treatment. Thus, he is curious, confused, or disoriented around Harry--not hating him as the son of James.
- The damage must begin when Harry gains the Horcrux, but can worsen with the revival of Voldemort.
Optional ideas:
- Slytherin!Harry
- Harry can hear the voice of Voldemort/Tom Riddle in his head
- Easier for Voldemort to possess Harry or access his mind
- Someone believes Harry is the next Dark Lord
- Harry has access to some of Voldemort's knowledge or memories
Apart from that, this idea is yours.
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Summary: Sort of like “A Christmas Carol”. Harry has been very depressed and cynical since the end of the war. The losses took their toll, and now the Boy-Who-Lived just wants to be left alone. He alienates himself, rarely ever leaving his house or letting people visit. He’s jaded, and no one can help. Then, on Christmas, he gets an unexpected visitor. Can this ghost from his past give him a reason to live his life again?
Suggestions
- There is only one ghost, instead of 3 separate ones. The ghost is Severus Snape.
- He shows Harry both of their lives in the past, as well as the lives of others. Flashbacks don’t have to be Christmas related.
- He shows Harry’s present situation, as well as a few others, and then shows their futures if nothing changes. Snape obviously won’t be in the present or future (since he’s dead), unless it’s someone talking to his portrait at Hogwarts.
- The ending doesn't necessarily have to be happy, and Snape’s ghost will have to leave by Christmas morning whether or not Harry learns his lesson.
- There can be a punishment for either Harry or Snape, or both, if Harry doesn't learn his lesson.
- Pairings are up to you, and are not required.
- Please no “Tiny Tim” impressions.
Bonus Points if…
- Snape gets mad enough to actually whack Harry on his head (like he does to Ron in the 5th movie).
- Harry figures out some way to bring Snape back, and they have some sort of truce, possibly even act like a family.
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Summary: Harry starts doing self harm. No one one knows about it until one night Ron sees cuts on Harry's arms. Hagrid finds out and goes mad. What Snape does you can decide.
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Summary: One of the incidents during Harry's time at Hogwarts causes him to become subject to a certain Hogwarts bylaw which requires him to be placed in another house.
Would Like To See, But Not Required:
- Harry not being allowed any more extraneous contact with his Gryffindor friends
- Harry believing that it is his new Head of House making these rules, not original guidelines
- Godric Gryffindor being responsible for the rules
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Summary: Harry remembers being sung a lullaby by a deep baritone.
Bonus Points:
- If Harry either remembers sometime during his horcrux hunt, when Snape is dying, after he viewed the older wizard's memories, or in the aftermath.
- If the song is Irish Lullaby aka Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral
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Summary: - Write a 5th year story where Black learns what it means to be the DADA teacher to cheeky students, and grade paper work.
- Lupin is subbing for Hagrid.
- Harry, after a late insightful Occlumency lesson with Professor Snape heads down to Hagrid/Lupins hut for a dinner visit.
- Lupin and Black meet Harry halfway at the Whomping Willow.
- That night is the 20th anniversary of the Werewolf prank done to Professor Snape.
- Black, Lupin, and Harry see a ghost-like James hefting a blooded 15 year old Severus out from under the willow tunnel.
- Ghost James at a loss, tries to spell young Severus somewhere safe. Accidentally sending young Severus to Harry’s time.
- While unable to close the wound, Black, Lupin, and Harry all brush up against young Severus while taking him up to the castle.
- Dumbledore informs them that because of this physical contact one of them must always be within sight of young Severus until healed, otherwise the injured boy could be pulled ether ‘between time’ or permanently anchored in the present.
- Also, to send Severus back he must trust in someone.
- Professor Snape has disappeared.
- Students and parents too begin disappearing. Having ‘died’ before Voldemort was vanquished.
- Severus’ wound takes a long time to heal. Slowly he becomes friendlier to Black, Lupin and Harry (who he keeps mistakenly calling James). Although his trust they fear they might never get.
- Harry alone notices something not quite ‘true’ about Severus but he can’t quite name what.
- Severus receives a visit from Dumbledore and asks what will happen to the Marauders for pulling such a dangerous prank when he goes back. Dumbledore won’t tell, and gets a forced promise out of Severus not to tell anyone about Lupin. This visit happens on Remus’ watch.
- Harry and Severus visit Hogsmeade. Towards evening Severus tries to break away from Harry, and the two get caught by death-eater members.
- While being marched through some shadowy woods, Harry is startled when he notices Severus has switched their appearances’ with a complicated glamour spell. Plus given Harry a bad stutter as well.
- Severus, looking like ‘Harry’ talks Voldemort out of killing him and Snape’s ‘nephew’ by pledging his allegiance to obey Voldemort and take the mark, which has a two part spell to it.
- Harry watches as total fear and pain crosses Severus’ young glamoured face, as Voldemort himself draws the skull-snake tattoo on his arm.
- The order of the Phoenix rescues the two before the second part spell can be placed.
- Back at Hogwarts Severus simply refuses to look or talk to the three.
- Dumbledore visits, and sizing up the situation, throws an invisible spell over Black, Lupin, and Harry. Then putting a spell on Severus to forget they are in the room.
- Dumbledore talks for awhile, before asking Severus what he might do to ‘have’ Severus’ trust and willingness to return to his own time. Severus’ reply is ‘nothing’.
- Dumbledore then offers a small 100 year aged bottle of Complete Health Restoration. Which also requires an incantation. As well as Severus removing his glamour’s and robes.
- Severus, doesn’t move for a full ten minutes, before finally agreeing by silently taking off his clothes, glamour’s and laying on a bed.
- Black, Lupin, and Harry barely keep their silence as they lay eyes on Severus’ crippled left side. With a discolored blind eye. Badly bruised ear. Repeatedly broken arm. Repeatedly broken leg, and multiple belt buckle scars crisscrossing his back.
- Much later, after young Severus has gone back to his own time, and all others have reappeared, Harry asks Professor Snape why he took the dark mark a second time. Snape removes a complicated glamour off his left forearm to reveal a long, wide, thin metal cuff, branded with the mark instead.
Well this challenge is definitely more of a story outline. But that is all it will ever be unless one of you great authors decides to pick it up!
Bonus Points for little or no swearing.
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