Announcing the 2021 Winter Fic Fest

In order to enter the contest, stories must be published on the P&S website under the Winter Fest 2021 category under Fic Fests. Stories may be submitted up until February 1st. There is no word or chapter limit, but all must be newly published. You may cross post your own work to other sites.

Points will be given for each story, and additional points will be given based on community voting in February. Pick from as many or as few story prompts as you'd like. You may write as many stories as you'd like.

Story prompts:

- The number 21.

 - Panic attacks, anxiety.

 - Protests.

- Natural disaster occurring.

- Snape makes Harry tea.

- A Muggle treat not found in the Wizarding World.

- Reimagining a Christmas at Hogwarts from one of the books.

- Gift Exchange! Severus drew Harry's name? Harry drew Severus'. 

- Hypothermia. Harry and Severus must share body warmth to survive. 

- Winter camping.

- Snape noticing Harry is never dressed warmly for the weather.

- An alternative winter holiday celebration (Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Yule, etc) .

- Students have to go home for Christmas holidays for some reason and Snape has to either drop Harry off at the Dursleys or pick him up there at the end of the holiday. 

- Christmas on the run, can be an alternate universe of Harry and/or Snape being on the run from Voldemort and having to be together during the holidays.

- Dungeons flood accidently (or purposely if by Fred and George) and is turned into an ice rink. Snape isn't happy about it.

- Picking out the perfect tree.

- A quidditch match or training during a snowstorm. 

- Harry having to serve detention with Umbridge during the holidays.

- Harry winding up sick in Snape’s office.

- Pandemic, sickness, isolation.

- Shelter in place or lockdown at Hogwarts happens due to some reason (spell mishap, ward fail) and Harry and Snape are stuck living together for awhile.

- Snape teaches Harry figure skating.

- Harry and Snape get caught out in a snowstorm.

Due to spammers no websites or urls are allowed in bio or anywhere else. They have been added to the censors.

The ICQ and other profile links have also been disabled due to spammers.

Any spam profiles will be deleted. 

If you would like to add a link or a special url to your work that is related to that work, please contact me for special editing.

Thank you for your understanding.

The Corporal Punishment warning has now been split into two warnings:

"Physical Punishment Non-Spanking"
"Physical Punishment Spanking"

This is because some readers and writers have expressed concern over not understanding the definitions of the "Corporal Punishment" term and when it should be applied.

"Corporal Punishment" has been changed to "Physical Punishment Spanking" and a new warning "Physical Punishment Non-Spanking" has been added to the site.

Please check your stories to make sure the warnings are correct on each story. Change the warnings as necessary. :)


Thank you and chocolate frogs,


Jan_AQ

Potions and Snitches Prefect

It's been a long year but it is almost over!

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Congratulations to all our contestants participating in the TriWizard Writing Challenge!


The winner of Round TWO POLL voting is The Cursed Photograph by Lemon Curd (3 points)!


Second place is A Condition Of Duality by JAWorley (2 points)!



In a tie for third place is A Feather of Hope by Anthezar, and Aftereffect by MagnificentAndStrange (1 point each).


Congratulations!


The top NOMINATIONS for Round THREE are:

• A Place for Harry by MagnificentAndStrange 
  (11 nominations)
  
• The Luckiest Shot by JAWorley (9 nominations)
  
• Building Foundations by BlueWater5
  (5 nominations)
  
• Unexpected Gifts by hootowl (5 nominations).
  

They will all have their stories featured in a poll to decide 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for Round THREE. Please vote within the next two weeks and then we can tally up the overall winners!


Scoring:

• Each submitted story is worth 5 points.
  
• Each story that was submitted on time will receive a further 1 point.
  
• Every story nominated by a reader in a comment for that round will recieve 1 additional point.
  
• The top stories of each round will be placed in a poll to vote on for first, second, and third place of that round. First place will recieve 3 points, second place 2 points, and third place 1 point.
  

Here are Points so far: (submitted + on time + nominated at all + poll placement)

• 24 for Hopeless Wanderer (Round One 10 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+0=7) + (Round Three 5+1+1+0=7).
  
• 24 for JAWorley (Round One 8 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+2=9) + (Round Three 5+1+1+?=7).
  
• 24 for Lemon Curd (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+3=10) + (Round Three 5+1+1+0=7).
  
• 24 for MagnificentAndStrange (Round One 9 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+1=8) + (Round Three 5+1+1+?=7).
  
• 21 for BlueWater5 (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+0=7) + (Round Three 5+1+1+?=7).
  
• 21 for geminiangel1964 (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+0=7) + (Round Three 5+1+1+0=7).
  
• 21 for hootowl (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+0=7) + (Round Three 5+1+1+?=7).
  
• 15 for Anthezar (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 5+1+1+1=8) + (Round Three 0+0+0+0=0).
  
• 7 for Aliciathewriter (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 0+0+0+0=0) + (Round Three 0+0+0+0=0).
  
• 7 for RitaRevenant (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 0+0+0+0=0) + (Round Three 0+0+0+0=0).
  
• 7 for nnicolexxx (Round One 7 points) + (Round Two 0+0+0+0=0) + (Round Three 0+0+0+0=0).
  

Comment below with congratulations for the writers, comments on the overall contest, and if there are any corrections in points to be made.