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Female Snape Severitus by SerenaEW
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Summary:

How does that change Snape's character? Her (I assume) / their attitude to Harry?

This can go SO MANY DIRECTIONS...

Fem!Snape thought she had a stillbirth but her child is Harry!!?? 

Or... What if, until Lily's death (perhaps even later than in canon?), Snape has been the loving aunt (because I also do love myself a good friendship between Snape and Lily) and Snape now has to take Lily's child?

How does a mother-son / mother-daughter / mother-child-relationship differ from a father to his child's?


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A Father's Sacrifice by SerenaEW
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Summary: - The story should mainly revolve about Severus and Harry.
- Severus is revealed to be Harry's biological father in the context of an Occlumency lesson.
- Harry is or becomes proficient in the Mind Magics.
- The story has to contain the sentence: "Your father, James Potter, died when you were one and a half years old." Slight variations can be accepted.
- It involves a prophecy that asks for "A Father's Sacrifice". Bonus points if Severus casts the Killing Curse at Harry, without malicious intent.
- The story has to include the lyrics of at least one song. That does not mean the song has to make up the entirety of the story. Ideally, the song actually exists at the point of time in the story when it is referenced.
When you post your story, make sure to reference this challenge so that others can contribute, too :-)
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Un-Vaxxed: Wizarding Edition by SerenaEW
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Summary: I guess you've had enough of viruses and pandemics but imagine this: The Wizarding World is often protrayed as quite backward; thus vaccinations were only introduced (as a concept) after Grindelwald's defeat, and many older people (especially lawmakers in the Wizengamot) are against vaccinations as a concept (perhaps due to prejudice against Muggles). Then, an epidemic or a pandemic of a disease breaks out that people could have been vaccinated against, but the vaccine lost its efficacy due to spread in the population and mutations. How does Hogwarts react to this? Or look wider, if you wish.
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Proof of Concept by SerenaEW
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After that disastrous first Potions lesson, Harry decides to prove himself to Snape, reading up on the knowledge he missed, doing his homework to the best of his ability, always coming well-prepared and so on. Snape doesn't want to believe it at first, but then is gradually convinced that it's all Harry's work, and decides to mentor him further, and coming to see Harry as he is. I'd love for it to feature an apprenticeship setting building over the course of the story, esp with Harry not having to return to the Dursleys. 


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(Not only) in jest by SerenaEW
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Summary:

Severus, in an effort to bring Harry happiness, goes out celebrating carnival with him by accompanying him to and collecting sweets for him at a carnival procession.

I want it cause where I am, carnivals are the quintessential of what Sev is not - it's loud, it's colorful, and it's so overladen with sweets that your teeth rot away from just looking at them, and some music played is definitely too adult for the about 50% majority that are the kids hopping around where I celebrate. But Sev indulges Harry because he believes Harry will like it.

And I want little Harry in the cutest costume imaginable while Sev's usual clothing is costume-worthy 😂😂

The title is because in German, carnival-lovers are called jesters/fools.


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Dad Brags OR My Father Will Hear Of This by SerenaEW
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Summary: Draco's "My Father Will Hear Of It" (tm) has nothing - NOTHING on if Harry decides "my father will hear of it"... cause in that case there will be Hell To Pay
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The Twins Who Hold Together by SerenaEW
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Summary: Twins Who Lived with a twist! They hold together regardless of circumstances, letting nothing separate them.
-- Possible plot points may be: The twins have different genders, personalities and/or talents; they are different and complement each other, but equals at heart. One of them, for this or any other reason, receives preferential treatment by their family. Perhaps the twins are not ok with that and are subsequently neglected, if not cast out by their closer (remaining) family; Severus, who gets to know of this, takes the role of an impartial mentor who is equally supportive of both of them. Perhaps the two of them are sorted into different houses. If you feel especially daring, maybe it turns out that they don't quite share the same blood after all.
It doesn't matter - they will hold together, come what may.
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Reconditioning by SerenaEW
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Summary: Harry shows less ability at potions than he should/could have had because he got an aversion for cooking from the Dursleys. Muggle cooking doesn't react to subtle but deeply ingrained negative emotions so much; potions do.
Severus realises that Harry's potions ability is less than he would predict it to be both because of Lily's heritage and the way acceptable technique yields less than good results... What will he do?
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Proprioception in Perception by SerenaEW
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Summary: Glamoured or polyjuiced people tend to be clumsy, which is one of their indicators.
-> How would that change the plots of HP? (thinking false Moody, Battle of Seven Potters, that polyjuice thing in CoS?)
-> And what would that imply for any... parentage-hiding spells?
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Create a non-traditional fanwork! by SerenaEW
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Summary: Create a non-traditional fanwork that fits the theme of this site!
Examples:
  • epistolary (letter/journal-entry-based fic)
  • poetry
  • audio script
  • podfic (audio-narrated fanwork)
  • filk (fan song, both to the tune of existing music and with original tune)
  • fanvideo
  • playlist
  • comic/manga
  • bookbinding
  • cross stitch/embroidery
  • sculptures
  • pottery
  • and many others...

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