The winner of Round ONE voting is Hopeless Wanderer (3 points)! Second place is MagnificentAndStrange (2 points), and JAWorley is third (1 point). Congratulations!
The top nominatons for Round TWO are Lemon Curd, MagnificentAndStrange, and a tie for Anthezar and JAWorley. Congratulations, those stories have been given featured status on the site! Please vote in the poll as to who you think won Round Two within the next two weeks!
Here are the works submitted for Round THREE.
- Unexpected Gifts by hootowl
- Snape's Happy Christmas by geminiangel1964
- A Merry Christmas by Lemon Curd
- Wonders Never Cease by Hopeless Wanderer
- A Place for Harry by MagnificentAndStrange
- Building Foundations by BlueWater5
- The Luckiest Shot by JAWorley
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 receive 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 receive 3 points, second place 2 points, and third place 1 point.
Here are the nominations for Round One, points will be in parenthesis:
- 9 for Hopeless Wanderer for The mountains say (5+1+1=7).
- 8 for MagnificentAndStrange for Aboard the Hogwarts Express (5+1+1=7).
- 7 for JAWorley for Not An Elf (5+1+1=7).
- 5 for Anthezar for A Shred of Hope (5+1+1=7).
- 4 for hootowl for And I See Every One (5+1+1=7).
- 4 for geminiangel1964 for Hybrid (5+1+1=7).
- 4 for Aliciathewriter for The Shape of Your Soul (5+1+1=7).
- 3 for RitaRevenant for The Other Side of Normal (5+1+1=7).
- 2 for nnicolexxx for A Promise He Could Trust (5+1+1=7).
- 2 for Lemon Curd for Chocolate Cake (5+1+1=7).
- 2 for BlueWater5 for Questions and Answers (5+1+1=7).
That means Hopeless Wanderer, MagnificentAndStrange, and JAWorley will have their stories featured in a poll to decide 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for Round One. Please vote within the next two weeks!
Here are the works submitted for Round Two.
- A Condition Of Duality by JAWorley
- Economy of the Heart by BlueWater5
- Love you more by Hopeless Wanderer
- Aftereffect by MagnificentAndStrange
- A Feather of Hope by Anthezar
- Nobody Knows by hootowl
- The Cursed Photograph by Lemon Curd
- He sure ain't Casper by geminiangel1964
Just a reminder that Round Three's deadline for full points is
Round Three prompts to pick from:
- wearing armor around Hogwarts
- a snow mustache
- snowy animal (dog, cat, magical creature)
- Christmas stocking
- baby in a manger
- coal
- tinsel
- snow globe
- icicles
- taking a group picture
- the most useless present
- snow angel/man
- a crack in the ice
- reflection
- snowball fights
- being snowed in
- singing Christmas carols at the top of your lungs
- silly Christmas outfits/costumes
- Elf on the shelf
- Secret Santa
- someone calls Snape “Scrooge”
- Muggle board games
- Harry is bad at wrapping presents
Good luck and to your quills!
Each applicant who submitted a story to Round One will receive 5 points. Each story that was submitted on time will receive a further 1 point.
Please list in the comments below your three favorite stories of this listing:
Not An Elf by JAWorley
A Promise He Could Trust by nnicolexxx
The mountains say by Hopeless Wanderer
Aboard the Hogwarts Express by MagnificentAndStrange
Questions and Answers by BlueWater5
A Shred of Hope by Anthezar
And I See Every One by hootowl
Chocolate Cake by Lemon Curd
The Other Side of Normal by RitaRevenant
Hybrid by geminiangel1964
The Shape of Your Soul by Aliciathewriter
Each story listed below will receive one maximum additional point. The top stories nominated in the comments will then be added to a poll to vote on for more points.
Just a reminder that Round Two's deadline for full points is on November 1st: Write and post a Halloween or fall themed story. There is no word limit but it must be a newly published and completed work.
If needed, here are some Round Two prompts to pick from:
Apples.
Leaves.
Allergies.
Someone is cold.
A Hogsmeade weekend Harry isn’t allowed to go on.
Something on fire.
Good luck and to your quills!
The Potions and Snitches Tri-Writing Tournament (annual) :
This is an annual event. There will be three rounds of writing challenges, and like the Triwizard tournament each contestant gets points. At the end, the one with the highest number of points is the winner! 
Round One: Submit a one-shot for consideration, whether it has already been written and posted by you or a new one you will write just for the first task. Deadline is October 1st. Prompts may be requested by the author.
Round Two: By November 1st write and post a Halloween or fall themed story. Prompts may be requested by the author.
Round Three: Write a Christmas or winter themed story by December 25th. Prompts may be requested by the author.
Voting will be done after each round, and the final tally after December 25th. 
Winners will be announced January 1st. In case of a tie, a final show down round may be announced at the judges' discretion.
Submit all contest entries to the Potions and Snitches website under the new category Fic Fests > Tri-Writing Tournament 2019. Pick the correct round for each fic submitted.
To your quills! 
Potions and Snitches now has a Discord server. It is a place for members to chat, all are welcome. Join it here https://discord.gg/hqM9prd
Please make sure your Discord name includes your pen name or reviewer name so we know who you are.
Happy New Year everyone!
I am hoping you guys will respond to this and tell us what you'd like to see, anything new? Any different challenges? etc.
Thanks, Hope everyone had a wonderful start of the new year and that we can have a great year here too.
Hello everyone! Hope your Halloween was wonderful. I am not sure I should do this as participation has been low in all the fest this year; but I opened a 2018 Holiday fest if you'd life to write a holiday story and add it.
Holiday Fic Fest. Write whatever you want as long as it includes a holiday/winter theme. Don't forget to add it into the Holiday tag.
Welcome Autumn time! As the start of autumn the summer fest is now over! Yay?
With that, I am going to open a Halloween Fest. I propose you pick a challenges from the challenges and make it 'Halloween-y'; or just please please write write write.
Thank you to JAWorley for participate in the Summer Fest!
Hello!
For this fest you just have to add a line or word from below. (Most a thanks to Rosina!) If you'd like to add any, add them in the comments.
Post at your own pace. End fo challenge will be September 2nd.
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Torn black robes
Cobwebs
It's all in the details
Sea breezes
Dazzled Feathers flew everywhere
A smell of burnt.....
Spirals of smoke
It felt like the end of the world
Patchwork
The sun does not rise and set with you
Watercolours
Darkness
Howling Wind
S'mores
Camping
Dragonpox
Mutt
Happy crudy Birthday (or Happy Birthday)
Heat stroke
Heart of hearts
Happy Summer everyone,
So July 1st I plan to post the fic fest challenge. In order to do this it would be helpful if we had word or phrases anyone would like to see in a fest. So come on in and drop your best in the comments! ;)