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Story of the Month as chosen by the entire site.

When Finlay Blishwick returns to Hogwarts for his sixth year, he expects his entitled life alongside Tom Riddle to continue as it always has. They are even tasked with finding Henry Potter's illegitimate child for Grindelwald. What Finn doesn't expect, however, is how short the fall from grace really is, and that it leads straight into the arms of dynamic Hufflepuff Brindley McCroy.
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Some people, they're important. They're born with destinies, courage, bravery. They have tasks to accomplish. Vital things, like saving the world. But some people... Some people slip through the cracks. For them, it takes everything they have just to save themselves.
Book 2 in the "Gravel on the Ground" series.
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We were meant to be friends, Remus. You know it, as well as I do.
Two children who grew up together. Two boys struggling on their paths towards adulthood. Two men faced with darkness too thick for them to get through.
A Peter/Remus story.
Set in the All the truth about Jimmy Portman's universe.
Hufflepuff Story of the Month - November 2016
Sitewide Story of the Month - January 2017
Golden Chalices Awards 2017 Runner Up - Best Drama
Golden Chalices Awards 2017 Winner - Best Minor Canon Character
FROGS 2017 Nomination - Best Marauders Era
FROGS 2017 Nomination - Best Minor Canon Character
FROGS 2018 Winner - Best Minor Canon Character
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Chloe is content with her quiet life amid her Muggle parents' fear of magic. But after suffering a brutal attack at the hands of would-be Death Eaters, Chloe is thrust into a world both exhilarating and terrifying. Marlene McKinnon and her friends, the Marauders, are rule-breakers. They leave laughter and chaos in their wake. They are everything that Chloe thought she never wanted, least of all Sirius Black: cavalier, reckless and so strangely alluring. As the years pass, Chloe's infatuation with Marlene and Sirius forces her to question where her loyalties lie in the shadow of a rising war.
Golden Chalice Awards - Best Drama, Best Original Character

The whole world knows her name.
He has no idea what his might mean.
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2023 Golden Ink Award, Best Angst 1st Place
2023 Golden Ink Award, Favorite Lead Character (Xander Vandenburg) Runner Up
2024 Golden Ink Award, Long Formed Story 3rd Place
2024 Golden Ink Award, Best Page Turner 2nd Place

Even villains deserve a break.
For 'The Parody Challenge'
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If being away from Dean was making his dreams this bad and his feelings so strong, maybe living with Dean would make them both go away. They could go back to before, when things were easy and Seamus wasn’t one spark away from an explosion.
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Winner of the 2018 FROGS award for best use of a major character!
Lily and Petunia were more than sisters; they were best friends.
And then, they weren't
A series of one shots about Lily and Petunia over the years.
Three times Alicia kissed a boy, and one time she didn't.

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It is 1998 and the nation is at war, fallen to the Dark Lord's control. Astoria Greengrass, as the daughter of Voldemort's own chief spy, must navigate rebel societies, Pureblood expectations, and Draco Malfoy - who, with the revelation of one small secret, could send her world crashing down.
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2017 Golden Chalice Award Winner: Best Description; Hufflepuff December 2016 Story of the Month
Inspired by You Don't Own Me by Lesley Gore for toomanycurls' challenge
I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please
- A Hannah Abbott Story -
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and then i am silent.
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Four lives Astoria saved. And then the fifth.
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People didn't laugh any more, at least not in front of Sirius. Sirius craved to laugh again but the sound just wouldn't come.
Sirius Black/Caradoc Dearborn
3rd place in poppunkpadfoot's sirius black is gay challenge | HPFT's Story of the Month (March 2018)

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Alba Williamson is a cross-word loving Ravenclaw in her seventh year at Hogwarts. Pity is her nemisis, and pride is her guiding light. Determined to keep her head up through thick and thin, she struggles with the challenges of cerebral palsy. Though her best friend James helps as much as he can, things are sure to change with the Triwizard Tournament right around the corner.
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After Fred's death and a series of mishaps, Josephine finds herself posing as Fred's former girlfriend for just one night to help the Weasley's move on. But when she grows attached to the warmth of having a family again, she finds herself unable to walk away and forced instead to live life in her lie.
(George/OC)
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An incomplete collection of letters and Ministry memorandums sent to and from the Office of Unspeakable Relations on October 5th, 1998.
[or] In which bureaucracy goes very, very wrong.

Plans for The Azkaban Project began during Voldemort’s reign. With the allegiance of the dementors in question, Azkaban’s current order of operation was no longer viable. Combining their most innovative studies in Space, Time, and Thought, the Department of Mysteries forged a new prison experiment. But what they thought they could control, soon began to control them.
F.R.O.G.S. - Runner Up for Most Original Story (2019)
P.O.G.s - Best Worldbuilding (2018) and Best Description (2019 & 2020)
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“Hello?” Kwai Sim says.
There’s a rustle at the other end, the plastic-pop of interference. Nobody answers, but the line is still holding.
Her heartbeat leaps to a frenetic pace before she even realises why.
“Daniel? Ah Khim? Is that you?” she says, very carefully. If she doesn’t say his name right, or with enough caution, it might not be him. Just her imagination, tricking the name off her tongue.
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A series of conversations between two people.
For the Prefects' Celebration Challenge
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James may not believe in love at first sight, but he’s beginning to think there may be some merit in love at first sip.
December 2018 Sitewide SotM
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People may seem fine on the outside, but you never know what someone is truly dealing with underneath it all. So always remember to let your light shine in the darkness for those around you, even when you yourself may not feel as though you have the energy to carry the flame. You never know when a simple smile, compliment, or kind gesture in general can make someone else's day...
This piece is to all of my friends, family, and acquaintances.

Albus and Scorpius had all the time in the world.
(Songfic. Alternates between verse and prose with each successive section)
For Finefrenzy__'s The Slytherin-Centric Challenge.
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April's Sitewide Story of the Month.

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Phaedra Morley leads a quiet, private life, working at a Diagon Alley apothecary and looking after her infirm mother. But Phaedra has a secret, and now she must retrace her father's footsteps through the Dark Arts and find out what he was working on when he disappeared in the wake of Voldemort's fall. Along the way she enlists the help of a feckless bookseller and -- much to his displeasure -- Severus Snape.
A story of death, madness, haunted houses, true friends, and Cockroach Clusters.
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2 bets. 10 days. Endless shenanigans.
{Brooklyn 99 meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 days}
written for MuggleMaybe's [Blank] Meets [Blank] challenge
2019 pogs winner for best dialogue | june 2019 sitewide story of the month