The Prefects' Challenges by Staff
Harry Potter Universe

A few times a year, our prefects run challenges; this series includes the entries to them all.



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astoria was just trying to have a quiet drink. she didn't want draco malfoy to interrupt her.


march 2001


Completed · Published: 04 Jan 2017 · Updated: 10 Mar 2022 · Words: 3382 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 69 · Likes: 27 · Reads: 308

Series: drastoria trauma, sex, and other nonsense, The Prefects' Challenges, Ravenclaw Nargles Winners, Ravenclaw Stories of the Month, sidenote is 20/20, sidenote: old story





Awesome banner by red herring @ TDA!

 

 

"Besides, when the Dark Lord wins, everyone will be celebrating," she had laughed, tilting her back onto Willoughby's shoulder. "What better time to get married? People will be calling it the wedding of the victors!"

 

Seers were supposed to see the future, but this was not something she had ever seen coming.

 

Hortensia Avery/Willoughby Gibbon

 

Written for HPFT's New Beginnings Challenge


Characters: Avery Jr., Gibbon, Original Female Character

Pairings: Unlisted Pairing

Representation: Other Mental Illness

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse)

Content Warnings (optional): Dying/Grieving, War

Genre: Angst

Tropes: Marriage
Completed · Published: 06 Jan 2017 · Updated: 06 Jan 2017 · Words: 3889 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 4 · Likes: 0 · Reads: 62

Series: The Serpent's Requiem, The Prefects' Challenges





Ginny Weasley's first day at Hogwarts isn't quite what she was hoping for.

 

Written for HPFT's New Beginnings Challenge.


Characters: Ginny Weasley

Pairings: None

Representation: None

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): None

Genre: Drama

Tropes: Family, School
Completed · Published: 26 Jan 2017 · Updated: 27 Jan 2017 · Words: 728 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 3 · Likes: 2 · Reads: 1022

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





Lyall Lupin has no idea how he's going to educate his child. Then one night a world of possibilities open.


**Winner of HPFT’s New Beginnings Challenge**


Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Unlisted Character

Pairings: None

Representation: None

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): None

Genre: Drama

Tropes: Family, Lycanthropy, Parenthood
Completed · Published: 04 Jan 2017 · Updated: 07 Jan 2017 · Words: 2192 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 4 · Likes: 3 · Reads: 862

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





After talking to Hermione, Harry realises something about himself.

 


 

3d place in the June Prefect Challenge: The Coming Out Challenge

 


Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): None

Genre: Drama, Humor, Romance

Tropes: Friendship, Questioning Identity
Completed · Published: 06 Jul 2017 · Updated: 07 Jul 2017 · Words: 2405 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 4 · Likes: 1 · Reads: 928

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





Apollyon Pringle is the caretaker at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he's been a bit liberal with his punishments of late.

 

Written for the following challenges at HPFT:


The Super Minor Character Challenge by TreacleTart
The Coming Out Challenge by the Prefects
The Literary Quotes Challenge by MuggleMaybe


Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Arthur Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, Molly Weasley I

Pairings: None

Representation: Gay, LGBTQIA+

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): Discrimination

Genre: Angst, Drama

Tropes: Careers, School
Completed · Published: 05 Jun 2017 · Updated: 06 Jun 2017 · Words: 1747 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 6 · Likes: 1 · Reads: 998

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





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Being true to yourself isn't always easy, but Dominique learns to be proud of who she is.


 


Winner of the June Prefect Coming Out Challenge


Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Slurs, Sexual Content, Substance Abuse)

Content Warnings (optional): Bullying, Discrimination, Internalized Oppression

Genre: Angst, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Romance

Tropes: Family, Origin Story, Questioning Identity, School
Completed · Published: 08 Jul 2017 · Updated: 09 Jul 2017 · Words: 4127 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 7 · Likes: 4 · Reads: 133

Series: The Prefects' Challenges, Pride of Gryffindor Winners, The Jigsaw Universe, Gryffindor Featured Fics





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I don’t really know how I got to the point where I was entirely too drunk and alone in a Death Eater’s flat with him, but there it is.

 

April 2001

 

2nd place in the prefects' inter-house friendship challenge


Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Slurs, Substance Abuse, Violence)

Content Warnings (optional): War

Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Romance

Tropes: Friends to Lovers, Friendship, Love/Hate Relationships, Slow Build/Slow Burn
Completed · Published: 02 Sep 2017 · Updated: 13 Mar 2022 · Words: 2833 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 0 · Likes: 0 · Reads: 440

Series: drastoria trauma, sex, and other nonsense, The Prefects' Challenges





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Awesome banner by the otherwordly grumpy cat!

 

Unity is resistance.

 

Winner of the August Prefect Challenge - Inter-house Friendship


Characters: Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom

Pairings: None

Representation: None

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Violence)

Content Warnings (optional): War

Genre: Action/Adventure

Tropes: Friendship
Completed · Published: 01 Sep 2017 · Updated: 01 Sep 2017 · Words: 1751 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 5 · Likes: 3 · Reads: 61

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





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A year and something after her death, Severus writes Emmeline a letter.

 

For the Inter-House Friendship Challenge

 

Companion piece to Seven Years Later / In Between

 

Dedicated to Ysh, Bianca and Renee

 

Beautiful banner by starbuck


Characters: Edgar Bones, Emmeline Vance, Lily Evans Potter, Severus Snape

Pairings: None

Representation: None

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot, Other (inc. plays, diaries, etc), Podfic

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): Dying/Grieving, War

Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort

Tropes: Friendship
Completed · Published: 15 Aug 2017 · Updated: 16 Aug 2017 · Words: 901 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 15 · Likes: 7 · Reads: 1290

Series: The Prefects' Challenges, The "Seven Years Later" Universe





 

perfect banner is by adrift @TDA

 

Laila (n): Arabic word for 'night'. 

 

And this was a night unlike any other.  Laila eclipsed all else, and that changed everything. 

 

'Written for the Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge'


Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): None

Genre: Angst, Drama, Fluff, Romance

Tropes: Family, Holidays, Questioning Identity, Religion
Incomplete · Published: 15 Dec 2017 · Updated: 16 Dec 2017 · Words: 6078 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 7 · Likes: 3 · Reads: 1100

Series: The Prefects' Challenges, Confounding Factors





Chai, Dancing, and a Friend in the Wee Hours of the Morning

 

It had sounded like a good idea at the time.

 

Neville/Hannah | 3.5 in the Chai Series

 

Slytherin Winner of & 3rd Place in the Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge

HPFT Featured Story February 2018

Banner by beyond the rain


Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Sexual Content)

Content Warnings (optional): None

Genre: Fluff, Humor, Romance

Tropes: Family, Friends to Lovers, Holidays, Rare Pair, Religion, Slow Build/Slow Burn
Completed · Published: 09 Dec 2017 · Updated: 10 Dec 2017 · Words: 4033 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 21 · Likes: 8 · Reads: 1387

Series: Chai, The Prefects' Challenges





Anthony has always loved celebrating Hanukkah with his family. This year, with war darkening the world around him, he finds new meaning in the festival of lights.


award by abhosen


Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Violence)

Content Warnings (optional): Discrimination, War

Genre: Angst, Drama, Fluff

Tropes: Family, Holidays, Rare Pair, Religion
Completed · Published: 23 Dec 2017 · Updated: 18 Jan 2018 · Words: 3007 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 9 · Likes: 6 · Reads: 158

Series: The Prefects' Challenges, Hufflepuff Stories of the Month





Advent is a time for hoping, for waiting, for believing; a time when gods descend to the earth, and the celestial is made temporal. 

 

A shame then, that Grantaire believed in nothing but Enjolras. 

 

Or, Grantaire lit four red candles, one each Sunday of Advent; each time, he was visited by a god: a god who performed miracles. 

 

For the Holiday and Diversity Challenge. 


Characters: Enjolras, Grantaire

Pairings: Unlisted Pairing

Representation: Ace/Aro, Anxiety, Bisexual/Biromantic, Black, Depression, Gay, LGBTQIA+, Mixed Race

Story Type: Challenge Entry, One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Completed · Published: 24 Dec 2017 · Updated: 24 Dec 2017 · Words: 5697 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 3 · Likes: 4 · Reads: 74

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





After fighting for change at Hogwarts, Hermione has finally acheived something substantial. This is it, the beginning of the end of all that hatred... Hopefully?

 

For the Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge.


Characters: Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom

Pairings: None

Representation: None

Story Type: Challenge Entry

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): Discrimination

Genre: General, Microfiction

Tropes: School
Incomplete · Published: 21 Dec 2017 · Updated: 21 Dec 2017 · Words: 895 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 3 · Likes: 0 · Reads: 1098

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





Ginny always smelled of peppermint.

ginny/luna | for the holday and diversity writing challenge


Characters: Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood

Pairings: None

Representation: Bisexual/Biromantic, LGBTQIA+

Story Type: One-Shot

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): None

Genre: Fluff

Tropes: Friends to Lovers
Completed · Published: 22 Dec 2017 · Updated: 22 Dec 2017 · Words: 1077 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 7 · Likes: 4 · Reads: 87

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





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I never realized how much I loved the scent of peppermint, until it was three
days till Christmas break and Rose still hadn’t asked me to visit her family.


Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): Discrimination

Genre: Drama, Fluff, Romance

Tropes: Family, Holidays
Completed · Published: 21 Dec 2017 · Updated: 26 Dec 2017 · Words: 4665 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 11 · Likes: 9 · Reads: 1186

Series: The Prefects' Challenges, a queerly winding road





Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge Entry for 12/20/17


Characters: Original Female Character

Pairings: None

Representation: Anxiety

Story Type: Challenge Entry

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): Discrimination

Genre: None

Tropes: None
Incomplete · Published: 20 Dec 2017 · Updated: 20 Dec 2017 · Words: 502 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 1 · Likes: 1 · Reads: 1177

Series: The Prefects' Challenges





Peppermint tea in a time of war.

Marlene/Dorcas for the Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge


Characters: Dorcas Meadowes, Marlene McKinnon

Pairings: Dorcas Meadowes/Marlene McKinnon (HP)

Representation: Lesbian, LGBTQIA+

Story Type: Challenge Entry

FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)

Content Warnings (optional): War

Genre: Fluff, Romance

Tropes: Holidays, Soulmates
Completed · Published: 23 Dec 2017 · Updated: 23 Dec 2017 · Words: 512 · Chapters: 1 · Reviews: 7 · Likes: 4 · Reads: 1217

Series: The Prefects' Challenges