SALT AND PEPPER FEST 2024 - PROMPTING IS CLOSED

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PROMPTING FOR THE SALT AND PEPPER FEST IS NOW OPEN CLOSED!

Before you run off to leave us all your fab prompts, please check out the general rules for this fest and the prompting guidelines below!

Prompt Guidelines

1. Anyone can leave a prompt regardless of whether or not you're planning on claiming one. Submitting a prompt doesn't commit you to anything.

2. You can leave up to ten prompts. Prompts can be in the same comment or listed separately.

3. Prompts must be relevant to the theme of this community - any canon character at 50+. (i.e. a prompt focusing on Harry as a young parent would not fit.)

4. That said, we want all sorts of prompts! Fluffy, angsty, light or dark, gen, shippy fic, threesome/moresome, character studies, mysteries, drama, comedy--anything goes!

5. Keep in mind that this is not a gift exchange. Your name will not be listed with your prompt in the claiming stage or when the fest is posting. Claimers will also be able to deviate from the prompt if their muse goes in a different direction (switch out characters, go with a different overall tone, etc.)

6. Prompts may be edited for clarity.

7. Prompting is open now until the end of Thursday, Nov 16th (midnight, EST). We'll edit this post when prompting is closed.


Prompt Form

Leave your prompts by filling out this form in a comment below!

<b>Prompt:</b> <b>Suggested Characters/Pairings:</b> <b>Theme/Tone:</b> <b>Additional Info:</b>

Brief explanation of the form:

Prompt: Can be as simple (word, phrase, song lyric) or as specific as you like. Please do not outline an entire plot, however. :D
Suggested Characters/Pairings: This is optional and can be left blank if you'd like!
Theme/Tone: Fluffy, angsty, etc. The overall mood. Also can be left blank if you'd like!
Additional Info: Here you can leave likes, dislikes, squicks, or anything else that doesn't fit above, but keep in mind that as this is not a gift, creators will not be required to stick strictly to these things. Also optional and can be left blank if you'd like!

Comments

[goddess47]

Prompt: Meeting for the first time in years at a funeral for a mutual old friend
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus, any
Theme/Tone: somber, friendly, pleasant surprise
Additional Info:


Prompt: reunion in an [ahem] awkward location/situation
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus, any
Theme/Tone: humor
Additional Info:


Prompt: what to do in retirement?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone:. optimistic, humor,
Additional Info:


Prompt: "You're now doing *what*?"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus, any
Theme/Tone: humor or dismay, both work
Additional Info:


Prompt: having time/money/etc. for traveling solo for the first time ever
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: optimistic, adventurous,
Additional Info: where would they go? be creative!


Prompt: an adult child they were not aware of tracks them down
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: humor or dismay, both work
Additional Info:

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Wrinkles, creaky joints, cramps... This was the part of aging he was not looking forward to!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, Hannah/Draco
Theme/Tone: Humour
Additional Info:

Prompt: "I've wanted to meet you for so long!" A fan corners someone in public.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Oliver, Harry, Severus
Theme/Tone: Humour, romance
Additional Info:

Prompt: It's finally time to find a second love.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/any male, Draco/any male, Oliver/any male
Theme/Tone: Romantic, hopeful
Additional Info: Ex could be either divorced or dead.

Prompt: Retirement was never going to be easy.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie, Oliver, Minerva
Theme/Tone: Hopeful, angsty
Additional Info:

Prompt: I've loved you for so long, but never allowed myself to hope.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Charlie, Severus/Rosmerta
Theme/Tone: Romantic
Additional Info:

Prompt: Remember when...?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Percy/Oliver, Oliver/Marcus, Percy/Oliver/Marcus
Theme/Tone: Reminiscing, romantic, funny.
Additional Info:

[(Anonymous)]

Prompt: Retiring from a career that is a whole lifestyle wasn't easy but luckily Charlie had a few ideas in mind
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie Weasley
Theme/Tone: adventurous, comedy, smut, anything 😄
Additional Info:

Prompt: Remus has been fighting a loosing battle for his health for years now. Can Sirius keep himself together to brew the last potion for his life partner? Dying during the strain of full moon is the only option offered by St. Mungos
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: Book characterization

Prompt: The local wizarding theatre is recruiting, which empty nesters and retirees are going to meet and create the best play ever? Will the drama be on the stage or the backstage?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any, wildest cards? :D
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: The pineapple on the cabin door, glamours and the Caribbean
Suggested Characters/Pairings:
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: Pineapples=partner swapping

Prompt: Wixes and their gardens
Suggested Characters/Pairings:
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: a storyline or vignettes?

Prompt: The sheer life experience of the vampire sitting opposite captivates her
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione Granger or anyone!
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Kreacher's epilogue
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Kreacher
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: A day in the life of an old squid
Suggested Characters/Pairings: The Qiant Squid
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: A gentleman may not be up to visiting a club anymore, but company is always one floo call away
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco?
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

I hope this looks normal, first time commenting on dw 😅

[lee_bella]

Prompt: The first Christmas celebration at Hogwarts since the second war ends.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva McGonagall, but any Hogwarts staff over the age of 50 would be great too
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: None

Prompt: Picking up a new hobby or pursuing a childhood dream after retirement.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any over the age of 50
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Rekindling an old flame many years later.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any over the age of 50
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Albus and Gellert never met again after the duel in 1945 -- or did they?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Haunted by ghosts
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any over the age of 50
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: At the age of fifty (or whatever 50+ age you like), life is good.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any over the age of 50
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: They've been around for a long, long time.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any over the age of 50
Theme/Tone: A little spooky
Additional Info:

Prompt: Salt and pepper
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any over the age of 50
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

[lightofdaye]

1.
Prompt:Newt and Tina attended their grandson's wedding.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Newt/Tina
Theme/Tone: fluff/humour
Additional Info: what do they think of Rolf? Luna? Rolf and Luna?

2.
Prompt:The only time they see each other these days is at funerals.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Members of Dumbledore's Army (Harry, Neville etc)
Theme/Tone:angst / dark humour
Additional Info: Maybe an odd pairing arises from these meetings?

3.
Prompt:five times Harry thought he was too old for his job and one time he was
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter
Theme/Tone:angst / dark humour / humour
Additional Info:Could be dark or it could just be silly fun.

4.
Prompt: Freshly divorced in his fifties, Harry wasn't expecting to date again: he was wrong.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Luna, Harry/Parvati, Harry/Katie
Theme/Tone: fluff and smut
Additional Info:

5.
Prompt: Even after all these years, people wonder why they work as a couple but they still do.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ron/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Fluffy, smut.
Additional Info:

[miss_grimwood]

Prompt: the three Black sisters reunited after the war and now have weekly afternoon tea well into their 60s/70s/80s/older
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Narcissa, Bellatrix, Andromeda
Theme/Tone: angst, fluff, angst that becomes fluff, hurt/comfort, humour
Additional Info: ideally they’ve forgiven each other and made up but if you’d prefer them to hold a grudge well into their 90s that would absolutely suit their characters

Prompt: a marriage proposal that comes 40+ years into a relationship
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any! canon or non canon! femslash if you’d like!
Theme/Tone: any!
Additional Info: maybe it was never the right time because of the war, life got in the way or maybe they just never got around to it

Prompt: on her retirement, Minerva reflects on her time at Hogwarts
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva Mcgonagall, Minerva & the other Hogwarts staff
Theme/Tone: bittersweet, nostalgic
Additional Info: is she reluctant to leave the place behind? or can she not wait to get the hell out of there and spend her days reading and drinking tea?

[kelly_chambliss]

Prompt: Severus invents a new arthritis potion. Some of the side effects are. . .unexpected.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus and any 50+ willing to be his guinea pig. . .Minerva, Harry, Arthur, Ron, Horace, Lucius, Hermione, Rosmerta, etc. Can be romantic with pairings or not.
Theme/Tone: humorous, not crack

Prompt: "Here I go again / I hear the trumpets blow again / All aglow again / Taking a chance on love" at age 50+
Suggested Characters/Pairings: I love me some good Minerva/Severus or Aberforth/Severus or Minerva/Hermione, but anyone you choose is fine.
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: I have a teacher/student squick (as a teacher myself). . .I'd love it if any student characters were beyond student age

Prompt: Portrait!love. It must get very boring, being a Hogwarts portrait. What do the 50-plusses get up to beyond the frame? What are their relationships like?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Albus, Minerva, Severus, Phineas Nigellus, the Fat Lady, Sir Cadogan, Dilys Derwent, anyone who might end up as a Hogwarts portrait. . .go wild
Theme/Tone: anything but crack

Prompt: As their life nears its end, a character looks back. . .
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: anything but crack; angst is fine, as is bittersweetness, comfort, etc.

Prompt: "Grandma [or Grandpa], what's this?" -- a grandchild helps a grandparent sort through a closet and finds an artefact from the past. What's the story?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Choose anyone for the grandparent that you like -- can be someone who is already over 50 in canon or can be Trio Era or younger, but now aging.
Theme/Tone: anything but crack

[torino10154]

Prompt: The year is 2036 and Hermione Granger is now the headmistress of Hogwarts. What has changed since her school days and what remains the same?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione with ensemble
Theme/Tone: Could be serious or could be humorous.
Additional Info: Whether there's a pairing/romance is up to you.

Prompt: After her divorce, Ginny finds herself caught between Neville and Draco. Who will she choose?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ginny/Neville, Ginny/Draco
Theme/Tone: Romance, fluff, light angst
Additional Info: Feel free to include polyamory if you'd like.

Prompt: After a life of wild adventures, Luna settles down again in Ottery St Catchpole and unexpectedly finds romance.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna/Bill, Luna/George, Luna/Percy, Luna/Ginny
Theme/Tone: Light, whimsical, fluffy
Additional Info: Whichever Weasley you prefer works.

Prompt: Severus Snape made a new life for himself in Europe. Much to his dismay, an old acquaintance stumbles upon him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Minerva, Severus/Lucius, Severus/Harry, Severus/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Mystery, romance, light angst
Additional Info: How long it is after the war will depend on the pairing one chooses.

Prompt: Harry is forced to come out of retirement when a new Dark force threatens the hard earned peace of the Wizarding World. But does he still have what it takes?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and ensemble
Theme/Tone: Mystery, some angst
Additional Info: Could be humorous instead, if you prefer.

Prompt: Scandal rocks the Ministry as a disgruntled mistress (or hired escort) threatens to name names.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Mystery or humour
Additional Info: Picturing "politician" types here with various (multiple?) clandestine relationships.

Prompt: Hermione and Ginny grew closer as Ron succumbed to a terminal illness. Can they move past their grief and make a new life together?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Ginny
Theme/Tone: Bittersweet, hopeful, romance
Additional Info: N/A

Prompt: Everyone thinks they're the perfect couple. Maybe they're just good at keeping up appearances.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Any
Additional Info: N/A

Prompt: Harry and Draco's legendary rivalry continues as they become grandfathers to the same newborn.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: background Scorpius/any next gen Potter
Theme/Tone: Humour, fluff, family feels
Additional Info: Whether Harry and Draco are still married or divorced (and end up together?) is up to you.

Prompt: Hermione, thinking like a Muggle, doesn't realize she needs to worry about pregnancy after 50. Ooops!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Ron or Hermione/Draco, Hermione/Harry, Hermione/Severus, etc
Theme/Tone: Humour, fluff
Additional Info: If you have a different pairing you'd prefer, go for it!

[imera]

Prompt: They love a mature woman, especially one that can take care of them, and Minerva is the perfect woman.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Minerva/anyone
Theme/Tone: any
Additional Info:

Prompt: Seeing each other after all those years sure brought back some memories, and maybe they can make some new ones.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Snape/Karkaroff
Theme/Tone: any
Additional Info: In canon they are pretty young, but in the movies they are both older men.

Prompt: The kids are finally out, while they love their kids, and grandkids, they thought they had a few years of peace between the newest additions to the family.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Molly/Arthur
Theme/Tone: any
Additional Info:

Prompt: Snape knows about Neville's boggart, Mrs Long bottom also knows about Neville's boggart, what happens when Mrs Longbottom shows up at school for a parent/teacher conference?
Suggested Characters/Pairings Snape, Mrs Longbottom
Theme/Tone:any
Additional Info:

Prompt: Mrs Zabini might be older, but she still has the power to entrap husbands.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Mrs Zabini
Theme/Tone:any
Additional Info:

Prompt: A future where the marauders weren't split up by war, where they get together as older men to reminisce about their time at school, or where their lives took them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Marauders
Theme/Tone: any
Additional Info:

Prompt: The sorrow of realising she can't have more kids, while at the same time being blessed with a grandson.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Narcissa
Theme/Tone: any
Additional Info:

Prompt: Nicolas Flamel lived a long life with his wife when they decide to let life run it course
Suggested Characters/Pairings Nicolas Flamel
Theme/Tone:any
Additional Info:

Prompt: He fancied her when he was younger, now as an adult he finally gathered the courage to ask her out.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Ron/madam Rosmerta
Theme/Tone: any
Additional Info:

Prompt: Being the Dark Lord has has it's perks, realising the age gap between himself and his followers is not one of those perks.
Suggested Characters/Pairings Voldemort
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: Also possible to be AU where he never died and so his body is closer to his actual age.

[scarlet1989]

Prompt: Severus never expected to make it out of his thirties. Now, he's elderly with a spouse and their family gathers at their house every Sunday for dinner.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus, Severus/Sirius, Severus/any
Theme/Tone: Humor, reflective
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Hijinks at the retirement home.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: It's time to put past resentments behind.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Reflective, melancholy, hopeful
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Their book club was just an excuse to have tea and gossip. (Or any other activity like knitting.)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Character A only has one item left on their bucket list.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Any
Additional Info: No character bashing

Prompt: Character A was a grumpy person. Then one day someone new moved in next door.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Any
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Character A fancies themselves a brilliant matchmaker, and why, all those widows and widowers need companionship, right?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Severus just wants to live out his retirement in peace. Too bad Sirius didn't get the memo.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Sirius
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Character A decides to contact their first love.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Any
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

Prompt: Character A and Character B decides to take a senior bus tour around the country.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: No character bashing, MCD

[maraudersaffair]

Prompt: Scorpius and Lily Luna are married/have kids and Harry & Draco navigate being grandpas
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Gen or any
Theme/Tone: Humor, old rivals, H & D FINALLY putting their childhoods aside to be friends/lovers etc
Additional Info: This doesn't need to be Harry/Draco but it could be!

Prompt: Bath time
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Kingsley or Sirius/Kingsley
Theme/Tone: hurt/comfort, smutty, fluffy
Additional Info:

[maraudersaffair]

Prompt: They stumble into a friends with benefits situation and end up falling in love
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Remus or any Severus pairing
Theme/Tone: Smutty
Additional Info:

[lightofdaye]

6.
Prompt:Some things getting better with age
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Neville/Hannah
Theme/Tone: Fluff and smut
Additional Info:

7.
Prompt:At least one of them knows what they're doing.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Neville, Ron/Seamus, Hermione/Luna
Theme/Tone: fluff and smut
Additional Info: The trio member is new to same sex relationships and the other is more experienced and easing them in.

8.
Prompt: They looked retirement in the face and decided they weren't having any of it.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Newt Scamander, Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter
Theme/Tone: Character study
Additional Info: could be canon compliant or not.

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: There's been many others, but you were my favourite.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Sirius/Charlie, Severus/Rabastan, Oliver/Marcus
Theme/Tone: Angsty, romantic, hopeful
Additional Info:

Prompt: Discovering kinks
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry, Blaise/Ginny
Theme/Tone: Sexy!
Additional Info:

Prompt: Their creature inheritance only appeared once they had met their mate in person.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Anyone who didn't meet in canon
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: