Salt and Pepper Fest 2019 - PROMPTING IS CLOSED

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PROMPTING FOR THE SALT AND PEPPER FEST IS 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 seven 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, slash, femslash, het, 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 Saturday, Nov 17th (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

#1

[gracerene]

Prompt: They say it's a miracle that the bite didn't kill him at his age. It doesn't feel much like a miracle to him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Remus or Draco/Remus or Remus/Charlie
Theme/Tone: hope & angst, romance
Additional Info: Remus helping the "younger" and newer werewolf through his transition. ~Feelings~ developing.

#2

[gracerene]

Prompt: The apocalypse would have much easier to handle if they were still in their twenties.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: Up to you!
Additional Info: Go wild! Basically just your standard apocalypse!fic but from the POV of older characters. Take it wherever you'd like!

#3

[gracerene]

Prompt: Harry thought he knew everything there was to know about his best mate, but when they finally get together after several decades of dancing around one another, Harry finds out there are still surprises to uncover. Sex surprises.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Ron
Theme/Tone: Romantic, sexy, determined, uncertain
Additional Info: Kink exploration/negotiation! I'd love for Ron to have a kink (maybe he likes to Dom, maybe he's got a rape fantasty, totally up to you!) and for Harry to struggle a bit with making it a reality.

#4

[gracerene]

Prompt: They've been best friends for ages, through school and boyfriends, through careers and marriages, kids and death and divorces. She thought best friends was all they were, but now, 40+ years of friendship later, she's beginning to realize she wants more.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Lavendar/Parvati, Angelina/Katie or any femslash pairing involving close friends
Theme/Tone: Romantic
Additional Info: Given the prompt, I'd really like to see a femslash pairing with a close friendship that started early at Hogwarts

#5

[prolixshal]

Prompt: 20 years ago, Harry took his eyes off of Albus for just a second in King's Cross Station. When he looked back, Albus had disappeared. Now, after years of looking for Albus, Harry has finally lost hope... until newly divorced, retired detective Draco Malfoy pays him a visit.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Angst, hope
Additional Info: Would be nice to see how Harry's obsessive search for Albus affected his relationships with Ginny, James Sirius and Lily-Luna. I also imagine Harry harboring some jealousy over Draco's Scorpius, who would've been Albus' age.

#5

[gracerene]

Prompt: In a world where true mates have matching soulmarks, James has always felt defective. An accident as a child led to scarring over his heart where the soulmark would form, making it impossible to discern the image. He's spent half a lifetime keeping lovers at arms length, certain that he's meant to be alone. Teddy let James push him away once before, but he's older and wiser now, and this time he's not going anywhere.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: James/Teddy or James/Albus
Theme/Tone: hope & angst, romance, smut
Additional Info: Happy ending please!

#7

[prolixshal]

Prompt: They always said they didn't care that she had never had children, that it just wasn't meant to be, but she couldn't help feeling guilty even after all these years.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Pansy/Ginny or any other pairing with Pansy
Theme/Tone: angst
Additional Info: Would be nice to see discussions on miscarriages or infertility and the stigma against them.

#8

[prolixshal]

Prompt: He wasn't afraid of retirement; he just knew it wasn't time for him yet.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Anything
Additional Info: Draco POV, workaholic!Draco

#9

[prolixshal]

Prompt: Harry has sleep apnea and refuses to go see a Healer. Draco, who can hear his snores through the thin walls of his neighboring apartment, is fed up.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Fun, humor, romance
Additional Info: Both are divorced and living alone

#6

[gracerene]

Prompt: The say it's never too late in life to start a new career. Charlie's not entirely certain that's true.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie Gen (or any Charlie slash pairing)
Theme/Tone: Light, Humourous, (though you could go angsty with him struggling with his identity without dragons)
Additional Info: After his aging body/slowing reflexes/an injury etc. forces Charlie to retire from Dragon handling, he's got to come up with something new to occupy his time. Up to you if you want to go the Gen route or if he's in an established relationship or if a new romance is part of what keeps him busy ;)

[writcraft]

#1.
Prompt: LGBT Activism then and now. Choosing a moment / event or movement that inspires you, Muggle or something with a magical spin, two characters reminisce about their activist past, and present.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any combination of older Hogwarts staff women, e.g. Minerva/Poppy, Minerva/Wilhelmina, Minerva/Hooch.
Theme/Tone: Proud. Celebratory. Nostalgic.
Additional Info: None.

#2.
Prompt: Never too old for your first same-sex experience.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Severus, Harry/Charlie, Harry/Bill, Harry/Remus
Theme/Tone: Discovering identity later in life.
Additional Info: Preference for Harry being the one who realises what he wants and goes for it.

#3.
Prompt: "When the skies are looking bad my dear, and your heart's lost all its hope, after dawn there will be sunshine, and all the dust will go. The skies will clear my darling, now it's time for you to let go" (Lucy Spraggan, Tea and Toast)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Molly Weasley/Arthur Weasley, Weasley family, Harry.
Theme/Tone: Major Character Death. Family pulling together. Sad but happy about a life well lived.
Additional Info: None.

#4.
Prompt: "Sucking on a bottle of Jim Beam wishing it was you" (K-Flay, Wishing it Was You)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Lucius Malfoy. Suggest past Lucius Malfoy/Severus Snape and present Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Theme/Tone: Bitterness and regret. Angst.
Additional Info: Snarry through the eyes of Lucius Malfoy (i.e. past Lucius/Severus, present Harry/Severus).

#5.
Prompt: After years of feeling uncomfortable in their own skin, in a changing world they can finally live as their true selves.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, Millicent Bulstrode, Teddy Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks. If you have another idea though, please go for it. Open to any pairings but also happy with non-ship fic.
Theme/Tone: Exploration of coming out as trans later in life.
Additional Info: Nope!

#6.
Prompt: Bisexual awakening. Hermione has always been fascinated by an older female mentor, but it's just an intellectual interest. Isn't it?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/any older female character.
Theme/Tone: Queer awakening. Coming out. Same-sex exploration. Sexy, happy.
Additional Info: None.

#7.
Prompt: They spent so long pretending it was 'just friends who fuck' and needed their space which stretched into years apart. Now they're back again, right where they first began.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter/Charlie Weasley, Harry Potter/George Weasley, Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter/Blaise Zabini, Teddy Lupin/James Sirius, any femslash pairing of Trio gen or up (cross-gen is fine).
Theme/Tone: Breaking up and making up.
Additional Info: None.

[divertazsc]

Prompt: Arthur Weasley has passed away. The father figure for all the survivors of the Battle of Hogwarts and former Minister of Magic. His funeral brings together two grown men he mentored over the past decades, one openly as a son and the other through correspondence. Draco left after the trials and moved to France living a solitary life in self imposed exile. Harry did what was expected and had his fairy tale marriage, but is unhappy. Can these boys finally learn what Arthur tried to teach them and have the life they deserve?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and Draco
Theme/Tone: UST and denial of feelings
Additional Info: HEA

[divertazsc]

Prompt: Harry is a widower and trying to find his way. He attends a support group and sees a familiar face in the crowd. Therapy, coffee and late nights bring back a love he thought was lost to his youth.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and Draco
Theme/Tone: reconciliation and support
Additional Info:

[divertazsc]

Prompt: Harry and Draco have slipped into an easy and predictable life together. It's dull but Harry the homebody doesn't see any issue. Draco wants to spice up their life again and the addition of a younger man may be just what they need to energize them. Harry is torn between his jealousy and thoughts that Draco is leaving him behind and accepting that Draco just wants to take him along into new adventures. Draco loves Harry
Suggested Characters/Pairings: HD, Teddy Lupin, Hugo Weasley or OC
Theme/Tone: Sex Clubs, Multiple Pairings, Threesomes, low self-esteem, body/age issues
Additional Info: HEA

[spookywoods]

Prompt: Someone gets tricked into going on a wizard's cruise for divorcees
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: overcoming cynicism, maybe seeing what's been right in front of your face the entire time similar to---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazHNpt6OTo
Additional Info: The main character has been divorced for a while, bonus points if their friends are responsible for getting them on the cruise

[spookywoods]

Prompt: Lee may be one of the most popular hosts of show on the wireless for the last two decades, but he's never been able to transfer that likeability over and win someone's heart. He's never exactly wanted to, at least, not until his show goes on tour and he interviews Charlie Weasley.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Lee Jordan/Charlie Weasley
Theme/Tone: Humor, eccentric personalities, awkward romance
Additional Info: Including fun stuff with the dragons would be nice! Lots of humor, but balanced out with Lee being a career-driven workaholic who kind of one day just realises he's of a certain age and very alone.

[half_light]

#1
Prompt: Minerva McGonagall doesn't have many regrets. Giving up on Severus in the final year of the war is one of them, especially considering their complicated history. Each year, on his birthday, she quietly raises a glass for him and tells herself she's the last person he'd want to see. On his 50th birthday, she stops lying to herself, and shows up at his door.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Minerva McGonagall
Theme/Tone: Melancholy, reconciliation, forgiveness, a bit of angst - or whatever you'd like!
Additional Info: If you'd prefer Gen rather than romance, that's fine.

#2
Prompt: Harry decides to have a small memorial service to mark the 50th anniversary of his parents' death. Just the people closest to him and a few survivors from the war. After not having spoken in many years, and thinking it's well past time to gather his Gryffindor courage and face his complex feelings towards the man, he decides to invite Severus Snape.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Theme/Tone: Forgiveness, hurt/comfort, moving forward, UST, ultimately life affirming. But I really don't mind, go wherever the prompt takes you :)
Additional Info: If you don't want to show the memorial and just focus on the lead up or aftermath, that's fine.

[thekikimay]

Prompt: Draco and Harry find their true home - and love - back in Hogwarts, when one of them becomes the Headmaster.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: Romance, please!
Additional Info: It could be something with Headmaster Harry and Draco as a Potions Master looking out for him, or the unexplored scenario of Headmaster Draco. Established relationship or falling in love.

[thekikimay]

Prompt: He barely remembers being seventeen and walking towards the Forbidden Forest. Harry celebrates his 107 birthday.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco if you want (Because you know me) But it could be just something Harry-centric.
Theme/Tone: Introspection, hopeful
Additional Info: Happy endings and long ass life. Despite all that happened in his childhood, Harry is still there and kickin'.

1

[they-lied.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Hagrid appreciation! Maybe it's Hagrid getting to finish school after the war. Or Harry bringing wee Teddy to visit Hagrid. Hagrid keeping an eye on the Potter children when they come to Hogwarts. Or, better yet! Hagrid having a Potter child named after him!!!
Suggested Characters: Harry&Hagrid, Teddy&Hagrid,HAGRID
Theme/Tone: family, feels, Hagrid getting all the love he deserves
Additional Info: dislikes: Snape/Dumbledore apologism

[thekikimay]

Prompt: A Very Malfoy Birthday! Draco (Or Scorpius) is celebrating his birthday. Time for a reflection on family love, life and passing years.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco & Scorpius positivity fic
Theme/Tone: Fluff, introspection, family dynamics, humor
Additional Info: As an avid Draco/Harry shipper I wouldn't mind having the pairing there (Or Scorpius/Albus, if you prefer) but I would love to read something about the father/son bond.

Prompts

[milotzi]

#1
Prompt: When your lover is in his late fifties and you are over eighty, you sometimes wonder whether he wouldn't be better off with a younger partner. And whether this has occured to him, too.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape
Theme/Tone: angst but not too much, IC
Additional Info: happy ending appreciatiated

#2
Prompt: After the war, Severus Snape turned his back on the world of wizards and withes. 30 years later, widowed and on his own, a chance encounter with an old lover makes him wonder whether there are second chances. Being himself even more than he was in his youth may not help.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape
Theme/Tone: reflective, IC so not too fluffy; banter, snark, sarcasm very welcome
Additional Info: happy ending appreciatiated

#3
Prompt: They want her to take it easy. She isn't having any of it. It's time to call in the cavalry in the shape of a retired war hero.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape
Theme/Tone: snark, banter, IC
Additional Info: happy ending appreciatiated

#4
Prompt: The sixth and seventh ages of Severus Snape.
Suggested Characters/Pairings:Severus Snape
Theme/Tone: melancholy or the opposite, it's up to you, as long as it's not totally OOC
Additional Info: Jaques' monologue (AYLI, Shakespeare); read by Benedict Cumberbatch

#5
Prompt: On vacation for the first time in years, they meet in a squib bingo club in a seaside town. They don't get on. Then they run into each other in a cat cafe.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Arabella Figg/ Argus Filch
Theme/Tone: fluffy or serious, it's up to you
Additional Info: It would be lovely to learn more about squibs as a group.

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Late in life pregnancy.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Percy/Harry, Severus/Harry, Draco/Astoria
Theme/Tone: Humour, slightly panicky
Additional Info: I'd like to see the father panicking, but whoever is pregnant kind of resigned to it all.

Prompt: Draco is aging and determined to not do it gracefully.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry, Draco/Astoria, Draco/Severus
Theme/Tone: Humour
Additional Info: Maybe resorting Muggle remedies to stop the aging process?

Prompt: "Yes, well, maybe if you removed your head from your arse, it would work better!"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Any male roughly his age EXCEPT Harry.
Theme/Tone: Humour
Additional Info: Draco being forced to work with someone after having spent most of his working life on his own.

Prompt: She saved him during the end battle of the second war. Now, he reflects back on their life together.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Rabastan/Luna
Theme/Tone: Hopeful, angsty
Additional Info: I'd like to see a Rabastan who was dragged into the whole war by his family, and who is relieved it's over.

Prompt: She could have had it all.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Dolores Umbridge
Theme/Tone: Melancholy, angsty
Additional Info: Umbridge's views on how her life went after the war.

Prompt: Just what is an aging barmaid to do when she fears she's losing her looks? Have it off with the Hogwarts Headmaster anywhere she can, of course!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Rosmerta
Theme/Tone: Sexy, romantic, humour
Additional Info:

Prompt: He's straight. Always has been. Right?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie/??, Theo/??, Blaise/??
Theme/Tone: Sexy
Additional Info: Whichever character it is has had relationships with women all his life, but an encounter with a male has opened up new feelings.

[emmatheslayer]

Prompt:growing old is something that is a honnor after what they have been though
Suggested Characters/Pairings: albus /Scorpius
Theme/Tone: romance and angst
Additional Info: them enjoying aging

[anidot90]

Prompt: The children are grown, both Harry and Pansy are divorced...maybe now they can finally be together?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Pansy
Theme/Tone: Fluff, slight angst, smut
Additional Info: Meet again after many years, past romantic fling, smut please!! :)

Prompt: "This is not right, we need to stop this now Potter!"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Pansy
Theme/Tone: Smut, romance, humour
Additional Info: Pansy's daughter and Harry's son are rumoured to be a couple, this is not good for their parents who want to become an actual couple.

Prompt: Something is not right, a bride is supposed to be happy on her wedding day. But why is Hermione not?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Romance, smut
Additional Info: Hermione uses a potion/spell to see her future, to make sure everything will work out and she'll be happy with Ron, but she doesn't see her older self with Ron!

Prompt: Decades later, Draco can finally claim her.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Smut, angst
Additional Info: Draco is a veela, but Ron got to Hermione before he could.

[half_light]

Prompt: A group of elderly war heroes get together at Grimmauld Place to reminisce. When they discover a magical creature is running amok inside the house, someone suggests going to find help. But they don't need young know-it-alls coming to their rescue, they're war heroes after all! Surely they can deal with one little creature!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Anyone from the first or second wars. Feel free to resurrect whomever you like :)
Theme/Tone: Fun, banter, cranky old wizards and witches driving each other crazy but working together.
Additional Info: None.

Prompt: "The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears." - John Vance Cheney
Suggested Characters/Pairings: I'd love Severus and/or Harry, but don't mind if you want to go another way.
Theme/Tone: Reflective, melancholic, but also emotional and hopeful.
Additional Info: I'd prefer no Marauders for this prompt.

[everyoneinspaceisgay]

Prompt: femslash with mcgonnagall (maybe sprout or pomfrey or OC or whatever, but another older woman)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: mcgonnagall/woman
Theme/Tone: fluff/happy/cute/sexy
Additional Info:

[everyoneinspaceisgay]

Prompt: transformations mean that remus has some pretty severe arthritis, and sirius' memory is fading
Suggested Characters/Pairings: remus/sirius
Theme/Tone: generally positive/positive ending
Additional Info: ld wolfstar... i have a headcanon that sirius' memory was permanently affected by azkaban and i dont think this would get better in old age. as someone who lives with chronic pain, i like to see that aspect of lycanthropy explored but i dont like inspo/disability porn

[everyoneinspaceisgay]

Prompt: elderly luna
Suggested Characters/Pairings:
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: i just really like the idea of elderly luna.

[thekikimay]

Prompt: Second chances
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Cho
Theme/Tone: Romance, Fluff, Falling in love
Additional Info: A second chance at love for Cho and Harry!

Prompts!

[gingertodgers]

#1
Prompt: Grace and Frankie
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Pansy with background Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: light hearted, humour, I know there's infedelity in the TV show but it could be done without just as well.
Additional Info: Draco as an ageing posh hippy gives me life. Hermione dealing with retirement after years of focusing on her career and Pansy convincing her to relax and get drunk/stoned would be a joy.

#2
Prompt: Christmas Carol
Suggested Characters/Pairings: George/Angelina
Theme/Tone: time travel, fluff, some angst
Additional Info: George and Angelina never got together and George is fine with that until Fred's ghost turns up on Christmas Eve to show George the life he could have had.

#3
Prompt: Who Do You Think You Are?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: light-hearted, some angst, some fluff
Additional Info: I love the idea of Harry tracing his family and Draco either helping or becoming involved. Bonus points for Harry being outraged at what he finds out.

#4
Prompt: childless by choice
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: slice of life
Additional Info: a couple talks about their decision not to have children, do they regret it or are they happy with how things worked out? If it's a couple who had kids in canon I'd love to see how that might have changed things for them.

#5
Prompt: grow old with me
Suggested Characters/Pairings: James/Teddy
Theme/Tone: bittersweet
Additional Info: Teddy has been metamorphing into the young version of himself for decades and while James supports him, he also wants to grow old with Teddy.

#6
Prompt: getting political
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: fun, observational, slice of life
Additional Info: character A has finally found a cause to get stirred up about, character B is only here for the banter and biscuits.

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Midsomer Murders, flamethrowers
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and Minerva, platonically
Theme/Tone: BroTP Harry and McG get shit done with no banter left behind
Additional Info: smol beans

Prompts

[dewitty1]

Prompt: Harry's fed up with being Head Auror, Ginny's gone, the kids are off iliving their own lives. He's ready to find out who he is now. Maybe an old rival can help him find out who that person is?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry & Draco
Theme/Tone: Romantic, maybe a bit angsty, Sexy of course, understanding
Additional Info: Exploring sexuality, understanding new realizations, Draco helps Harry by being very understanding about new things, I would love you forever if Draco wore lingerie 😘

[spookywoods]

Prompt: Divorced Harry and Widower Draco, once friendly and even companionable toward each other, end up stirring up their old rivalry and vying for the affection of the same person, unable to see what's right in front of them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco (background Scorbus)
Theme/Tone: fun, humor
Additional Info: Grumpy Old Men AU - if you haven't seen it, it's on youtube. The twist is they get together instead of what happens in the film. This is fun because their kids also get together! There are lots of themes in the film: financial issues, dealing with loneliness, an (even more) elderly parent/figurehead, but remains lighthearted!

#7

[gracerene]

Prompt: After the [divorce and/or death of spouse], Harry & Draco(or Ron) are tired of their friends and family constantly trying to set them up out of concern over them being all alone at their age. They decide to pretend to date each other to get everybody off their back and, well, you know how the rest goes. :)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco or Harry/Ron
Theme/Tone: light, humourous, romantic
Additional Info: friends to lovers, nobody being surprised about them dating

[everyoneinspaceisgay]

Prompt: "You're timeless to me" "You're like a stinky old cheese, babe, just getting riper with age"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Honestly I was thinking wolfstar bc I'm a sucker for letting them grow old but it could be any pairing in all honesty
Theme/Tone: I'm thinking of the song from hairspray where its like playful insulting cos i love you that much
Additional Info: doesnt have to be a songfic just the vibe from that song. can be a songfic if you want tho, i'd like to imagine them dancing this :P just whateer as long as it's this vibe

Prompt n°5 for me (And a true classic)

[thekikimay]

Prompt: "We're too old for this"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: DRACO/HARRY!
Theme/Tone: ROMANCE!!!
Additional Info: The classic that never gets old. Draco and Harry falling in love, sneaking around and one of them thinking that they are too old for this. Happy ending required.

[torino10154]

Prompt: What to do now that Dad is getting older.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry & his kids/Teddy or Draco & Scorpius
Theme/Tone: Poignant, some angst
Additional Info: Just imagining what it would be like as there probably aren't Wizarding old folks homes (or maybe there are!). Could have pairings as well, up to you.

[torino10154]

Prompt: He never believed he'd find love again at his age.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry, Draco, Charlie, George, Teddy
Theme/Tone: Romance
Additional Info: Choose your own character if none of these work for you. Sweet but not tooth rotting if at all possible. LOL

[torino10154]

Prompt: "Why now?"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Harry
Theme/Tone: Romance
Additional Info: Maybe the timing was never right. Maybe it's been a long time coming.

[torino10154]

Prompt: Grandpa Harry runs a "summer camp" for all his grandchildren for one week a year. He needs the other 51 weeks to recover.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and army of little Potters.
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: I'm thinking more (exhausting) fun than horrible for this but do what you like with it.

[torino10154]

Prompt: They had a brief affair many years ago. Now that her husband has passed away, will they rekindle what they once had?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Kingsley/Narcissa
Theme/Tone: Romance, light angst
Additional Info: I really love the idea of this pairing as a slightly later in life couple.

[torino10154]

Prompt: All her friends complain about their husbands (still) wanting sex. She can't get enough, even after all these years.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Bunch of female friends + any het relationship
Theme/Tone: Humor
Additional Info: Love to see a gaggle of mixed-house witches, laughing and snarking, and maybe an unexpected surprise who the most sex-obsessed one is.

[torino10154]

Prompt: They've been there for each other as friends through relationships falling apart, children giving them grey hair, parents passing away. Who knew romance could be 50-odd years in the making?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Femmeslash with Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Pansy, Millicent or some old-school ladies like Minerva, Poppy, Pomona, etc.
Theme/Tone: Romance
Additional Info: Idea is best friends to lovers but any female characters will work, these are just suggestions.

[digthewriter]

Prompt: Spicing it up in the bedroom.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Neville/Theo. (+Charlie Weasley)
Theme/Tone: HOT
Additional Info: Neville and Theo have been married for 20 years, and now as they're celebrating their 21st wedding anniversary, Theo suggests adding a third. Neville thinks of a certain someone he'd always had a thing for ... Theo is surprised it's not someone younger, but older! He's game. It can be explicit sex or just talk or whatever you feel like. Art? Sure!

[kelly_chambliss]

1. Prompt: Goyle or Dudley at 50
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Goyle (or Dudley) and anyone you like, or Goyle gen or Dudley gen.
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: What have Greg or Dudley been up to? What are they like now? What do they see when they look backward and forward over their lives?

2. Prompt: Against her better judgment, Headmistress McGonagall has a one-night stand. Surprise! 72 is not too old for a witch to get pregnant after all.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/any male
Theme/Tone: anything but crack. It may be humorous and celebratory, or bittersweet and angsty.
Additional Info: I usually stay far away from pregnancy stories, but what the hell.

3. Prompt: After she retires from Hogwarts, Poppy Pomfrey volunteers at St Mungo's. One of the healers there is Millicent Bulstrode, who is much more interesting at 50 than when she was at 11 or 15 or 17.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Millicent/Poppy
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: This prompt could work as either friendship or pairing

4. Prompt: At a memorial marking the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, Minerva and Andromeda end up seated next to each other.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Minerva McGonagall
Theme/Tone: bittersweet
Additional Info: I envision the two of them being acquainted but not knowing each other well before this ceremony.

5. Prompt: Flitwick retires. Now what?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Filius Flitwick, anyone; pairing or gen
Theme/Tone: anything but crack.

6. Prompt: Kingsley Shacklebolt is retired from the Ministry and enjoying the peace and quiet. But then the Minister of Magic, Hermione Granger, comes to him with an important mission that she believes only he can undertake. Will he do it?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Kingsley/anyone or gen
Theme/Tone: anything but crack

7. Prompt: Time travel -- through magic or an accident, Character X comes face-to=face with their much older self.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: anything but crack

[emmatheslayer]

Prompt Neville /draco , where has all the time go we wasted so much time were old man now is it to late
Suggested Characters, Neville /draco
Tone sad somber

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Prompting is closed.