SALT AND PEPPER FEST 2021 - PROMPTING IS CLOSED

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PROMPTING FOR THE SALT AND PEPPER FEST IS OPEN NOW 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 14th (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

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Their first grandchild.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Severus
Theme/Tone: Fluffy, hopeful, cheesy romatic.
Additional Info: Doesn't matter if the child this grandchild comes from is canon or OC

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Dragon taming has taken a toll on his body, but Charlie insists he is still up for anything Harry can throw his way.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie/Harry
Theme/Tone: Funny, sexy, romantic, whichever way you want to go!
Additional Info: Take the prompt any way you wish ;)

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Regulus finally decides to come out of hiding, twenty years after the end of the war.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Regulus/Severus
Theme/Tone: Angst, hopeful
Additional Info: Severus thought he was dead, but Kreacher kept him safe.

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Dancing in the rain
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Percy/Oliver, Ginny/Luna
Theme/Tone: Happy, fluffy
Additional Info:

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Oliver is stubbornly refusing to give up playing Quidditch. Marcus decides it's time to show him how dangerous the game is for someone their age.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Oliver/Marcus
Theme/Tone: Angst, happy ending
Additional Info: Could be that Marcus plays a game himself against Oliver, or just gets everyone together for an intervention. Up to you!

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: They finally convince Severus to go through with a bonding ceremony with them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco/Severus
Theme/Tone: Sexy! Smutty! Snarky!
Additional Info: Could be a creature bonding, or just a magical one. Either way.

Prompt 5

[digthewriter]

Prompt: A Beach Holiday. After retirement, Harry goes to this remote island that's been recommended by all his friends. He thinks a little r&r alone would be great. He has no idea Draco Malfoy, someone he hasn't seen in 30 years is the owner of this private island along w/ the caretaker of the whole property.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: Fun. Flirty. Forgiveness.
Additional Info: Draco has been single since forever and his employees try to hook him up with the handsome older gentleman and it's a blind date - until it isn't!

Prompt 6

[digthewriter]

Prompt: When a 20-something year old girl shows up at Charlie's retirement party - he realizes the mistake he made when he'd pushed Neville away.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie/Neville
Theme/Tone: Hurt/Comfort. Humour.
Additional Info: mpreg!neville, obv. & Draco/Harry background (or hints of... will be love)

Prompt 7

[digthewriter]

Prompt: Draco as an older man living in Muggle world - works as a spectacle-repair-man. Harry (memory loss!trope) shows up at Draco's looking for help w/ his glasses.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: Mystery. Drama. Thriller.
Additional Info: Draco used to be an Auror but he was ill-treated b/c of his past so he left and settled into the Muggle world. Harry lost his memory a few years ago at a mission and has no idea who he is.

[goddess47]

Prompt: Retirement isn't all it's supposed to be and they take Muggle jobs and end up working for the same supervisor
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus
Theme/Tone: Getting together, romance
Additional Info: no unhappy ending

[goddess47]

Prompt: Damnit! Minerva's been Headmistress for long enough and is more than ready to retire. But Hogwarts won't let her and she needs help.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva, any
Theme/Tone: mystery
Additional Info: no unhappy ending, please

[goddess47]

Prompt: After years of service to Wizarding Britain, Harry feels he's more than over-due to retire and he wants to travel. He has Hermione teach him a language charm and he goes off on his own. A month into his travels, in a small town in the middle of nowhere, he encounters Severus and finds they have similar non-plans.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus
Theme/Tone: getting together, romance
Additional Info: no unhappy ending, existence of canon kids up to you but can be EWE

[goddess47]

Prompt: After years of neglect, the wards at Grimmauld place are starting to fail. Which would expose the house to the neighbors. Harry has to hire both construction workers and needs help from Goblins/Dept of Mysteries to deal with the stubborn Fidelus charm Dumbledore placed. Enter Severus to help with Albus' charm.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus
Theme/Tone: getting together, first time, romance, working together
Additional Info: you can save or demolish the house; no unhappy ending, please

#3

[fwooshy]

Prompt: At age 63, Hermione smokes gillyweed for the first time. Luna's her dealer.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna/Hermione, as friends or romantic all good
Theme/Tone: I could see this going a lot of ways! Could be funny in the "be gay do pranks" kind of way, or sad/wistful in a "why didn't i chill out sooner, then maybe my kids won't hate me" kind of way
Additional Info:

#4

[fwooshy]

Prompt: Dudley Dursley is a junior executive of a company that sells wrenches. His new boss, Pansy Parkinson, is the only female executive at the company. Dudley Dursley is also convinced that his new boss is a witch, but no one believes him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Pansy/Dudley
Theme/Tone: Crack! Although it would be hilarious also to interpret this as Hurt/Comfort with MCD, so -- really, any theme/tone is great in my opinion.
Additional Info:

#5

[fwooshy]

Prompt: Garrick Ollivander was probably the only wizard in all of London to never have tried any one of Fortescue's Forty Flavours, and he was proud of it. They'd been shop-rivals for years, after all, and rivals even before that at Hogwarts, and they would have stayed rivals maybe forever, except for when someone (maybe Harry Potter? up to you) decided to get married and asked them to plan his wedding together for him in Diagon Alley.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Florean Fortescue/Garrick Ollivander
Theme/Tone: I'm pretty sure this is a rom com.
Additional Info:

#6

[fwooshy]

Prompt: Ginny had always thought she was prettier than Fleur.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ginny/Fleur, maybe Ginny/Fleur/Bill?
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

#7

[fwooshy]

Prompt: Parvati had always wondered why Dumbledore looked the way he did. She'd always thought, if she was old, she'd never show it. She'd glamour it all away. But now it was all so obvious to her.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Gen Parvati or pairings!
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

[katie_flint]

Prompt: Maybe, just maybe Charlie is getting too old to be observing dragons in the wild. But no one's gonna tell him that.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie Weasley/Daphne Greengrass
Theme/Tone: fluff, dragons, old married couple, humor
Additional Info:

[katie_flint]

Prompt: Professor Flint gets his first chance to dance at the Yule Ball some forty years later with his granddaughter.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Marcus Flint/Katie Bell
Theme/Tone: Nostalgic/feelings of what-if, lost childhood, Former Deatheater!Marcus
Additional Info:

[katie_flint]

Prompt: When the beauty spells and the vanity charms wear off, Pansy Parkinson's everlasting looks reveal a worn and old woman to most. Not Neville though... He still sees his blooming flower.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Neville Longbottom/Pansy Parkinson
Theme/Tone: fluff, love beyond one's physical form
Additional Info:

[katie_flint]

Prompt: Finally, after all these decades, Luna's found it. She's found a Nargle.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna Lovegood
Theme/Tone:humor, success
Additional Info: Just a fun prompt about Luna being herself as an old and profitable woman.

[katie_flint]

Prompt: Its all over the front page of the Daily Prophet and is being milled around Diagon Alley faster than the dragon pox plague, Ginny Potter, the former wife of the famed Harry Potter, has found herself in the arms of his rival, Draco Malfoy! After all these years, has he finally broken up their marriage? Or was it already broken to begin with?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Ginny Weasley
Theme/Tone: Mid-life crisis
Additional Info: Could be interesting if if a photo of them together on the front page. Could be a serious affair, could be a silly misunderstanding, you decide!

[katie_flint]

Prompt: Times have changed since the end of the war, decades have gone by, but there are those who are not willing to forget. Marcus Flint's granddaughter watches as her grandfather is brought to trial for old crimes he may or may not have committed. Her grandmother defends him, but is she right to do so? Can their granddaughter find out the truth for herself?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Katie Bell/Marcus Flint
Theme/Tone: drama, angst, family, blood vs. water
Additional Info:

[katie_flint]

Prompt: Recently divorced Harry Potter has been out of the dating game for far too long. His children, now grown, have little good advice for him it seems and most of his dates have gone terribly. Will a chance meeting with an old schoolmate will change things for the better?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter/Padma Patil
Theme/Tone: humor, fluff, second chance romance, rediscovering one and other, firsts
Additional Info: