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P1. Prompt: Draco, Harry thinks, is aging gracefully. And by gracefully, I mean not gracefully at all. He complains about everything.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: funny and loving.

P2. Prompt: After Minerva's retirement, she settles in to her cottage by the sea. Imagine her surprise at finding Severus Snape selling herbal remedies at the local market.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/Severus (or Remus, perhaps)
Theme/Tone: Slow building, romantic, hopeful/happy ending
Additional Info: The details in the prompt are merely suggestions. Feel free to modify location, circumstances, etc.

P3. Prompt: A third Death Eater war is looming on the horizon. The next-gen generation, now responsible adults, won't yet believe what is happening on the fringes of wizarding society, but their children and the generation who lived through the Second Voldemort War know the signs when they see it.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco is always nice; any, really. :)
Theme/Tone: war theme; cross-generational solidarity; respect for what each generation can contribute to the fight against blood racism.
Additional Info: I'd love to see Harry's and Draco's grandchildren well fleshed out OCs.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] P4. Prompt: Last Fight: a drabble written for the prompt "first time fighting":

Albus and Scorpius never fought. Not at Hogwarts, not at the Ministry, never in their home. They didn't even fight when Albus was promoted Head Auror, while Scorpius had to leave the Aurors to take care of his mum.

But now – both of them age sixty-four, and one just home from the healers – angry yells ring through Grimmauld Place; powerful hexes shake the grandfather clock in the hall.

"I don't need your bloody money!"

"Damn it, I have four more months to live. Just let me appoint you as my heir."

"Fuck this inheritance shit. I want you. Only you."

Suggested Characters/Pairings: Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy
Theme/Tone: dealing with death of life companion, sadness, despair, acceptance
Additional Info: I've always wished for this drabble to be turned into a real story, and I will never write it. Mod note: drabble written by vaysh.

P5. Prompt: Harry & Draco celebrating their diamond anniversary (or wizarding equivalent)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Humour, smut
Additional Info: Maybe they get carried away, leave the party & get caught? Some snark from Draco perhaps? I'd love to see them surrounded by their family & friends

P6. Prompt: Harry is about to retire as Head of Auror Corps. Reviewing some files he finally finds a link he always suspected to be there, and was never able to pinpoint. In every major happening in his life there's always been "something/a presence" he was not able to identify. This "something" has always been there to help him resolve the issue -both in his personal and professional life. He always thought of it as his famed luck. He now can see that there was someone behind. I leave it to the author to tell us about what those issues might have been and how Harry discovers that it was Severus helping him all along, as well as how and why did Severus help him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Severus
Theme/Tone: I'd like a mystery and some angst mixed with some romance and fluff (at the end). Happy Snarry ending.
Additional Info: Please avoid cross gender/cross dressing.

P7. Prompt: They haven't seen each other for decades. But why did they never suspect that the old spark would be burning just as bright now they encounter one another again?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Smutty, intense
Additional Info: I'd love a vibe of 'I don't want to be attracted to you, but omg I so am.' And 'we shouldn't be doing this - especially not HERE - but we just can't resist.' I'd love to see messy, intense, rough, desperate (drunken?) sex occurring after some antagonism.

P8. Prompt: After divorce, character A joins a dating agency for more mature wizards. The... I dunno, the Pairing Hat? LOL, whatever magical device you choose... says they are made for each other. Imagine their dismay when they turn up on the date to find... character B.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: humour, UST
Additional Info: Some disastrous dates with other wizards might be funny. It would be great if they were instantly attracted to each other but fought against it.

P9. Prompt: Severus Snape is telling his grandchildren, Snape-style, how he and Harry fell in love
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape / Harry Potter
Theme/Tone: Snarky, humorous, fluffy
Additional Info: EWE - They can have adopted children or mpreg

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] P10. Prompt: Harry is 55, long divorced and now retired from the DMLE, and has decided to travel and see the sights. He comes across a man who seems familiar and falls in love at first sight. What happens when he finds out the man is none other than Severus Snape.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Snarry
Theme/Tone: Romantic, humorous, and happy ending
Additional Info: Harry had always wanted to go somewhere warm and sunny

P11. Prompt: Exploration of kink in an established relationship. They've been a couple for a while (how long is up to you) but one partner has either been hiding their secret desire for a long time, or has only just discovered it later in life.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Could be humorous, light and romantic, could be more meaningful, angsty, intense?
Additional Info: Happy ending, please! I don't mind angst while they work things out, but it would break my heart if the kinky partner (and the kink itself) got rejected forever.

P12. Prompt: Bringing in the ones who fled after the war
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/Slughorn (can also be the spark of a new relationship)
Theme/Tone: Angst (but I like hopeful/ambiguous endings too)
Additional Info: If Minerva ordered all the Slytherins to leave before the battle, did Slughorn go after the ones who didn't return. Obviously the focus would be on Minerva and Slughorn, not the ones who fled.


[CLAIMED FOR ART] P13. Prompt: seaside holiday after the war
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/Poppy
Theme/Tone: Playful, hopeful, sexy
Additional Info: I would love Minerva to give in to Poppy's "care," whether it ends up being UST or wonderfully porny. Either is fine with me!

P14. Prompt: On the occasion of their 60th birthday, a moment to reflect on how they never thought they'd be here
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Sirius/Severus
Theme/Tone: contemplative, humorous

P15. Prompt: "Take Charms and I shall drop Augusta a line reminding her that just because she failed her Charms O.W.L., the subject is not necessarily worthless." —Minerva McGonagall, HBP
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Augusta Longbottom/Minerva McGonagall
Theme/Tone: snarky, funny
Additional Info: maybe someone has a crush on the other! Up to you on who it is.

P16. Prompt: Scorpius/any Potter child are having their first child and Harry and Draco are forced to solve their differences for the best of the family and their new grand child.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Up to the author
Additional Info: I'd love to see it turn into a romantic relationship between D and H, but it's okay if you want to describe a friendship forming instead.

P17. Prompt: Harry is coach for the Quidditch team where Scorpius plays. Scorpius is dropped from the team before an important match and Draco decides to visit Harry in his office to give him a piece of his mind.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: anger, ust
Additional Info: I wouldn't mind some angry office sex, but that's up to you.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] P18. Prompt: Aged Harry is lost in depression. At the morning of the first Monday after Draco's funeral, he finds a phial with a pensieve-message from his dead husband, ordering him to do something they always wanted to do together, but never managed to. From now on, phials with new orders arrive every Monday morning, slowly guiding Harry back to life.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: sad, turning to hopeful, with some light/funny moments/memories

P19. Prompt: A and B have been together for decades. What happens when one of them becomes desperately attracted to a (slightly) younger man? I'd love to see them negotiating their way to a threesome. Maybe character B just wants to watch while A enjoys himself with C, or maybe they share the new partner.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, plus another man. This could be Teddy? (the mods have said it's OK if the third person is 40+, but not younger.) An OC? Or another canon character. I'd like it if there was some age disparity, but following the rules of the fest, either A and B need to be nearer 60, or the age gap needs to be fairly narrow.
Theme/Tone: Hot, romantic, mildly angsty but all is ultimately resolved by healing cock? ;-)
Additional Info: Happy ending, please, for all 3 characters, without long term destructive jealousy. I'm happy with some infidelity, but would rather it was brief and resulted in guilt and working things through, rather than long term deceit.

P20. Prompt: The last kid has finally left the nest and everybody is worried about them, now that they don't have children to take care of. But Harry and Draco have been waiting for this day for a long time
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: fun, energetic, surprising
Additional Info: I see Harry and Draco getting together sometime after having the epilogue children and not really having a chance to be just "them" without kids. So now they are just living it up and staying out late drinking, and taking spontaneous trips and all sorts of fun since they don't have to worry about their kids.

P21. Prompt: Remus isn't sure about Teddy's date he's brought home. Sirius doesn't understand the problem.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Remus/Sirius
Theme/Tone: Could be funny, could be serious.
Additional Info: AU, obviously because Remus and Sirius live. R/S in a long established relationship.

[CLAIMED FOR ART] P22. Prompt: Draco has to get reading glasses on the same day Harry comes home and surprises him having got the latest advancement in wizarding eye surgery and no longer needs glasses.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: H/D
Theme/Tone: Humour.
Additional Info: Glasses are sexy.

[CLAIMED FOR ART]P23. Prompt: After all these years it's still you.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: R/S preferred but it could be any slash pairing you like.
Theme/Tone: Romantic/funny/sweet/happy ending
Additional Info: grey hair at the temples and smile lines

P24. Prompt: Harry (or Draco as the case might be) feels he's catching his second wind, and he's just learn that Draco (or Harry as the case might be) is newly single, too!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Humour, romantic, seductive. ;D
Additional Info: Happy ending, oh yes, please?

P25. Prompt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUCX9EddXj8
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Flangst is good, romance and a happy ending
Additional Info: I adore this song and would like to see were you could go with working it into a fic.

P26. Prompt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd4j1Ms1VYE
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco past Harry/Ginny and Draco/Astoria
Theme/Tone: Funny, Happy, friendship and they both can't believe they have a second chance at love
Additional Info: They fight off the feelings at first and then realize it's hopeless. If I have to crawl upon the floor come crashing through your door baby I can't fight this feeling anymore.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] P27. Prompt: Harry and Draco (or the m/m pairing of your choice, really), get together after many years with other people, I imagine it'd be their canon wives. They don't think they have to take precautions until, bam, one of them ends up pregnant. How do they deal with a later in life pregnancy?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: humor rather than anything too serious.
Additional Info: It would be interesting to see their canon children deal with a new half sibling.

P28. Prompt: Graveyard Shift
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin; Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks (past)
Theme/Tone: Flangst (fluffy angst); Unresolved Sexual Tension that could/does become Resolved; Learning to love
Additional Info: Moonless night, they meet again by Dumbledore's tomb.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] P29. Prompt: 50th Anniversary Portrait
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger; portrait!Severus/portrait!Remus
Theme/Tone: humor, bittersweet memories, established relationship
Additional Info: After X-decades as a threesome, Hermione decides to fix a date and have a 50th anniversary, with a bit of input from a cranky portrait.

P30. Prompt: First Grey Hare
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter; Remus Lupin
Theme/Tone: growing old gracelessly (you read that correctly! *g*), humor, fantasy, adventure
Additional Info: Either Harry or Draco sees their first, pernicious grey hare (yep, I wrote that) and realizes they aren't getting any younger and there are things that need to be done before they're too old to do them.

P31. Prompt: Playing Dress-up
Suggested Characters/Pairings: pre-slash Harry/Draco; Pansy/Ron (what happened to Hermione is author's choice)
Theme/Tone: humor, bittersweet, flangst (fluffy angst), forgiveness
Additional Info: An anniversary dinner honoring all those who survived the Battle of Hogwarts brings out the sweet and sour of those who attend. And, maybe even bleeds off some of the anger, too.

[CLAIMED FOR ART] P32. Prompt: It's been a few years since the end of the war. Molly and Arthur still deal with the pain of losing their son.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Molly
Theme/Tone: hopeful, loving, comforting, with that undertone of sadness
Additional Info: The death of a child isn't something you ever get over. I'd like this to be a few years on, so the pain isn't fresh, but something they endure by finding comfort in each other and in their family.

P33. Prompt: When Teddy and Victoire were in their 20s/early 30s, they went through a messy divorce partly because they had a werewolf child and one of them didn't handle that well. Now, they're both in their 50s, their kids are grown up, and Teddy and Victoire are realizing how much they still love one another.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Teddy/Victoire
Theme/Tone: Reflective, bittersweet, can be angsty if the author desires
Additional Info: I'd love it if you could include other family members like the Weasleys or their (OC) children in this.

P34. Prompt: Harry and Draco had a brief affair as teenagers before going their separate ways. Now, they're both mature gentlemen and they are pushed together by circumstances.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: No fluff, otherwise go any way you want with it.
Additional Info: I would prefer epilogue compliance.

P35. Prompt: They raise Teddy together.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Lyall Lupin (Remus's father)
Theme/Tone: Anything other than fluff or humor.
Additional Info: So, the research I've done on this seems to indicate that Andromeda was born between 1951 and 1955. Which means that when Teddy was born in 1998 she was probably somewhere between 43 and 47. So this fic wouldn't necessarily take place when Teddy was an infant. Or you could just fudge the numbers a bit.

P36. Prompt: Harry and Draco share or are about to share a grandchild in common (meaning that Scorpius is having a kid with one of the Potter kids -- Harry and Draco aren't in an established relationship in this). They get a little competitive when it comes to providing their new grandchild with the best of everything.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco or Harry & Draco.
Theme/Tone: Humor with witty banter.
Additional Info: Have fun!

P37. Prompt: Molly and Arthur reflect on their years together.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Molly/Arthur
Theme/Tone: Comfortable, contemplative. I was thinking upbeat for this, but feel free to break my heart, if you wish ;-)
Additional Info: It would be lovely if the focus could be on Molly and Arthur and their relationship, as opposed to the wider family.

P38. Prompt: Severus has been enjoying his anonymity in the Muggle world ever since the war ended. The last thing he expected when drinking in his local watering hole was to bump into Argus Filch and that damned cat.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Argus Filch
Theme/Tone: Irritated, snarky
Additional Info: Emotion-free sex to scratch an itch, with lots of grousing at one another would be fun.

P39. Prompt: Every finger in the room was pointing at me, I wanna spit
In their faces then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach, I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda/Daphne
Theme/Tone: hurt/comfort, post-war flangst, darkish
Additional Info: two Slytherins that turned their backs on their families' blood purist ideals and paid a high price for it (optional)

P40. Prompt: Narcissa is a widow. She knows pining on her son's best friend is ridiculous, but she just can't help it.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Narcissa/Pansy
Theme/Tone: romance, smut, whatever you like
Additional Info: the pining can be reciprocated or not. it can have a happy ending, or not.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] P41. Prompt: The kids are finally out of the house and Molly, who's been doing a lot of erotic reading lately, has some things she'd like to try with Arthur. They're not as young as they used to be, however...
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Molly/Arthur
Theme/Tone: Playful, humorous
Additional Info: Having one or more of the kids stop by during their experimentation would be hilarious. :)

P42. Prompt: Minerva's feelings upon hearing that Rufus Scrimgeour "resigned".
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Rufus Scrimgeour/Minerva McGonagall or Rufus Scrimgeour and Minerva McGonagall, depending on whether you'd prefer a gen or romantic focus.
Theme/Tone: Frought/complicated, with a side of angst/grief, depending on where the muse leads.
Additional Info: Please don't blunt the real differences in political/personal views between these two. When I referenced her feelings above, I figured they would be a mess of contradictions. Some things I would especially love to see include: A complicated relationship, formed through a grudging respect despite their personal differences.
no matter how frought their personal interactions had become.
Politics.
The progression of their relationship over time, especially as Albus's relations with the Ministry worsened and Minerva's friendship with Albus deepened.
The impact of Minerva's growing political alignment with Dumbledore on their relationship, whatever form it takes.
The way that one can grieve for the best of someone while being appalled by their excesses.


Single Characters (Gen or romance)

C1. Prompt: Hermione is in her 50s and slowly realising she's over the death of her husband/wife.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/author's choice
Theme/Tone: Can be fluffy, romantic, happy/hopeful ending

C2. Prompt: Minerva McGonagall as Miss Marple, solving a mystery at Hogwarts that has stumped the Aurors
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva McGonagall
Additional Info: Have fun!

C3. Prompt: The International Duelling Federation is considering a proposal to add a senior age category in duelling competitions. What does Filius think about it?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Filius Flitwick

C4. Prompt: If he had managed to live through canon to be a "grandfather" to Harry's brood.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Sirius
Theme/Tone: light, reflective

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] C5. Prompt: Hermione discovers she's bisexual or a lesbian (or just the fluid nature of her sexuality) at an age when she thinks she should be way past these sorts of things.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione, Hermione/any
Theme/Tone: Whatever fits!
Additional Info: What is it like to suddenly discover she's attracted to women at fifty+? Could be post divorce or she could be married to Ron, or perhaps she never had any serious long-term relationships (EWE) and only focused on her career. I'd prefer no infidelity though if possible!

C6. Prompt: Dudley stuck with boxing after Smeltings. He wasn’t anything amazing, but he had a moderately successful career. Now he’s 50 or 60, and the consequences of getting bashed around for years are starting to impinge on his daily life (not only the physical things like wear and tear on the body, but also the neurological, like chronic traumatic encephalopathy).
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Dudley Dursley
Theme/Tone: angsty but hopeful
Additional Info: This could be gen, but I kind of like the idea of some sort of relationship, too. Maybe he has a wife, and they have to negotiate his decline together. Maybe he’s an old bachelor trying to manage these things alone, and a romantic interest stumbles into his life at (what he imagines to be) the worst moment possible.

C7. Prompt: Quidditch is a young wizard’s sport. What is Viktor getting up to in his retirement?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Viktor, somewhere 50+

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] C8. Prompt: Harry kept in touch regularly with Dudley ever since the war, but was never able to reconcile with Petunia and Vernon. One day when he meets Dudley, Dudley tells him that Petunia is in her last days and would like to see Harry one last time.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry, Petunia, Dudley
Theme/Tone: up to the author. It can be bitter, reconciling, sad
Additional Info: I'll let how the meeting goes be up to you.

C9. Prompt: Horace knows that a long time ago he did a terrible thing. EITHER (1) Character A is a welcome distraction OR (2) Being with Character B is how Horace repents
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Horace Slughorn/any other character of 50+ at the time of Half Blood Prince.
Theme/Tone: Choose whatever suits the pairing
Additional Info: Have fun!

C10. Prompt: Everyone told Padma that she'd end up a spinster. She is. But she doesn't see the problem.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Padma/any
Theme/Tone: character study, smut, romance, any
Additional Info: librarian!Padma is awesome :3 Also, feel free here to portray a very sexually active Padma, or a demiromantic asexual Padma, or aromantic asexual.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] C11. Prompt: "I Don't regret the things I have done. I just regret the things I didn't do when I had the chance."
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Narcissa/Any
Theme/Tone: Angst is good
Additional Info: I picture this as her looking back on her life and perhaps seeing moments that maybe didn't go how she wanted.

C12. Prompt: Minerva's Bucket List
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva, any
Theme/Tone: anything but crack!fic
Additional Info: Minerva is retired from teaching, but not retired from life. Now that she has some free time and a generous pension, what does she want to see and do? With whom does she do it? Romance or gen is fine.

C13. Prompt: "Politics, like rust, never sleeps." Richard North Patterson
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Rufus Scrimgeour/any
Theme/Tone: Moral ambiguity/angst
Additional Info: Much of this prompt comes from a small line in JKR's info about Dolores Umbridge as released on Pottermore. Essentially, she says that Umbridge managed to worm her way back into the Ministry because she was useful, and Scrimgeour had far larger problems facing him. I'd really like to see the political compromises necessary for winning a war explored; especially if/when those consequences go against ones own morals. This is a particularly apt question considering that Scrimgeour was only the third Auror to ascend to the Minister's chairs; most of these people are soldiers, not politicians; so, not only would he be dealing with ambiguous compromises, but he'd be learning to navigate the minefield that's politics, which's terrifying in peacetime.

As for the pairings, this would be fabulous as gen or het/slash. Personally, I love everything from Scrimgeour/Moody to Scrimgeour/one of the name only Aurors to Scrimgeour/Rita Skeeter (especially because so many of their ages are so ambiguous and can so easily fit with the rules of the com), if you wanted suggestions/wanted to branch out.

C14. Prompt: Someone finally asks if Minerva is ok after the final battle is done
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Poppy, Pomona, Horace
Theme/Tone: angst, forgiveness

C15. Prompt: the effects of aging on magical tattoos
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie Weasley? someone totally unexpected? (Maybe Molly or Minerva has one? or Argus? Neville? Maybe Severus has something besides the Dark Mark embedded in his skin?)

C16. Prompt: someone is 50+ and entering the first romantic relationship of their lives
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Argus Filch? Dennis Creevey? Irma Pince? Millicent Bulstrode? Filius Flitwick? Dudley Dursley? Stan Shunpike? Pomona Sprout? someone else?
Additional Info: It’d be nice for it not to be AU, so anyone for whom there is no canonical evidence of a romantic relationship before the age of 50. Give the underloved characters some attention!

C17. Prompt: Hagrid Redeemed. I find it hard to accept Hagrid as nothing more than this foolish, sentimental, loyal-dog type of person. One day he may overcome his insecurities, his past, and discover he's more intelligent and more capable than he ever believed.
As an older man, how does his life look, with or without a partner? What about Grawp? What about his Half-Giant background: did he try to find out more about his mother's family and make peace, as far as possible, with that side of him?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hagrid with or without a partner. Maxime?, Rosmerta?, Pomona?, Kingsley? Charlie? Any you want, really.
Theme/Tone: Any, except farcical
Additional Info: I can see Hagrid still in a hut on Hogwarts grounds, living alone or with a partner. He may be groundkeeper till a well advaqnced age, but it's up to you entirely.

C18. Prompt: In their youth they were considered funny/eccentric. As an older adult, have they changed? Are they a respected voice of wisdom? Or reflecting the depths of the personality that were there all along?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Lee Jordan, George Weasley(/Angelina Johnson), Luna Lovegood, etc.
Theme/Tone: Could be anywhere from funny to serious, or a mixture.
Additional Info: I prefer canon compliance and no explicit sex.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] C19. Prompt: This photo and story as inspiration
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Older woman/younger man (Narcissa, Minerva, Poppy, Hermione, Luna?)
Theme/Tone: Longing, romance, reflection, sexy times
Additional Info: The details of the story are meant as a jumping off point. Use what you like, change what you don't.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] C20. Prompt: As she's gotten older (and divorced) she's really blossomed! Everyone wants a chance with her.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna, Hermione, Ginny, Astoria, Pansy, or any other HP woman you'd like to see cutting a swathe through the (over 50) population. :)
Theme/Tone: Playful, sexy.
Additional Info: Horrified/embarrassed kids/grandkids would be fun. :)

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] Prompt: C21. Prompt: Life in a wizarding old age community
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva, Pomona, Poppy -- various Hogwarts staff after they retire.
Theme/Tone: anything but crack!fic
Additional Info: How does the magical world care for its elderly, especially when the elderly decide they can no longer effectively live on their own. A nursing home? An "assisted living" community? etc.



Multiple Pairing Options and Open

M1. Prompt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lxwsbq1hyE
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any, but I was thinking Sirius and Remus. Or maybe Sirius and Harry
Theme/Tone: Sad, but hopeful?
Additional Info: I love this song, all versions of it, but Marc Cohn just OWNS it in his own way. And I can't help but think that it's something like a message from one old man to his friends.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] M2. Prompt: Finding a Kindred Soul after all those years
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape, Ron/Draco, Draco/Neville
Theme/Tone: Relaxed, forgiving, mature
Additional Info: I'd love to see what would happen to old rivals after years of being apart, maybe not knowing if the other person was still alive or not.

M3. Prompt: Retirement
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Anything, anyone
Theme/Tone: Jovial, bittersweet, maybe surprisingly romantic
Additional Info: I keep thinking that one last accident might cause Harry to retire from the Aurors. Or maybe Professor McGonagall finally retiring from Hogwarts. Or what would it be like if George were to retire from the inventions and joke shop, closing down the dream that he and his brother had hatched together?

M4. Prompt: Newly divorced, and a bit unsure what to do with himself, Harry learns to see an old friend/someone from the past in a new light.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Luna, Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: H/C perhaps

M5. Prompt: You're never too old to get hot and sweaty!
Theme/Tone: Smut, PWP, older folks gettin' it on. :P

M6. Prompt: A & B have been partners for decades when gay marriage is legalized in wizarding Britain. Now they have to decide whether or not they want that piece of paper.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: I'd love to see a femslash and/or rare pairing, but really any.
Theme/Tone: Lived-in, if that makes any sense.
Additional Info: Not a fan of scat/vomit-play or character bashing.

M7. Prompt: Spending time with the "grandkids", i.e. don't have to be blood relatives
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Fun or serious, crazy time or imparting wisdom and love

M8. Prompt: One character is recovering from a serious work-related injury, and the partner deals with it
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: You decide
Additional Info: There's room for comedy and angst.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] M9. Prompt: Harry has traveled the world for 30 years, and finally comes home. Someone unexpected is waiting for him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape, Harry/Remus, Harry/Sirius
Theme/Tone: Joyful, surprised (Harry can faint, it's okay), and loving.
Additional Info: have fun with it! Art or Fic, just a surprising and touching homecoming for an old man who needed to lose himself for a generation.

M10. Prompt: After years and years together, character A decides that he/she is too old for character B and breaks off their relationship so character B can find someone new.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any cross-gen relationship
Theme/Tone: angsty with some light-hearted moments and a happy end would be lovely, but whatever fits!
Additional Info: could be completely ridiculous (for example a 75 year old telling a 60 year old they'd be better off with someone their own age could be played for laughs) but I'd really love if the reasons why the older character feels this way were seriously explored as well.

M11. Prompt: After not hearing from her for many years, he finds out she's passed away.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Past Draco/Pansy, past Harry/Cho, past Victor/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Wistful, melancholy, bittersweet
Additional Info: I'm thinking of what it would be like to find out your first love had died. You're probably not in love with the person anymore, but there would still be an impact. What do you tell your current partner? Do you go to the funeral? Etc. Pairings (and pronouns used) are just suggestions, feel free to use other "first loves".

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] M12. Prompt: Character A has to convince partner/spouse B that B is too old for his/her dangerous and/or physically demanding job (Auror? Quidditch probably wouldn't let B get to 50 in the first place).
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco; Ginny (as B)/any; Pansy (as B)/any; Justin/Ernie; Ron/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Feisty and stubborn B with concerned and exasperated A.
Additional Info: A wants B to know that s/he is too old for the particular job without B thinking s/he is old in general. Maybe using another job or more free time (for travel, sex, etc) as bait?

M13. Prompt: Draco Malfoy inherited the longevity from the Malfoy side. At age 140, all the people whom he shared his life with are dead. He is spending his days and nights in the company of portraits, ghosts and memories.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: gen; any pairing (does not have to be Draco, obviously); but Harry/Draco is always nice. And if you make it Draco/Albus Severus I love you to pieces. ♥
Theme/Tone: quiet, bittersweet, resolve, living in the past,
Additional Info: A former lover haunts Malfoy Manor.

M14. Prompt: Over 50 Potter children dealing with the death of one or both parents.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Gen or James Sirius/Teddy
Theme/Tone: sad but hopeful
Additional Info: Could be gen and focus on sibling relationship or leaning on a partner to deal with grief.

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] M15. Prompt: As she grows older, Narcissa comes to regret cutting off ties with her only surviving sister, and decides to contact her for the first time in decades.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Narcissa & Andromeda
Theme/Tone: Sad, bittersweet, with some hope if you like
Additional Info: Up to you what direction to take this. Maybe they can begin to rebuild a relationship -- or maybe they really can't. It'd also be interesting to include the reactions of the people around them (Lucius? Draco? Teddy?).

M16. Prompt: Character A hears character B use a term or word they are not familiar with. Character B shows character A. (Term or word should be something sexual)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: I prefer slash but whatever you want, have fun with it.
Theme/Tone: Sexy
Additional Info: Porn

M17. Prompt: Art, please. "Like it's the most natural thing in the world."
Show A and B in a scene where they're settled in, settled down, and one of them is still mesmerized by the other doing something that he or she has been doing for decades. Examples: putting ketchup on eggs, reading a book with tongue sticking out slightly, "Conducting" an orchestra while listening to music, taking extra time brushing hair, etc.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Whatever tickles your fancy.
Theme/Tone: Romantic, sweet, or domestic without romance, but still sweet.
Additional Info: Art please. I would like to see something like this drawn out.

M18. Prompt: Severus is invited to Harry Potter's 50th birthday charity gala. Armed with the Wizarding world's answer to Viagra, he proceeds to make up for so many long, dark years of celibacy.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Harry, Severus/Draco, Severus/pretty much anyone
Theme/Tone: Filthy smut and OTT humor
Additional Info: Whether Severus sticks with one person or takes them all in turn, is entirely up to you. ;) I was thinking slash pairings but if you're more of a het (or both!) person, have at it.

M19. Prompt: Hermione is now the Headmistress of Hogwarts and has to find someone to cover one of the classes for a brief amount of time. Attraction leads to a one night stand, which then happens again... and again... until the substitute leaves.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Katie Bell, Hermione/Cho Chang, Hermione/any female character of your choice!
Theme/Tone: passionate, funny (no crack please), desk-rocking, teasing, sexual tension galore!
Additional Info: Hermione and others don't have to be married, would prefer the focus be on pleasure than angst.

M20. Prompt: During a reunion of Dumbledore's Army, Neville finds himself making a few drunken confesssions to Luna.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna/Neville, Luna/Neville/Hannah
Theme/Tone: humor, UST or slow build up to sex

M21. Prompt: Where Old Generals Go
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Voldemort, Dumbledore, George Weasley
Theme/Tone: roundtable discussion of skirmishes, real and imaginary, with portraits and ghosts and perhaps a friend and then some?
Additional Info: This could be a dream, a fantasy, or an actual meeting. Or not.

M22. Prompt: Older married couple are having a rather enthusiastic shag, when to everybody's horror, one (or several) of their children interrupt.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco or Arthur/Molly
Theme/Tone: funny, sexy and then awkward, horrified offspring, embarrassed but slightly smug parents (because damn they still got it)
Additional Info: Maybe the couple is getting it on outside of the bedroom now that their kids are all moved out, but they forgot to shut the Floo...

M23. Prompt: Character A and character B have been married or in a relationship for decades. Late in life, A decides that he or she wants to try an open relationship or a poly relationship. How does the couple deal with this?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any, but I don't want to read about a heterosexual male looking for a new girlfriend.
Theme/Tone: smutty, dramatic, maybe a little angsty
Additional Info: Every character involved in the romantic or sexual activity should be above the age of fifty -- in other words I'm not interested in reading about an older character wanting to fool around on his or her partner with a young character.

M24. Prompt: “youth is a marvelous garment” (Iris Murdoch) - when you have always considered your mind your greatest strength, how do you deal with the signs that it might start to fail you?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any one of Poppy, Minerva or Pomona either gen, paired together, or paired with Wilhelmina.
Theme/Tone: Reflective, sad or hopeful as you wish
Additional Info: Have fun with it!

[CLAIMED FOR FIC] Prompt: M25. Prompt: "Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Dylan Thomas) - Although life has taken them in different directions, the Trio always remained close. How will those left behind cope when the Trio becomes two.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry, Ron, Hermione with whatever pairings you wish
Theme/Tone: Angsty, Major Character Death
Additional Info: I'd say have fun, but...

M26. Prompt: Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any pairing you like, bonus if it's femslash and angsty
Theme/Tone: flangsty? or any other if you're inspired otherwise!

M27. Prompt: The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. -- Doris Lessing

For whatever reason, an older character ends up babysitting for or traveling with a child or adolescent.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: McGonagall with Rose Weasley; Sprout with Neville's son; Flitwick with Teddy Lupin, Hooch with Scorpius.
Theme/Tone: anything but crack!fic
Additional Info: Have all the fun you like inventing reasons for the meeting -- maybe the child really doesn't want to go or is nervous, or the adult is reluctant/feels out of their depth , or they both find themselves accidentally thrown together (a broom accident or an injury or getting lost at the Quidditch World Cup).

M28. Prompt: Cross-gen: Starting with her crush on McGonagall in her student years, Hermione has always had a thing for older women. Now, as a 50-something, she finally has a chance for a relationship with of the older women she has long admired.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione with an older woman: McGonagall, Hooch, Sprout, Pomfrey, Rosmerta, Andromeda, Irma Pince, one of the lesser-known teachers (Vector, Sinistra).
Theme/Tone: anything but crack!fic
Additional Info: I'd be interested in seeing how Hermione and her partner deal with their age difference. It's not something they can ignore, even if things work out between them.

M29. Prompt: Sex at age 90 is like trying to play pool with a rope -- George Burns.

Character A/Character B are not as young as they used to be. But they still like sex. Trouble is, the relevant parts don't quite work the way they once did.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/Poppy, Minerva/Hooch, Hooch/Poppy, Minerva/Mad-Eye Moody, Argus Filch/Irma Pince, Flitwick/Aberforth Dumbledore, Sprout/Slughorn
Theme/Tone: anything but crack!fic
Additional Info: The characters could be in an established relationship or be coming together for the first time.


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