Mini Fest

Title: Teach Me How to Love
Author/Artist: ???
Pairing(s): Percy/Oliver
Prompt: 2016 prompt: Percy/Oliver - The year that all the Weasleys stay at Hogwarts, Oliver does too, having Percy and Oliver alone in their dorm room for the entire Christmas holidays.
Art Medium: Digital
Rating: PG-13
Contains: Sweet fluffiness
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Title inspired by one of Shawn Mendes' newest songs, "Teach Me How To Love". Head!canon had me thinking they actually ended up staying at school during their 7th year too (not just 5th year in 1991), because there's no point of wasting opportunities with a Head Boy and Quidditch Captain. ;) Here's to the end of a year and start of a new one. Cheers, and enjoy!
Summary: If staying at Hogwarts for the holidays meant having an empty dormitory room all to themselves, Percy and Oliver were completely fine with that. That just meant having more time to touch, tease and caress each other without any interruptions.

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Title: An Evening Like No Other
Author/Artist: ???
Pairing(s): Pansy/Ginny
Prompt: SELF
Word Count/Art Medium: Digital Gif
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine. No profit is being made.
Notes: Thanks to PhenomenalAsterisk & thestarryknight for their help w/ the title & summary.
Summary: Pansy loves a fancy dress function. But she loves even more the way that dress fits on her long time girlfriend. As the night goes on, Pansy can't keep her eyes off Ginny.

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(An Evening Like No Other)

Title: Unexpected Visitor
Author/Artist: ???
Pairing(s): Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom
Prompt: Expecting to spend the holiday alone, person A is surprised by a knock on their door.
Word Count: 841 words
Rating: T
Contains (Highlight to view): *Post-Hogwarts, Mild Language*
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the propert y of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Thank you to my beta for looking this over.
Summary: A brief moment under the mistletoe leads to a new discovery.

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( Unexpected Visitor )

Title: Unexpected Cheer
Author/Artist: ???
Pairing(s): Luna Lovegood, Blaise Zabini
Prompt: After the war, a lot of Slytherins end up having to stay at Hogwarts over the holidays. Luna decides it's her job to spread some holiday cheer amongst those who aren't so cheerful.
Word Count/Art Medium: 941
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: It's been a while since I've written anything, and I think this fic can certainly attest to that fact if you can manage your way through it. I just couldn't let this minifest season go by without contributing something. And hey, at the end of the day I'm happy I made it. I hope it can spark some joy in even just one person.
Summary: Luna finds an unexpected surprise at the end of a floating cookie trail.

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( Unexpected Cheer )

Title: Comfort and Tidings of Joy
Author/Artist: ???
Pairing(s): Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Prompt: Adapted from themightyflynn: Harry arrives at Grimmauld Place exhausted and a bit broken after a tough mission that ends just before Christmas. He finds comfort from an incredibly unexpected person
Word Count: 1850
Rating: M (for PTSD)
Contains (Highlight to view): *Brief discussion of the death of small children; no ages or details given.*
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Sorry, Flynn, I made some tweaks in your prompt. I hope you like it anyway!
Summary: "Potter, what are you doing lying on the floor?" Severus asked, sounding pained.
Harry sighed in frustration. Kreacher would let Severus in. Bloody hell. "It's comfortable?"
"Try again," Severus demanded.
"Did Kingsley send you?" Harry asked.
"No, but I heard about your case," Severus admitted. "It's of the utmost secrecy, so of course everyone knows what happened."

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Title: A shop sign
Author: a_reader_and_writer
Narrator: bluedreaming
Pairing(s): Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Word Count/Art Medium: 506 words/02:55 min
Rating: G
Contains: no warnings
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Thanks so much to a_reader_and_writer for permission to create this podfic!
Summary: Harry stumbling over a shop sign might be the best thing that happened all day.

AO3 Link (story): A shop sign
AO3 Link (podfic): [podfic] A shop sign by a_reader_and_writer

Title: Holiday AU
Author/Artist: ???
Pairing(s): Sirius/Remus
Prompt: NA
Word Count/Art Medium: Digital Gif
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are not mine. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: An AU featuring a soft!Remus. Kind of inspired by a twitter post I saw regarding "hard lines" for men and society telling you how to create your men and women in art.

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( Holiday AU )

Thank you everyone who has expressed interest in this year's fest!

As stated on our previous post, we'll have a very small fest this year, but mini_fest has been running for over 10 years, so I'm very excited that we still have people who want to take part in this mini event!

Here are the basics for mini_fest 2020:

• This is our 12th run of the fest!

• Posting will be on both LJ and AO3.

• The fest will be anonymous + mod posting.

• We will cross post any weekly roundups and fest masterlists to DW and tumblr.

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If you'd still like to join us, please comment HERE! We'd love to have you and will work out a fair deadline for you to join us! The minimum word count is only 500 words and we happily accept all art (pencil, painting, digital, etc.), handmade crafts (holiday ornaments, dolls, cake decorating, etc), podfic, fanmixes, and more! If there's something you'd like to create, we'd love to have you join us!

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Posting:

Submissions will be posted anonymously, by mini_fest_mod with reveals occurring in the New Year.

We plan to post to both LJ and AO3. We've set up an AO3 collection for the fest. You can submit your fics to the collection and they will be marked as anonymous and unrevealed until the mods post them for you! If you need help posting to AO3, please let us know!

Our 2020 AO3 collection can be found here:
2020 MINI FEST AO3 COLLECTION
(please add mini_fest_mod as a co-creator)

There is also our Mini Fest Archive Collection. Please feel free to add any older works created for any previous year of the fest:
MINI FEST ARCHIVE


Submission Info:

Here are a few things that will make your mods' jobs easier as we receive your submissions:

- Please send your submissions to: hpminifest at gmail dot com

- Include your name in the email subject as well as 'FIC' or 'ART'.

- Include your header in the body of the email as well as in your document.

- Please place an lj-cut tag in your story.
The lj-cut text should be "The Title of your Fic". < lj-cut text="FIC TITLE" >

- Check the formatting of your fic to ensure there are manual line breaks between paragraphs.

- Include all other other html coding that is needed. You may want to test post your submission in a private entry to your journal before submitting to be sure that the coding is correct.

- Artists, as this is an anon fest, please do not sign your art. If you'd like us to provide a fest watermark for you, we are happy to do so!

- The fic/art header appears below.
<b>Title:</b> <b>Author/Artist:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="""> <b>Pairing(s):</b> <b>Prompt:</b> <b>Word Count/Art Medium:</b> (Remember that the minimum is only 500 words!) <b>Rating:</b> (G to NC-17) <b>Contains (Highlight to view):</b> *<span style="color: white; background:white;">A spoiler code is provided but if your story does not have spoilers you don't have to use this code.</span>* Please warn for possible triggers and squicks. <b>Disclaimer:</b> Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended. <b>Notes:</b> (You may put your beta's name/initials here along with any other notes.) <b>Summary: </b> <b>AO3 Link:</b>

If you need a beta you can check with hp_betas or hp_betas_wanted. If you have done so, and are still having a problem finding someone to look over your story, please let the mods know.

Thank you very much to all who have supported the fest! We are looking forward to another celebrating the holidays with you again this year!

It's mini_fest prompting time!



Art by shadowycat, used with permission. <3


This year we welcome unlimited prompts per person! Please go wild and share your holiday and/or New Years prompts!

Remember, there are many different ways to prompt! Feel free to leave full prompts/scenarios, random words/keywords, picture prompts, song lyrics, etc in the comments!

(The mods ask that you please do not change your subject line when prompting. Thank you!)

We will compile prompts and have the new prompts from this year as well as the lists from past years available for your inspiration ready for signups!

Prompting starts NOW and will close on December 1!

Thank you and Have fun!