CONGRATULATIONS to our Winner, Entry #4 - Who Killed Bea Merrythought by @LucyInTheSkye

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Welcome to the second quarter of DLP's 2024 fanfiction competition!

As summer tends to be a busy season, I've decided to do something a little easier for everyone. We are calling it the Redux Deluxe Number Two.

2024 Q2 Competition - Redux Deluxe II​

Prompt: ANY past winning prompt.

• Harry discovers why Albus doesn't drink
• "You're bleeding on my floor."
• "Breaking into Snape's office in the middle of the night was a risky move at the best of times..."
• Vampires
• Romance
• Death
• Daphne Greengrass
• Azkaban
• What the professors get up to in the summers
• Ritual magic
• Foreign Magical Regions (Settings outside of Britain)
• Magical Fairy Tale
• Abstract Magic
  
• "You have fifteen minutes to complete the exam. And your time starts now.”
• 70 Years Later
• Wizards in Space
• Heist
• Not all Adventures at Hogwarts involve Harry
• Master & Apprentice/Mentor & Protege
• Hogwarts Ghosts
• Dueling
• POV 3rd Person Harry
• Aftermath
• At Hogwarts
• Harry’s POV & NOT at Hogwarts
• Hogwarts Days
• A Magical New Year
• The Daily Prophet

Competition Specific Rules:

• The ideal is that you will a finish a story you started for a previous competition but were unable to finish/submit.
• You can't submit the exact same story you submitted previously.
• You can't submit a story that has had only minor edits since you last submitted it.
• You CAN submit a story with significant edits since you last submitted - we can debate significant if needed, but if you think you're 'toeing the line' on this part then just don't.
• You may submit a maximum of 2 stories.
• You must state at the beginning of your story which prompt you are using (you all need to title your shit anyway - add this as a byline under it)

Word Count: 0-17,500 words

Deadline: September 1st (11:59pm EST)

Voting:
As per usual you will review each story then come vote in this thread. What is slightly different is that you are reviewing the story on how well it fits it's chosen prompt, not necessarily against the other entries. You do not have to read an entire story to review it, but you must still write a decent review on what you do read (and it's preferred that you read the entire story, just understandable that you don't want to read 15k words of something you hate). You will then come to this thread and distribute 7 points (subject to change if we get <4 entries) between your winners. See previous competitions for examples.

Discord:
DLP has created a competition specific channel in the DLP Discord for us to chat, get help and remind others about the competition. If you want to talk about your story, or need some advice, come join the discord and go to the S.T.O.R.Y channel, which is under 'The Library'.

Yearly Writing Competition:
As you write your story, don't forget to update your word count in our yearly writing word count competition.

 

Please vote if you want to extend the deadline until September 1st, as I know it's summer and people are busy.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y6QVT9X

 

With a unanimous decision, the deadline has been extended to September 1st, 11:59PM EST.

If you already have a story written, submit another! It's completely allowed.

 

Give me your stories!

10 hours before the deadline!

 

Entries have been posted!

Voting:
As per usual you will review each story then come vote in this thread. What is slightly different is that you are reviewing the story on how well it fits it's chosen prompt, not just against the other entries. You do not have to read an entire story to review it, but you must still write a decent review on what you do read (and it's preferred that you read the entire story, just understandable that you don't want to read 15k words of something you hate). You will then come to this thread and distribute 7 points between your winners. See previous competitions for examples.

 

#1 - 2 points
#3 - 4 points
#4 - 1 point

I would have done 2-3-2 but given the voting rules, I guess I docked 1point where I felt the prompt was a tad missed and tossed it towards the entry I liked the best. Hope that's okay. Would've been 2-3-2 judging on the entries alone.

 

#4 - 3 points
#3 - 2 points
#2 - 1 point
#1 - 1 point

 

I will also need to knock a point off of entry 4, as I agree that it doesn't fit the prompt super well. Otherwise, it would be 4-2-1

#4 - 3 points
#2 - 3 points
#1 - 1 point

 

#3 - 3 points
#2 - 3 points
#1 - 1 point

 

4: 3 points
3: 2 points
2: 1 point
1: 1 point

Thanks for entering, everyone.

 

Nice self-congrats - though very well deserved in my opinion. I was #2 and honestly thought I'd do well but after reading other entries I knew it was in vain.

Even though there were only 4 entries, overall, I think this was one of the better rounds I've ever read. Wp to all.

 

Congrats to the winner, excellent story!! (or beginning of a story, hope we'll get to see more of it! ) Yours was great too haphnepls, well done!

Mine was number 4, thank to all who commented, very useful stuff as always.