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2026 Main Competition #2

Discussion in '2026 Main Competition #2' started by Lindsey, Jul 22, 2026.

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Prompts:

  1. Pansy

    3 vote(s)
    23.1%
  2. Lily!Lives

    5 vote(s)
    38.5%
  3. fem!Harry

    5 vote(s)
    38.5%
  4. No Statute of Secrecy/SoS Falls

    1 vote(s)
    7.7%
  5. Unreliable narrator

    8 vote(s)
    61.5%
Multiple votes are allowed.
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  1. Lindsey

    Lindsey Supreme Mugwump DLP Supporter

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    Welcome to the 2026 Main Competition #2

    Topic(s):
    Unreliable Narrator

    Word count: 15k (no minimum)

    Deadline: Sunday, December 20th at 11:59PM PST.

    Send your stories to @Lindsey once you're done. Authors will be kept anonymous between the two of us, and I will not know who you are until after the competition has ended. Feel free to claim credit for your story if you want it but we'll keep it confidential otherwise.

    Feel free to use beta-readers but don't put your competition entry in WbA until after voting has ended. If you figure out who one of the entrants is then don't tell everyone else.

    Voting Rules
    1. Leave a 200+ word review for each story in the story thread
    2. Distribute [x] points between the stories as you see fit (( in this thread, and points will be determined by how many entries. ))**
    3. Authors MUST vote but cannot vote for themselves
    **subject to change depending upon number of entries

    A guide on "how to review" in general is available here. We'd prefer that you not bias yourself by reading other reviews before making your own, but that choice is yours.

    One of the rewards for authors participating in this competition is the feedback, critique, and overall useful commentary on their work. Don't dial it in. If you don't know how to leave useful feedback then comment on the plot, pacing, characters, prompt usage, and anything else that comes to mind. You'll find that 200 words flies by.

    Got an idea for a future prompt? Put it in this thread!
     
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    Lindsey

    Lindsey Supreme Mugwump DLP Supporter

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    It looks like the winner is: Unreliable Narrator

    For those who voted for other options, have no fear, you can likely use your ideas in this prompt. After all, an unreliable narrator is a very open-ended prompt.

    Here are some ideas for this prompt:

    1. The Pensieve edit. A character narrates a memory they've deliberately tampered with — Slughorn-style.

    2. Obliviation aftermath. Narrated by someone whose memory has been modified. They narrate confidently around a hole, filling it with plausible confabulation. Gilderoy's victims, Bertha Jorkins, Hermione's parents in Australia.

    3. The portrait's account. A painting narrates events in the castle. It only knows what its frame witnessed and what other portraits gossiped, and it's stuck at the emotional age of its subject's death.

    4. Rita Skeeter. Her notes, in which she believes she's the only truthful person in wizarding Britain. Self-justification as narration.

    5. Imperius. First person under the curse: the narrator experiences their own compliance as free choice and describes it in the warm, floaty language of relief.

    6. Two narrators, one incident. Alternating accounts of the same event where both are sincere and only one can be right.

    7. Very drunk. A narrator recounting the night before with total assurance, missing chunks, and a supporting cast who knows better.

    8. SoS Falls. A Muggle journalist narrates the reveal. Sincere, thorough, and wrong about nearly everything.

    9. Pansy. She describes the Carrows' Hogwarts in the language of school spirit and restored standards.

    10. Lily Lives. Someone claiming to be Lily narrates...
     
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