I figured it might be interesting to have a discussion about the Death Eaters on individual levels, more specifically about who they are, what they bring to the table, and similar questions. We have a few canon Death Eaters, but I think it'd be interesting to share both common ("fanon") takes on specific Death Eaters and your own expansions on the Death Eaters. A canon list of all mentioned Death Eaters: the Carrows Barty Crouch Jr. Antonin Dolohov Augustus Rookwood Avery Bellatrix...

We get to see a wide variety of nonfiction books in canon, there's schoolbooks, spellbooks, books about magical creatures, law books, dark arts books, sport books etc, but there's not a lot of fictional books. From what I remember, there's only two: The Tales of Beedle the Bard: a fairytale collection The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle: a comic book So, what are some interesting titles you think we can find at Flourish and Blotts? Does the illustrations move? Maybe there's...

What's your favorite magical recipe? It cannot be a potion, and has to have at least one ingredient that cannot be found in the muggle world. Mine would have to be Snargaluff-Snare Stroganoff! Ingredients 1 1/2 pounds of fresh Snargaluff pods 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced (2 1/2 cups) 2 medium onions, thinly sliced 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 1/4 cup olive oil 1 1/2 cups vegetable broth 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 cup flour 1 1/2 cups coconut cream 2...

So in canon they say they smell the things they desire/find enjoyable? I guess. So if you were to smell the potion what do you think you'd smell? Mine would be tamales, fresh cut grass, a specific perfume my wife wears that I enjoy.

We all know it's gonna happen. They've fictionalized everything they could, so this is going to be filmed. Place your bets, when they're going to make one? I'm talking the typical hollywood-style nonsense with a brave protagonist who manages to defeat the disease during various action scenes. My bet is on 2021, but depending on when the project starts it could be early 2022.

So, there has been alot of nolstagia driven movies and tv shows recently (thanks Stranger things); and was wondering, what movies from the 80's do y'all consider the best? Which are the worst? My Best: Karate Kid My Worst: Superman IV Quest for Peace

So I'm bored as fuck. I took a quick poll in Discord #writing of a series of words to see what everyone's feel is. I already had a theme in mind: Summer before OOTP. The bread and butter of DLP. Now, its your turn to help me write the first chapter of the best DLP written fic ever. Your Trope Bank is as follows: Daphne, Apprentice Dumbledore, Curse Breaking, OOTP, Redeemed Dudley, and just to piss @Taure off, Magical Cores. Your start: It was a hot, uncomfortable night in July, and as the...

In this thread, we share recommendations for books related to history: biographies and autobiographies, historical fiction and academic treatises, and more. Discussion on the merits of the recs is also welcome, ideally. I'll start us off by sharing what I've read, most of which are biographies written mostly for entertainment and are shared in no particular order: Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe 1520-1536, by James Reston Jr. A dual...

Test your knowledge and take a replica of the original W.O.M.B.A.T test! Link: http://therowlinglibrary.com/wombats/ And share your grades here :) I got E, E and E Edit: For those who don't know, J.K. Rowling wrote the tests herself in 2007. There are 3 different tests you can take and it takes about 1 hour to answer all 3 of them. They're difficult and I've never found the official answers to any of the tests.

So, which book of all time is the best ever written? You can break it up into Fiction/Nonfiction if you wish. How would you have to rate such a book?

Looking for Self-Insert (SI) HP fanfiction has been one of my guilty pleasures for ages, with an emphasis on the words "looking for", not reading. That's because most stories in this niche category are either written with the maturity of 8 year olds, completely unrealistic or deal with some dumb romance shit. To be fair, I am basically looking for a serious and realistic take on something, that's totally a guilty pleasure trope and should in fact not be taken too serious by author and...

Here are some that come into my mind. groundhog depressing Eternal Return by Silver Pad Sisyphus by esama dystopia depressing As portioned from a whole by cannibainc Anything but Slytherin by IP82 No Glory by ObsidianPen

One example of this seems to be Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series....but even then there are complaints about his female characters. How would you write a Matriarchal Society in fiction? What effect would this have on a story?

Which game/s gets your nomination DLP? And Why?

How would you write Harry Potter with Neville as the Protag?

Inspired by this informative reddit post on British recipes (and why it's all pretty bland). Basically, what would wizarding meals look like? What we see in canon is restricted to mostly muggle stuff and a few things that differentiate - pumpkin juice, those weird hors-d'oeuvres from HBP. I feel like this is an easy, simple way of showing some worldbuilding. So what else would there be? Keep in mind that there's both different ingredients and different ways of preparing stuff compared to...

I was having this discussion with @Blorcyn a while back: How to make the Death Eaters and their movement a bit more nuanced? The canon Death Eaters are a fairly one dimensional rip-off of the Nazis. They have no redeeming features or understandable grievences. Anyone who bought into their ideology did so for purely nationalistic, blood purist or elitist reasons etc. However behind most real popularist ideological movements, the (often quite understandable) push and pull factors that...

Basically, imagine a world where the Harry Potter books were never written. Instead, the movies were produced exactly as they were in our world, and that's all the fandom has to go on. What would that world look like, fanfiction-wise?

Imagine the series was written to be about wizards and witches, but they didn't use wands and instead simply cast spells from their hands/fingers. Would the series and its plot be any different and if yes, how? The plot with Harry's and Voldemort's wands being connected would clearly be gone, that's for sure. Also, how would this affect fanfiction?

Apologies if a thread like this already exists (I couldn't find a recent one in my search that wasn't entirely HP related). I do an annual audit of my favorites on FFN (and ao3 more recently), and it always brings back a host of memories about the various fics listed. All of them have a reason for being there, sometimes as little a single scene that leapt out as worthwhile. This lead me to thinking about the scene/moment that most stands out to me across all my years of reading and writing...

Everyone in the world is only allowed to write one piece of fanfiction through their life. Everyone must write one fanfic before they die. What's your fic about? Do you put a lot of effort into it? When do you write it? What fandom is it for?

What is the best death for Harry? In fanfiction? canonically? How would you kill him?

It seems that, with the internet and capitalism, there is an overabundance of novels available to us...and yet finding good novels seems harder than ever. There seems to be nothing original and if there is...it's poorly written? Is this a misconception? Truth? What are people's thoughts?

Inspired by a recent (-ish) internet controversy over a reviewer not watching all of the Witcher Netflix show before reviewing it, and also a discord conversation where it turns out not everyone reads a whole fic before reccing it. The topic of this thread: how much of something do you need to have read, listened to, watched, etc. before you're "allowed" to judge it? Is there a certain milestone you consider necessary before you recommend something, and if so, what is that milestone: a...

We're nearing the end of the 2010's. What does your oldest fic/chapter 1/prologue during this period look like compared to your most recent? Can you see the improvement, or do you feel like you're just treading water? Post snippets or the whole chapters, spoiler tagged of course.

So, now that we're on the cusp of a new decade, it's time to see just how clairvoyant DLP can be. What are your predictions for how the HP fandom goes from here? What do you think will be the fics lined up in For Review the coming months?

Everyone who's read Worm and Wormfic has had more than their share of interludes, tiny chapters that cut to other characters reacting to whatever wacky stunt the main character's pulled now. Or, even worse, PHO interludes, where the writer roleplays an entire forum. This is less of a thing in other fandoms for whatever reason, but still, the question remains: can interludes be done well? If so, how does an interlude qualify as good?

Mine's from the show Eureka, which is like a monster of the week/overarching plot line Syfy show that centers around a secret town in NC. I Do Over is the best episode of that entire show. I've literally watched it on repeat. This could be tempered with time from when I saw it originally, but its one that's stuck with me. Acting is visceral. The story leading up to it is compelling, it also takes a jab a Ground Hog Day mechanics, which I'm a sucker for. If you've never seen Eureka, give it...

Like the title says, imagine you're in a situation where you need a pseudonym (for publishing, not because you're being taken into witness protection). Which name do you choose, and why? Hard mode: no dick jokes.

A SI, or self-insert, fic is a fic where you put yourself in a fictional world and live out adventures there. Related terms are Friend Inserts, Isekai, and presumably there's more variations that I'm not aware of. My question is, at what point are you writing an original character based on you instead of you as you are? Where do you, personally, put the limit between "you" and "someone based on you"?

Recently on Discord there's been requests for writing software that let you keep timelines. I don't really keep timelines myself, but I've thought about drawing rudimentary maps of the places where my scenes are set. What other things (text/data/drawings) do you kick around when writing?

Filled with self-hatred and self-doubt as we writers usually turn out to be, there's got to be some passage you can look at think, "Yeah, I nailed that." What's yours?

How would you rewrite the books/write a fanfiction turning Harry Potter from a children's adventure series into a Horror series a la stephen king?

Design your perfect movie Direction? Genre? Lead Actors? Plot?

I couldn't find a Teamfight Tactics thread so I decided to make one. I have an old 'DLP' folder in my friends list and I see some of you playing, but maybe no one here is super into it. I finished season 1 in D1, but I haven't had a chance to really jump into set 2 until now. I was pretty burned out by the end of last season, but I'm enjoying the heck out of the new set of units. Phantom and Hextech out of the game removes so many feels bad moments of RNG and the new synergies are pretty...

The last starship is about to leave a dying Earth. There's only one spot left, and several million people stand ahead of you on the waitlist to get on. What niche do you claim only you can fill to clinch the spot, and survive the destruction of your home planet? Which of your unique skills do you depend on on when calamity strikes?

So there are some of us working on the story competition, and I wouldn't ask anyone to reveal whether or not you're submitting an entry; it would actually be better if you did not. Apart from that, though, who here is actively writing fanfiction and what are you writing? If you're not putting pen to paper today, do you have something that you're trying to write? Do you have something you want to write in the future? I mainly ask because I've got nothing good to read right now, and I really...

It's a kind of a plot bunny thread, but with a specific focus. Assume that you're asked to make a sequel to one of your favourite films, how would you make it? What is its plot and who would you cast or make a director? It can be a proper sequel, a prequel or even a remake/reboot. And it doesn't even necessary needs to be something that you consider a worthwhile attempt, as my first entry will prove, just something you considered because you simply wanted more of this film. Groundhog Day 2...

In the similar vein of the old Skyrim Mod Thread, I figured I would share some of my favorite mods here, and show off some of the best ones, and how to install them. For this first post I decided to show off OTG or Open Terrain Generator; basically it overhauls terrarin generation in minecraft, new procedural structures can be programmed in, but also just a general rework of how the engine generates a world, here are some clips of various cool shit I found in like under an hour of playing....

In the same spirit as the Films of the Decade thread. As with that, looking back made me realise how many well-regarded games have completely passed me by (or, in several cases, I've bought and not got round to playing for one reason or another...) I'm going to do a year by year best/runner-up, but feel free to use your own method. I'm also restricting myself to games I've completed. 2010: Best - Mass Effect 2 Runner-up - Limbo 2011: Best - Skyrim Runner-up - Dark Souls 2012: Best - Mass...

What it says on the tin. I'm going to offer up two films (best and runner-up) for each year of the decade; if you prefer to do a top ten, or just a long list of films you'd recommend, you do you. List for ease of recollection. 2010: Best - Toy Story 3 Runner-up - Scott Pilgrim vs the World 2011: Best - The Guard Runner-up - The Skin I Live In 2012: Best - Cabin in the Woods Runner-up - Avengers Assemble 2013: Best - 12 Years a Slave Runner-up - Gravity 2014: Best - Calvary Runner-up -...

What is your profile picture? Why did you choose it? Inspired by the forum name thread. Mine is stolen art of Rubick, the Grand Magus, a character from a game called Dota 2. He's a magus, a wizard, that steals other people's spells and turns them against them. I was really into Dota 2, and Rubick was one of my favorite heroes, and it had a similar theme with Harry Potter, so here we are.

So, we know some bits and pieces of the afterlife from different things like the train station and resurrection stone. But do wizards have a hell? A heaven? Do wizards and muggles both go to the same afterlife?

[spoiler] In the dead of the night, you've stumbled over something on the floor on your way to the bathroom. You reach down and pick up a wand. Something warm flows over you, and it's not that, it's magic. The tip of the wand glows faintly and a thin cord of fire whips around your arm, as quick as thought. It binds you to your purpose: You have magic now. How do you use it to conquer the world? What does that mean to you, and how will the world look after you've finished? You have five...

Pho, Suddenly. It's a pho delivery service that operates 24 hours out of a truck. Fresh pho, anytime, anywhere. What's yours?

Small little game with all the writers we have here, lets write our own short story in which we write just a couple hundred words to advance the story along. After we reach a "done" point, I'll compile it and make a master post. I'll start: James was a detective who lived in a small town of 3000. He'd long since made his peace with his role in life through liberal amounts of drinking, smoking, and long nights. There as a knocking at his door, he pulled his feet off the table and opened...

You wake up one day and realise that you're in the alternate universe of the Pokémon series. What region do you wake in? What's your plan? What do your first 24 hours and first week consist of? Do you actively go looking for a Pokémon of your own or do you keep your head down and get a job in the pokemart?

We've had the Harry Potter Casting Thread, and the Dresden Casting Thread, and now, thanks to New Thread Thursday and me being bored at work, the comic book movie version. Got the perfect Dick Grayson in mind, or never quite liked RDJ as Tony Stark? Show us who your version. If they're a character from a comic book, they're fair game for this thread, even if they're not necessarily one of the big two companies. The only restriction is that, unlike the two threads linked above, this is the...

Arthellion was actually the name of a character I chose in a D&D campaign. Was a lovable character so I stuck with it.

Which movie is your least favorite? I'm gonna go with 102 Dalmatians. Absolutely sucked and disappointed my child's heart who was hoping to see Pongo again.