I endorse this idea! I definitely couldn't write my Daily Prophet idea in <1,000 words. Should we choose from existing prompts that were thrown out, or just throw out a bunch of new ideas specifically for flash fiction?

 

Harry kills the Dursleys

 

A chance encounter on the Knight Bus changes everything.

 

It was all a lie:
Write a story in which the perspective character has been completely misled about details of incredible consequence. For example:
Muggles actually know about wizards.
All of history is actually fictional; it was steadily altered for the past few centuries.
Filch's cat was gay all along.

 

Prompt: Who was the creator of the Shield Charm? What did they do with it? How did they come up with it? How did their community adapt around its creation?

The Shield Charm was apparently known by the 15th century (according to the ephemeral Harry Potter Fandom wiki)

Tell us about the wizard or witch who first created it, and what they did with their invulnerability.

Canon has given us similar concepts: an African wizard created the unlocking charm (alohamora) who then taught it to a british expat who then returned to England and proceeded to burgle the lot of them until a wizard named Blagdon Blay created the anti-alohamora charm. Per Miranda Goshawk's Book of Spells, the spell proliferated so quickly that within a single day all homes were charmed with it.

(I'm thinking about a little bit of story something that delves into the unintended consequences of the shield charm. Unblockable curses might have been anathema before the shield charm, but once wizarding society was introduced to the shield charm? The killing curse would have exploded in popularity)

 

Prompt: Harry Fucking Potter

Harry FUCKING Potter
-Ched

 

Prompt: "Wait, you mean everyone in magical Singapore uses brothels?"

 

I'd like to repropose my prompt of: Tom Riddle sorted into Gryffindor

 

First line prompt: "The inside of the coffin was rather pleasant. But it was time for me to go."

 

Enchantment gone too far.

An example is Arthur's car. It became somewhat sentient when Harry and Ron pushed it too much. The theme can range from someone creating his own Frankenstein monster to the said car barging from the forest during the Final Battle and raming into Voldemort from behind.

 

vampire

 

We vampin'.

 

I was thinking of a challenge/prompt thing, have the authors write a short story, but all 100% OCs, set in the HP universe, and set in their city/country.

 

Magical-equivalent of a Muggle board game. We've seen what wizarding chess is like, but what about monopoly? Go? Backgammon? etc