Happy New Year and welcome to omniocular's January Challenge!

The theme of this month's challenge is magic. Whether it's spells, jinxes, curses, and charms, the Harry Potter books wouldn't even be the Harry Potter books if it weren't for the magic, and Ms. Rowling has packed quite a lot of it into the pages ( Read more... )

Welcome to omniocular's Totally Not Badfic November Challenge ( Read more... )

Claims for the 2007 Harry Potter AU Extravaganza are now open ( Read more... )

Welcome to omniocular's August Deathly Hallows Challenge! This challenge is for all gen fiction and artwork about missing scenes, unanswered questions, alternate points-of-view, and speculation related to Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows.

All stories and artwork submitted for this challenge must be related to the story told in Harry Potter and the ( Read more... )

Now that the story is over, the tale is finished, and the series complete, everybody's questions and concerns about every last character and theory have been satisfactorily addressed, and there are no more stories left to tell, right? Right?Oh, honestly. If you believe that, I have a Crumple-Horned Snorkack in captivity I'll let you see for a ( Read more... )

Because we keep hearing murmurs about the impending July release of a certain movie (we think it's called The One In Which Sirius Bites It, but we could be wrong) followed shortly thereafter by the release of a certain book (Dearthly Hollows? Deadly Halos? something like that), there is not going to be an official July Challenge at omniocularInstead, we ( Read more... )

Title: The First of November
Author: La Reine Noire (lareinenoire)
Summary: One prophecy, two children. What if it had gone the other way?
Wordcount: 3179
Author's Notes: This is so late I'm very ashamed. Written for the Omniocular September (2006) AU Extravaganza challenge, prompt #49: Voldemort goes after the Longbottoms instead of the Potters on Halloween ( Read more... )

Welcome to the June Mentors Challenge on omniocularBelow is a list of over one hundred prompts about mentoring relationships in the wizarding world, ranging from parents teaching their children about life to the Dark Lord teaching his minions about taking over the world. The prompts are all very self-explanatory, but if you have any questions about the ( Read more... )

Welcome to omniocular's May Wizard of the Month Challenge! Many thanks to a_t_rain for the idea for this one.

For our inspiration this month we turn to the Wizard of the Month calendar on JKR's official website. Thirty-five wizards have been listed so far (lucky Felix Summerbee was listed twice, which doesn't seem very fair at all), and all we know about each of ( Read more... )

What exactly did Phinease Nigellus Black do to become the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had? Why did Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor have their falling out? How did the cockatrice get loose at the last Triwizard Tournament in 1792?

In February we will be hosting the Anytime-But-Now Challenge for stories and art set in any era, ( Read more... )