Harry and Draco World Cup

Title: Even When Things Change
Team: Team Canon
Author: wayharshtai
Prompt: The World
Wordcount: 5261
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Summary: Disappointment or completion? The choice is yours, according to The World.
Author's Note: The World can mean coming full circle, having everything fall into place, but if you flip it, you get the opposite—a resistance to change, disappointment.

( Even When Things Change )

Tags: fic, pg-13, prompt: the world, round i, team canon

Posted at 04:47 am | Link | Speak | 2 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Second Hands of Time
Team: Canon
Author: sev1970
Prompt: Temperance
Wordcount: 12,000
Rating: R
Warnings: language, frottage, epilogue-compliant, non-linear
Summary: Harry Potter is the quintessential Gryffindor, and Draco Malfoy the perfect representative of Slytherin house. What happens when the latter has to temper the former as they navigate their way through the past?
Author's Note: “How can you mix fire and water?” the Fool finally whispers. Never pausing the Angel answers, “You must have the right vessels and the right proportions.” Thanks to my betas.

( Second Hands of Time )

Tags: fic, prompt: temperance, r, round i, team canon

Posted at 08:11 am | Link | Speak | 4 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Wall of Glass
Team: Canon
Author: waterbird
Prompt: The Chariot
Wordcount: 13,400
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After the war, Draco Malfoy finds that some battles are just beginning.
Author's Note: The Chariot can represent perseverance, triumph over obstacles and the merging of opposites. Many thanks to my beta readers.

( Wall of Glass )

Tags: fic, pg-13, prompt: the chariot, round i, team canon

Posted at 08:11 am | Link | Speak | 3 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: The Hermit
Team: Canon
Author: ravenna_c_tan
Prompt: The Hermit
Wordcount: 16,000
Rating: NC-17/Adult
Warnings: Explicit sex
Author's Note: The Hermit: "Withdrawal, acting alone... Difficulty connecting with the world or other people," i.e. 6th year Draco, carried forward into this story, while Harry is reversed: integral to his society

( The Hermit )

Tags: fic, nc-17, prompt: the hermit, round i, team canon

Posted at 06:03 pm | Link | Speak | 13 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: The Most Important H/D Moment from the Books
Team: Canon
Artist: glockgal
Prompt: The Most Important H/D Moment from the Books
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Warnings: Blood imagery
Artist's Note Flash required to view the image.

( The Most Important H/D Moment from the Books )

Tags: art, pg-13, prompt: the most important h/d moment, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:33 pm | Link | Speak | 6 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Perfect Day
Team: Canon
Author: scrtkpr
Prompt: Wheel of Fortune
Wordcount: 24,500
Rating: R (to be safe)
Warnings: None
Summary: One day can change everything.
Author's Note: Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.—Christian Nestell Bovee

Thank you to my betas.

( Perfect Day )

Tags: fic, prompt: wheel of fortune, r, round i, team canon

Posted at 07:53 am | Link | Speak | 12 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: S. Morgenstern's Through the Looking Glass (abridged)
Team: Canon!
Author: el_em_en_oh_pee
Prompt: Moon
Wordcount: 3,792
Rating: PG
Warnings: none. Thinly disguised meta, maybe, but really, none.
Summary: The moon Tarot card is associated with such things as "illusion. Escape into daydreams to avoid dealing with reality. Inability to discern reality from illusion". Herein lies S. Morgenstern's epic rendition of a man whose dreams and reality become increasingly blurred after a traumatic event, now abridged by editor Eloise Midgen.
Author's Note: Thanks, my beta extraordinaire(A) for checking this last-minute and for keeping me sane(All remaining mistakes=mine). Thanks B&E for keymashy conversations about worldcup&for calming me down the last few days. Love!

( S. Morgenstern's 'Through the Looking Glass' (abridged) )

Tags: fic, pg, prompt: the moon, round i, team canon

Posted at 08:01 am | Link | Speak | 4 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Protect Me From What I Want
Team: Canon
Author: pixies
Prompt: The Hanged Man
Wordcount: 4,000
Rating: PG
Warnings: A lot of Angst, perhaps.
Summary: Harry has to make a decision between what he thinks is right and what his heart wants. A story of love, sacrifice, and lessons never learned. Title shamelessly taken from a Placebo song of the same name.
Author's Note: Many thanks to B. for her last-minute help whipping this into shape. ♥ Thanks also to A. and F. for all of their brilliance and encouragement. So much love!

( Protect Me From What I Want )

Tags: fic, pg, prompt: the hanged man, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:42 pm | Link | Speak | 2 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Priori Incantatem
Team: Canon
Artist: aluinnsearlait
Prompt: Wands
Rating: PG
Warnings: None!
Summary: In the end, it was the only thing he could do.
Artist's Note Special thanks to the lovely people that looked over my drawings and gave me ideas. The staircase in image 6 is located in Wells Cathedral, and was built in 1306.

( Priori Incantatem )

Tags: art, pg, prompt: wands, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:36 pm | Link | Speak | 12 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Still Life in Wood and Parchment
Team: Canon
Author: scrtkpr
Prompt: Strength
Wordcount: 6,500
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Summary: Twenty-two years ago, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy turned their backs on the life they could have had. But they haven't forgotten; and they haven't guarded their secrets closely enough.
Author's Note: More about the prompt "Strength" can be found here. Thank you to my wonderful betas.

( Still Life in Wood and Parchment )

Tags: fic, pg-13, prompt: strength, round i, team canon

Posted at 08:01 am | Link | Speak | 27 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Nothing Ventured (Nothing Lost)
Team: Canon
Author: furiosity
Prompt: Death
Wordcount: 5000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Some violence.
Summary: Feelings are purest in the hours of meeting and farewell.
Author's Note: Betas, thank you. <3 I hope the shade of Jean Paul Richter doesn't mind me eviscerating one of his thoughts for use in my summary.

( Nothing Ventured (Nothing Lost) )

Tags: fic, nc-17, prompt: death, round i, team canon

Posted at 07:46 am | Link | Speak | 4 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
Team: Team Canon
Author: themostepotente
Prompt: The Lovers
Wordcount: 15,000 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: First-time, digital penetration, infidelity, humour, snarking, epilogue-compliant
Summary: When Harry and Draco are conjoined in a freakish accident, they must learn to set aside their differences if they've any hope of survival.
Author's Note: The Lovers can mean literal, soul-bonding romantic love. It can also indicate an intuitive decision that cannot be forced, a matter in which there are several possible choices.

( No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy )

Tags: fic, nc-17, prompt: the lovers, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:27 pm | Link | Speak | 7 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Duplicity or choice
Team: Canon
Artist: melmoe1
Prompt: Swords
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A time of change, a time to choose, to decide what to keep and what to loose. An ending in preparation for a new to begin; grab hold of balance and harmony where conflict had been.
Artist's Note Pre epilogue.

( Duplicity or choice )

Tags: art, g, prompt: swords, round i, team canon

Posted at 01:30 am | Link | Speak | 6 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Ring A-Ring O' Roses
Team: Team Canon
Author: melusinahp
Prompt: The Tower
Wordcount: 20k
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: character deaths, EWE
Summary: Some demons are harder to banish than others.
Author's Note So much love and gratitude to my team members for all their help and encouragement.

( Ring A-Ring O' Roses )

Tags: fic, nc-17, prompt: the tower, round i, team canon

Posted at 12:05 am | Link | Speak | 5 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: A Dark Place in Time
Team: Canon
Author: cutecoati
Prompt: The Empress
Wordcount: ~ 9000
Rating: PG
Warnings: EWE
Summary: What on earth was her son thinking, falling for Harry Potter of all people, Narcissa wonders. But after the death of her husband, she finds him useful in many, and sometimes surprising, regards.
Author's Note: Many thanks to my wonderful beta S. All remaining mistakes are mine.

( A Dark Place in Time )

Tags: fic, pg, prompt: the empress, round i, team canon

Posted at 01:34 pm | Link | Speak | 5 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Time For Later
Team: Canon
Author: khateh
Prompt: The Hierophant
Wordcount: 15.500
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Summary: When he goes with Al to Egypt on holiday, Harry finds more than he ever expected and learns that people change, sometimes for the better.
Author's Note: You know how to solve your problem, the Hierophant says; it is not easy, not a quick fix, but it is do-able.

A big thank you to my betas.

( Time For Later )

Tags: fic, pg-13, prompt: the hierophant, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:27 pm | Link | Speak | 4 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Heads or Tails
Team: Canon
Artist: rosivan
Prompt: Coins
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Quidditch, Harry and Draco, and how they're like 'two sides of the same coin.'
Artist's Note Thank you to my lovely betas, and for all the feedback in the initial planning. <3

( Heads or Tails )

Tags: art, pg, prompt: coins, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:25 pm | Link | Speak | 6 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: The Magician's Gifts
Team: Canon
Author: rurounihime
Prompt: The Magician
Wordcount: 32,854
Rating: R
Warnings: Het! OMG het!
Summary: Harry's crisis is only the beginning of his journey.
Author's Note: Tarot card interpretations for each story section selected, paraphrased and adapted most gratefully from here and here. Thank you profusely to my betas C and F. DH compliant, pre-epilogue.

( The Magician's Gifts )

Tags: fic, prompt: the magician, r, round i, team canon

Posted at 10:52 pm | Link | Speak | 3 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Shadow Play
Team: Team Canon
Author: melusinahp
Prompt: The Devil
Wordcount: 5,500
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Imaginary non-con, violence, and bondage. Non-imaginary (in the context of a fictional story) fully consensual but slightly violent sex.
Summary: Harry knows what he wants, but Draco knows what he needs.
Author's Note "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."— Jung

( Shadow Play )

Tags: fic, nc-17, prompt: the devil, round i, team canon

Posted at 01:11 am | Link | Speak | 4 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Title: Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light
Team: Canon
Author: janicechess
Prompt: Justice
Wordcount: 13,500
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Summary: Harry only wants what's fair for Narcissa Malfoy. But Narcissa has other plans, and Draco is willing to go along with just about anything to stay out of Azkaban.
Author's Note Many thanks to my betas and teammates for all their help.

( Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light )

Tags: fic, prompt: justice, r, round i, team canon

Posted at 02:29 pm | Link | Speak | 9 Replies | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend