Someone gave me an idea, and I thought I'd share it. There are threads on the NaNo boards featuring challenges for the writers to include in their stories. It's a way to add a twist when you otherwise don't know what to do next, a way to increase wordcounts, and even a way to give you a way to start.
So, I was thinking we could start a thread here (this one, of course), and use it to offer ideas, challenges, odd pairings or meetups (they hardly have to be sexualized) set in the HP universe for everyone else to peruse and use at their leisure. Anyone can use any challenge. They don't go away just because one person has used it.
And a few to get everyone started:
* Severus's last conversation with Lily. (can be a memory, or a letter someone finds, or in "realtime")
* A wizard-born has a bad reaction to a Muggle medication.
* Someone thought dead in the last battle wasn't. (Sorry folks, had to.)
* Include one of the Epilogue kids in your story. (your choice of how. And this includes Teddy, even though he was born before the Epilogue.)
* Write about Lucius's punishment, since he was allowed to stay out of Azkaban.
* Hagrid goes to visit Norbert when Charlie returns to Romania.
* Harry goes to Godric's Hollow to better investigate his parents' house and finds a stack of letters/journals/other private notes.
* Detail how Minerva and Kingsley and the Wiazarding world rebuild Hogwarts and get it set up for a new term.
* Someone had a time-turner during the last battle.
* Details of DA activities during the events of Deathly Hallows.
Feel free to snag any you find intriguing and use them any way you wish, and even more, feel free to add your own for others to snag. :D