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In the Spotlight | August 22nd, 2020

Welcome to the August edition of In the Spotlight, where we feature interviews from sitewide award winners, such as the Order of Merlin and Head Student, and share some House and Prefect news! Our Order of Merlin for August when to the fantastic @grumpy cat, who is one of our Gamekeepers and Professors and does a lot around the site! G R U M P Y C A T | I N T E R V I E W | If you had a job in the Wizarding World, what would it be and why? a wizarding architect because

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August 23, 2020

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Clarification on Bullying, Personal Attacks, and Harrassment

We've gotten questions and comments throughout the past few years around when exactly people will face consequences for offsite conflict and how we define personal attacks, bullying, and harassment. Since we're updating the rules to clarify a few other things, we wanted to write a blog post expanding on how the site defines these terms a little as well. We don't take involving the site in offsite conflicts lightly. Expecting people to follow our site rules any time they interact with anothe

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August 19, 2020

Our Other Fandoms | August 11, 2020

Welcome to the August installment of our Potpourri blog series where we talk about a variety of things and sometimes just random stuff. This month we're discussing other fandoms we're involved in, whether it be reading fic, writing fic, or just enjoy reading/watching! Check out the fandoms below if you haven't already J U L S: H O W T O T R A I N Y O U R D R A G O N I got involved with writing in this fandom when Kenny (aka Starfeather/Tanda) set up a brilliant chal

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August 11, 2020

Common Room Awards: Gryffindor House | August 6

2020 Common Room Awards: Gryffindor Edition Welcome to the final installment of the 2020 Common Room Awards! In this blog post you'll get to find out who the fantastic nominees and winners were for this year's Gryffindor House Awards. Pride of Gryffindor Awards statistics nominations: 84 total nominees authors 19 unique authors nominated 17 unique authors as finalists 10 nominations - @down-in

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August 6, 2020

events

Wizarding Universiade Results

Welcome one and all to the closing ceremonies of the Wizarding Universiade. During this hallowed event-closing tradition, your Arbiters of Chaos will recount information about the universities’ performances in each event, as well as the information you’re all really here for - the announcement of the event’s ultimate victor! As a reminder: Gryffindor: Universitas Corvi Hufflepuff: Universitas Persei Ravenclaw: Universitas Hydrae Slytherin: Universitas Lyrae

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August 6, 2020

August 2020 Bulletin

welcome to august's bulletin! if you're new, welcome to hpft! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a harry potter lean, including a year-long house cup. we have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events, so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. a quick rundown to help you get started here on the forums: please post in the 'welcome to hpft' t

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August 1, 2020

In the Spotlight | July 25, 2020

hello and welcome to the july edition of in the spotlight! the prefects are back with some great interviews and some House news after we've wrapped up another incredible finale so let's dive on in! This month, we honored the Auror team with the Order of Merlin! @abhorsen., @crowsb4bros, @Ineke, @just.a.willow.tree. @maraudertimes, and @toomanycurls do absolutely amazing work to make the Archives an absolutely incredible place for us and we're so thankful for all they do! Not to mentio

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July 25, 2020

July 11th, 2020 | Buzzfeed Quizzes

Welcome to the July edition of the Prefects' Potpourri blog series! This month, we decided to take a few different buzzfeed quizzes and see how all of us were similar (or different) in a variety of ways! There's Harry Potter, Taylor Swift, and, of course, Hamilton involved, so read on to see what each Prefect's results were for each quiz. Feel free to take these quizzes yourselves and reply with your answers in the comments! | BAKE A CAKE AND YOU'LL BE SORTED INTO YOUR HOGWARTS HOUSE | qu

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July 12, 2020

awards 2020 Common Room Awards-Hufflepuff | 5 July 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of the 2020 Common Room Awards: This installment honors the stories that members of the great house of Hufflepuff decided were worthy enough to bring home a coveted Golden Chalice. Now before we get into the results, we would like to share a special thank you to @just.a.willow.tree @sinnersandsapphics and @MuggleMaybe for organizing and putting together this year's awards. We would also like to share with you some stats related to this year's nominat

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July 5, 2020

July 2020 Bulletin

Welcome to HPFT's July Bulletin! If you're new, welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us. HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF. We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events, so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. A quick run

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July 1, 2020

In the Spotlight | June 28, 2020

Welcome to the June Edition of In the Spotlight! We've got our usual roundup of House news and some wonderful interviews with some lovely people, so read on to see what's happening! Super shoutout to @sibilant for the Order of Merlin this month! Shreya just recently stepped back to join us on the Prefect team (and we are THRILLED to have her again), but she was absolutely killing it as an Auror and a Gamekeeper and we really can't thank her enough for all the hard work she's done for

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June 28, 2020

Announcing the Slytherins' MFWHATA Awards for 2020

MFWHATA 2020 Winners! It's time to announce the winners of this years MFWHATAs! A huge thank you to everyone who wrote, read, reviewed, nominated, and voted. And thank you to @aurevoir for making these awesome award graphics (be sure to credit wherever you plan to use them ) Stats 5 unique nominators 14 unique authors 26 unique stories 8 categories And now, without further ado, here are stories that make Draco say: M

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June 17, 2020

Springtime Writing Event 2020 Results

? Springtime Writing Event Results ? Welcome to the results blog for the Springtime Writing Event hosted by @magemadi and @down-in-flames! The objective for this writing event was simple: Members & staffers could submit up to three (3) 100 words (or less) drabbles about springtime. Drabbles could be written in the world of Harry Potter or as Original Fiction, and then the winners were decided by blind democratic vote of the members of HPFT! We received 39 fantastic entries from 20

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June 15, 2020

what does pride mean to you? | june 10th 2020

What does Pride mean to us? Pride isn’t just a party and a parade through the streets, it’s our identity, our community. Pride is having the freedom to be yourself and embrace who you truly are, to support others around you and create safe spaces for those who can’t always be their authentic selves. It’s giving people the confidence to come out, to speak out. Pride is having an archive full of works that celebrate every gender and sexuality, that explores diverse characters written by diverse au

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June 10, 2020

Common Room Awards: Ravenclaw House | June 2, 2020

2020 Common Room Awards: Ravenclaw Edition Welcome to the first installment of the 2020 Common Room Awards! In this blog post you'll get to find out who the fantastic nominees and winners were for this year's Ravenclaw House Nargles Awards. Nargles Awards Results The Nargles Awards this year had 11 fantastic categories, some old favorites and some new ones (starred). Thank you to everyone who wrote fics this year, those who nominated, those who reviewed, and those who read a

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June 2, 2020

June 2020 Bulletin

Welcome to HPFT's June Bulletin! Applications for all staff, prefect, and house newsletter editor positions will be open from June 1 - June 10. There's no post count/join date limit, and you can apply for as many positions as you like - it's all on one application. A detailed rundown on how HPFT staffing works can be found +here, and you can find the application +here. If you're interested, please apply by midnight PST on June 10th. If you applied in April or May, you don

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June 1, 2020

In the Spotlight | May 21, 2020

Welcome to this month's In the Spotlight, where we've got some fabulous interviews and all kinds of House news for you all! This month, the prefects honored @Ineke with the Order of Merlin! Ineke's work in the queue is legendary, but she can be found all over the site, working hard to help make this the site we know and love! Thanks for all you do, Ineke! I N T E R V I E W If there was only one forum that you could post in on HPFT, which one would it be? This is a very

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May 21, 2020

Parenting in Potter | May 10th, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of the Potpourri Blog! With a Mother's Day Celebration coming up for many this month, we though it would be an appropriate time to honor the Parents in Potter. And whether your own Mother's Day celebration has already occurred or we haven't even reached the month for it yet (haven't forgotten about Father's Day either), the Prefects also want to give a big shoutout to all the wonderful parents here on HPFT! You're all rockstars ? Arthur & Molly W

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May 10, 2020

May 2020 Bulletin

Welcome to HPFT's May Bulletin! If you're new, welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us. HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF. We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events, so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. A quick rund

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May 1, 2020

In the Spotlight | April 22nd 2020

Welcome back to In the Spotlight! This moth we have all of our usual interviews and news from around the site, along with an update on an upcoming Prefect event that will be heading your way in the next couple of weeks! ? ???? Keep your eyes peeled for a writing event to open soon! It's going to be run differently to writing events/challenges in the past, but should be a lot of fun, and while it will count for House Points, it will be low stakes and, hopefully, really fun! ?

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April 22, 2020

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FROGS 2020 Winners

We announced the winners of this year's FROGS on a +livestream earlier today - thank you so much to everyone who participated in the nominating, reviewing, and voting process, and to all of our wonderful members for participating in the community and posting your writing here. We couldn't have this amazing community without all of you. ❤️ ? ? ? Now that we've told you who our winners and runners up are, it's time to reveal this year's limited edition set of chocolate frog cards! If you wa

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April 20, 2020