Around the World in 80 Fics

Globally-themed Harry Potter Fest. All fanworks will be posted on AO3, as well as shared here!

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The Fest Begins!

Hello all! I hope everyone had a lovely Halloween, Samhain, or whatever you choose to celebrate in the spooky month!

The time has finally come to begin posting Fics (or submitting them if you'd like to and haven't- as the deadline is being extended for two weeks, because the AO3 curse is real and we get it).

If you would like to submit a fic and haven't, you can do so here.

Our collection has been made publicly available and the very first fic of the festival, Unexpected Happiness by the wonderful @flowersdaydreamlol is public! Give that a read here.

Most sincere thanks to everyone who participated, y'all are incredibly talented!

P.S. feel free to join the discord if you'd like!

[flowersdaydreamlol]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My entry for the @aroundtheworldin80fics fest! :)

After the war ends, the Malfoys flee to Germany to avoid Lucius' arrest. They would have never guessed that hiding in a muggle neighborhood and opening a shop as halfbloods in the magical district would lead to such unexpected happiness.

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Meet Me Where the Mayflies Sing - @aroundtheworldin80fics fic snippet

I'm so excited to share a little snippet from my upcoming fic for the very underrated @aroundtheworldin80fics fest! This will be a love letter written to my beautiful home, Hungary, and I can't wait to share it. ❤️ Coming up early November! The song below is a reimagination of one of the most well known Hungarian folk songs (Tavaszi szél) that even Freddie Mercury himself sang one time on a concert! It includes a lot of beautiful landscapes of the country, a perfect way to get into the mood of what I'll want the fic to feel like ❤️

Palingenia longicauda, also known as the Tisza mayfly or long-tailed mayfly (tiszavirág or kérész in Hungarian): an aquatic insect of the order Ephemeroptera, the largest mayfly species in Europe, measuring up to 12 cm from head to tail. Now extinct in much of Europe, it survives on the Tisza river in Hungary. Its adulthood is fleeting — one day only, a single night to rise, to swarm, to love, and then to vanish. On the banks of Tisza in Szeged, Hungary, where folklore tangles with science, Sirius Black (Magizoologist, storm-hearted and brilliant) and Remus Lupin (Herbologist, precise and steady) are summoned to investigate a vanishing plant and waters turned strange. Villagers speak of an ancient stag wandering the reeds, antlers like constellations, eyes like myth itself. What begins as two professionals researching becomes pilgrimage: a fight to preserve the Tisza’s fragile heartbeat, the unveiling of an Animagus cloaked in legend, and a love story written in the language of things that do not last. Here, where the mayflies sing for only a single day, Sirius and Remus must learn whether what vanishes can still be eternal.

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HP/DRARRY Fic Fests 2025

★ Sources : potterfests, @hpfests & @lee-bella || as of 2025.08 ★ BOLD = announced

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JAN

Comfort Zone Fest 2025 - Manhunt Challenge @hpffwritersguild : AO3

FEB

Corrupt a Wish Fest @corrupt-a-wish-fest : AO3

HP Knot Fest 3: Let's Get Knotty @hpknotfest : AO3

Kinkuary 2025 @kinkuary : AO3

MAR

Myths and Legends Fest @desmathewu : AO3

TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2025 - Shades of Desire @trulymadlydeeplyfest : AO3

@clementinesbarn's Wholesome Romance Fest (AO3) vs Dark Romance Fest (AO3)

APR

Draco Tops Harry Fest 2025 @dracotops-harry : AO3

Harry in Lingerie Fest @hilfest : AO3

HP Animagi Week 2025 @hpanimagiweek : AO3

MAY

Lights, Camera, Drarry Fest 2025 @lcdrarry : AO3

Harry/Draco Mpreg Fest 2025 @harrydracompreg : AO3

HP Triad Fest 2024/25 @hptriadfest : AO3

Diagon Film Festival @diagonfilmfest : AO3

JUN

We 💚 Draco Fest @weheartdracofest : AO3

HP Daddy Knows Best Fest 2025 @hpdaddyknowsbest : AO3

HarryGlots Fest 2025 @harryglots : AO3

JUL

H/D Wireless 2025 @hd-wireless : AO3

AUG

HP Ace Aro Fest 2025 @hpacearofest : AO3

HPHedonism Fest 2025 @hphedonismfest : AO3

Cannibalism Fest 2025 @magical-menagerie-server : AO3

SEP

H/D Collaboration Fest @hd-collab : AO3

HD Hurt/Comfort Fest 2025 @hd-hurtcomfort-fest : AO3

HP Drizzle Fest 2025 @hpdrizzle : AO3

Unleashed! Fest 2025 @unleashed-fest : AO3

OCT

H/D Career Fair 2025 @hd-fan-fair : AO3

HP Kinktober 2025 @hp-kinktober-2025 : AO3

NOV

HD Tarot Fest 2025 @hd-tarot : AO3

Around the World in 80 Fics 2025 @aroundtheworldin80fics : AO3

DEC

H/D Erised 2025 @hd-erised : AO3

H/D Owlpost Fest 2025 @hdowlpost : AO3

25 Days of Draco and Harry 2025 @/slythindor100 : AO3

Harry Potter x Disney Fest 2025 @disneypotterfest : AO3

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Prompt List

Hello all! After some time collecting prompts from the community we are happy to make the list public!

Thank you to everyone who submitted, your creativity is boundless! Without further ado, the prompts are as follows:

The marauders are foreign exchange students. Gen or Wolfstar please

Luna travels (country of your choice) on assignment from the quibbler (part of the magic is journalism isn't dead). You could intersperse the action with blurbs from her writeups about local magical wildlife, customs, etc.

Harry went straight into the aurors after the war then quickly realised he wasn't cut out for it (too much trauma, ministry is corrupt, acab, all of the above) so he's slowly found his way to a career in the foundations of magic (wand making, magical theory, spell creation) and as part of this, he needs to experience how magic differs across cultures/geography. He goes to X Country and finds that Draco Malfoy is both his translator and surprisingly comfortable in beloved in X country in spite of the fact that harry knows him to be a xenophobic little shit. And then......love.

Lily gets a prestigious potions apprenticeship in another country. To her shock, James Potter is also an apprentice. Jily

Sirius a Magizoologist. Remus is a herbologist. They team up for a research project in the country of your choice. Wolfstar

After the death eater trials Harry goes to malfoy manor to return Draco’s wand but doesn’t find him there. All he finds is a clue to where Draco went. Harry then travels the world clue after clue searching for Draco. Draco knows Harry is following him and always leaves a clue with a gift. Until one day there is no clue because Draco is still there waiting for Harry.

The Marauders go on vacation to a magical resort. Jily and Wolfstar

After Andromeda and Ted elope, they flee to another country to escape the Black family

There’s a forest (in Japan) where Muggles vanish. Some say it’s haunted, others say it listens; the International Confederation of Magic says it’s magically inert. Really, it could be anything. So when a cluster of wandless magic spikes are detected in the forest, Harry and/or Hermione are sent to investigate. Only once they get there, they begin to lose track of why they came.

James is an archeologist studying ancient magical communities. Lily is a translator. Can reverse roles if you want. Jily

After the first war ends, Lucius Malfoy is not able to convince the ministry of his innocence. The family flees Britain

Dorcas and Marlene are professional quidditch players chosen to compete in the World Cup, taking place in the country of your choice. Dorlene

The map has no name for this desert. The locals won’t speak of it. Every night, its sand arranges itself into runes no one claims to have written and the wind itself is starting to whisper in Parseltongue. Lucky thing Draco’s learned to speak it.

With Harry on paternity leave, Hermione’s research trip is accompanied by a certain Mr. Malfoy instead.

The summer after 5th year, Harry goes with Luna on her expedition to Sweden to search for Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.

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Prompt submissions are due Friday

Hiya y'all! Just wanted to remind you that prompt submissions will be closing this Friday, so get your submissions in while you can!

We will be posting the list publicly the following Monday (the fourth of August).

Just a reminder that prompts are entirely optional and you don't have to use them in your final fics if you don't want to.

You can submit prompts here and if you have any questions feel free to reach out on Tumblr or on our discord.

Hope y'all are having a lovely day!

[aroundtheworldin80fics]

Rules and Guidelines

Welcome to Around the World in 80 Fics, a fest dedicated to exploring the magical world and all its wonders!

There aren't many rules, so as to encourage maximum creativity, but the ones we do have are as follows:

The Concept

- Your fic must take place somewhere in the magical world that we have never seen before in the books

- You may use any characters from the books or create your own!

The Guidelines

- While you may write dark or violent stories, we would prefer things stay SFW

- You may not use AI of any kind for your fic

- The word count minimum is 500 words, there is no maximum

- Alongside the basic concept of the fest you may optionally use prompts from a list

- Fics should be in English or have an English translation available

- Fics should be complete, multi-chaptered stories are acceptable, but please make sure your story is complete before submitting

Prompting

- Prompts will be submitted via google forms and will be revealed on August 4th

- You can submit as many prompts as you want

- There will be another form posted on the 4th where you can claim a prompt

- Prompts must be SFW

Claiming a country

- There will be a separate form for country claims, however a list of claimed countries will be updated actively on both our discord server and our list on Tumblr

- Just like with prompts, more than one person may use the same country

Posting

- Please make sure your fic is part of the AO3 collection when posting

- We will also post your fic on Tumblr

- There will be a posting schedule after all submissions are recieved

If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask here or on Discord!

[aroundtheworldin80fics]

Welcome to Around the World in 80 Fics, a fest dedicated to exploring the magical world and all its wonders!

🌎 All fics must take place somewhere we've never seen in the books

🌍 You can use any characters you like, OC or otherwise and all genres are welcome!

Fest timeline

🚢 Prompt submissions and country claiming opens July 18th

🚢 Prompt submissions due August 1st

🚢 Prompt claiming opens August 4th

🚢 Prompt and country claiming claiming closes October 17th

🚢 Fic submissions due October 30th

🚢 Fics begin posting November 1st

Important Links

✈️ Rules and Guidelines

✈️ Country claiming form

✈️ Prompt submission form (Prompt submissions have concluded!)

✈️ Prompt List

✈️ Submission form

✈️ AO3 collection

✈️ Discord

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