HP BardFest 2023/24

An all-HP Fest with works inspired by William Shakespeare. All works will be hosted on AO3. Header and Icon by rezal-art.

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We are excited to officially announce the HP BardFest 2023/2024! 📜 Fest Timeline 📜

🕯️ Prompting: October 7th - November 3rd 2023

🎭 Claiming: November 7th – December 20th 2023

📖 Submission:February 7th 2024

📯 Posting: February 21st 2024

You can find the fest rules and guidelines as well as a link to our discord here, or on our AO3 collection in the bio!

Feel free to drop us an ask if you have any questions anytime 💙

— your mods, apricitydays, @drarrymyheart, @elosieevans, @girl-with-goats, @khb-writes and @uncannycerulean 🎨 A huge thank you to our artist @rezal-art who has made the gorgeous banner, icon and announcement graphic!! 🎨

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!*

Here finally is our complete list of BardFest works and creators, organised according to which Shakespeare work they were inspired by!

📜 Hamlet

"The Cruel History and Most Lamentable Tragedy of Regulus, Scion of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black" by @acanadianmuggle (M, 17k, gen)

📜 Love's Labours Lost

Love's Labours by Aurora_Borealis3406 (T, 10k, Hermione/Theo)

📜 Macbeth

"Look Like The Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under It" by drpansyparkinson (E, 19k, Pansy/Neville)

📜 Much Ado About Nothing

A Skirmish of Wit by @thesnapeofwater (T, 3.4k, Hermione/Severus)

Much Ado About Malfoy by @inastarlesssky (G, 21k, Hermione/Draco)

📜 Othello

No Way But This by @storyof-eden (E, 1.4k, Hermione/Bellatrix)

Play the Game by @starsanddiamond (M, 22.5k, Marcus Flint/Oliver Wood)

📜 Richard III

The Winter of our Discontent by @midnightstargazer (M, 5k, gen)

📜 Romeo & Juliet

The comedic side to tragedy by the_sapphire_potterhead (T, 6k, gen)

The Light He Lost by @obscurewriter05 (M, 2.5k, Tom Riddle/OC)

The Most Lamentable Tragedie of Friar Laurence (as Translated from the Original Gobbledygook) by MiraMira - a Podfic by @cailynwrites (T, 6 min, gen)

Such Sweet Sorrow by @midnightstargazer (T, 15k, Regulus Black/OC)

📜 Sonnets

Lock My Heart by ElviraKamgut (M, 243, Gilderoy/Gilderoy)

A New Form of Sight by cherrybirch (T, 8k, gen)

📜 Shakespeare Quotes (general)

Words, Words, Words by @emilyrickman (G, 3k, gen)

*quote from Julius Caesar (Antony, Act 3, Scene 2), for the occasion

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📜 Much Ado About Malfoy

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy ✒️ Rating & Length: General Audiences, 21,270 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Much Ado About Nothing ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Inspired by Shakespeare, Post-Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger is So Done, Oblivious Hermione Granger, Stubborn Hermione Granger, Pining Draco Malfoy, Idiots in Love, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Expecto Patronum | Patronus Charm (Harry Potter), Inappropriate use of Veritaserum, Veritaserum Potion (Harry Potter), Bets & Wagers, Protective Slytherins, Matchmaking Theodore Nott, Scheming Theodore Nott, Theodore Nott is the voice of reason in this story, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, HEA, Love Confessions, Not Actually Unrequited Love, I've written a whole bunch of people out sorry

Summary: 

Much ado about nothing, Malfoy,” Hermione laughs. “I can hear the Bard rolling in his grave.” To Malfoy's horrified confusion, she explains the origin of the phrase. She's nearly finished explaining when the whisper she’d nearly missed echoes in her memory. Those weren't just words. Or: the one where the students of Muggle Studies put on a play, and Theo, Ginny, Blaise and Luna conspire to give Draco and Hermione the final push they need to face what they've both been denying. A different take on "Much Ado About Nothing".

Read on AO3

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📜 Such Sweet Sorrow

✒️ Pairing: Regulus Black/Original Female Character ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, 15,550 words ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Romeo & Juliet ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, First Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Angst with a Happy Ending, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Brief canon-typical violence, Minor Character Death, Romance, not quite enemies to lovers - more like strangers on opposite sides to lovers, Fake Character Death, Draught of Living Death (Harry Potter), Regulus Black Lives, Morally Grey Regulus Black, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Summary: 

When Regulus Black meets Juliet Longbottom, they both know better than to get involved with one another. A Death Eater - even a reluctant one - has no business falling for a woman who has such close ties to the Order of the Phoenix. It’s obvious from the start that their budding romance is doomed to end in tragedy. Or is it?

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HP BardFest: Week 3

Here’s our fantastic line-up of fics posted last week (excuse the delay!)

📜 Podfic: The Most Lamentable Tragedie of Friar Laurence (as Translated from the Original Gobbledygook) by MiraMira

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, < 10 min ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Romeo & Juliet

📜 Lock My Heart

✒️ Pairing: Gilderoy Lockhart/Gilderoy Lockhart ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 243 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Sonnets

📜 No Way But This

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Bellatrix Lestrange ✒️ Rating & Length: Explicit, 1,411 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Othello

📜 Love's Labours

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, 10,030 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Love's Labours Lost

📜 Look Like The Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under It

✒️ Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Pansy Parkinson ✒️ Rating & Length: Explicit, 19,434 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Macbeth

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📜 Look Like The Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under It

✒️ Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Pansy Parkinson ✒️ Rating & Length: Explicit, 19,434 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Macbeth ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Inspired by Shakespeare, Prophetic Visions, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Minor Character Death, Herbologist Neville Longbottom, Healer Pansy Parkinson, Potions, Sassy Pansy Parkinson, panville, Good Pansy Parkinson, background Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger - Freeform, Background Cedric Diggory/Luna Lovegood, Cedric Diggory Lives, Protective Cedric Diggory, Squibs, magical illnesses, St Mungo's Hospital (Harry Potter), Department of Mysteries (Harry Potter), Mystery, Unethical Experimentation, Unethical Medicine, Implied/Referenced Character Death

Summary: 

When Pansy is thirteen, her mother tells her about their family legacy in a truly embarassing way. They're descended from one of the trio of witches Shakespeare wrote about in Macbeth. Ten years later, she's working hard and has pushed things like prophetic dreams out of her mind. Until Neville Longbottom starts disrupting her sleep, and absolutely not in the fun way.

Read on AO3

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📜 Love's Labours

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, 10,030 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Love's Labours Lost ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Original Character(s), Revenge, Major Character Injury, Mutual Pining, Personal Growth, Curses, Not Canon Compliant, References to Shakespeare, Bardfest, part 2 coming, Hogwarts Eighth Year, Post-Battle of Hogwarts

Summary: 

Students return to Hogwarts for an "eighth year" of study to make up for their tumultuous (or entirely missed) seventh year to find that the new Muggle Studies curriculum has seen an interesting overhaul. Meanwhile they'll learn, heal, make new friends and face the consequences of their own and their families' involvement in the war.

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📜 No Way But This

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Bellatrix Lestrange ✒️ Rating & Length: Explicit, 1,411 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Othello ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Major Character Death, Heavy Angst, no happy ending, Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Battle of Hogwarts, Canon-Typical Violence, Explicit Sexual Content, Forbidden Love, Lesbian Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Lesbian Hermione Granger, Canonical Character Death, Othello - Shakespeare References, Othello Quotes. We Show Our Love Through Shakespeare in This House, References to Hamlet, Shakespeare Quotations, Consensual Kink

Summary: 

‘A love doomed from the start takes a last gasp before the final curtain calls.'

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📜 Lock My Heart

✒️ Pairing: Gilderoy Lockhart/Gilderoy Lockhart ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 243 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Sonnets ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Shakespearean Sonnets, Sonnets, Euphemisms, so many of them, POV Gilderoy Lockhart, Gilderoy Lockhart loves himself, Gilderoy Lockhart had nothing on Narcissus

Summary: 

Gilderoy Lockhart writes a sonnet to himself.

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📜 Podfic: The Most Lamentable Tragedie of Friar Laurence (as Translated from the Original Gobbledygook) by MiraMira

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, < 10 min ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Romeo & Juliet ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Iambic Pentameter, Drama, Tragedy, Crossover, Arguing, Non-Graphic Violence, Crack

Summary: 

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Goblin.

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HP BardFest: Week 2

Here's our fantastic line-up of fics posted this week:

📜 A skirmish of Wit

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen and Up, 3,473 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Much Ado About Nothing

📜 The Light He Lost

✒️ Pairing: Tom Riddle/Original Female Character ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 2,593 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Romeo and Juliet

📜 A New Form of Sight

✒️ Characters: Sybill Trelawney, Minerva McGonagall, Firenze, 8th-year students ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, 8,089 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Sonnets

📜 The winter of our discontent

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 5,395 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Richard III

📜 Play the Game

✒️ Pairing: Marcus Flint/Oliver Wood ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 22,669 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Othello

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📜 Play the Game

✒️ Pairing: Marcus Flint/Oliver Wood ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 22,669 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Othello ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Othello inspired, Quidditch, Quidditch Player Marcus Flint, Quidditch Player Oliver Wood, dodging the press, Drama, Angst, Comedy, Happy Ending, Fluff, Poison, Queen (Band) References, Marcus Flint Needs a Hug, Inspired by Shakespeare, HP Bard Fest 2023, Healer Lavender Brown, Bad Puns, mentions of sports-related injuries, Mentions of alcohol, Minor Lavender Brown/Draco Malfoy

Summary: 

‘Puddlemere United’s Oliver Wood new Captain for Scottish National League! Big Irn Bru sponsorship deal sweetens the deal!’ Marcus Flint is a professional Quidditch player and there is nothing he hates more than dealing with the press. Good thing, that their new Captain Oliver Wood is adored by the reporters swarming their training camp. If it just weren't for the teeny-tiny fact that Oliver is acting increasingly strange.

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📜 The winter of our discontent

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 5,395 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Richard III ⚡ Tags & Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, Major Character Death, Inspired by Richard III - Shakespeare, Shakespeare Quotations, First Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Blood, Prejudice Against Muggle-borns, Canon Compliant, Everybody Dies, Resurrection Stone (Harry Potter), Minor James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Minor Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes

Summary: 

As a sixth-year at Hogwarts, Lily sees the world around her reflected in the words of Shakespeare's Richard III and does her best to share the play with her friends. Soon, the story spreads further than she could ever have imagined, capturing the interest of many at Hogwarts and beyond. Each person who reads it forms their own interpretation, but as they find themselves fighting and dying on the front lines of the war, the tale lingers with them - and the parallels between Richard III and Lord Voldemort become impossible to deny.

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📜 A New Form of Sight

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Characters: Sybill Trelawney, Minerva McGonagall, Firenze, 8th-year students ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, 8,089 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Sonnets ⚡ Tags: Screenplay/Script Format, Iambic Pentameter, Sonnets, Sonnets That May Or May Not Be Prophecies, Minor Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Minor Luna Lovegood/Theodore Nott, Reconciliation and Healing (Through Poetry), Hogwarts Eighth Year, Mentions of alcohol, Sherry-Induced Poetry and Hangovers

Summary: 

Sybill had a little too much sherry last night and can't remember writing all these sonnets. Some predict love, some predict doom, but are any of them true prophecies? She decides to find out. A five-act play written in a Shakespearean style for the HP Bard Fest!

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📜 The Light He Lost

✒️ Pairing: Tom Riddle/Original Female Character ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 2,593 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Romeo and Juliet ⚡ Tags: Major Character Death, Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, Dark Romeo and Juliet, Torture, Murder, Ravenclaw/Slytherin Inter-House Relationships, Rubeus Hagrid Bashing, Head Boy Tom Riddle, Knights of Walpurgis (Harry Potter), the beginning of horcuxes

Summary: 

"Two Houses, both alike in dignity, At Hogwarts castle where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." Tom Riddle once believed that the only thing he wanted was power. Then he laid eyes on Alyssia Oswald and knew that those ideas were in danger of going out the window.

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📜 A Skirmish of Wit

✒️ Pairing: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen and Up, 3,473 ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Much Ado About Nothing ⚡ Warnings & Tags: Inspired by Shakespeare, I'm Sorry William Shakespeare, Inspired by Much Ado About Nothing, Enemies to Lovers, Minor Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Weddings

Summary: 

Hermione cannot stand Severus Snape. The feeling is mutual. When he is invited to the wedding of her dear friends, they make their dislike for one another known. In an attempt to end the fighting, the Weasleys hatch a scheme to get the pair together.

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HP BardFest: Week 1

Our first week of Shakespeare-related HP Fanworks is complete! Have a look at what has been posted so far:

📜 Words, Words, Words

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Rating & Length: General Audiences, 3,342 words ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Famous quotes

📜 The comedic side to tragedy

✒️ Pairing: Romeo/Juliet ✒️ Rating & Length: Teen & Up, 5,585 words ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Romeo and Juliet

📜 The Cruel History and Most Lamentable Tragedy of Regulus, Scion of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black

✒️ Pairing: Gen ✒️ Rating & Length: Mature, 17,127 words ✒️ Shakespeare Work: Hamlet