Reddit Writing Prompts

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Harry, Ron and Hermione aren't actually wizards or in the wizarding world. They are high on drugs and hallucinating throughout their journeys. The cops are Dementors and Dumbledore is a crazy old homeless man.

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It was then Harry Potter realized the last 7 years in Hogwarts was actually a mental institute. The man he thought to be Dumbledore was just an elderly caretaker. Harry, looking at an old broken twig he once believed was a wand, started to remember what really happened during those years.

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You are an unimportant background character in Hogwarts. It's Harry Potter's third year and while he is off dealing with dementors and the imminent threat of Sirius Black, noone else seems to notice that Dumbledore has been replaced by a completely different old man except for you.

10,861 upvotes312 commentsRelevance 0.42

You decide to prank your newborn kid by having him read Harry Potter series and convincing him it's real and that he is a wizard as well. You fake a Hogwarts letter, drive him to King's Cross station and wait for the moment he crashes into the pillar. He goes straight through.

17,915 upvotes412 commentsRelevance 0.42

In an alternate reality JK Rowling died writing The Deathly Hallows and requested George RR Martin finish the book. He accepted and takes over at the Battle of Hogwarts with no instruction on how it's supposed to end.

17,955 upvotes375 commentsRelevance 0.39

After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.

10,542 upvotes614 commentsRelevance 0.38

All of your siblings, papart from you, have attended a prestigious wizarding school. Now, after all these years, they're back in your "regular" world... and don't even know how an oven works.

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The Wizarding World has never met someone like the speedcaster. He can summon more than 10 spells in less than 30 seconds. He says he's from another world, where there a more people like him called 'rappers'.

10,636 upvotes174 commentsRelevance 0.34

In his retirement, a master mage begins writing children’s books. Each with an enchantment designed to highlight the books message. Your child received one as a birthday gift.

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You work as a high school librarian and an informant/recruiter for the local witch coven. Today you found a boy with the most powerful aura you've ever seen trying to return a damaged copy of "macbeth"

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As the last living descendant of the world’s greatest wizard/witch, you have inherited their grimoire. The only issue, you HATE all things magical and have dedicated your life to science.

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You're a fraud. Your parents are wizards, your siblings are wizards, but you are not. However, the wizardry school still sent you an invite - apparently, they didn't know you weren't born with powers. So, now you're trying to fake your way through school just with stage magic.

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The magical ability tests results got leaked... what nobody expected was some rando to be the most powerful mage at the academy

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After a decade into the great wizard war, everyone finally ran out of spell slots/mana.

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"Do you know who usually wins a magic duel when it turns into a fistfight? The answer is: the magician who first realises that the duel has turned into a fistfight."

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A magical student gets in over her head experimenting with portal panties...

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A magical student gets in over her head experimenting with portal panties...

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Death is patient, for everyone will die eventually... except for wizards. death hates wizards.

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A young witch casts a love spell on her crush, over the next couple of days the two become close and he's all she can think about. One day he invites her over to his house and she finds a familiar book in his room, with a familiar spell written inside.

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One of the magical universities longest running traditions was games between the incoming freshman boys to determine which of them would be transformed into girls to keep the others company in the boys dorms...

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Oh look, a new reaction channel video: "Professional Wizard & Witch Rate Movie Magic Scenes | How Realistic Is It?"

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You are a browsing your local bookstore when you see an odd book called "A Rabbit's Tricks" it's a book that teaches you how to cast spells. The problem is every spell has something to do with sex.

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Wizard teleports by accident into the bed room of a paladin in an all female order and must wait several days as men are not allowed in their castle and the opportunities to escape are few and far between and his magic is all over the place after the spell.

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You're a 12 year-old in a world domintated by magic. A small, feeble man appears on your doorstep claiming: "You're a scientist, Henry"

10,163 upvotes443 commentsRelevance 0.31

You study magic at the top school in the world. Your village saved every penny to send you, but you suck. You find the spells hard to pronounce and memorize. They always feel odd, till one day you discover something called a "dictionary" and you see everyone is pronouncing them incorrectly.

13,001 upvotes238 commentsRelevance 0.31

The chosen one is task in defeating a dark lord but comes to discover not only is the dark lord a benevolent ruler but manages to forge a friendship with her. Their own sense of morality is put to the test when their friendship with the dark lord turns into something more.

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The princess, locked in the tower, had only books to learn about the outside world from. The books taught her about 2 things: magic and bdsm.

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Despite learning from one of the greatest wizards in the world, you're utterly horrible at magic. Then you discover why: he/she deliberately trained you incorrectly as a sick joke.

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Contrary to popular belief witch and wizard aren't actually gendered terms. Witchcraft and wizardry are distinct schools of magic that can be learned by anyone. You are a male witch/female wizard and are sick of explaining this.

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At a magic school, a student accidentally discovers a spell that makes her teacher horny. The teacher tries to maintain her composure while a room full of bored teenagers decides what to do with this new knowledge. Repeated uses of the spell stack.

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