Twelfth Night Tales: The Prompt List

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1.

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2. "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other." (From PS)



3. Almost



4. Style: multiple narrators, not to include R/T.



5. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look in the Five and Ten
Glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see
Is the holly that will be
On your own front door.
("It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" - Bing Crosby)



6. Argument



7. An old crush stops by.



8. “I am entirely capable."
"Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?”
(Gail Carriger, Heartless)



9. "Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." (Edith Sitwell)



10. Fog



11. Dinner



12. "But you know the thing about romance is that people only get together right at the very end." (From Love Actually)



13. "Remus Lupin’s father, Lyall, was a world-renowned authority on magical creatures like poltergeists and Boggarts." (From Pottermore)



14.

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15. Crookshanks



16. “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” (Mark Twain)



17. Style: no spoken dialogue.



18. "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." (Anne Bradstreet)



19. Letters



20. "If it had happened in peacetime, Remus would simply have taken himself off to a new place and a new job, so that he did not have to endure the pain of watching Tonks fall in love with a handsome, young wizard in the Auror Office." (From Pottermore bio)



21. “I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.” (Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle)



22. Style: first person, present tense.



23. “I'm sorry, I didn't mean to kiss you twice and then linger on the second one." (From The Holiday)



24. Flirtation



25. "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." (From PoA)



26. “Babies are such a nice way to start people.” (Don Herold)



27. The 'tumbledown, semi-derelict cottage in Yorkshire' referred to in Remus' Pottermore bio.



28.

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29. A cup of tea, gone cold.



30. “It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.” (Markus Zusak, The Book Thief)



31. Resolutions



32. “He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.” (Neil Gaiman, Stardust)


33. Dawn



34. Remus and Tonks as senior citizens.



35. “Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before!" (Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle)



36.




37. A very musty, dusty used bookshop.



38. "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure." (OotP)



39. "Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." (HBP)



40. Frozen


41. "Harry, meanwhile, felt a rush of excitement: this last mention of his father had reminded him that there was something he had been looking forward to asking Lupin." (HBP)


42. "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde)