Banned Books Week Fic Challenge

[psychic_serpent]

Banned Book week is upon us!  Go here for more info:

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/

As you can see from this list

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top100bannedbooks.html

the HP books are pretty high up there (and, as you can see, JKR's 
books are in very good company).  While it is a sad commentary on 
our society that any books, especially books of this calibre and 
with such important messages, are ever banned, in a way this is also 
a good indication that these authors have done something right.  
They have hit a nerve.   

In honor of Banned Books week, we at Fiction Alley would like to 
encourage everyone to read as many banned books as possible!  (And 
not just this week--and not just the HP books.)  If you are feeling 
particularly creative after reading a banned book, we invite you to 
write a fanfiction that is a crossover between the HP books and 
another book on the ALA list.  Fanfic authors do many types of 
crossovers--it might be an homage (HP characters doing the things 
the characters in "Of Mice and Men" would do) or a story that mixes 
characters and settings from the two milieux (James and his giant 
peach meet Harry Potter, perhaps?).  However you decide to do it, 
these are the guidelines for submitting a Banned Book/crossover work 
to Fiction Alley in honor of Banned Books Week:

1. You must cross over the HP books with one of the books or series 
listed here at ALA's site (link above). 

2. Your fic cannot be longer than 1000 words. 

3. Your fic must meet FictionAlley's submission guidelines in terms 
of grammar, spelling and canon accuracy, although the usual length 
requirement for submissions is not applicable here (see above for 
length). Your fic cannot be posted in this Forum if it's rated 
higher than PG-13 (12A in the UK) - but if you want to write an R-
rated fic, just submit it through the usual process and we'll be 
happy to put it on FA.  Please, DO NOT use intertextual author's 
notes. 

4. Include this template at the top of your posting: 
Author Name: 
Fic title: 
Crossover with: 
Author Notes: 
No, the template does not count towards your word count. 

Note: Please do not submit your fic to FA using the submission form. 
It won't end up in the right section. Instead, just post it as a new 
thread here: 
http://www.fictionalley.org//fictionalleypark/forums/newthread.php?
&action=newthread&forumid=116

All fic postings will be moderated. That means that you can post a 
fic any time, but none of them will go live until Monday, September 
22, as that's the start of Banned Book Week. You can post a fic in 
the above location through Friday, September 27 (11:59 pm UK time) 
and as soon as one of our mods has looked it over, it will either be 
approved or sent back to you for editing. 

Any questions? Email help at fictionalley.org and we'll do our best to 
answer your question.

On behalf of the Fiction Alley Mods,

--Barb