Obscuro!

Obscuro! is a gen fanworks challenge for minor characters from the world of Harry Potter. It was first held in 2016, and again in 2018. Fanworks are hosted on Archive of Our Own, and information about the challenge is shared on Tumblr.
Characters are nominated to the challenge collection, and then claimed by participants. Participants can claim their own nomination, but are also welcome to claim any of the submitted characters (or groups of characters).2016 Obscuro! Rules. Accessed on February 9, 2019.
==Challenge Guidelines==
==Obscuro! 2016==
In 2016, forty-seven character nominations were submitted for the challenge. Eleven authors completed twelve stories.
* Half A Holiday by Trovia
:"Bellatrix and Narcissa wait for a door to open."
* Sympathy For the Devil by fluorescentgrey
:“You won’t do a single bad thing to anyone as long as you lock yourself up.”
* Tasseography by Honest_Brain
:"Sybill drinks tea and tells the future."
* To Crave The Rose by Paradise_of_Mary_Jane
:"Soft, her sister had always called her. She always says it fondly, never as an insult, but Astoria feels it all the same. She doesn’t have the layer of ice that Daphne coated herself with, she doesn’t fight with teeth and claws and cruel insults like Pansy. She’s Astoria, and she’s soft."
* Owl by Honest_Brain
:"Mrs. Figg receives an owl from none other than Dumbledore asking for a favor."
* Shades of Green by memorde
:"In the business of dubious morality, there is no black and white."
* Talons and Tea Leaves by soiturnonthetelevision
:"A collection of scenes following Lavender and Parvati (and a younger host of Gryffindor girls) as they try to keep hope and faith during the Dark Lord’s ascent. In other words- how Lavender Brown makes it through her seventh year at Hogwarts."
* An’ Ye Harm None by EssayOfThoughts
:"Aberforth and his interaction with magic throughout his life; a character study in seven sections.
* …and there we were, running down the main street, rather in flagrante if we’re being entirely honest… by CynicInAFishbowl
:"Oxbridge. All Muggle AU. Justin is the biggest toff this side of the boat sheds at Harrow. This is his story."
* Fields Beyond Fields by montparnasse
:"After the war, Padma and Parvati met the monster."
* To Do What We Must hydianway
:"Minerva McGonagall during the first war with Voldemort."
* towards nuclear winter by TobermorianSass
:"Being a collection of personal accounts concerning the events leading up to and following the German Border Crisis of January, 1968, the details of which have hitherto remained obscured from the public eye.
:Or, the story of how Amelia Bones singlehandedly saved wizarding Europe from nuclear war, Rufus Scrimgeour got his limp, Nobby Leach was forced from office and Augustus Rookwood got his dark mark."
==Obscuro! 2018==
This year, fanworks of all types were eligible for the challenge, although the final submissions included only fanfiction. Sixty character nominations were submitted, and eight authors completed eleven fanworks for the challenge.
* The Dying Embers Of The Sun by hiddenhibernian
:"Marlene finally understood why they fought and laughed and loved with such reckless abandon, Sirius and Lily and James. It wasn’t madness, or that they didn't care; they had just realised that the world was too small to contain all the things they wanted to do. They were running out of time before they had even got started."
* A World that Cannot Hold by prettybirdy979
:"The fighting is paused, the world still as it waits for the next move. The fate of the world lies in what happens in the next few hours.
:But Lee Jordan doesn't care - he has more important things to worry about right now. Like where his friends have gotten to.
:He's got to find Fred and George."
* something other by rougeatre
:"Here is how it happens..."
* Freak by rosestone
:"Dudley Dursley was raised to be as hateful and bigoted as his parents. By the time Harry left the Dursley household, he'd at least partially shed those beliefs.
:How did he get there?"
* and whose army? by renaissance (fan)
:"It's 2005. The war against Voldemort is still being fought. Muggleborn and rendered wandless, Anthony lost contact with the magical world eight years ago. Now the war wants him back, whether he likes it or not."
* The Monster That You See by MonJoh
:"On the eve of beginning his Hogwarts education, eleven-year-old Fen is the victim of a terrifying attack that changes the course of his life and leaves him struggling to adapt to a childhood very different from the one he imagined."
* drown the memory by EssayOfThoughts
:"For almost twenty years, Regulus Black drowns."
* Two Sides Of A Snake's Life by EssayOfThoughts
:"In one world there is Soo-hyun. Korean. Muggle. Cursed as a Maledictus to be a sideshow attraction.
:In another world there is Nagini, forever and always a serpent."
* Out of the Woods by reeby10
:"Millicent gets lost in the woods and a mysterious sound leads her out."
* a yew, a yew, and feathers two by EssayOfThoughts
:"“Two feathers,” he says. “Your bird, he gave me two.” Ollivander nods out the window, in the vague direction of where young Tom must be standing, poked and prodded with needles and pins. “Who is his twin, I wonder?”"
* wonky magic by EssayOfThoughts
:"Two years after Ariana dies, something manifests in the Dumbledore house.
:After a little while, it screams."
==References==
Category:2016 Challenges
Category:2018 Challenges