Howdy PA Lurkers!

I volunteered to Admin PA and I'm very excited about it! Unfortunately, my RL is one mad day after another so I am going to start slow. 

I intend to start fan pages on Facebook and LJ to get your feedback - I have an Open Inbox Policy when it comes to fandom. Also, I intend to run monthly challenge with banners and more for participants.

I may or may not be looking for validators - got to check with Mistress Malfoy on if I can do that, first. Regardless, if you're interested, please message me.

Hopefully, many wonderful changes are coming! Thanks for your attention!

I just wanted to let everyone know that between Dec. 23 and Jan 2. I will only be doing limited validations. So, please be patient when you do submit something, it will be validated ASAP.

 Thanks and I hope everyone has a happy and healthy holiday!

This is a reminder about submission and site rules.  All authors and readers need to read and follow the rules.  In particular, we all need to pay attention to the following:

1.  You MUST have a beta. 

2.  You MUST have a disclaimer.

As the admin of this site I do want all authors to be posted to the archive, but if the submission and site rules are not followed, it cannot happen.  There is number of submissions that come to me on a regular basis, and I do not have the time to beta and correct the submissions and/or add the disclaimer.  That being said, continue sending in your submissions... I love it!!  Just remember the rules are there to make the process easier for all of us.  If you have any questions or concerns, as usual, please feel free to contact me and I will help you out to the best of our ability.

Valady

In honor of Punkindoodle, I've chosen to featured some her 32 stories from the Pure Arrogance archive. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have! Leave her a review, too! :)

It was a very sad day for me when I opened my inbox and received a letter from our dear Punkindoodle. She is unfortunately leaving us due to family matters and I  have to say we will miss her loads.

Thank you to Punkindoodle for all the work she's done over the years, all the time she's put into validating, submissions and being a wonderful Admin.

Love to you and your family my dear friend!

Love MM.

And now onto the other news :)

Welcome to Valady, our newest Admin, she has some big shoes to fill but I don't doubt for a second she is more than up to the task. So please join me in welcoming our friend Valady to the hot seat.

Good Luck Valady!

Hi everyone! I am back from my holidays and have exciting news for you all! Pure Arrogance will be experiencing a radical revamp in the next few days so I am looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on the subject.

We will be introducing and advertising new rare pairs, like Harry/Pansy, Weasley's/Luna and more!!

If anyone has any concerns or comments please feel free to leave them here and I will answer them as soon as I am able to.

MistressMalfoy

There have been quite a few stories submitted without a disclaimer lately and although I've been nice in the past and added them myself, I will no longer be doing this.

ALL submissions must be accompanied by a  disclaimer. This is very important and very easy. Please look your first chapter over before you submit it, and make sure you have one. I will not validate your story unless you have one!

A new disclaimer is required for all stories:

A disclaimer must be complete with the following: The characters and canon situations in the following story belong solely to JK Rowling. I am not making any money from the publishing or writing of this story.

This disclaimer will now be standard across the board, if your story does not have this or something similar to this denouncing your ownership, and that you’re not making any money then your story will be rejected without question.

Thank you!

Due to popular demand we are giving the archive a much needed revamp just in time for christmas!!!

What does that include? 

1. New categories including Draco/Ginny and Pansy/Harry

2. Pureblood centric, meaning all stories must have a main pairing with a Pureblood.

3. A brand new front page, including our new Pure Arrogance Logo 'Because even Purebloods need love' 

I hope everyone will enjoy the new changes and if there is a specific category you'd like to see then please either comment here or pop me an email!

Hi everyone and it is that time of year again! CHRISTMAS!! Which means our annual Christmas challenge!

The rules are simple and as follows.

1. Pick one prompt to work with.

2. The ending must be happy!!!! (Come on guys this is Christmas, low on angst high on HAPPY!)

3. All entries must be in and COMPLETED by December 25th 2008, we will not be accepting WIPS unless they are in and completed by Christmas day.

4. All regular submission rules apply.

5. When submitting your story choose Category- Challenges Sub Category- Christmas 08 then do the regular, characters etc.

6. This challenge will not be anonymous as it is just for fun, every participant will get a banner for entering the challenge.

7. You can post your story to other archives, journals as this isn't a competition but we would appreciate a link or mention that it is for the challenge!

8. Minimum word requirement is 1000, maximum is totally up to you!

Thanks to my wonderful bb, wickedswanz or not only single handedley brought back my mojo in about fifteen seconds but also helped with the prompts! lol 

SO on to the prompts!!

1. The one gift she wanted was never under the tree...except this year it came by special delivery, wrapped in a big red bow

2. Their blood didn't matter in the magic that was Christmas.

3. Who knew Mistletoe could be used in such an interesting fashion

4. Everyone else was getting presents and she was locked in a broom closet with the one wizard who she wanted to hex into oblivion.

5. Christmas is the darkest part of her year, who could possibly show her that Her bad memories are past and that he is her Christmas gift forever.

6. Christmas was about family...so why was she doing everything in her power to ruin hers, with the one wizard who could taint her for life.

7. Everyone thought he was dead. But for this one special Christmas, he is very much alive and all hers.

8. Hermione gets what she wants for Christmas, the one man she's always thought was out of reach.

9. She was happy with one, but getting two made all her Christmas wishes come true.

10. The night was perfect, friends and family gathering around the yule log.  But for two guests the night is nothing but tense longing for the one who is forbidden.

11. It's Christmas and as always the Loving Weasleys jump through hoops to make Hermione feel welcome.  But what if on this night she doesn't want to be part of the family, in fact she would like one or two particular redheads to see her as something quite the opposite.

 SO, HOP ON OVER TO ENCHANTED AND JOIN THE FUN!

http://www.grangerenchanted.com/enchant/

Will

Not

Be

Tolerated!

Zero tolerance on anyone found to have plagiarised a story from another author.

There isn't any point really, because you will be found out, and then you will be banned.

Congratulations to the wonderful entries in our Pure Arrogance Prompt Challenge. It was a small turn out but all four stories were fantastic!!

In first place with the two part story:

HYDROTHERAPY! by (drum roll) Eilonwy

Second Place

How to Save a Life by hrmny4etrnty2

Third Place

Take me Flying by shalimarfire

And fourth place goes to

Omnipotence by mister_otter

Voting in the Pure Arrogance Challenge has commenced.

You can vote either two ways:

1. Email: challenges at grangerenchanted dot com

2. By the LiveJournal live poll! Which can be found at the following address: http://community.livejournal.com/grangerenchant/113544.html

Rules can be found at the livejournal! 

WoooooT!! We have two new entries into the Pure Arrogance Prompt challenge you can find them in the featured section ^^^^ up there!

Also Hydrotherapy has had a second chapter added to it!!! *dances about* SO GO REVIEW!

There have been quite a few stories submitted without a disclaimer and although I've been nice in the past and added them myself, I will no longer be doing this.

ALL submissions must be accompanied by a complete disclaimer. This is very important and very easy. Please look your first chapter over before you submit it, and make sure you have one. I will not validate your story unless you have one!

Repeat offenders may be subject to further action up to and including removal of stories and account.

As per our Enchanted site, any emails sent to our administration via a gmail account will be deleted from our servers. This is the result of recent spamming.

In the last day we have received over 20 emails from the same person (thanks for that btw)  in regards to deleting their account.

Let me put this simply. Anyone found spamming admin or any of the staff will have their IP banned from our servers. You cannot expect your requests to be fixed immediately. We do not sit at the computer all day waiting for your request. We do have lives of our own.

In saying that we will only be upset if you spam us :D so feel free to email from any ISP account email with any requests. 

From behalf of our entire staff and I am certain the readership of Granger Enchanted, we wish to extend our sincerest condolences to one of our dearest friends and administrator Punkindoodle.

Her sister lost her long battle with breast cancer of the 21st of May.

 Punkindoodle you are a beautiful woman and we all adore you so please accept our thoughts and prayers with you  and your family at this tragic time.

With much love,

                        MistressMalfoy and the Granger Enchanted Staff.

I'm so excited! We have our first entry into the Prompt challenge! You can find it in the featured section and in the recent list also :D

We look forward to seeing every entry!

 MistressMalfoy

Just like our sister site Enchanted we are running a Prompt challenge for all our wonderful authors!

So I present to you... The Arrogance of Purebloods!

Welcome to the first anonymous Pure Arrogance Prompt challenge. The rules are simple and as follows:-

1. All submissions will be anonymous until after the voting is completed and winners announced.

2. Authors will submit stories to challenges at grangerenchanted.com with the header PURE ARROGANCE PROMPT CHALLENGE.

3. All stories must have seen a beta before submitting to our Challenge Witch.

4. Rejection will occur for the following:- missing disclaimer, no beta, missing information in regards to Title, Summary, Genre, Category etc.

5. Minimum word count is 1500 words up to no limit.

6. When sending in your story please include everything you would when posting to the archive eg:- Title, Summary, Warnings, Categories et cetera.  

NOW ON TO THE PROMPTS! 

1. Draco finds a trip to the showers after playing Quidditch- enlightening.

 
2. Hermione has always had an odd sort of fascination with Sirius Black’s bike. But what happens when the man returns and wants his prized possession back, with the witch included?

 
3. Harry Potter wants to teach Draco Malfoy a lesson.  But in the process it is no longer revenge Harry seeks, but love. 

 
4. Draco thought he would never see the day when his father would realize that he wanted the Mudblood, Hermione Granger

 
5. The Dark Lord has won and all Muggleborns are gifted to his most faithful. Lucius is elevated to the role of second in command and chooses Hermione as Draco’s 18th Birthday present.

 
6. The Lestrange’s, proficient in the Cruciatus…and the Kama Sutra.

7. Sirius Black- Heir to the Most Noble House of Black, that is until Regulus is found alive and harbouring a deep obsession.

8. Hermione Granger is placed in Lucius Malfoy's department at the Ministry.  He soon wants her under him in more than just the professional sense.

 
9. She wasn’t supposed to be fascinated by him. He was everything she’d been taught to fear. So why was he the only one who could bring her to her knees?

 
10. Hermione leaves Magical Britain while waiting for the Mudblood laws to be reversed.  Imagine her surprise when she runs into none other than the Malfoy men, who are trying to escape trial.

 
11. Scorpius Malfoy has always liked older witches and would stop at nothing to get the one he desired. (18+ Scorpius only)

 
12. He’d never been humbled by anything before, until now. When she cried.

 
13. Hermione Granger and (YOUR CHOICE) have long been having an affair, but when Draco Malfoy walks in on them at work, all the cards are in his hands.

•  This challenge will run from May 4th to July 4th, so again please do not post your stories to other archives and limit the people you have check it for you. We want to keep this challenge anonymous and it will not work if you post elsewhere and reveal who you are to everyone. :)
• Again email challenges @ grangerenchanted.com for submissions. All submissions will appear under the Pen Name of PurelyChallenges.
• After the challenge is over stories will be transferred to your account name.
• Voting will again appear on the GE livejournal and commence after July 4th. 
  
• Please bear with us on the challenge as it is new to all of us and there might be a few kinks we need to iron out.

Thanks to shay for our lovely new default banner!

Also we have a few new things happening within the next few days.

1. Prompt challenges for Dramione, Lumione, Sirimione, Drarry and Draco/Ginny.

2. New Sirius skin

3. New default layout (under the Enchant skin) 

4. NEW JOBS! :D We need a lovely soul to invite author's to our archive! Any pairings in our categories are most welcome. Apply to enchantedadmin @ grangerenchanted.com

ALL submissions must be accompanied by a complete disclaimer. This is very important and very easy. Please look your first chapter over before you submit it, and make sure you have one. I will not validate your story unless you have one!

Repeat offenders may be subject to further action up to and including removal of stories and account.

First let me say Congratulations to all that entered and how impressed (proud) I am of the quality of fiction that resulted from this challenge. I am sincerely blown away by the efforts of our amazing authors and I hope it encourages more to participate! (You are all fabulous and we adore you!)

So the winners and the runners up as follows:-

Makeover!Hermione

Scifichick (20 votes)

Punkindoodle (17 votes)

Pureblood

LadyLynn (22 votes)

Astralangel (12 votes)

Baby

mandyjg (24 Votes)

juls (15 votes)

TimeTurner

Drivelicious (20 Votes)

ssdawn (13 votes)

Evil

LuciannaMalfoy (16 Votes)

Svelte Rose (14 votes)

Veela

Bloodfaerie (17 Votes)

Tasharose (15 Votes)

Best Fic!

Aleisha Potter (10 Votes)

Runners up. (4 Votes)

TashaRose

Drivelicious

ssdawn

Mandyjg

The following will receive banners for their entries based on their competition not submitting a story. 1. tarrariddle for Ho!Mione.
2. GenericWit for Apprentice!Hermione.
3. Aleisha Potter for Affair!Hermione.
4. AlexisRose for I'm Head Girl!

(To prevent any complications, each individual vote has a screenshot log with names blacked out for privacy)

Edit:- Yes our next challenge will be anonymous. The Cliche challenge was too difficult to organise anonymously, giving that the Cliche claims were public.

ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS!

 The first in first get GE challenge as just begun on the forums , once you have claimed your cliche you can respond with the completed fic at Granger Enchanted!

You must be a member of the forums to claim a prompt!

MistressMalfoy on 09/02/08 - 09:22 am

Hi guys, just a quick reminder that there are only NINE days remaining to get your stories in for the Valentines day challenge. For multi chaptered you only need to have the first chapter in for contention.

Our next challenge at Granger Enchanted is the Great Hermione Cliche challenge and will begin February 15- March 10th.

This time the rules are going to be a little different and here's how....

1. There will be a list of ten popular Hermione cliches.

2. Only two authors may do a cliche on the list.

3. February Tenth (AEST) in the forums  I will be releasing the ten cliches, authors must PM me, MistressMalfoy (on the forums) and claim a cliche prompt.

 4. For example :- If the cliche is 'Hermione is a Pureblood' you would pm me with your author name and the cliche.

5. We will then write your name next to the cliche and then only one other author can claim the same plot. 

Easy right?

Now I hear you asking...why are you doing this Mistress?

Well that's simple!

We don't want the entire challenge clogged with the exact same story. We want you to think outside your comfort zone and write something you normally wouldn't, perhaps a pairing you've never really considered.

All of the previous challenges have produced amazing stories, most pairings hadn't yet been tackled by the author. We want you to live a little dangerously, write something that tempts your taste buds and frightens you at the same time :D 

If anyone has any questions about the cliche challenge please feel free to email me at enchantedadmin @ grangerenchanted dot com, please include the challenge as your subject line (emails without subjects get deleted automatically) or alternatively, private message me at the forums!

MistressMalfoy 

Granger Enchanted has just refurbished it's popular forums. We have tonnes of places for everyone to chat or simply play a little game.

Authors will be pleased to know we have a beta section, author resources and the newly opened Adoption Agency for adopting anything in Potter Verse.

Regular members will note that anyone over the age of 18 can now enjoy a different atmosphere with Knockturn Alley, unmoderated adult chat in several different categories. We have a PG section for those not wanting to partake in the darker side of Potter/Fan Fiction with The Coffee Club and Diagon Alley (for advertisers)

Everyone should note by joining the Forums you will get up to date news from our mailing list and be the first to know about new jobs and what's happening on our great sites.

The forums welcome members from all four archives, Enchanted, Pure Arrogance, Elysium and We Solemnly Swear.

Hi guys :D just your friendly neighbourhood owner popping in for a few words.

1. In a couple of weeks time Pure Arrogance will be changing to an archive for only the following Pairings:- Hermione/Draco, Hermione/Lucius and Hermione/Sirius. We have decided to take this step primarily because there is a major hole in the Dramione, Lumione and Sirimione archives. Currently there is only one Dramione archive, no Lumione and no Sirimione.

 So what does that mean for you? Well basically not much will change except the banner and the categories :) Of course our submission rules will still apply and the archive will remain completely moderated.

2. I have updated the submission rules to reflect the maturity and quality we expect from our authors.

3. Valentines Challenge is up and we'd love each and every one of you to submit something :D

4. We still encourage all of our authors to cross post to Enchanted as a lot of our readers there do not actually come here so you will be opening yourself up to a much larger market.

 I think that's it for now :D happy writing!

MistressMalfoy