Greetings...

I've been finishing up the final touches in round one of our Last Days of School: Writer's Duel. I may be partial, but I think we have some of the BEST entries ever this time. So if you're just killing time on HPFF and looking for a good read... go check out the Duel Site. These stories are anonymous and will remain so until the final winners are announced Saturday June 11th. (There is a typo I just found on the main site. Our judges need more than one day to evaluate the stories.)

The polls will be up in the next hour or so. Please, authors, remember NOT to reveal which story is yours. This means you cannot talk about your story on the forum, mention on your author's page, in personal messages or on the internet in anyway. We ask you follow this rule for fairness. We do not want popular authors having an unfair advantage.

As Stary Bucky so perfectly put it, we were drowning in the "Saying Goodbye" stories. I was going to adjust the number of finalist, but in the spirit of a duel... since the majority of you decided to pick the bigger fight I'm going to leave it up the fates. The only change is instead of three stories being accepted from category 1, now four stories will make it to the final round.

The TOP 4 stories in the Saying Goodbye will make it to the final round
The TOP 3 stories in the End of Term Mayhem category will make it to the final round
The TOP 3 stories in the include all the following words and phrases


Also, remember you are only allowed ONE vote per category. We monitor who's voting VERY VERY carefully. It is IMPOSSIBLE to CHEAT! If your computer has a refreshing IP, we can still tell if you're voting more than once. DO NOT VOTE more than once for each category. Suspicious voting will cause the disqualifications of stories. For the sake of the authors who put all this hard work in, do not try to boost your favorite story up to the front of the line unfairly.

To check out our Duel Site, just click here!