This month's Buried Gem was nominated by DannyS717. It's been written by someone who's pretty well know for some of his other, much longer stories. 

The today's Buried Gem is the Ages trilogy by Sovran, consisting of the stories Ages, Months, and Years.

Summary: In a few moments and a few lifetimes, Harry and Ginny decide who they are and who they will not be.

According to DannyS717, Ages was one of the most unique takes on the 'twins time travel' challenge, with a subtle mystery that's not made explicit in the story. Months is a solid follow-up, showing how Harry and Ginny respond in the immediate aftermath and the start of their relationship. The third story, Years, beautifully deals with Harry and Ginny addressing how different the alternate universe the 'twins' came from was.

If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment here or send an email to gin110881@yahoo.com. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.

For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.

Enjoy reading!

This challenge sees the return of an old favourite.  So little is told of Harry and Ginny's relationship in the books after their first kiss, so the question that I have for you is just when did they first say those three little words?

The categories for judging are Best Overall, Most Romantic, Most Unexpected, and the People's Choice Award.  All stories should be submitted by midnight 15th September and the winners will be announced on 1st October.

Multi chaptered stories must be completed and all stories should be submitted under the 2020-2 challenge sub-category.

We had two stories submitted for the Easter Holidays challenge and the judges have decided that the winner of the Most Romantic, Most Humourous, and Best Overall is Would You Be My Little Quarantine by Celtics534 

The winner of the People's Choice Award is a tie between the two stories - Would You Be My Little Quarantine by Celtics534  and A Happy Easter by Sasha

Congratulations to both authors and thank you to the judges AM, JG, SM and thank you to everyone who voted in the People's Choice.  I'll be back in a few days to announce the next challenge.

The votes have been counted and the latest DSTA winners are as follows -

Best Comedy
• Winner: Firewhisky Kisses by snarky24
• Honourable Mention: Classified by Celtics534

Best Drama
• Winner: The Forgotten Wizard by CharmHazel 
• Honourable Mention: Path Diverged II by hp_fangal 

Best Romance
• Winner: The Forgotten Wizard by CharmHazel
• Honourable Mention: The Space Between by YelloWitchGrl

Best One-Shot
• Winner: Would You Be My Little Quarantine by Celtics534
• Honourable Mention: A Potter and a Lupin by SamWil 

Best Completed
• Winner: Twelve Hours by Gin110881 
• Honourable Mention: Teddy's Speech by Gryffinclaw_31 

Best New Story
• Winner: Teddy's Speech by Gryffinclaw_31
• Honourable Mention: Nexus by GryffindorHealer 

Congratulations to all the winners and don't forget to nominate your favourites for the next round!

The Buried Gem of the month of May was written by an author who is praised for her excellent beta'ing in what feels like every other story I read.

The Buried Gem 05-2020 is For Love of Family by Arnel

Summary: A freak accident changes Auror Harry Potter’s life and tests the love of those around him.

The story is part of Arnel's Family series. If you enjoyed the story, make sure to read the other stories of the series as well.

If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment or send an email to gin110881@yahoo.com. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.

For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.

Enjoy reading!

The voting is now open for the April - May trinkets.  Some excellent stories on offer.  I will be back on 31st May to announce the winners.

Voting.

***Edit - the People's Choice poll is now open, silly me forgot, thanks to Gin for pointing it out!***

We have two stories submitted for the Easter Holiday challenge.  The stories can be found here.

It's now up tp the judges to decide the winners of Best Overall, Most Romantic, and Most Humourous, while you have the decision of the People's Choice Award.  Please vote here (you must be logged in to vote) -

http://siye.co.uk/trinkets.php?peopleschoice=Y

I will be back on 4th June to announce the winners

***Edit - The challenge will close on 22nd May as I've had word that there is at least one more story being written.***

Massive apology from me for not having posted a reminder about this way before now, but here it is. The challenge is supposed to close on 15th May but I'm happy to extend it a bit if needs be.

Your challenge is to write a story about the Easter holidays for our favourite pairing. It can anything- Hogwarts era or not, the choice is yours.

Suggestions for future challenges are welcomed, as is a discussion on the current format of the challenges. Are we happy with the time frame given and with the more open ended challenge suggestions etc or not?

How time flies, another month is almost over and the time has come to present you the next Buried Gem. This time, the Buried Gem is an AU version of the second book, telling us a wonderful soul bond story with a concept I've never seen anywhere else.

The Buried Gem 04-2020 is

Furious Angels by Worldmaker

Summary: Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom. 

If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment or send an email to gin110881@yahoo.com. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.

For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.

Enjoy reading!

A couple of days later than planned, but I can now announce the results of the February - March Dumbledore Silver Trinket Awards are as follows - 

Best Comedy
• Winner: The Bartender by lazyweekendmornings
• Honourable Mention: Covert Love by Celtics534

Best Drama
• Winner: Cronus Rising by SamWil
• Honourable Mention: After the Horcrux by Manwe Valarian

Best Romance
• Winner: Covert Love by Celtics534
• Honourable Mention: Milestones by 321jump

Best One-Shot
• Winner: Lucky You by MyGinevra
• Honourable Mention: The Bartender by lazyweekendmornings

Best Completed
• Winner: From the Cupboard to the Castle (and Back Again) by waitingondaisies

Best New Story
• Winner: Covert Love by Celtics534
• Honourable Mention: Cronus Rising by SamWil

Huge well done to you all.  Don't forget to nominate your favourites for the next round!

The third edition of the Buried Gems in 2020 presents you a story written in 2006. It was a hard to decide for me which story by cwarbeck to choose as the todays Buried Gem as they all are gems, but here we go... 

The Buried Gem 03-2020 is:   Getting Over Harry Potter

Summary: When Ginny realises that she is firmly entrenched as Harry’s friend in the strictest, most platonic sense of the word, she is determined to banish any of her own definitely non-platonic sentiments once and for all. She comes up with a plan – an ingenious, infallible, perfect, foolproof plan – but how was it supposed to work if Harry seemed to be everywhere she looked?

Feel free to check out cwarbeck's other stories and let us know what you think.

If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment or send an email to gin110881@yahoo.com. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.

For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.

Enjoy reading!

Apologies for being a bit late opening the voting, but the world is a bit crazy right now.  I hope everyone is staying safe.

Please vote here - http://www.siye.co.uk/trinkets.php and I will be back on 31st March to announce the winners.

A few days late, but the results of the 2019 annual Trinkets are as follows -

Best Comedy
• Winner: What Really Matters by Bluest Witch

Best Drama
• Winner: Hollow Ash by FloreatCastellum

Best Romance
• Winner: Path Diverged II by hp_fangal

Best One-Shot
• Winner: Hey, You! by Pottermum

Best Completed
• Winner: Hollow Ash by FloreatCastellum

Best New Story
• Winner: A Thought or Two by Mutt N Feathers

Congratulations to the winners, some excellent stories we've had over the last year.  Nominations are open again for the February - March trinkets so don't forget to nominate your favourites!

I'm not sure how deeply buried the today's Buried Gem really is because somehow it's a classic published on a handful of fanfiction sites. However, it's definitely a gem and since it's been written in 2004, it fulfils the requirement of a Buried Gem nomination. Hence, I present you the Buried Gem 02-2020:

The Awakening Power by Sib

Summary: Challenges fill Harry's busy sixth year: growing powers, Snape becomes defense teacher (and Harry's not in the mood for abuse), a new Potions teacher, a girl with a new crush on him, Quidditch, Voldemort, and a certain redheaded girl named Ginny who may help him through it all. What are the goblins up to? Will Ron win Hermione back? And what exactly is Voldemort's diabolical plan to kill Harry and plunge magical society into anarchy? Lots of romance, drama, action and humor! Voted Phoenix Song's Best Novel-Length Story (along with Best Harry and Best Kiss).

Feel free to let us know what you think about these stories!

If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.

For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.

Enjoy reading!