The Daily Snitch - Weekend Edition, August 2, 2015

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Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Daniel Radcliffe has signed up to play the lead role, a young FBI undercover agent, in the upcoming FBI thriller Imperium.
• Emma Watson on cover of September issue of Vogue.
• Tom Felton attends Clayton Kershaw's Annual PingPong4Purpose Charity Event.
• Natalia Tena ("Tonks") has joined the cast of the animation short Once Upon An Iceberg.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Jack Thorne talks about working on the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• Eddie Redmayne: four new posters released for The Danish Girl.

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt 99: "Make me forget", Macchiato and Raven (due up until August 9).
• dmhgchallenge posted the new prompt for August: unicorns (due by August 14).
• poetic_hp the new prompt for August: in honour of Celestina Warbeck's birthday the prompt is SONG (due by August 31).
• hd_fluff posted the new monthly prompt: Quidditch (due by August 31).
• hd_pots_n_porn posted the August summer prompt: tomatoes (in any form) (due by August 31).

Communities:
• Poll: sceasleycest posted a poll gauging interest in a holiday fest.
• hp_crossgenfest starts Posting tomorrow!
• hp_adoptaprompt posted the Prompting Post for Round 3 of the HP Adopt-a-Prompt Fest.
• hp_nextgen_fest posted the Prompting Post for this year's Next Gen Fest.
• interhouse_fest announced the Harry Potter Interhouse Fest 2015 (fest starts November 2).
• smutty_santa announced that Sign-ups for this year's smutty_claus will open September 1.
• hp_goldenage posted the new (and permanent) Sign-up Post for Bathilda Bagshot's Bingo.
• hd_fan_fair posted a call for beta volunteers for the Harry/Draco Pottermore Fair.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hogwarts365 posted the Masterlist for Prompt 98.
• hd_collab posted the Reveal of the first H/D Collaborations Fest.
• snowgall posted the Masterlist of the H/D season Stocking Suffers for hd_seasons 2010.

Editor's Choice Rec:
• Like a Strawberry in the Mouth by chantefable (Draco Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter; PG-13, 935 words)
Summary: A cautionary, entertaining, and mildly licentious story of a trespassing in Wiltshire as told by Albus Severus Potter, Charms Master.

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from August 2 through 8 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from July 26 to August 1.
• Media References to Fanfiction for the week ending August 1.
• Organisation of Transformative Works: August Events Calendar (cons and calls for papers)

Essay/Meta:
• wellingtongoose wrote Hogwarts: the Castle and Hogwarts: an Evolution.

General Fandom News:
• leviosa2016 posted a recipe for Godric's Grog, the Gryffindor house drink in honour of Harry's birthday.
• OTW Fannews: Fandom Tourism.

Participate:
• hp_podfic_fest posted the August Challenge: Speak Loudly! This new challenge format is intended to elicit small pieces (less than 10 minutes or 1000 words) to try different aspects of podficcing.

Searches:
• daily_snitch is still looking for your recs (fic, art, podfic, meta ...) for the Special Edition: Dean Thomas.

Community Spotlight:
♥ sceasleycest – an open fic community dedicated the Scorpius Malfoy/Weasley threesomes and slash – Sceasleycest is most properly Scorpius Malfoy in a threesome with two Weasleys. Sceasleyslash is welcome, as well. Check out the community profile for all allowed pairings/moresomes.


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