The Daily Snitch - Weekend Edition, October 4, 2015

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Happy Birthday, Professor Minerva McGonagall!

Joanne K. Rowling:
• J.K. Rowling comments on the new Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone illustrations by Jim Kay.

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Daniel Radcliffe on the cover of El Pais Icon Magazine to promote Victor Frankenstein plus four vids with Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• British actress Gemma Chan rumoured to have been cast for Fantastic Beasts.

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt 108: 1. Picture Prompt, 2. Remembrall.

Communities:
• hp_halloween posted the Sign-up Post. Sign-ups are open until October 11!
• hp_kinkfest announced Round 7 of Harry Potter Kinkfest.
• hp_laughs posted a Parting Note of the current mod and announced a hiatus. Community is looking for new mods!
• Rita Skeeter reports at hoggywartyxmas about The Place to Be: minerva_fest started posting!
• sceasleycest posted the Prompting Post for the December Fest 2015 (Prompting closes November 14).

Editor's Rec:
• Sirius and Lupin had Given Harry a ... by punkscully (Remus/Sirus, Harry; G; comic)
Summary: This comes from my very staunch headcanon that Remus broke Sirius out of Grimmauld place at least once. Or, December 1995 in Number 12, Grimmauld Place.

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from October 4 – 10 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from September 27 – October 3.

Essay/Meta:
• Maria Valezquez, The Occassional Ethnicities of Lavender Brown: Race as a Boundary Object in Harry Potter, in acacemia.edu, originally published 2013.

General Fandom News:
• OTW Fannews: Unearthing Slash.

Searches:
• accio_hd_fics posted a search for H/D stories based on fairy tales. (Resources on H/D stories based on fairy tales in comments).
• snarryficfind posted a search for Harry and Severus taking it slow and one for Snarry during Deathly Hallows (Severus/Harry only).
• daily_snitch is looking for your recs (fic, art, podfic, meta ...) for the Special Edition: Narcissa Malfoy.

Community Spotlight:
♥ quinquatrus – A Celebration of Minerva McGonagall, The Fictional Life of a Tart In Tartan – This community is all about the love for Minerva McGonagall. It's about Transfiguration, Animagi, tartan-clad professors and flirting with schoolboys. Fic, arts, icons, recs and discussion are all welcome here, all ratings, slash, het, femmeslash and gen.


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