The Daily Snitch - February 3, 2016

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Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Rupert Grint on Ron/Hermione's relationship as adults.
• Daniel Radcliffe's new movie Swiss Army Man to be released this summer.
• Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham-Carter: new teasers released for upcoming Alice through the Looking Glass.
• More news about Matt Lewis being cast in BBC One's dramatic tv series Happy Valley (with mustache).
• Pricing policy for opening of the Wizarding World of HP at Universal Studios in Hollywood (tickets at the gate will be $95).

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• Analysis of the newest Fantastic Beasts clip (released on Pottermore): everything known so far.
• Newt Scamander's wand (news from Celebration of Harry Potter).
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them first on-set feature screencaps breakdown (video).
• American actor Josh Cowdery has been cast as Senator Henry Shaw in Fantastic Beasts.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child:
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child star and producer comment on casting of Hermione.

Prompt Challenges:
• dmhgchallenge posted the February prompt: diamond ring (due on or before February 14).
• hp_creatures posted the February prompts.
• hd_fluff posted the February prompt: I love you.
• poetic_hp posted the February prompt: ALWAYS (in honour of Alan Rickman).

Communities:
• Sign-ups are open for femmefest (Sign-ups close February 14).
• Prompting is closed at the hp_mhealthfest. Here is the Claiming Post.
• hp_getlucky posted the Claiming Post for the HP Get Lucky Fest.
• hp_crossgenfest will be back for the HP Cross-Gen Fest 2016, posting in August.
• hp_darkarts announced the My Bloody Valentine anti-Valentine comment fest.
• hprarefest extended Prompting until February 5.
• hprare_cliche is now posting!.
• snape_potter opened Claiming for the Snarry-a-thon 2016.
• hd_remix posted the Second Check-in Post for participants.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hp_creatures posted the Masterlist for the January Prompts.
• rarepair_shorts posted the Masterlist/Reveals.
• kink_n_squick posted the Week 2 Roundup of the Creatures Fest.

Hot Rec:
• Rorschach by gracerene (Harry/Draco; NC-17; 5410 words)
Summary: Harry never gave much thought to Malfoy's soulmark. But that was before he caught a glimpse. Now it's all he can think about.

Discussions:
• torino10154 posted about Exchanges and Prompt-Based Fests.

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


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