The Daily Snitch - Weekend Edition, May 22, 2016

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Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Warwick Davis in conversation with Lumos CEO Georgette ‘George’ Mulheir (interview).
• Fiona Shaw speaks about being 'pro-Dursley' and her fellow actors from the Dursley family.
• Christian Coulson (young Tom Riddle) talks about working with his co-stars from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
• Emma Watson's first look trailer for Beauty and the Beast will air Monday on "Good Morning, America".

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• The Friday Forty: a chance to still get tickets to Cursed Child play. Starting June 3, 40 tickets will go on sale every Friday at 1pm GMT/8am EST/5am PST, for the shows playing the following week.

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt #141 (due on or before May 28).
• hp_may_madness posted the prompts for Day 22.

Communities:
• rs_games opened Sign-ups for the 2016 Remus/Sirius Games.
• hd_tropes posted a call for two pinch-hitters.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• harrydracompreg posted the Weekly Roundup #2.
• dramionelove posted the Week Two Round-up of the DramioneLove Mini Fest.
• snape_potter posted the Snarry-a-Thon 16 Week 3 Wrap-up.
• hogwarts365 posted the # 140 Masterlist.

Fandom Recs:
• capitu recced a Harry/Draco non-magical AU (PG-13).
• capitu recced a Harry/Draco fic (R).
• toblass recced teenage!Severus gen art.
• themightyflynn recced Lucius Malfoy & Severus Snape & Mary-Sue fic and art (PG-13, G).
• ely_baby recced a James Sirius Potter/Lily Luna Potter fic (NC-17).

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from May 22 – 28 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from May 14 – 21.

Essay/Meta:
• Lilian Min, The strange story of how internet superfans reclaimed the insult ‘trash’. (May 19, 2016; all fandoms)

General Fandom News:
• leviosa2016 posted about hotel rooms for Leviosa 2016. Deadline to book hotel with discount group rates for Leviosa is June 6th!
• 5genres posted the Genre Claiming Post.

Searches:
• snarryficfind posted a search for Snarry fics where Snape meets Albus Severus Potter and is shocked about his middle name.


Community Spotlight:
♥ 5genres – A new multi-fandom, low-pressure prompt table fanfic community. The object is to explore different literary genres by writing five fics for your fandom, all in different genres. (Rules Post and List of Genres)


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