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Joanne K. Rowling:
• This year's Harry Potter Book Night will take place February 2 world-wide.

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Matthew Lewis talks about Harry Potter in the lead-up to Universal's three-day Celebration of Harry Potter event.
• Several actors from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies (Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright, Katie Leung, Zoë Kravitz, Dan Fogler and Gemma Chan) participated in the world-wide Women's Marches. More pics here.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child:
• Director John Tiffany brings adaptation of children's classic Pinocchio to the stage.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• The Leaky Cauldron Give-Away Competition: for two huge Fantastic Beasts boxes. (US residents only)

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt #176 (due on or before January 28): Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. – C. Joybell C., Trust and Densaugeo.

Communities:
• A new Facebook group for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (how to get tickets & more) welcomes new members.
• The crack_broom posted mid-month stats for the January reccers.
• Prompting is open at hp_darkarts' Harry Potter Horror Fest.
• lucissa announced monthly prompts and the Ice Royals' Winter Gift Exchange Fest (posting in November 2017).
• slythindor100 announced Round 9 of the Harry/Draco Last Drabble Writer Standing Challenge.
• serpentinelion announced the poll results and the dates of the upcoming Appreciation Fest and Glompfest (posting in March and June 2017, respectively).
• hd_remix announced the H/D Remix Challenge vol. 9 (posting in May 2017).

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hogwarts365 posted the Prompt #175 Masterlist.

Fandom Recs:
• ravenclawsquill recced a Lavender Brown/Parvati Patil fic (R).
• toblass recced bearded Severus Snape art (G).
• themightyflynn recced kilt!Severus (4) and kilt!Lucius (1) art (all gorgeous and gen).
• capitu recced a Harry/Draco fic.

Searches:
• snarryficfind posted a search for fics set post DH or rewrites of DH. (Snarry only!)
• dailysnitch is still looking for your recs (fic, art, podfic, meta ...) for the Special Edition: Roxanne Weasley.

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from January 22 to 28 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from January 15 through 21.
• Media References to Fanfiction for the week ending January 21, 2017

Essay/Meta:
• Just a Smidge of Ron in Cursed Child Appreciation by Holly (Muggle.Net).


Community Spotlight:
♥ mixandmatch100 – a new, biweekly drabble challenge community, focusing on Hogwarts interhouse relationships of all natures within the world of Harry Potter.


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