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Joanne K. Rowling:
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: 20th Anniversary to be celebrated at London Book Screen Week.
• Harry Potter: The Exhibition comes to CineMec Utrecht from February 11 to June 30.

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Happy Belated Birthday to Bonnie Wright! (Ginny Weasley).
• Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory) and cast talk about filming 'The Lost City of Z'.
• Gary Oldman (Sirius Black): first posted unveiled for upcoming action thriller 'Hunter Killer'.
• Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick) visits Lumos Programmes in Moldavia.
• Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) on the importance of Hermione as a female role model and superhero.
• Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) speculates about Lucius Malfoy's future after the war.
• David Tennant (Barty Crouch Jr.) talks about the final season of 'Broadchurch'.
• Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) talks about shooting the WWII movie 'Alone in Berlin'.
• David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) stars as Ares, god of war, in the upcoming DC superhero franchise 'Wonder Woman'.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child:
• Broadway 'Cursed Child' auditions are scheduled for this upcoming week in New York.
• HP and the Cursed Child won 8 What'sOnStage Awards, among them Best New Play, Best Direction, and Best Set Design.

Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them – Movies and Actors:
• Dan Folger (Jacob Kowalski) and Alison Sudol (Queenie Greengrass) hosts podcast to talk about "all manner of stories from set and the story" (free on iTunes).

Prompt Challenges:
• There's a new challenge at the HPFT Archive: The Mythical Challenge. (Challenge ends April 25)
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt #180 (due on or before February 25): Do opposites really attract?, Desire/Erised and Enervate or Rennervate.
• hp_humpdrabbles posted last week's drabble and the prompts for this week: 1. Fuzzy handcuffs (image), 2.Hot wax (image NSFW), and 3. Gryffindor Quidditch boys.

Communities:
• The Valentine's Day Comment Fest at hp_unfaithful will wrap up today
• hp_3somes announced that Sign-ups for the 2017 Fest are open.
• The If The Prompt Fits-challenge at Hawthorne & Vine has started.
• lupin_snape has been collecting Romantic Wolfstar Recs since Valentine's Day.
• ron_draco_fest posted a Reminder that submissions are past due! (for all who have not yet submitted)
• hd_owlpost made a Mod Post: Apology and Stats.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hd_owlpost posted the Masterlist of All Owl Gifts 2016.
• hogwarts365 posted the Prompt #179 Masterlist.

Editor's Choice Rec:
• Nerds by upthehillart (Draco/Hermione; G; art)

Fandom Recs:
• capitu recced a Harry/Draco fic (NC-17).
• fangqueen recced an Oliver Wood/Marcus Flint/Draco Malfoy fic (NC-17).
• potteresque_ire recced a Harry/Draco fic and a H/D German translation (R and NC-17).
• snowgall recced 6 Harry/Draco fics (3 x NC-17, 1 x R, 2 x PG) from hd_owlpost Fest.
• toblass recced fanartist Joeyv7 (four pieces of art).
• themightyflynn recced a Snape/Harry fic (NC-17).

Searches:
• dailysnitch is looking for your recs (fic, art, podfic, meta ...) for the Special Edition: Roxanne Weasley.

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from February 19 to 25 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from February 12 to 18.

Essay/Meta:
• The Importance of Being Granger by Holly from Mugglenet.
• John Granger wrote Harry Potter and Lolita: J. K. Rowling’s ‘Relationship’ with Vladimir Nabokov (Names, Politics, Alchemy, and Parody). (www.hogwartsprofessor.com)


Community Spotlight:
♥ quibbler_report – a rarepair and genfic resource
A "recsletter" specializing in reccing rare pairs and gen fic. A rarepair is defined "as a pairing that is unusual, unconventional, or has a significant lack of fanfic or art dedicated to it." The list of current rarepairs can be found on the profile page of the quibbler_report. Each edition features the categories "Crumple-Horned Snorkacks (Fics)", "Blibbering Humdingers (Art), and "Thestrals (Challenges, Communities and Discussion)".


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