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Joanne K. Rowling:
• Celebrate World Book Day in a Harry Potter or Fantastic Beasts costume.
• The Soothplayers' 'Completely Improvised Harry Potter' is coming to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Director Chris Columbus awarded first Robin Williams Award for Excellence in Entertainment.
• Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) is busy promoting upcoming movie The Beauty and the Beast.
• Happy Birthday, James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley): Phelps Twins Double (Birthday) Trouble.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child News:
• Jack Thorne about his new musical Junkyard and the magic of theatre.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• New On-Set Look at costumes, Newt Scamander's mating dance & more. (behind-the-scenes video)
• New 5 minutes comprehensive on-set visual effects awards film reel.
• New Fantastic Beasts coin makes MACUSA legal tender (on the Cook Islands). And more Information on the MACUSA commemorative coin.
• SpeakBeasty Podcast: Episode 31: #GravesLives.

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt #181 (due on or before March 4): three book titles.

Communities:
• dracotops_harry posted a Call for Beta Readers.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hogwarts365 posted the Prompt #180 Masterlist.

Fandom Recs:
• carpemermaid recced one Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood fic (PG-13).
• kellychambliss recced one Hermione Granger/Severus Snaoe fic (PG-13).
• @LaDonnaErrante recced a Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegoodfic (PG-13) in The Rec Center #60.
• themightyflynn recced Harry Potter/Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood art (NC-17).
• themightyflynn recced Severus Snape & Minerva McGonagall art (Star Wars crossover, G).
• toblass recced young Snape art (G).

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

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from February 26 to March 4 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from February 19 through 25.

Discussion:
• dicta_contrion posted If Milo Yiannopoulos was fictional, would you ship him.

General Fandom News:
• OTW Guest Post: Jackson Bird, the Director of Wizard-Muggle Relations for the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA).
• Dreamwidth Maintenance posted about a server leak and possible crossposting problems to LJ.

Nifty:
• Giveaway: Win a personalised copy of Lynn Boughey and Peter Earnest's Harry Potter and the Art of Spying: Young Agent Edition. (ends March 10, world-wide)
• Unofficial Harry Potter Knits Still Available.

Community Spotlight:
♥ hp_goldenage – Home of the Salt and Pepper Fest
The Harry Potter Golden Age community celebrates Harry Potter characters over the age of 50. Any characters/pairings that satisfy the age requirement are permitted. Whether they appeared 50+ in canon or not, as long as they meet the age requirements in your fanworks, they are welcome in this community. Community activities include Batilda Bagshot's Bingo and the annual Salt and Pepper Fest. This year's fest starts on March 6th.


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