The Daily Snitch

Happy Belated Birthday, Professor McGonagall (born 4 October 1935)

Joanne K. Rowling – Life and Books:
• Prisoner of Azkaban Illustrated Edition Release Day Previews. (video)
• A closer look at the new illustrations by Jim Kay. (MuggleNet)

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Rupert Grint (Ronald Weasley) hates running but loves his role in 'Snatch'.
• Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) talks about getting out of Ron Weasley mindset.
• Ian Hart (Quirinus Quirrell) celebrates 53rd birthday.
• David Yates (HP director) celebrates his 54th birthday today.
• HP and Cursed Child actresses and actors nominated for the 2017 BroadwayWorld UK Awards.
• The Music of Harry Potter takes over an upstate New York theater. (MuggleNet)
• Actor Weekly Roundup: Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Ezra Miller & others.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• Fantastic Beasts 2: Ministry of Magic will appear, Newt Scamander's address and birthday revealed.
• New Fantastic Beasts characters announced: Nicolas Flamel and others. More news on new FB characters.
• Carmen Ejogo (Seraphina Picquery) confirms to return to Fantastic Beasts 2 as MACUSA president.

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt #213 (due on or before October 14): “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.” ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Wasted Hours and Overeducated.
• @introvert-club posted Wolfstar Prompt #22.
• themasque posted info about their A Discovery of Witches Erotica Contest. (all fandoms and original fic)

Communities:
• Sign-ups end today at hp_halloween! Sign-up for a 200 words Halloween double drabble now!
• dramione_remix posted: Time to Vote on the Round 8 Awards.
• one_bad_man posted their weekly Sign-ups for the upcoming week. (The Monday spot is still free.)
• themasque posted News from the Masque, WKITT and the Garden Archives, and a call for help to cover hosting costs.
• rs_small_gifts are moving to Dreamwidth as small_gifts.
• Sign-ups for the 12th Annual Remus/Sirius Small Gifts Exchange are open at small_gifts.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hogwarts365 posted the Prompt #212 Masterlist.

Fandom Recs:
• madeleone recced a Hermione Granger/Severus Snape fic (NC-17).
• madeleone recced Hermione Grange/Severus Snape fic (NC-17).
• capitu recced a Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (NC-17).
• capitu recced another Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (NC-17).
• rosevalleynb recced a Katie Bell/Marcus Flint fic (R).
• kellychambliss recced Severus Snape art (G).
• rzzmg recced a Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy fic (NC-17).
• themightyflynn recced a Lucius and young Draco Malfoy gen fic (G).
• toblass recced a Severus Snape art (G)
• reynardo recced Hermione Granger/Severus Snape craft .
• lijahlover recced a Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (PG-13).
• nearlyconscious recced a Daphne Greengrass/Ginny Weasley fic (NC-17).
• nearlyconscious recced a Katie Bell/Marcus Flint fic (NC-17).
• nearlyconscious recced a Lavender Brown/Padma Patil fic (NC-17).
• nearlyconscious recced a Ginny Weasley/Pansy Parkinson fic (NC-17).
• nearlyconscious recced a Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter fic (NC-17).
• nearlyconscious recced a Draco/your choice fic (PG).
• smirkingcat recced Severus Snape art (G).
• gracerene recced five fics: 2 x Drarry, 2 x Draco/Severus, 1 x Harry/Remus (R to NC-17).

Resources:
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from October 8 to 14 at potterfests.
• hd_prophet: October 7, 2017 edition.

Archive News:
• The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is recruiting Graphic Designers and Translators.
• OTW Guest Post: Betsy Craig, the founder of the FannibalFest Toronto. (not HP obviously ;))
• OTW Q&A: Five Things SoyAlex Said. SoyAlex is a volunteer at Fanlore.
• OTW Newsletter: September 2017, volume 117

Discussions:
• hpboy13 wrote The Dying of the Red Moon, discussing Luna Lovegood, Ron Weasley and Luna/Ron as a ship (that never sailed). (MuggleNet)

General Fandom News:
• The memoir of the supposed 'My Immortal' author was canceled amid accusations of falsehoods. (HP fandom, Drarry ;))

Have a Laugh:
• bella collected Six Reasons Why the Halloween Feast is the Best Feast. (MuggleNet)

Nifty:
• Survive this ridikulusly hard Halloween Potter Quiz. (MuggleNet)

Searches:
• A search for a specific Hermione Granger/Remus Weasley was posted at remus_hermione.
• dailysnitch is looking for your recs (fic, art, podfic, meta ...) for the Special Edition: Newt Scamander.


Please send your fandom news to the Daily Snitch.