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Happy Birthday, Sirius Black ♥ (Nov 3, 1959 – June 18, 1996)

Joanne K. Rowling – Life and Books:
• Strike – The Cuckoo's Calling DVD out in November 27.
• BBC's Harry Potter: A History of Magic (full video up on youtube for now)
• The team of "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" discusses J. K. Rowling's involvement.

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• Happy Birthday, Natalia Tena (Tonks)!
• Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) to be honoured at the Hollywood Film Awards.
• Universal Studios Japan to celebrate Harry Potter in the "Expecto Patronum Night Show".
• David Bradley (Argus Filch) and Warwick Davis (Filius Flitwick) at MCM London Comic Con.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• Experience "Fantastic Beats" in a whole new way with the Kindle in Motion Illustrated version. (MuggleNet)
• hpboy13 wrote Hippolytus... Lestrange (FF speculation). (MuggleNet)
• Fantastic Beasts sequel teases Newt Scamander's published book and Diagon Alley.
• "Fantastic Beasts" found in virtual reality on PlayStationVR.

Pottermore News
• The Pottermore Art Collection now ships to the US.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child:
• "Cursed Child" Broadway tickets up for charity bid to support the New Victory Theater.

Prompt Challenges:
• theiceroyals posted the monthly prompts for November.

Communities:
• Prompting for the Salt & Pepper Fest at hp_goldenage starts November 5.
• hp_halloween posted a Day of the Dead mod post.
• firewhiskeyfic is back for the Bonfire Night Edition on November 5.
• theiceroyals Exchange Fest started posting. (Narcissa/Lucius)
• The sirius_black Fest has started posting today.
• themasque: Vote at the "A Discovery of Witches Stories Contest".
• hd_owlpost announced that the community is now also on tumblr.
• Prompting has started at the hdconsentfest.
• wolfstarbigbang announced the 2018 Wolfstar Big Bang.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hp_creatures posted the Masterlist of the HP Creatures Halloween Fest.
• hd_fan_fair posted the Weekly Roundup #4.

Editor's Choice Rec:
• The Best Aerial Steam Team in the DMLE by naadi (Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter; G; art)
Summary: Draco Malfoy is one-half of the best damned Aerial Steam Team in Wizarding Britain, and he's exceedingly proud of it. It doesn't hurt that his partner is adorable delectable not nearly as displeasing as previously presumed, even if Potter doesn't always support Draco's fashion choices. Really, how can Draco not want to transfigure his standard-issue Ministry uniform (boring!) into something more posh. He's still the best at his job. He even invented wings!

Fandom Recs:
• rosevalleynb recced Ronald Bilius Weasley art (R).
• madeleone recced a Hermione Granger/Severus Snape Halloween fic (NC-17).
• smirkingcat recced a Draco Malfoy/Severus Snape fic (NC-17).
• reynardo recced a Hermione Granger/Severus Snape craft (G).

Essay/Meta:
• Kim McChesney wrote Halloween in the Harry Potter series.
• Richa Venkatraman wrote On this day in "Potter" History, everything went wrong. (MuggleNet)

General Fandom News:
• Shachi collected the "Potter Events" Roundup. (MuggleNet)
• LeakyCon will be held in Dallas, Texas from August 10 to 12, 2018.
• International Quidditch Association announces 2018 World Cup hosted by Florence, Italy.

Nifty:
• @snuffles-groovydoghouse posted an amazing Remus Lupin werewolf transformation role-play.

• dailysnitch is looking for your recs (fic, art, podfic, meta ...) for the Special Edition: Newt Scamander.

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