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Pottermore News
• New Marauders artwork featuring Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs.

Harry Potter – Actors and Movies:
• First Look at the Forbidden Forest Warner Bros. Studio Tour London.
• Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) headlines Kansas City Planet Comicon, April 28-30.
• Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley) reveal who they would cast as young Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts. (exclusive interview)
• Adrian Rawlins (James Potter) makes directorial debut with play The Night Season.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child News:
• Hamilton and Cursed Child share more than just stage magic.
• Fifty Things that Jamie Parker (Harry Potter) could have done sitting on a delayed train.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies:
• VIDEO on Pottermore: Fantastic Beasts cast on working with the Harry Potter creative team.
• SpeakBeasty Podcast: Episode 32: You Can't Magic With Us.
• New Fantastic Beasts deleted scene: Obscurus on a Rampage.

Prompt Challenges:
• hogwarts365 posted Prompt #183 (due on or before March 18): "...no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Belated Birthday Celebrations and Learning a New Language.
• birdsofshore posted an update about the on-going Anywhere But the Bed Comment Fest.

Communities:
• daily deviant announced the 11th Birthday Bash running during the last two weeks of March and all of April.
• snape_potter posted Important Member Information about the recent technical difficulties at InsaneJournal.

Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups:
• hp_kinkfest posted the Masterlist of this year's fest.
• hp_goldenage posted the Week One Wrap Up of the Salt & Pepper Fest.
• hogwarts365 posted the Prompt #182 Masterlist.

Fandom Recs:
• capitu recced a Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy fic (R).
• digthewriter recced a Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy elevator fic (NC-17).
• kellychambliss recced one Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape fic (R).
• themightyflynn recced Charlie Weasley/Severus Snape art (NC-17).
• toblass recced Severus Snape art (G).
• williamsnickers recced a Harry Potter/Lucius Malfoy fic (NC-17).

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

Resources:
• torino made a post about filter problems on InsaneJournal communities and how to fix them.
• Schedule of Upcoming Events from March 12 to 18 at potterfests.
• The SS/HP Prophet from March 5 – 11.

Discussions:
• Madison wrote Defending J. K. Rowling on Twitter. (Mugglenet)
• Joshua Hansen wrote Why Dumbledore is Terrible at Adulting. (Mugglenet)

Essay/Meta:
• @destinationtoast posted Asexuality and Aromanticism on AO3 part 1: general stats and top fandoms and part 2: top characters. (all fandoms)

General Fandom News:
• US Quidditch: Everything You Need To Know Before USQC 10.

Community Spotlight:
♥ hpstoryfinders – Harry Potter Story Finders
The purpose of this community is finding lost Harry Potter stories, authors' websites, etc. Slash, het, and gen searches are all welcome. Specific story or author searches only, no general searches for pairing or genre recommendations. hpstoryfinders has over 3000 members; the last post was back in December 2013.


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