Dragons and Murtlaps and Weres, oh my!

[chthonya]

Can I just say how happy I am about JKR writing a film based on Fantastic Beasts? Not just because of the subject matter - I wasn't quite daring to hope that JKR would write more in the HP universe, let alone that it would a) focus on adults (Newt Scamander would be early 20s in 1920?) and b) expand the world in a direction than fanon generally

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[moonyprof]

EXTREMELY excited. Also, not to be parochial, but maybe some non-British actors, too. Not for Newt--wrong, bleh--but characters we haven't met yet. And not just American actors--I guarantee you the A-listers are on the phone to their agents right now, begging for a walk-on--but French, Australian, German . . .

Gerard Depardieu. Can you imagine? As the headmaster of Beauxbatons or something.

[chthonya]

Wouldn't it have to be Durmstrang these days - with his Russian citizenship and all? ;)

Agreed about non-British actors, though. I just love the idea of seeing the wizarding world of New York in the 1920s!

[author_by_night]

Speaking of hp_holidaygen, can I ask what happened? I didn't participate this year but couldn't help notice so few fics have been posted, and usually the master list has been posted by now. Do you guys need help?