The Harry Potter news site HPANA (Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator), though it’s not so automatic anymore has posted its own little April Fools prank courtesy of Peeves (the mischievous poltergeist from the books, if you didn’t know).

Interesting choice: they’re suggesting that a Harry Potter anime featuring designs by Akira Toriyama will be made and aired on ABC Family to start in 2012.

Now, there are things I would change. First off, why Akira Toriyama when mangaka Koge Donbo (of Di Gi Charat/Pita Ten fame) has actual Harry Potter fanart on a website, including character illustrations? (Yes, it’s legit; I assume some non-anime-fans who like HP haven’t seen them yet.) Also…to air in 2012? Who would announce an anime not due to hit TVs for FOUR YEARS?

That said, I can kinda imagine Toriyama doing art for Harry Potter and it makes me gag.

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Some naughty Ouran High School Host Club communities have been deleted, leading fans to fear that LJ has moved out of the Harry Potter fandom to target anime communities. It looks like at least two of them were deleted by their owners, but the status of two others’ is unclear: ouran_papas and ootoricest both offer “this journal has been deleted and purged” messages, NOT “this journal has been suspended” messages.

However, given that in their last attempt to rid themselves of “kiddy porn” LJ changed from using their many-years-old tradition of striking through the deleted account names and bolded them instead, it’s not hard for me to fathom that they might change the message on the deleted account to prevent yet another uprising. Sorry if that sounds a little conspiracy theory-ish. By the way, the communities’ names are bolded, not struck through. But again, with LJ changing little things like that now, it’s unclear whether that means the journals were deleted by LJ or by their owners.

After hearing about this, a number of Weiß Kreuz communities moved to Insane Journal.

After the jump, a quick catch-up on what’s been going on at LJ, for those unaware:
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