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February 2007 - November 2007.
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| SPECIAL UPDATE FROM THE DAILY PROPHET. 19 MAY 1998. |
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DETAILS EMERGE ON FINAL SHOWDOWN
Potter Defeats Dark Lord, Surprisingly, With Assistance of Death Eaters
New details are circulating in regard to the nature of the Dark Lord's defeat, particularly the role that Death Eaters had to play in the ultimate victory of Harry Potter over the power of You-Know-Who.
"The exact details are fuzzy," said our source inside the Department for Magical Law Enforcement, "but it would seem as though people inside the Death Eaters were actually working to bring Him down. Not so much working in coordination with Potter and his allies, exactly, but more parallel to their efforts. There was a necklace, and a cup we think is connected to the assault on the Smith family last year. The most recent ones appear to be a Special Services Award hidden inside the school, and Harry Potter himself. Haven't you ever wondered about the scar?"
Questioning of Death Eaters have yielded this information, particularly the testimony of Draco Malfoy, mistakenly exonerated for collusion with the Death Eaters in January, about the role of Severus Snape. Snape is now rumoured to be instrumental in the Dark Lord's downfall despite being one of his most trusted lieutenants. Since Snape was killed in the battle before he was taken into custody, his exact motives for working against You-Know-Who remain unknown.
According to our anonymous source inside the Ministry, the Dark Lord managed to maximize his power and longevity by splitting his soul into several parts using spells unknown as of this point in time, and places the split pieces in special objects protected by Dark Magic. Each object had a special significance in the Dark Lord's life, including associations with his time at Hogwarts, which was apparently a time extremely important in his development into the monstrosity he became later in life.
"The Dark Lord actually began his life as a man named Tom Riddle," continued our source. "We don't know very much about him at this point in the investigation except that he disappeared decades ago under that name, but as we discover more information about him, we'll let you know."
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| SPECIAL UPDATE FROM THE DAILY PROPHET. |
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November 19th, 2007 11:09
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Information for all of these lists of injured, killed in battle, in custody and missing in action from the Battle of Hogwarts will be updated and published as soon as the Daily Prophet receives it.
No matter how tumultuous the situation in the wizarding world may be, we here at the Daily Prophet remain completely dedicated to being Wizarding Britain's most reliable source of information.INJURED
Mandy Brocklehurst. Ravenclaw Student. Lacerations.
Lavender Brown. Gryffindor Student. Assaulted by werewolf.
Shea Fawcett. Ravenclaw Student. Leg injury.
Firenze. Hogwarts Professor. Hoof injury.
Filius Flitwick. Hogwarts Professor. Small arm injury.
Anthony Goldstein. Ravenclaw Student. Head injury.
Hermione Granger. Gryffindor Student. Lacerations.
Wayne Hopkins. Hufflepuff Student. Tongue injury.
Hestia Jones. Order of the Phoenix. Broken arm.
Ernest Macmillan. Hufflepuff Student. Lacerations.
Morag MacDougal. Ravenclaw Student. Internal injury.
Lilith Moon. Hufflepuff Student. Lip injury.
Sally-Anne Perks. Gryffindor Student. Chest deflation.
Harry Potter. Gryffindor Student. Came back from dead?
Zoe Runcorn. Gryffindor Student. Concussion.
Aurora Sinistra. Hogwarts Professor. Leg injury.
Pomona Sprout. Hogwarts Professor. Concussion.
Oscar Stebbins. Hufflepuff Student. Lacerations.
Scott Summers. Hufflepuff Student. Choking injuries from weed.
Dean Thomas. Gryffindor Student. Lacerations.
Sibyll Trelawney. Hogwarts Professor. Crystal ball elbow.
Septima Vector. Hogwarts Professor. Broken nose.
George Weasley. Order of the Phoenix. Lacerations. |
KILLED IN BATTLE
Stephen Cornfoot. Ravenclaw Student.
Vincent Crabbe. Slytherin Student.
Colin Creevey. Gryffindor Student.
Roger Davies. Ravenclaw Alumnus.
Remus Lupin. Order of the Phoenix.
Eloise Midgen. Hufflepuff Student.
Matthew Spinks. Hufflepuff Student.
Nymphadora Tonks. Order of the Phoenix.
Fred Weasley. Order of the Phoenix.
Eleven school elves, names unknown.
Three centaurs, names unknown.
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Antonin Dolohov. Death Eater.
Marcus Flint. Death Eater Affiliate.
Gregory Goyle, Sr. Death Eater.
Bellatrix Lestrange. Death Eater.
Augustus Rookwood. Death Eater.
Severus Snape. Death Eater.
Thomas Travers. Death Eater.
Dolores Umbridge. Death Eater Affiliate.
Lord V--------. Death Eater.
George Yaxley. Death Eater. |
IN CUSTODY
Miles Bletchley, Sr. Death Eater.
Miles Bletchley, Jr. Death Eater Affiliate.
Alecto Carrow. Death Eater.
Amycus Carrow. Death Eater.
Vincent Crabbe, Sr. Death Eater.
Fenrir Greyback. Death Eater Affiliate.
Rabastan Lestrange. Death Eater.
Rodolphus Lestrange. Death Eater.
Draco Malfoy. Death Eater.
Lucius Malfoy. Death Eater.
Narcissa Malfoy. Death Eater Affiliate.
Mortimer Mulciber. Death Eater.
Thornfinn Rowle. Death Eater.
Albert Runcorn. Death Eater Affiliate.
Stephen Selwyn. Death Eater.
Stan Shunpike. Death Eater Affiliate.
Pius Thicknesse. Death Eater Affiliate. |
MISSING IN ACTION
Avery Avery. Death Eater.
Peter Pettigrew. Death Eater.
Walden Macnair. Death Eater. |
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| SPECIAL UPDATES FROM THE DAILY PROPHET. 19 MAY 1998. |
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November 19th, 2007 10:55
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HARRY POTTER DESTROYS DARK LORD AT HOGWARTS
More Details on This Story Once We Shut Our Jaws and Put Quill to Parchment
PIUS THICKNESSE REMOVED FROM MINISTER POST
Shacklebolt Installed as Interim Minister of Magic
The Daily Prophet has received word that Minister of Magic Pius Thicknesse has been removed from his post and been replaced by former Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt in the intervening period between dismantling the old system of the Death Eaters and setting up a new government.
Shacklebolt was wanted by the Death Eaters in connection with the activities of the Order of the Phoenix during the Thicknesse regime. It is unknown whether or not his placement will become permanent in later months, though he has had more that a decade worth of experience in the Department for Magical Law Enforcement. Former known duties of Shacklebolt's include service in guarding the Muggle Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Other Ministry posts are in a shake-up as officials begin to remove other Death Eaters who took over important positions during the Thicknesse administration. Those not taken into custody on the scene at the end of the Battle of Hogwarts were arrested at their homes or at the Ministry proper.
More details as the Daily Prophet receives them.
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| ANNOUNCEMENT VIA SONORUS. |
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November 18th, 2007 20:13
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I KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU ARE PREPARING TO FIGHT.
YOUR EFFORTS ARE FUTILE. YOU CANNOT FIGHT ME. I DO NOT WANT TO KILL YOU. I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR THE TEACHERS OF HOGWARTS. I DO NOT WANT TO SPILL MAGICAL BLOOD.
GIVE ME HARRY POTTER, AND NONE SHALL BE HARMED. GIVE ME HARRY POTTER, AND I SHALL LEAVE THE SCHOOL UNTOUCHED.
GIVE ME HARRY POTTER, AND YOU SHALL BE REWARDED.
YOU HAVE UNTIL ELEVEN.
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| ANNOUNCEMENT VIA SONORUS. |
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November 18th, 2007 19:41
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All Hogwarts students are ordered to report to the Great Hall immediately. Let nothing delay you. No ifs, ands or buts. If you can walk, you are expected in the Great Hall within fifteen minutes' time. Thank you.
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| OVERHEARD AT HOGWARTS. HOGWARTS LIBRARY, 18 MAY. |
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November 18th, 2007 16:49
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'Did you hear the news?'
'What's the news, then? I don't think I did. By the way, keep it down, would you?'
'No need! Looks like Madam Pince is totally engrossed in the paper, too. Would you look at this!'
'Oh, so finally another sighting of Potter. I don't know what the big idea is. He pops up every now and again, and every time he does, it just sort of gets more and more depressing that he won't come here and do something about what's going on!'
'Party pooper.'
'I'm just trying to be realistic, you know? Oh, I suppose this was it.'
'Was what?'
'I saw someone at the Ravenclaw table get Cruciated for howling some rumour about a robbery at dinner last night. What else would set the Carrows off quite like that, yeah?'
'You're right. I guess that'd have to be it.'
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| SPECIAL UPDATE FROM THE DAILY PROPHET. 18 MAY 1998. |
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November 18th, 2007 16:39
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UNPRECEDENTED BREAK-IN AT GRINGOTTS BANK
Undesirable No. 1 and Confederates Believed to be Responsible for Burglary
The Ministry of Magic and Department for Magical Law Enforcement have made late confirmation of reports of a break-in at the Gringotts Wizarding Bank in London that took place yesterday evening, in which undesirable elements attempted to get away with items from a leading magical family's private store.
Such an action is unprecedented in British wizarding history, since there has never been an attempt -- at the very least, an attempt on record -- of a successful break-in and escape from the bank, which has always touted its security installations as England's finest. Potter and his two undesirable accomplices, Ron Weasley, 17 and mudblood Hermione Granger, 18, were identified after falling through a charm-protected area that stripped them of the disguises that had allowed them to gain access.
Potter, Weasley and Granger had disguised themselves, with the aid of Polyjuice Potion, as members and friends of the Lestrange family, formerly falsely accused of crimes against wizarding society in 1980. Since their release from prison and sweeping pardon from Pius Thicknesse, the Lestranges have devoted themselves to protection of the wizarding world against elements like Undesirable No. 1 and his friends.
It is unknown whether or not Potter and his accomplices were successful in taking anything from the Lestrange family's private vault, but it is known at this point in time that they did manage to escape from the scene. Aurors are currently inside the bank attempting to trace their location, and to question the goblins employed, since it is believed that they may have had a creature accomplice helping them break into a wizard's vault.
"Typical," declared George Yaxley, head of the Department for Magical Law Enforcement, when pressed about the complicity of goblins in this horrific theft. "They obviously cannot be trusted, nor have they ever been worthy of trust to begin with. This is yet another reason why we must sweep these creatures from their control of our financial institutions and begin a reform of them ourselves. Who knows how much money they've stolen from us on the inside already?"
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| OVERHEARD AT HOGWARTS. GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM, 25 APRIL 1998. |
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October 25th, 2007 20:31
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'What are we going to do?'
'Did something happen?'
'Are you completely out of the loop? Check the latest news on the bulletin board, mate!'
'...Bloody hell. Can they even do that? Slytherins don't have our passwords now, do they?'
'I guess all they have to do is knock. It'll be our job to answer the door, yeah?'
'A Galleon says they have the most fun knocking around in our House, though, history with Slytherin being what it is.'
'I don't know. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll trash the Hufflepuffs instead.'
'Lucky?'
'It's all relative.'
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| FOR THE HOGWARTS GENERAL NOTICE BOARD. |
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October 25th, 2007 20:31
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BECAUSE WE PROMISED, UNWANTED SMALL SCHOOLCHILDREN WHO HAVE NO HAPPY HOME TO RETURN TO, ANOTHER VERY SPECIAL RULE FOR YOU TO FOLLOW FOR THE REMAINDER OF OUR SPRING HOLIDAY:
Slytherins may enter any place in the castle, including other common rooms, because you could use a little bit more of their culture now and then, and we are all about increasing the inter-house unity, too. Aren't we? Aren't we? We are so good with the coming together and the holding of hands and the singing of songs.
We'll let you know again if we tack on anything more. We're good like that. We give nice notices.
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| OVERHEARD AT HOGWARTS. HUFFLEPUFF COMMON ROOM, 21 APRIL 1998. |
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October 21st, 2007 22:23
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'Remember when we were all afraid that the Slytherins were going to torch our common room a few weeks back? Maybe a month or two ago?'
'Yeah! The fear was so intense I had to find a clean pair of underpants to change into.'
'...Right. Hold your bladder there this time, mate, but I think they may be up to setting us on fire again.'
'What?'
'The Slytherins! The ones who're still here over the holidays are getting special lessons from the Carrows or something to fill all the free time, I hear.'
'What?'
'I know, who knows what they're up to and what they're learning about, right? Nothing good. Bad enough that they get to stalk us through the corridors whenever we're let out of here. They're just fattening us for the fryer now, I bet.'
'What?'
'...At least we can try to put out the flames with the growing wet spot on your trousers. Beggars can't be choosers.'
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| OVERHEARD AT HOGWARTS. HUFFLEPUFF COMMON ROOM, 16 APRIL 1998. |
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'Hey! Didn't expect to see you sticking around the castle, mate.'
'Yeah. Neither did I, but not much of a choice in the matter right now.'
'Oh, really? How do you mean?'
'My mum's -- well. You know.'
'Is she sick or something? I'm sorry, I didn't know.'
'In a manner of speaking, I guess. She's a Muggle. I can't go home -- I mean, what if being around put her in danger or anything? Or the rest of my family? It's such bollocks.'
'Wow. I really am sorry. Looks like you're not alone, though, there's a lot more people around the school for the holidays this year, it seems.'
'Yeah. I was really looking forward to Mum's Easter ham.'
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| FOR THE GENERAL HOGWARTS NOTICE BOARD. |
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October 16th, 2007 10:49
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FOR STUDENTS STAYING AT HOGWARTS OVER THE EASTER HOLIDAY
SPECIAL RULES EXCLUSIVELY FOR YOU TO KEEP NEAR AND DEAR TO YOUR BIG LITTLE HEARTS
THERE WILL BE NO AIMLESS WANDERING OF THE HALLS. Every student should have a very shiny happy reason to go out into the hallways or they should stay inside and be safe like nice little girls and boys always should. Get passes from your Prefects. Nobody should get lost in a big big castle like this all by themselves. Slytherins can go wherever they want.
THERE WILL BE NO WEARING OF NON-UNIFORM CLOTHES OUTSIDE THE HALLS. This is our holiday too, children, our holiday from your very ugly Muggle or Muggle-inspired non-standard clothing wares! You will wear your uniforms whenever you leave your House areas for meals or errands, and still remember, you need a pass! Slytherins can wear wizard robes outside if they want.
THERE WILL BE A 2100 CURFEW. Little Hogwarts girls and boys without Prefect badges or Slytherin decals on their very official robes will be in very big trouble if we see them out late at night, and we wouldn't want to see anybody get disciplined unless they absolutely had to, now do we?
MORE RULES WILL BE ANNOUNCED AS WE COME UP WITH THEM, AND WE WILL! We know you're looking forward to hearing more of our special rules, so forward, so you keep a very close eye on your bulletin boards. We'll make more. We like rules. Rules are everybody's friends.
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| FOR THE GENERAL HOGWARTS NOTICE BOARD. |
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October 16th, 2007 10:46
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WINNERS AND LOSERS
OUR VERY EXCITING HOGWARTS SCAVENGER HUNT CHALLENGE
TEAM WHISKEY: 4575 PTS
TEAM TANGO: 74390457823 PTS
TEAM FOXTROT: 6784378 PTS
TEAM WEENIS: 8945895847 PTS
POINTS AWARDED FOR ARTISTIC MERIT AND BECAUSE WE SAY SO.
ENJOY YOUR HAPPY SLAPPY EASTER HOLIDAY.
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| FOR THE HOGWARTS GENERAL NOTICE BOARD |
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October 8th, 2007 21:55
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YOUR VERY SPECIAL PROJECT FROM US TO YOU
YOU KNOW, THE DUMB ONE THAT WE HAVE PUT OUR VERY SPECIAL TOUCH ON, THE IDEA WE NICKED FROM WIMPLE AND WILLIAMSON
WE TALKED ALL ABOUT IT ALREADY, CHILDREN, AND SO HAVE YOU, AND WE EVEN NAMED A GROUP WEENIS, YOU KNOW
It is your very solemn task to work in very special groups together to find us all sorts of very splendiferous things. Here is what we want you to look for, using your special shiny togetherness and unity and togetherness and snuggly wuggly pan-student love.
Alecto wants one nice ring. A nice one. A precious one. You will find one. Make sure it is a colour stone that sets off the fine bones of her delicate hands to best advantage.
Amycus wants a nice cup. A big one. A nice big one. You will find one. Make sure it has lots and lots of magical special room for lots of Professor Carrow's special juice. It should never get empty.
We want a shrubbery. You will bring us a shrubbery. A nice one. A big bushy shrubbery.
You know what else we like? Swords. Sharp pointy things are nice. Bring us a shiny one, children.
Bring us something that our Dark Lord would like. Bring us something that would be important to him. Make our Dark Lord feel special. He's very special.
That's all we can think of for now. We will let you know when we come up with more stuff for your mighty quests. Look, children, look and search and feel fulfilled in your unity with one another. This is a special time and a special project where you will bring us stuff. Maybe there will be a reward in it for you if you children do very very nicely. Maybe the group who finds the least stuff will get something too. Good luck finding our stuff. Chop chop.
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| FOR THE HOGWARTS GENERAL NOTICE BOARD. |
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October 5th, 2007 8:07
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GROUPS FOR HILARIOUSLY STUPID PROJECT THE IDEA FOR WHICH WE NICKED FROM WILLIAMSON AND WIMPLE
DANCE FOR US, OUR LITTLE CHILDREN, DANCE DANCE
GROUP WHISKEY: Finnigan, Black Gryffindor, Bones, Corner, Bulstrode, Zabini, Fawcett, Capper, Urquhart
GROUP TANGO: Largebottom, Hopkins, Irish, Goldstein, Crabbe, Nott, Mudblood Loophole Gryffindor, Bobbin, Kirke
GROUP FOXTROT: Gryffindor Patil, Jones, Asian, Davis, Goyle, Parkinson, Dorny, Dunstan, Vaisey
GROUP WEENIS: Perks, Head Boy, Head Girl, Greengrass, Drakie, Roper, Smith, Bradley, Harper
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| OVERHEARD AT HOGWARTS. OUTSIDE THE GREAT HALL, 30 MARCH 1998. |
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September 30th, 2007 21:11
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'So are you going?'
'Going to what?'
'Hagrid's throwing a party for the students. You didn't hear? I thought it'd gotten spread all over the school by now.'
'Guess not. Hagrid, though, I don't exactly know if that's my scene. I never took Magical Creatures.'
'Neither have I!'
'And I'm not a Gryffindor, either.'
'Neither am I! Again. Who cares? A party's a party, for Merlin's sake, I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth. It's been so dreary around here lately that we need to get out there and have some kind of fun.'
'I don't know. I guess I'll think about it.'
'And I also heard tell that Slytherins are totally barred from even setting foot in there, if it changes your mind.'
'Oh, by all means! Talk about it even louder, buddy, I don't think they heard that they'll be bounced from Hagrid's party quite yet.'
'I don't care if they can hear me or not! It's high time they stopped getting to be the ones having all the fun.'
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| SPECIAL UPDATE FROM THE DAILY PROPHET. 28 MARCH 1998. |
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BLOOD STATUS TRIALS CONTINUE WITH GREAT SUCCESS
Ministry of Magic Announces Great New Successes in Dealing with Mudblooded Elements
The Ministry of Magic has capped off a mere six weeks of new Blood Status trials by convicting their hundredth Mudblood wizard for magical theft, spokespeople from the government proudly reported this morning.
'In only an extremely short period of time, we have made enormous strides toward preserving not only the security of the wizarding world in Great Britain, but also preserving our traditional magical values,' said Dolores Umbridge, Head of the Muggleborn Registration Commission prosecuting Mudblood witches and wizards for magical theft. 'If we have achieved so much in only a short period of time, imagine the gains that we will be able to make over a greater stretch of time.'
Umbridge's pursuit of magical theft shows no sign of abating soon, since the docket of cases into which the Muggleborn Registration Commission is still quite full, by all reports. 'It's always a difficult task to send people to jail, but we must deter these sorts of flagrant crimes against wizarding humanity somehow,' continued Umbridge. 'Incarceration has become absolutely essential. Examples must be made so that these behaviours will stop. In some cases, we have been forced to go even further.'
When pressed to define what 'even further' meant, Umbridge declined comment.
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| OWL POST. |
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September 25th, 2007 23:13
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OI MUM. IT'S ANDREW. CAN YOU DO ME A FAVOUR?
I'm running really fucking low on ink, so if you could post me some more, then I think that'd be really brill, and I'd really appreciate it. Also, something happened to my copy of that Arithastronomy journal I get sent to me, I think, since it arrived in pretty bad condition. Something REALLY FUCKING DISGUSTING got wiped on it. X. If you could scrounge up another copy of the think journal thing for me so I would have something to read here, that would be completely ace too. I think. Opening.
Hope everything's okay with Peter and Gene. Hope you've heard from Dad and Jan too. I'll write again soon, thanks.
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| OVERHEARD AT HOGWARTS. NEAR THE GREAT HALL, 25 MARCH 1998. |
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'Say, have you visited the kitchens lately?'
'Can't say I've tickled the pear for a while, no. Something on your mind? Weird food craving?'
'No, it's just -- well, it's a stupid complaint, really.'
'Is there something the matter?'
'I just keep smelling, you know. Well. I don't know if you know. Have you smelled anything odd around here lately?'
'Can't say I've noticed anything out of the ordinary, either. I'm guessing you have, though.'
'It's almost like -- it's a smell almost like burning. It's a smell almost like roasting. Like the house elves are trying out some new cooking techniques or something. It's not ever really strong, but it's there, and I keep detecting it.'
'Not like the elves to try something new, is it? Why fix what isn't broken?'
'I know, it's weird, isn't it? Maybe it's my imagination.'
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