22nd July 1977 • The Wizarding World's Beguiling Broadsheet of Choice • 5 κ
HOGWARTS TO REOPEN EARLY
By Francis Solveig, Journalist
Due to the early closing of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on May 1st, the new headmaster, Augustus Rookwood, plans to reopen the school in less than two weeks. Attendance will also be mandatory from now on, so if you were planning on homeschooling your eleven-year-old witches and wizards, think again. These new rules are both unprecedented, but everything has been approved by the Ministry, and letters sent out this morning with further details. Students that would receive their letter before September 1st are still being allowed to attend, though Diagon Alley will most likely be a nightmare until August 1st. Graduating students were still able to take their NEWTs, however OWLs were postponed; the exams will be given the first week of August instead.
Everyone seems to be waiting on the edge of their seats to see where the new administration takes the students. A new Minister, a new Headmaster: could these two incidents be linked? So far the Minister has yet to prove himself; hopefully the new Headmaster will soon (though if one were to ask this reporter, he might think that suddenly reopening the school early seems a bit suspicious).
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22nd July 1977 • The Wizarding World's Beguiling Broadsheet of Choice • 5 κ
NEW MUGGLEBORN REGISTRATION COMMITTEE INSTATED
By Francis Solveig, Journalist
The Wizarding World seems to be ablaze with changes lately, and the Ministry is no exception. A new Committee, with the same level of authority as any other Department, has sprung into being during the flames of change. Called simply the Muggleborn Registration Committee, no official report has been given about its creation, besides one urgent announcement: the call for all muggleborns and those with questionable magical heritage to report to the Ministry of Magic Registrations office starting immediately on Monday, July 25th, 1977. It isn’t known what will be happening during these Registration meetings, but there has been no upsurge of panic from the population nor from any workers within the Ministry itself.
The Head of the Muggleborn Registration Committee, Dolores Umbridge, wishes to reassure any who may feel anxious about a meeting they may be required to attend, saying: “If one will simply come prepared with a valid family connection to any wizarding family, then one shall be quite safe!”
The laugh Ms. Umbridge followed her announcement with did nothing to satisfy this reporter. Apparantly, Registration has become the Ministry’s top priority, scheduled to start Monday and continue indefinitely, until “things have been straightened out, as they ought to be!”