Daily Prophet: January 31, 1998 |
[Jan. 31st, 2010|04:58 pm] |
Quidditch Quarrels Betty Braithwaite
Quidditch has long been a standard in the wizarding world, and British teams boast some of the most skilled and dedicated athletes in the world. The sport is a safe haven for families to take their children as a form of entertainment and family outings, and players are held to the highest standards.
In recent years, however, there have been increasing concerns about the moral decline in players, who serve as role models to so many young wizards. "You can't just bring your son to the matches anymore, can you?" one longtime fan asked during a recent interview. "The sort of players that take to the Pitch now - they attract the worst sorts of fans, and I just don't want to expose my son to that."
Her concerns are echoed by many. In just the most recent and blatant display, the Wimbourne Wasps, a team whose starting lineup has been recently in talks for increased salaries, despite spotty play records and the coaches' desire to shake up the team's performance by ending a number of contracts, staged a blatant political stunt. In what was said to be a bid on behalf of muggleborn wizards, the team refused to take the air for their most recent match against the well-regarded Caerphilly Catapults. Instead, the team, dressed in scanty and blatantly scandalous clothing and bearing signs with vulgar slogans, paraded onto the Pitch and staged a sit in. "Quite frankly, no one knew what it was they were trying to accomplish," one baffled viewer told the Prophet. "There were a half dozen wizards there who'd already gone through the Ministry's checkpoint, and were trying to tell them that it was a matter of safety for everyone that the Ministry was cracking down, but they just wouldn't listen. If you ask me, it was all just a play for a bit of free press. The Wasps are starting to sink as low as the Cannons, these days."
He wasn't alone in this view. While the Catapults acted with dignity and retired the field with apologies to their fans, the Wasps refused to go, nearly inciting a riot when a stray bludger they'd taken onto the Pitch hit a young onlooker, who was rushed to St. Mungo's for Healing. The ploy may have won them attention, but it lost them not just the match, but an additional 100 points from their record, as decided by the head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports.
"This kind of behavior won't be tolerated," representatives of the Wasps told us. As of this printing, four of the six starting players for the Wasps had been released from their contracts and disbarred from the Quidditch Association, with the fate of the remaining players uncertain. The released players could not be reached for comment.
Disappointed fans who had to leave the stadium without seeing the match told us that they were glad for the ruling, and hoped that it would help bring standards back to the League. |
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[Jan. 31st, 2010|03:09 am] |
Who: Alecto Carrow [narrative] When: The wee early hours of Sunday, January 31, 1998. Where: Twenty miles down the dirt road from the Carrows Estate. What: Alecto is finally killing those filthy muggle neighbors. Rating/Status: R - violent imagery, suggestive themes including death, and torture / Closed narrative
( She has been craving this for lifetimes. ) |
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[Jan. 30th, 2010|06:53 pm] |
Who: Heath and Myron What: Working on a new song Where: The Ireland house When: Tonight Rating/Warning: TBA, likely language
( He wanted Myron's opinion. ) |
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[Jan. 28th, 2010|11:30 pm] |
Who: Cho Chang Where: Outside Flourish and Blott's When: About eight-ish. What: Best friends need to be remembered.
( I miss you. ) |
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[Jan. 28th, 2010|01:12 pm] |
Who: Eloise Midgen, Draco Malfoy, & OPEN What: Ice skating on the lake! Where: The Hogwarts Lake When: Thursday, 28 January. After classes, a hour or two before sunset. Rating: TBA
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[Jan. 27th, 2010|01:52 pm] |
WHO: Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy WHAT: Lucius hasn't been telling his wife what he's been doing lately, and she's getting fed up with everything WHERE: Malfoy Manor, specifically their bedroom WHEN: Very, very late at night RATING: TBD, but mostly they'll just be arguing about secrets
( For the sake of her sanity she had to know what he was doing ) |
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[Jan. 27th, 2010|02:23 pm] |
Who: Orsino and Donaghan When: Today Where: Orsino's flat! What: Orsino and Donaghan need more WS interaction! (Or more interaction at all!) Don drops by unannounced. Rating: Low? Open/Closed: closed
( Fear the boredom. ) |
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[Jan. 26th, 2010|11:24 pm] |
Who: Hestia Jones & Rabastan Lestrange What: Interrupting some torture and Death Eater fun Where: Dark alley in Diagon Alley When: Nighttime, nearly midnight Rating/Warnings: PG-13, perhaps
( Hestia hadn't planned on spending the evening out. ) |
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[Jan. 26th, 2010|10:03 pm] |
Who: Argus Pyrites & Luna Lovegood What: Bringing the Captive some food. And having unwanted conversation. Where: Shalott, in the cellar-room-thing When: Tuesday, 26 January, after closing Rating/Warnings: TBA
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[Jan. 24th, 2010|12:45 pm] |
[ | Tags | | | !1998: 01, !incomplete, audrey wadcock, ernie macmillan, lucy elkins, michael corner, millicent bulstrode, minerva mcgonagall, nikolas vaisey, sam capper, seamus finnigan | ] |
Who: The Headmistress and Sam Capper, Seamus Finnigan, Michael Corner, Lucy Elkins, Millicent Bulstrode, Nikolas Vaisey, Ernie Macmillan, and Audrey Wadcock What: An illegal invitation Where: Headmistress' Office When: After dinner tonight. Each student comes in roughly half an hour after the previous student (each student in a new comment thread). Rating/Warning: Low, Plotty
( She waited for eight students whom she was about to turn into criminals. ) |
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Yesterday's Quidditch Match |
[Jan. 24th, 2010|12:02 pm] |
It was a cold day, and still clouded and dark as the Quidditch teams took to the Pitch. But as the students had been starved for excitement since returning from Holidays, any bystander would have thought that the crowd couldn’t feel the chill at all. Though there had been some question as to whether or not Quidditch would continue, now that it was here students seemed able to forget the horror of the world outside the Pitch and focus, at least for a few hours, on the game.
The Slytherin team entered to hisses from three houses, and rousing cheers from their own, and Ravenclaw entered to the inverse - three houses cheering and the Slytherin stands looking up at them murderously. ( Quidditch: Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin ) |
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[Jan. 24th, 2010|01:41 am] |
Who: Argus Pyrites & Jacob Thresher (NPC) What: Lending a hand to all the Mudbloods. Where: Argus' office at Shalott When: Around 2:30 in the morning, Friday into Saturday Rating/Warnings: PG at most. Nothing too crazy.
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