FRONT PAGEPolicies for Public Peace Met With PraiseRose FaustBeginning tomorrow the Minstry of Magic will be enacting what Senior Wizengamot official Delores Umbridge has called a “long overdue police of attention to popular media regarding traitorous sentiments.” This attention accompanies new laws passed by the Wizengamot and Minister Thicknesse which make any public statements against the Minstry of Magic or its policies illegal, and the author or speaker of such statements guilty of crimes against the Wizarding community.
“While there has been far more support for current Ministry policies than there has been derision,” Umbridge stated this morning in a private press conference, “there have been some who have spoken out against the new stance taken by the Minister. Obviously, change is always difficult, and we are giving those who have been writing against current policies the benefit of the doubt. They have simply not yet had explained to them the benefits of this new course of action. Of course, the majority of them are children, and being hidden away from things at Hogwarts with Albus Dumbledore polluting their minds with anti-Ministry sentiments. One can hardly blame them.”
Still, as these new laws are enacted tomorrow morning in conjuction with the first interviews of the Muggleborn Registration Committee, those who are found to be speaking out in a public way - either through the written word or through public gatherings - will be met with, as Umbridge put it, “swift punishment”.