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Book Makes Wizarding Bestselling List
Rita Skeeter

As bookstores throughout the world close their doors for the events, one thing is evident, Rita Skeeter's book, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, which debuted this morning to record breaking lines and waiting lists, has surpassed sales in some of the most popular novels written in the Wizarding World. It has undoubtedly been viewed as one of the most controversial of titles ever written by Miss Skeeter, but so far the feed back has been positive.

"I never knew so much about the Headmaster," Exclaims one woman, who stood in Flourish and Blotts in Diagon Alley, not even bothering to place her book down as a crowd waiting in line attempts to peak over her shoulder to get a sneak-peak at the book. "Merlin! This book makes him seem almost human, instead of the pedestal everyone places him on!" The woman, with her brown eyes alight with a fervor then left the store, her newly autographed copy pressed tightly against her chest.

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Sale numbers are pouring into the publishing company as this is being written, and the numbers are incredible. The publishers are toasting Rita's success at another bestseller. After the success of her Dippet biography, it's no wonder that this book has been well anticipated. When asked if she has plans for another novel, Rita just smiled with that knowing smile that her beautiful face has.

Rita is planning a book signing tour, starting with Flourish and Blotts for Tuesday and Wednesday. For a full listing of her tour, feel free to owl the Daily Prophet. Miss Skeeter has all ready announced that she will be sending lucky readers an autographed copy of her new book. If you are interested, you are welcome to send your owls to Miss Skeeter directly at the Daily Prophet.


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Falmouth Importing Krum from Bulgaria
Barnaby Snell

Falmouth Falcons have announced the sensational signing of Bulgarian international Seeker Viktor Krum to their squad. Falmouth officials have been conducting top secret meetings this month with Krum's home club in Bulgaria, and have agreed to terms for a permanent transfer.

Krum arrived at Falmouth's training ground this morning to undergo a medical and hammer out personal terms with the Falcons' board of directors. He is expected to take up the starting Seeker role for the Falcons with immediate effect, and will begin training with his new teammates next week.

"He's a match winner, plain and simple," stated Archimedes Graham, a Falmouth fan selling "Krum and Done!" tunics in Falcons colours in a stall in Diagon Alley, London. "Signing Krum is a statement of intent to the rest of the League. It says we're going to take the League this year, and no one had better get in our way. I'm over the moon."


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Missing Witch in Seven Dials
Erastus Saint

The Auror department is seeking public aid in finding a twenty-three year old woman who went missing Tuesday evening around a neighborhood in London, authorities said.

A spokesperson for the Auror department said that the Aurors set up a command post in Seven Dials in London, where Abbott was last seen sometime before 10:30pm. Aurors involved in the search have requested that anyone with information come forth to help in the effort to locate her.

When asked about the disappearance of his daughter, Alfred Abbot said, "It isn't like Tottie to not call everyday to check in on the family, especially after her mother's death. We just want to bring her back safe and alive."

The blonde haired Abbott is Caucasian, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 65kgs. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, heels and a sweatshirt.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Abbott are being asked to contact the Auror department directly.



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WADA Announces Fall Season
Rose Faust

The Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts announced this morning its long-awaited list for shows being offered during the Fall term.

September 23 - October 8 : The WADA Symphony presents selected works of Musidora Barkwith including her unfinished Wizarding Suite, which will be performed for the first time in 95 years after it banned in 1902 due to incident with the Exploding Tuba. Special permission was given with the promise to omit said instrument.

October 21 - November 5th : The WADA Ballet presents Dimitri Vigand’s adaptation of The Fountain of Fair Fortune. Beedle the Bard’s classic tale of self-discovery like you’ve never seen it before!

November 12- November 15 : Come out and see the Sidesplitters the WADA’s extra curricular improv group. Admittance is free.

November 22 : Music department’s annual step out of you comfort zone talent competition. Come listen to an evening of music you wouldn’t hear anywhere else!

December 4 - December 23 : For the first time ever the WADA produces a muggle classic! A Christmas Carol is a play based on the well known novel of the same name by muggle writer Charles Dickens. Directed by famous American, muggleborn director Yvette Spencer, this is a can’t miss for the whole family. Don’t miss the fist stage debut of Anastasia Pascal, George Boren, and Charles Kitchens since their deaths in 1863.

Tickets are available through the WADA Theatre directly, or available for purchase by owl.

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Cannibal to Visit St. Mungo's
Rita Skeeter

Native healer, Khakhua Tagoga Yauwii Dobunaba, from Papua New Guinea, is slated to visit St. Mungo's Hospital this Monday. What his true intentions for this visit are unknown, but there has been much bravado about his impending visit. After speaking with numerous employees about this expected visitor, it has come to my attention that his presence might not be for St. Mungo's best intentions. A few nurses are making sure to stay close to the nursery ward just in case his cannibalistic tendencies are set on the newborns within the hospital.

One nurse in particular, Mildred Dehctar, who has been working at St. Mungo's for over twenty years, spoke exclusively with me about her apprehension and fears of this healer visiting St. Mungo's. With her large green eyes glossy with fear and tears threatening to spill over flush pink cheeks, Mildred put on a brave face and gave me information to share with you lovely readers.

"We're all worried about this healer coming to St. Mungo's. Unfortunately, because he is a guest of the Minister, there isn't much us nurses can say against it." Mildred admits, her hands wringing around a kerchief nervously, "The nurses, well, we're all ready for the worse. We have around the clock watch on the nursery wards, and we're hoping that we can get some hitwizards to patrol with us. We just want to be safe, you never know what these types of people can do. I tell you, the Minister must be mad for inviting a known head hunter to the hospital. I mean, have you heard the stories?! He chops off the heads of people and wears them around his neck like it's some sort of TROPHY! Why would the Ministry invite someone like THAT to our quiet hospital?!"

After much research about healers from Papua New Guinea, this reporter has found that some of their rituals involve human sacrifice, and after the consumption of newborn babies. How the Minister of Magic can allow such a barbarian into the safe walls of St. Mungo's is beyond me.

The information I have found about Khakhua Tagoga Yauwii Dobunaba, seems to be under wraps within Ministry, almost like they are attempting to hide such facts. Ask the Ministry why a known head hunter - that is, a person who likes to hunt human beings for fun, lop off their heads and wear them around their neck as a sign of power - can be allowed within St. Mungo's. Unless, of course, this said head hunter is being admitted to the Janice Thickey Ward, but I doubt the Minister Shacklebolt would invite a person to the hospital just to lock them away.

No, of course not. This bizarre barbarian who likes to eat little children and lop of the heads of others is instead invited to St. Mungo's in hopes of teaching the healers there a thing or two about head hunting and human sacrifice. One can only assume what is going to come from this. I recommend all slated births be move to another magical hospital for fear that their newborn child might be eaten by this ruffian!

"All the nurses here are scared. We're bracing for the worse." Adds Mildred.

Stay vigilant, patients of St. Mungo's, and stay wary of a man who looks like this.


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Cannibal Lecturer Causes Consternation
Erastus Saint

Concerned citizens across Britain railed today at the news of a witch doctor Iecturing at St. Mungo's Hospital in London. The person in question, Khakhua Tagoga Yauwii Dobunaba, is proclaimed to be a visiting Healer and tribal ambassador from Papua New Guinea according to a press statement from Ministry officials, but sources close to the Prophet insist he is a practicer of strange magic and a consumer of human flesh.

''How can this man -- and I hesitate to use that word to describe him -- call himself a doctor if he sees his patients as food?" said Owain Rhys Llewellyn-Llewellyn, head of the Grand College of Healers of Cymru. "What sort of oath did he take? First, do no harm; second, add salt to taste?"

"I would never allow myself to be examined by someone like that," said Aoife McCIannaghan, an apothecary in Armagh. "I'd be too afraid that any potion he might give me was really a marinade of some sort."

Those attending the proceedings when Tagoga Yauwii Dobunaba arrives on Monday should be aware of a potential picketing of the event by concerned Wizards and Witches.


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Book Pulled From Shelves; Marketing Ploy or Controversy?
Rose Faust

Last May, Naturalist Rolf Scamander (Grandson of former Hogwarts Headmaster, Newton Scamander) released his first book World Wolf. This controversial book deals heavily with the lax international laws surrounding werewolves which are leading to a dangerous increase in their world population and how Scamander, through his findings, thinks such a problem should be dealt with.

Unfortunately, as of yesterday, the books are no longer to be sold and all English copies have been pulled off shelves. The author allegedly claims that some of his findings were 'misinterpreted' when his book was translated into English from it's original German release.

"The book was released prematurely," claims Arnold Moths, Scamander's barrister, "Mr. Scamander was never given the chance to properly examine his work for the mistakes that, with the re-release of his book, he hopes to correct."

Whether this is true, or some ploy to boost sales when the books are re-released (tentatively in December) only time will tell. Scamander's representatives have been very vague about what was so wrong about the books, so we here at the Prophet can only speculate.


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Cannons Make Unknown Their First Summer Signing
Evan Lightner

Chudley Cannons fans have been hoping for a big-name signing this off-season. Chudley finally made a move a few days ago, signing a player whose surname is a somewhat sizeable eight letters long.

The Cannons have signed Cormac McLaggen on trial as their reserve team Keeper. McLaggen joins the Cannons after a brief career at Hogwarts as a reservist on last year's Cup-winning Gryffindor squad.

"If he's half as good as he says he is, he'll be starting before long," Cannons manager Ragmar Dorkins said in a news conference yesterday. "He gave a good account for himself in trials, so we'll let him have a fair crack at playing."

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Ollivander's Closing Leaves Students Scrambling for Wands
Barnaby Snell

The sudden and mysterious closing of the famed Ollivander's Wand Shop in Diagon Alley, London, has left new students to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in need of a new source of wands. The famed shop, to which nearly every Wizard and Witch in Britain has given their custom for years, has been boarded up for the past week through unexplained circumstances.

No one has seen or heard from Garrick Ollivander, the shop's proprietor, since the shop's closing. His fellows amongst Diagon Alley's shop owners are concerned, but hopeful of his return.

"I assume he's taking a long-needed and well-deserved holiday," said Madam Malkin, owner of the famed Robes for All Occasions shop down the road from Ollivander's. "The old man is a true craftsman. He won't stray from his passion for too much longer."

In the interim, first-year Hogwarts pupils and Wizards in need of wand repair have turned to alternate sources. Wandmakers in France, Germany and Bulgaria have received numerous orders despite the Ministry for Magic's high tariff on importing wands and other magical items.

Also, local wandmakers have been hard at work honing their craft, though this has led to several calamitous cases. Reports of defective and even exploding wands have been reported across Britain, with one wandmaker in Leicester being arrested by Aurors for causing grievous bodily harm with his defective products.

A growing trend amongst the elder generations has been the gifting of their wands to younger Wizards and Witches in need. "My young granddaughter is headed off to Hogwarts soon," said Clytemnestra Lyttelton, 105, of Eye, Cambridgeshire. "She needs a good wand, not one of these knock-offs from the boy down the road."

The Ministry is reminding purchasers of wands in the wake of Ollivander's closing to mind their wands closely and practice safe magic, using protection where warranted, and operating under close supervision when necessary.

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Missing Professor Found on Isle of Muck
Rosa Smalling

Bathsheba Babbling, longtime professor of Ancient Runes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was reported missing two weeks ago, has been found safe and sound on the remote Scottish Isle of Muck, along with her son Solomon Babbling. Rumors of foul play concerning the professor's disappearance have been found to be complete fabrications spread by those who would engender fear, reports Ministry of Magic representative Pius Thicknesse.

Professor Babbling has submitted her retirement from her teaching post, and will be replaced with a new Professor of Ancient Runes in the coming term. Her replacement has yet to be named. The staff of The Daily Prophet wishes Professor Babbling well in her retirement.


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Criminals Captured, Wizengamot Convenes
Erastus Saint

Two persons suspected of crimes against Wizarding society were arrested Sunday night by Aurors are and being held for trial. Aurelia Rackharrow and Creon Parkin were taken into custody Sunday evening in London on suspicion of collaboration with the reported followers of You-Know-Who. The Wizengamot convenes next week to hear the case.

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Hogwarts Professor Missing
Erastus Saint

Bathsheba Babbling, longtime professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was reported missing yesterday evening, according to Ministry sources. Babbling is the Professor of Ancient Runes at Hogwarts, a position she has held for the past fifteen years.

The report came from her son, Solomon Babbling, at close of business. According to one secretary, Mr Babbling was irate and demanding to speak directly with Head Auror Gawain Robards.

As of yet, there has been no word as to the causes of Professor Babbling’s disappearance, or even if the Hogwarts professor is truly missing. Neither her son, nor Hogwarts’ Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, could be reached for comment, and the Babbling home was inaccessible. Neighbors do report, however, hearing a scuffle yesterday evening, and seeing Aurors on the grounds during the night.

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Champion Crowned at Lincolnshire Puffskein Show
Barnaby Snell

A ginger-and-white puffskein named Macavity was named Best in Show at the 15th Annual All-England Puffskein Show at Merlin's Hall, Lincoln. Macavity was named the best specimen of a field of 100 puffskeins presented to the judges by proud owners and breeders from across England.

Macavity's owner, 12-year-old Emmy Mackenzie of Cleethorpes, was presented with the winner's rosette by the three-person judging panel, and beamed happily afterwards.

"I knew I had the prettiest puff in all of England," she said, hugging Macavity tightly. "I'm glad the judges agreed."

When asked about her puffskein's name, young Emmy replied, "He steals things. Keys, sweets, everything. We always find them in his blanket after tearing the house apart looking."

The voting was not unanimous, as it turned out. Judge Theodore Pucklechurch, one of the most respected authorities on puffskeins in Britain, voted against Macavity because, he claimed, he did not like the puff's name.

"Naming a Magical creature after a Muggle poem doesn't sit well with me," he explained. "If the girl had named it Babbitty Rabbitty, I would have been more generous."

"Nonsense," said judge Hortensia Bootblack when told of Mr. Pucklechurch's reasoning. "He's just upset Macavity piddled on him during judging. The poor little puff was so nervous."

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Weird Sisters Announce Ilkley Moor Concert
Barnaby Snell

Users of the newly released Scribere Spelljournals were the first to learn of the Weird Sisters' upcoming concert at the Ilkley Moor Quidditch pitch. The band's lead singer, Myron Wagtail, announced via his journal that the band would perform at Ilkley Moor on 27 August, at 8:00 in the evening. Owls have been in flight constantly following the announcement as eager fans have been placing their orders for tickets.

Workers at Ilkley Moor are already hard at work readying the pitch for a crowd that will certainly rival the numbers at a top Quidditch match. “This place will be overrun by thousands of screaming kids,” said assistant groundskeeper Uriah Macomber, in the midst of casting sound-buffering charms. “We'll get more nosy Muggles than normal if we don't get these charms cast right.”

The band could not be reached for further comment. The managerial staff at Flourish and Blotts were also quiet, but the floor staff were pleased at the impact their newest product was making in Wizarding society.

“I sent one to my niece in Bolton,” said clerk Maxwell Pennyfeather. “She thinks I'm the best uncle in the world now because she can talk to the Weird Sisters!”

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Attack on the Ministry of Magic
Erastus Saint

The Ministry of Magic was evacuated today as explosions rocked the very foundation of the Wizarding Government. Stamford Jorkins, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Magic, has confirmed that this afternoon multiple packages with strong Expulso charms modified with runic curses were delivered by owl to Ministry Offices.

Aurors report that the major target of the attack seems to have been the Office of the Minister of Magic. Though no casualties were reported, several injured Aurors and employees of the Ministry were reportedly transported to St. Mungo’s for care. Minister Scrimgeour was not injured.

While no one has yet claimed responsibility for this act of terrorism, it is clear to this reporter that the action resembles the most recently reported acts of violence by the growing Death Eater threat. The Daily Prophet will report any further news on this attack, as it becomes available.


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Flourish & Blotts Launches Scribere Spelljournals
Ambrosius Clement

Just in time for the new school term, Flourish & Blotts releases its newest idea to revitalize business and keep its monopoly on the Wizarding Books market in Britain – Flourish & Blotts’ Scribere Spelljournals.

Flourish & Blotts’ Scribere Spelljournals are individually handmade in F&B's own workshops by master bookbinding craftsmen, utilizing traditional hand-dyed and waxed leather. The internal paper is of the highest quality cotton and pulp mix, in either plain buttery cream or ivory faint-lined pages.

Whether you are looking for a formal sophisticated style such as English Bridle or Croc-Calf leather or something more rustic like Italian or Envelope wrap, F&B is sure you will find a beautiful leather journal to suit. All journals can also be engraved.

Even more enthralling, these journals allow you to communicate with everyone else who owns one! Leave your writings public for anyone to read and comment on, or use privacy spells to make sure only certain people, or no one at all, can see your thoughts.

Sources report that after only one day of sales, these journals promise to be the largest fad Flourish & Blotts has ever started. Rather, the only fad they have ever started, but these do promise to be popular. The kind gentlemen at F&B would also like us to note that for those who cannot afford retail prices, there will be a bin of marked down mistake copies.