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! calendar, 1998-january, ^ daily prophet, x-character: lee jordan

21st Jan 1998 • The Wizarding World's Beguiling Broadsheet of Choice • 5 κ

SENSELESS MURDER SPREE ESCALATES
By Lee Jordan, Staff Writer
It is with heavy heart that the Daily Prophet imparts news to you tonight. While a new year has begun, and while the Minister of Magic has spoken of this year with great optimism, we are not yet free of the troubles from our yesteryear. It was not so long ago that an article was published in these very pages that bared for the entire world a very crude message. Beware muggleborns that message read, followed by a very specific list of names. A list that has no seemingly coherent pattern, likely because the author of that list was incompetent and continues to be incompetent by undermining their message and failing to do their proper research. Before, this reporter believed we had nothing to fear. I do not recall us back to that article without purpose. That list of names was published and the entire Wizarding world likely saw it. We know the names on that list, and now, what we all feared has been immortalized. A name was crossed off of that list. Dirk Cresswell was found struck dead by the killing curse on the afternoon of January the nineteenth. As my fellow staff writer acknowledged in her analysis of the list, Dirk Cresswell was best known for how outspoken he was in favor of muggleborn rights. He was an idealistic man with great ideals for our very future. Last month she asked if this marks him for death, and as it appears, it very well may have. Or, we can look back to that list published. It was a threat to all muggleborns, and Dirk counted himself among those, which to some is reason enough to mark him for death. It was meant to be a warning. And that warning effected the lives of many other courageous souls on that fateful afternoon. He is not the only among the casualties. Sophie LeClerc, Josette Piedfiers, and Margeaux Lothlolain died in an attempt to save people. Roger Dorlomion and Augusten LeClerc also perished. These brave souls, much like Dirk Cresswell, believed in a greater future, all of them, and they were killed for it. This reporter is not naive enough to hope to direct your attention away from the correlation of the time of his death and the publication of that list. But a month has passed, and the list remains relevant and it would be foolishly dangerous for this reporter to instruct you to dismiss it as paranoia or widespread hysteria of a time long since gone. The list itself is proof enough that not every person is aware that the archaic ideals that serve us no proper purpose died along with their master zealot, He Who They Won't Let Me Name, and a bloody great decision that is because this reporter is not of the mood to devote him anymore page space than he's already bloody well gotten. There is one surviving witness to the scene of the crime. Josephine Savage. Following the crime, she has put up a very encouraging post, encouraging	us to live in harmony, encouraging us to believe that there is still common ground for us to find each other on. It is important that we remember that we are all human, and it is a short step from wizards first, to pure bloods first, and then to those sick men who only have hate in their hearts first. We are all human, and every life is important, every life matters, and every life should be protected at all cost. That is the common ground we need to find. For there is a minority among us that believe their individual beliefs trump the collective rights of the whole, even when that very right is life itself. To suggest that zealots of this nature no longer exist would be purposefully ignorant of this reporter, when our very own paper printed the evidence for us. At this point in time, it is believed that an intruder broke into the French Consulate, and that same intruder is a casualty in this attack, although frankly, casualty is an extremely strong word to apply to him. This reporter isn't going to print his name, but his purpose is very plain to see. He attacked the people he did for a very specific reason and he used the Killing Curse to do it, and that more than his name, is what should not be forgotten. I apologize for the loss of life that has been caused in this event. It was senseless and it should not have happened. It, along with the other lost lives we've suffered during the last year, has cemented how dangerous men were and continue to be so; how dangerous a mere idea can be when you have empty headed men willing to act upon that idea, regardless of how selfish and hateful it is. They have no desire to improve us as a collective whole, for you can have no improvement through hatred. Death is not the way to the future, and that must never be forgotten. We've already gone over this, we've already fought this and we've already learned this. For it to be forgotten is for us to fail every single person touched by this, in the past and in the present. Dirk Cresswell's funeral services have not been listed, and this reporter has neglected to follow up on it. This is a very personal, family matter now, and his death will not be made into a media circus, least of all with this fine newspaper establishment we have here. But most of all, this reporter gives his sincerest of regards to the Cresswell family, and to all the families who lost someone important to them on this day, because we owed them better, and we as a collective whole have failed them. No death needs to be senseless and unfortunately, Mr. Creswell's was. And unfortunately, there are still nine other names on that list and they are stuck living with the added weight of this senseless death on top of the grief caused by it. Stay tuned to these pages for further developments.

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