Prompt: Price Gouging
Word Count: 100
“There’s another problem with the elections,” Minerva said the next evening, this time in Septima’s airy sitting room. “The Wizengamot changed the criteria for the paper and ink used on the poll cards after that ridiculous scandal a few years ago when a handful of students decided to run their pet goat in a town election and charmed their Chocolate Frog cards.”
Severus winced at the memory of “Prudentius Junius Porsena’s” run for office. “That was quite ridiculous, but what does it have to do with the upcoming elections?”
“The paper manufacturer was bought by Americans and tripled the price.”