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Dumbledore saves 3 children from similar fate
By Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet Correspondent
Hogsmeade - Just one week after several buildings were damaged by an intentional fire, more horror fell upon Hogsmeade when three Hogwarts students unexpectedly stumbled upon the scene of a gruesome crime taking place: a shadowy creature who had killed, drained, and mutilated three unicorns near the woods.
As the offender was about to undoubtedly commit something similar to our young witnesses, rescue came in a form of none other than Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, vanquisher of Dark Lords and recent subject of various burning effigies witnessed in Hogsmeade, Brighton and York at the instigation of the allegedly alive James Potter.
"I don't know what that thing was, but I had never felt so scared in all my life," said Adriadne Vane, Hufflepuff, age 17, one of the students in peril. "It was making these...these slurping sounds, like it was drinking that poor unicorn's blood. Who would do something like that to such beautiful animals? And then when that thing saw us and was going to jump at Terrence [Brown, Hufflepuff, age 17]. I thought we were done for. But Dumbledore saved us! He cast a spell so powerful, there was a bright white light that surrounded that dark thing and trapped it. I don't know what happened next. Professor McGonagall brought us back to Hogwarts. I can't remember much else. We must have been in shock!"
Ministry investigators later reported the unicorns had had their blood entirely drained, and tails and horns removed. Experts say unicorn parts is often an ingredient in many powerful and Dark potions, curses and, of course, wand cores.
The Ministry has yet to say what has happened to this mysterious wraith after capture, what it was exactly and what the creature's intent was for the unicorns.
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