The Daily Prophet

31 October, 2018 - Hallowe'en Edition

Tiberius Miller, the second-in-command to the Minister for Magic, died today at St. Mungo's Hospital after a week-long battle against an unidentified malady. Though Healers did everything that they possibly could, they could neither identify what was affecting him, nor do anything to slow it down.

The only thing the Healers could determine was that if it was a true sickness, it was not contagious. Representatives of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement are not ruling out some kind of poison, though if it is such, it is an undetectable one. Investigations continue to determine the cause of death, which for has been recorded as "unknown causes."

Kingsley Shacklebolt, the Minister for Magic, was greatly saddened by the death of his friend, and has vowed to do what he can for his family. Mr Miller is survived by a wife (Grace) and two children (Sammy, 11, and gregory, 14). The funeral is to be held at the Chruch of Christ's cemetary this Wednesday - this is a Muggle location, and appriate clothing shuld be warned. Please contact this paper for details.

The new Deputy Minister will be announced later this week.

(Photo credits go to iophoto. Tap your wand on the underlined text to see his other work. Used with permission.)

Today's Cartoon of the Day comes from Sara McDonald, of Surrey.

Horrible puns never go out of style! Well done, Miss McDonald!

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Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes will be available by Owl-Order only until the WWW premises our rebuilt or relocated. Owls addressed to WWW or Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes will reach us.

But don't count us out just yet! We'll be back, bigger and better than ever before. Takes more than a measley murder attempt to keep Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes down!

No solid leads yet in the brutal slayings of Arthur and Percy Weasley on 2 September, 2018. The perpartrators is no secret: the dreaded Dark mark was fired up over their home in Ottery St Catchpole, indicating Death Eater activity. But though there are several suspects, there was only one positive identification, and that lone suspect has not yet been found.

Harry Potter, head of the Auror office in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, says that they are working overtime to catch the killers, especially as they have targeted the Weasley family in recent weeks. Attacks have included ambushes on the street, and the burning of shops.

Anyone having any information on the attacks are urged to contact the Ministry or this paper.

The famous wizarding prison, Azkaban, has sat in the North Sea for centuries, updated throughout the years to reflext the changing needs of the wizarding communities. Up until the turn of the twenty-first century, it was used as the only wizarding prison in Europe.

As everyone knows, Azkaban was recently discontinued as a prison when the new, more securue, more humane prison was completed in 2012. The above is not a headline one would have seen in those days.

But now, Azkaban is a popular tourist attraction for those wizards with a taste for history - or the macabre. The facility's main waterline broke late last night, so it was closed down for repairs. Tours whould begin once more on Wednesday.

(Goodbye to anti-werewolf laws - page 2)

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After nearly twenty years, the last of the anti-werewolf laws have been stricken from the books. Werewolf discrimination is nothing new, but the laws passed in the late nineties were the most

stringent and	damaging yet,		making it nearly	impossible for any
		known werewolf
		to gain and kind of
	employment. That	has now changed.	Kingsley
	Shacklebolt, the	Minister for Magic,	says that he could
	not in good faith	leave in effect laws	that penalized
		any member of our

magical commun	ity no matter what		ailments they suffer	from.

.He says also that the old laws were born from nothing more than fear and malice: fear of something they didn’t understand, and malice from those looking for any excuse to create a ‘lower’ class, thereby making themselves look better.

	Werewolves, as most wizards know, are humans who have been bitten by a werewolf, and who change into a form very like that of a feral wolf (though there are minor differences.) The human loses all sense of self and control, though retains his or her memories of the change and anything that he or she might have done during it. It’s a devastating condition for anyone to endure in itself. But werewolves are not dangerous at any time except during the one night of the true full moon, and potions like the Wolfsbane Potion have given werewolves some relief from their condition. The Wolfsbane Potion, a fairly new discovery that has only recently become more affordable and available, cannot stop the transformation, but allowed the afflicted person to remain in control of him or herself.
	Minister Shacklebolt hopes that this will pave the way for more equal treatment of all our fellow beings.

A new species of sea monster? Not quite. This is a sea monster, in fact the Loch Ness kelpie in its favourite form, made entirely of a sort of Muggle building block they call "Leg-Os." The Loch Ness kelpie is one of the most difficult magical creatures in the United Kingdom, as it loves publicity and likes to show off. Though the Ministry of Magic has thus far managed to mostly keep its status among Muggles as "mythical" or the very least "unsubstantiated", the Loch Ness monster is nevertheless a favorite among Muggle tourists. Thousands flock to the lake each year in the hopes of catching a glimpse.

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