The Daily Prophet
November the 1st, 1994
Harry Potter, the Dark Slytherin Champion!
by Riga Skeator
A recently aquired student of you-know-who's illegally constructed School of Slytherins and abducted children from all over our beloved country, a place that is used to brainwash our innocent babies and train HE-who-must-not-be-named's very army of Death.
This horrible school was made in secret during the war, which we barely escaped with our lives not 15 years ago, for the purpose of unknown machinations, according to the Ministry, but we all know why he did it.
He started this terrible deal by stealing our children under the Sorting Hat itself, and there was nothing even the So called Great Albus Dumbledore could do. You-Know-Who had cursed the Hat itself, and Hogwarts's ancient Magic refused to use any other instrument of sorting.
Since then, even with the War over, Children have been taken and not returned, until they would emerge as adults, driven mad by unimaginable torture and teachings of unknown sources, of rituals and dark magics extraordinary and ambitions foul. They would rejoin our peaceful and good society as menaces and terrorists, attacking, raping and kidnapping more children from their screaming mothers.
Yes, dear readers, this I remember clearly.
Everyone was most shocked when our very own, beloved boy Hero, Harry Potter, too was stolen by their wickedness, and every day we had despaired that his corpse would appear, and that all hope would be lost. Yet, it was not to be, the Death Eater School had something much worse for us all, they turned our sweet little baby Hero into one of them.
The hero Harry Potter, our once savior now turned budding Death Eater (possibly even He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Nameds Dark heir and Right hand!), has been returned to us once more, but as the lead of a terrible plot and an obvious plant in Hogwarts for the largely planned event called Triwizard Tournament (formerly a banned game after years of incompetence) for reasons unknown, though we can all speculate upon the horrors awaiting the rest of your good and peaceful lives.
Yes, you all heard right.
I shall repeat it again, Harry Potter, fallen Hero and the victim of vicious kidnapping and tortur, has turned against us all and is now a terrible part of a large conspiracy to trick the Sacred Goblet of Fire, with powerful, dark and obscure esoterics, to accept a fourth competitor from a fourth school: Slytherins School of Magic and Ambition, the known Death Eater Training camp.
To ever growing shock and horror of students and teachers alike, and the Ministry of Magic workers at the scene, The Fallen and missing Harry Potter became the fourth Player by foulplay and magics of foreign origins and means, (assumed Dark and most ancient) and entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the very beacon of Hope, by the worst of all spells, and possibly by forbidden sacrificial rituals!
It is shocking to be heard, but nonetheless the absolute truth!
The once much loved 11 year old former boy wonder, innocent and freshfaced, kidnapped by Death Eaters right from the Sorting Hat's impossible curse, has been trained for now 3 years of schooling with You-Know-Who as the mentor from Hell, brainwashed by tortures unthinkable and turned into a creature of fearful prowess, now stand before us as a Beacon of not hope, but Death.
What Dark Arts this fallen hero knows, is not to be speculated on, but feared and pitied. We will all see what terrors Harry Potter, son of Heroes James and Lily Potter, will unleash upon the tasks and the spectators at the coming first event come November the 24th, and this reporter: Riga Skaetor will be there to watch, catch and report on every suspecious thing this broken hero will do.
If he conjures up anything illegal and Dark, we will know and so will you, so watch out for yourselves my dear readers, Harry Potter has returned to Hogwarts with a vengance and no one is safe nor ready.
Read more about Slytherin's School of Magic and Ambition, on page 2
Read more about Harry Potter's sacrifice and kidnapping, on page 4
Read more about the Triwizard Tournament, on page 8
Read more about the War, on page 10
Read more about how I, Riga Skeator can get away with this article and how you can too, on page 15
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page 2, Slytherin's School of Magic and Ambition.
During the terrible war in the early 70's, a new school suddenly arose with a bang, when every student of Slytherin house didn't board the train to Hogwarts, september 1st, and every student that was declared a Slytherin by the Sorting Hat, suddenly vanished under it, while it still sat upon their heads. At first, the worlds leading Light wizard, Albus Dumbledore, believed it a great prank by mischevious Gryffindors, and the Slytherins had been deposited in some unknown parts of the castle. This proved to be false, when the next day, no Slytherin student was seen. The Aurors were called and a major investigation took place, with every student and teacher interviewed.
No one claimed the prank, and when the aurors investigated the Sorting Hat itself, they discovered the enchantments that had been added to it. Every student that was tied to the cry of Slytherin from the Hat, would be transported by unknown spellwork, to a secret location, that could not be extracted from the ancient artifact. Days turned into weeks and experimentations with the spellwork would fail terribly. The hat would say nothing but: The Heir of Slytherin has made a Deal with Hogwarts.
Truely, it is frightening to know that the very castle that children and teachers call home for a portion of their lives, can be so easily manipulated by these so called Heirs, but fact of the laws is, that all the Heirs own Hogwarts partially.
This also means, that an Heir cannot invade the Castle by force if they should please, not as long as their hearts are dark and their souls black, this Lord Gryffindor decreed when he banished the Slytherin Founder from it's walls.
Now, with this new information, the investigators quickly tried to extact the why, how and the what, but the sorting hat would not part with it, instead the information to where their students had disappeared to, came from the ICW itself.
A new school had been established on an unknown location, and the headmaster itself was a Tom M. Riddle, a Slytherin halfblood who'd fallen into obscurity some 30 years ago. Apparantly, he was a long lost school friend of Voldemort himself and a Major Death Eater player. This handsome young man would rise up and claim any Slytherin student from hence forth, and it was all made legal by the ICW!
This means, that according to the ICW, it would be impossible to storm their school and claim any child back, or investigate the premises. The sorting from the ancient Hat would stick and he would refuse a resort. Much like Durmstrang is hidden to all but it's students, so is Slytherin's School, so the students were hard to aquire after taken. Parents had to content themselves to the fact that their children would not return, nor go back to Hogwarts.
The followering year, the first graduating class of Slytherin school, saw strangers return to their families. Mad children with ramblings of the Dark Lord, he who must not be named, his Death Eaters and how they were trained to join them. The children now legally adults gleefully tortured their parents and non-slytherin siblings, and thusly the war against He who must not be named, truely began.
The evidence was clear, out of his school, came the first of his perfected army.
All masters of their magics, but heartless sadists ready to destroy for the pleasure of it.
The Unspeakables were called in to investigate, but in the end, after a long silence from their part, the Head Unspeakable finally reported: We could not break their ancient enchantments, the case remain open, but closed.
In the end, there is truely no information about the School, but hearsay and innuendo, we will never know if the Unspeakables found something, if He who must not be named really did stay at the school as the true Headmaster, and that the students are trained Death Eaters, but rumours do say, that no one who came out of Slytherin School ever came back right.
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Page 15,
How I, Riga Skeator can get away with scandalous and terrible articles that go against the law.
It's quite easy, not only should you never put in your true name, but never give away any evidence that it was you who wrote it. Even just a typo in your name is enough to dismiss any suits against you as the person is clearly not you, and therefor it cannot be you who wrote it. It's a person with a similar name and it's not your job to tell them whom they are or where they live.
Naturally the best way to go about it is being anonymous, but sometimes it's easier to believe the message when the person who writes it has a soothing and farmiliar name. It tricks the readers mind and they think, I know this person, this might be my neighbour, even if the spelling is wrong. I feel the same way, what a relief!
This way, you can get away with it, and go scottfree. But, be sure to leave nothing of you behind. No trace, no suit: scottfree.
Enjoy.
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The Daily Prophet
10th November 1994, page 15,
Rita Skeeter missing?
Investigators assume she's undercover or on spontaneous vacation, no evidence of foulplay nor stray magics.