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The Daily Prophet
KNEAZLE BREEDING IN HERTFORDSHIRE
An attempt of illegal Kneazle breeding was discovered recently. Mrs. Pumpkins, our regular correspondent living in the village of Meryton, Hertfordshire, informed us that her Muggle neighbour, Madam Runnings, was attacked by a "bushy cat-monster" when trying to visit one Mr. Ortabby this Friday last. "I was shocked to hear this news", Mrs. Pumpkins writes. "I suggest that the Ministry should send an investigating team immediately, my poor neighbour's description of the "cat-monster" that attacked her, leaving deep bruises all aver her face and arms shows it to be a Kneazle. Moreover, she seems to have spotted 8 cubs running in the orchard before she fled".
Mrs. Pumpkins was forced to put a Memory Charm on her neighbour to prevent her telling all the Muggle inhabitants of the village about the "monster".
Mr. Ortabby, a year before the Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, our own research shows, is a registered Kneazle-owner, however, doesn't own a license to breed the animal. The cubs Madam Runnings so luckily spotted seem to be half-breeds he intended to sell for pure Kneazles in Europe, using a highly unsual-coloured Muggle cat to breed them.
"It was all accidental", Mr. Ortabby told us after being fined 20 Galleons by the Ministry. "My Kneazle, Whitepaws, found herself that partner all of her free will".
The truthfulness of this answer, however, may be doubted, as Mr. Ortabby's son has a reputation for gambling.
Kehlen Crow.
A/n: a background story for a future fic or may be not :-)