(a/n - sorry guys, I keep randomly pairing people up that haven't been associated together whatsoever in other fanfics. Apart from mmad of course. Let me know what you think of these, erm, couplings?!)

Chapter 7 - Teacher Talk...

As Rita and Cornelius were skulking around corridors, however, Albus Dumbledore was lay in bed, reading a copy of 'The Daily Dirt' which he had picked up from the floor of the great hall. This newspaper was Rita's little work of deviousness, and Dumbledore was shocked as to what he read. Not only was this short newspaper the most barbaric excuse for news he had ever seen, but it looked like a newspaper. Dumbledore wondered how this could have been printed within the school. He wanted to know who had printed it. Though he had a good idea who had printed it. A very good idea indeed.

At the staffmeeting the day after Albus' midnight pondering, the staff were poring over the Daily Dirt. Most of the teachers were gasping as they read certain parts, as though some sections written by more respectable students, such as the quidditch update, were informative, parts of the newspaper were plain lies. Filisius Flitwick almost fell off the end of his chair when he saw the headline from 2 days previously. It was entitled 'Flirting Flitwick Charms Seductive Sinistra.' Mcgonagall gasped too; her old friend Aurora Sinistra had arrived at the school just a few days before, to take up the astronomy post while professor Lunairegum took extended leave due to the loss of his long term companion. If truth be told, the staff didn't really expect him to return - he was a very emotional man - so they welcomed Aurora as a new member of staff. Now, however, she had been made a scandal of not 1 week into her new career. Minerva was outraged. She would come down on that horrible Slytherin girl Rita Skeeter like a ton of bricks (for Minerva was quite sure who the author of this tabloid was.) Minerva also worked out how these papers were being printed; Rita had somehow found out about the room of requirement, and had turned it into her own mini publishers. Upon announcing this at the meeting, several of the teachers knew exactly how Rita had come to find out about the room - her boyfriend was a prefect. The staff also discussed what they were going to do to stop Rita in her tracks...