I. Am. So. Sorry. This update is really late… I woke up late today and had to run to a performance class then I had finals…oh what a mess! I haven't even eaten anything… Anywho, Chapters 10 and 11 for your reading pleasure. Sorry again!
Chapter Ten: No News Is Bad News or Interlude No. 1.5
Muggle Massacre Catches Ministry Attention
October 3rd
The Ministry of Magic released a statement last night concerning a great tragedy for both the magical and the muggle community. According to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement's Bartimius Crouch, at nearly midnight last night, dark wizards apparated into a small muggle village in the north and began to murder random people for no apparent reason. No survivors could be found in the village.
Above the town square, a shining skull with a snake coming from its mouth was cast into the sky. According to the Ministry, it is too early at this point to know what it means, but speculations at The Daily Prophet say that it is the mark of a new dark power. When the Ministry knows more, so will the public, or so we are told.
What was the Ministry of Magic thinking? They have now confirmed that all of the disappearances of muggles and muggleborn witches and wizards were connected, and now they are saying that this is another connection. Do we have an overlord on our hands? The Ministry refused to comment.
James slammed the paper down on the table. The Marauders were sitting together at breakfast along with a very sleepy Lily. Remus took up the paper and began to read the article.
"Am I still a conspiracy theorist?" James said angrily.
Lily was the next one to take the newspaper. Remus sipped his orange juice, looking pained. "This isn't good," he finally stated.
"No kidding," James said sadly. "Those poor muggles…if the Ministry wasn't so stupid, so lazy…"
The bell rang, signaling the beginning of the first class period and cutting the conversation short.
The 'Muggle Massacre,' which is what everyone was calling it, ate at James all day. He couldn't understand why wizards, his own kind, would want to murder defenseless muggles.
By the Evening Edition, the Prophet had gotten more information out of the Ministry of Magic. They had printed the name of the man that claimed responsibility for the Massacre, but only once. They were calling him He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named…his name was Voldemort.