Chapter 25: Prophet's Third Article

Tuesday October 8, 1996

The Lestrange's and Longbottom's Cursed

I once again have something to share with you, my dear

readers. Headmaster Lucius Malfoy, Lady Augusta

Longbottom and Potion's Master, Severus Snape had a

lot that that they wished to share with us all.

This is the truth of what happened to Frank Longbottom

and his wife, Alice Longbottom Nee Lestrange. As some

of us know, Alice is the sister of Rodolphus and Rabastan

Lestrange.

It came to the attention of Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape

that Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange had been

cursed for the last seventeen years.

The Lestrange's had been cursed since September 19, 1979,

The birth date of Bellatrix and Rodolphus' first child, their

daughter, Rhea Bella Lestrange.

After the three Lestrange's were cursed with an old curse

called Nebulosus Mens (Misty Mind), baby Rhea was stolen

and disappeared for seventeen years.

The Lestrange's were not the only people cursed with the

Nebulosus Mens curse. The Longbottom's had also been

cursed with the same curse.

With this curse, the cursed can't be made to do everything

that the person that cursed them would want them to

like the Imperious Curse. With Nebulosus Mens, the cursed

won't harm those that they care about. Their loved ones.

Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange wouldn't

have harmed the Longbottom's since the Alice was their

sister and sister in-law.

Severus Snape, whom is also a Defense Master, was able to

detect if the Longbottom's were indeed cursed with the

Nebulosus Mens curse.

It turned out that they were and the curse was removed. With

the removal of the curse, Frank and Alice were able to tell

that the Lestrange's had nothing to do with them being

cursed.

With all this coming to light, Severus Snape and Lucius

Malfoy had even managed to find the missing Lestrange

heiress.

Rhea Lestrange had been hidden by the person whom took

her and gave her to a Muggle couple with spells on her to

hide who she really was.

Miss Lestrange had told me that her adopted parents didn't

know that the person that gave her to them had stolen her

from her parents. They had thought that they were dead

and she had no other living family.

Rhea Lestrange was hidden as Hermione Granger, a

Muggleborn.

Miss Lestrange had accepted her true identity and had the

spells on her removed. The young woman takes a lot after

her mother in looks, but still looks a lot like her father.

Her hair is long and black like her mother's, but she

has her father's hazel almost golden coloured eyes. Miss

Lestrange was also quite tall, showing that she was a

Black like her mother.

Once I am allowed to write more about this case, do to

the fact that it is now in the hands of Madam Bones, I

will be sharing just who had done this to these families.

With well wishes to the families, Daily Prophet Reporter

Diane Valentine.