Hogwarts: The True Story

Part 6: Excerpt from the Daily Prophet, September 2nd 1971
ATTACK ON THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS!
By Callisto Peterson-Smith
An unknown device exploded on the famous Hogwarts Express train yesterday, just as the last of the students exited. Luckily there were no fatalities, though the front end of the train will have to have a massive overhaul that is believed to cost a minimum of ten thousand Galleons- money which will come from new Headmaster and Mistress Albus and Luisa Dumbledore's pocket.
Shocked Hogwarts Prefect James Potter, sixteen, who was the last person off the train before it exploded, told us: "My girlfriend Suki Chang, another prefect, and I had just been checking the train for any objects or pets left behind- it's one of the prefects' duties. We'd only just got off the train when the front end exploded- the force of the explosion blasted the two of us and some of the others who were still there a good few metres through the air. I had my cheek cut badly by flying glass, Suki broke her arm and several people took very nasty cuts and bruises- one girl broke both legs when she was thrown against a stone pillar on the platform, but thanks to Madam Pomfrey everyone's fine now, just very scared." Mr. Potter is the eldest son of Miranda and Jonathan Potter, two very prominent Aurors, and his younger brother James is just beginning Hogwarts this year.
As former extremely high-ranking Aurors, the new Headteachers of Hogwarts must feel that this is an act of glaring defiance from those remnants of the Dark Side still remaining after the couples' defeat of the arch wizard Grindelwald in 1945- after all, there has been no great Dark leader since that time. Or has there? Rumours are circulating of a new threat to the wizarding world; whispers abound of a Dark wizard whose powers exceed even that of the Dumbledores. Anyone who has dared to publicise the name of this new threat has died- horribly. I'm no braver than the average magic-user, so I think I'll give it a miss, especially since most Hogwarts students agree that at least one Dementor was loose on the Hogwarts Express shortly before it blew up, and Azkaban Prison emphatically denies that any of their Dementors were responsible.
Stay safe,
Callie P-S.
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