The next day a letter was received by the Prophet by the senior manager in charge.

July 21st, 1996

To the Editors of the Daily Prophet:

I am formally requesting that any and all articles published in regards to me be cleared through me directly or my designated correspondent. This person shall be Remus J. Lupin. I do not appreciate the lies that have been printed about me. I am considering retaining council against the Prophet for the irreparable damage to my reputation. Also since you seem to have forgotten, my parents were shareholders in the Prophet and those shares have passed to me. I suggest you check your records on the size of those shares. The muggles have an appropriate saying in this case. Do not bite the hand that owns you. A rabid dog that bites its owner must be dealt with and sometimes harshly. Remember this.

At this time, my only interviews are still the exclusive domain of the Quibbler, since it is the only publication I trust to print what I actually say or do, their proclivity for other unorthodox articles not withstanding.

A Sincerely Upset Stockholder,

Harry James Potter.

P.S.

This letter is for your perusal and records, not for publication. This I so state. To do so will be a breach of confidentiality between company and stockholder and would be brought to the attention of the Ministry if said violation occurs.

A letter was also received by the Quibbler but under a different name since Harry wanted to give a general wakeup call to the wizarding world and make them think. If he had done it under his own name, it would not have the same effect. This letter actually was printed on the front page of the next issue of the Quibbler.

July 21st, 1996

Dear Editor,

I am sending this to the Quibbler since it actually prints the truth as proved by Rita Skeeter's interview with Harry Potter. I've been reading the Prophet a lot recently and going back through its past issues. I came across some interesting information. Voldemort arose but there is no information published about what or who he was before he came to power originally. I had heard that the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor Albus Dumbledore, calls him Tom. That is more of a muggle name than anything else and I've not heard anything save that the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters have nothing but hatred for all things muggle. So why does he have that name then? Curious, I went through the extensive library at Hogwarts with this in mind. The information obtained was shocking and it can be verified through Ministry and Hogwarts records. The Dark Lord's true name is Tom Marvolo Riddle and is a half-blood. His mother was a witch and his father was a muggle named Tom Riddle. He was raised in a muggle orphanage after his father learned his mother was a witch, even though she was an extremely loyal and loving wife. He attended Hogwarts as a Slytherin and graduated with distinctions, including being Head Boy. His so-called name "Lord Voldemort" is nothing more than an anagram of his muggle name. What this means is that he rearranged the letters of Tom Marvolo Riddle to spell out new words. In this case they were rearranged to spell out "I am Lord Voldemort". Professor Dumbledore himself says that there is nothing to fear in just a name. Nobody is afraid to say the names of other evil such as Morgana or Grinndewald.

There is not a way for me to even start guessing why he does what he does. But the biggest question is "Why do his Death Eaters follow him if he's part Muggle himself?" Hopefully this gets a few of them to thinking instead of hiding underneath his robe.

Speaking of hiding, Death Eaters I guess actually must be cowards, since they hide behind the masks and cloaks. I actually think that there is a connection there between what they do and what some muggles in the United States do. That group calls itself the KKK and also commits acts of terrorism in the name of racial superiority. They also hide behind masks and costumes.

There are no racial differences between Muggles and Wizards/Witches. The only actual differences are in the cultures and of course the lack of magic in Muggles. Although it is possible that the ability to do magic is present in all but only accessible to few except under certain circumstances. I would explain further but that would require knowledge of a Muggle field of study called genetics dealing with recessive genes. How else can Muggle-born Wizards or Witches be explained? If the readers want, I will endeavor to try and explain this more in depth in a later letter or article.

The Minister of Magic himself, Cornelius Fudge, was notified of Voldemort's return for over a year now and nothing appears to have been done to help protect us from him. In fact, Minister Fudge denied all claims that You-Know-Who had returned, insisted Harry Potter was insane, removed Headmaster Dumbledore, provided his replacement who had been responsible for Mr. Potter's assault by Dementors no less. One wonders if she was not encouraged by a higher up to do so even. Minister Fudge only admitted to You-Know-Who's returned when he attacked the Ministry recently, where he was countered by Harry Potter and his companions, as well as the Headmaster. During this attack it was revealed that Lucius Malfoy, a long-time acquaintance of the Minister and campaign contributor is a Death Eater. Not being a member of the ministry myself, I do not know the results of his interrogation, but one does wonder why he tried so hard and spent so much money trying to keep Minister Fudge in office. I call out to you to write to the Ministry, demanding an investigation into the activities of the Minister.

A concerned wizard,

JARRET E MARSHYPOT

Reactions to the letter in the Quibbler varied from astonishment to rage. Although whether the rage was from the revelation of the truth or the insults in it depended on which way the person had leanings towards, light or dark. Many owls were sent to Ministry in complaint and fear. An entire room was filled with letters either asking Madam Bones to find out if Fudge was a death eater or not, or to the Minister himself, calling for his immediate resignation.

Voldemort's reaction was predictable enough.

Intense rage that had him reduced to incoherency while he tortured his death eaters to burn some of it off. He really didn't like being reminded of his muggle background. In his anger, he failed to notice the looks he was being given by some of his followers.

Dare I even say what the idiot Fudge did? After swearing for a while, he contacted Dumbledore and screamed at him for a while and demanding to know what he knew about this article. Lucky for the Minister, he's not read any of the letters...yet.

Dumbledore calmly told him that yes he quite often told students that there was nothing to fear in a name but there was no student attending Hogwarts by that name and that it must be an assumed name and that no he had no idea who it might be.

Dumbledore really had no idea who it actually was but the list of suspects was very short if it was an actual student and not an alumni. He did not add Harry's name to the list though figuring that he would not even consider doing something like this. It was much too Slytherin in nature.