"Unfair competition laws?" said Hermione as she reread the cease and desist demand, "I never knew there was such a thing. Making fun of them is perfectly legal."
"Unfair Competition," Ron sniggered, "It's pathetic how a group of kids is considered competition by The Daily Prophet."
"What's also pathetic is how they say not to print anything that could decrease their profit. There's no law against that, unless what we're writing is a lie," said Harry.
"And we don't even talk about The Daily Prophet in our paper. We just imitate them in an insulting way, which isn't illegal. If they accused us of libel, I'd be angrier than Peeves now, because they did that to you numerous times last year," said Hermione.
"It's legal satire, damn it!" said Ron, "but they do say we violated copyright laws, which I guess is true. We did take their name, but that's all; we never copied whole articles from their paper."
"So you're saying we'll be fine if we change our name?" asked Harry.
"According to them we'd not only have to do that, but stop parodying them," said Hermione, "And that would totally defeat the purpose of The Daily Non-Prophet other than bashing the Ministry of Magic. I think we should suspend it for a while and write to The Daily Prophet to work out some kind of agreement."
"Unless all of our little employees up sending owls out got a copy of this," Ron said waving the letter, "they sent today's copies. Actually, I'm sure they sent it either way; most of those kids are too stupid to know what a cease and desist demand is."
"There's nothing we can do about that," said Hermione, "but today I'll write a letter to The Daily Prophet explaining why it was sent today and trying to make them not sue us. I'll also write a letter to be sent to people tomorrow in place of the paper explaining that no one will be getting a new copy anytime soon."
"You might also want to prepare one to send to the Ministry of Magic, Hermione," said Harry, "If The Daily Prophet can find illegal things about The Daily Non-Prophet, the law Nazis sure as hell can too."
Hermione gave a Harry a don't-think-I-didn't-think-of-that look.