Disclaimer: this work borrows from the world of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books; some plot elements, characters, and concepts are hers.

Chapter 10: Special Edition

The next day Luna was sitting down to breakfast with Mrs. Figg when an owl came in, and dropped two editions of the Daily Prophet on the table.

One was the normal paper, but another was a special edition.

Luna took one look at the headline, and forgot about eating breakfast.

DEATH BITES BACK!

By Dean White

Early this morning Madam Amelia Bones arrived at the emergency ward of St. Mungo's Hospital
for Magical Maladies and Injuries via portkey. She was unconscious and unaccompanied, and bore signs of a struggle, and of possible torture.

When Aurors were dispatched to her home to investigate they were shocked to find that the outer wall of her living room had been blasted away, and were even more shocked to find the bodies of four death eaters who had apparently been attacked from behind and stabbed to death before they had a chance to fight back.

Further inside aurors found the brutally beaten body of Lucious Malfoy, lying on the ground, next to his own severed head.

On the table next to his body were the wands of all five death eaters, as well as the wand of Madam Bones.

Also on the table were a bottle of veritaserum and a pensieve, both of which have since been confirmed as belonging to Madam Bones.

Upon investigation of the contents of the pensieve aurors were horrified to find evidence of Lucious Malfoy's willing service to the Dark Lord Voldemort during his first reign, as well as evidence of the willing service of several top officials of the ministry of magic, and the Wizengamot.

Most notable of these are the now former minister of magic, Cornelius Fudge, and his special assistant, Deloris Umbridge.

Also of note was the implication of now former reporter here at the Prophet, one Rita Skeeter.

Furthermore, the pensieve contained Lucious Malfoy's memory of the rebirth of Lord Voldemort over a year ago shortly after the third task of the TriWizard Tournament.

As many of our readers know, it is considered impossible to convincingly fake a memory in a pensieve, so in a henceforth unheard of display of competency by the Ministry, aurors were quickly dispatched to apprehend all those implicated in the memories contained in the pensieve.

Rita Skeeter is still at large at the time this story is being written, and is considered armed and highly dangerous.

Cornelius Fudge was arrested by aurors, and is currently being tried in an undisclosed secure location.

When aurors arrived to arrest Deloris Umbridge they were shocked to see her lying on the floor of her living room dead, in much the same condition as Lucious Malfoy.

Like Malfoy, her body was lying on the ground next to her severed head, and similarly, her pensieve was found on a table near her body, full of memories of her service as a death eater, including compelling evidence of the innocence of supposed mass-murderer Sirius Orion Black, evidence which indicates that Peter Pettigrew faked his own death and murdered 13 muggles to frame Black.

The pensieve also contained memories of Umbridge torturing students during the last school year, including her use of a blood quill, and the Cruciatus Curse.

More disconcerting to the aurors who were dispatched to detain Umbridge was the complete lack of struggle.

Her security wards were still in place, and none of the alarm charms on her home had been tripped.

"It was a very professional hit" Says auror Kingsley Shacklebolt. "None of the security spells had been set off or tampered with in any way. Whoever did this found a way into Umbridge's home without tampering with her anti-apparation and anti-portkey wards, and without setting off any of the alarm charms on her doors or windows? "Says Shacklebolt.

"Prior incantato indicates that the killer or killers somehow obtained Umbridge's wand, and stunned her with it, then revived her later." Auror Shacklebolt states.

"My theory is that whoever did this got access to Umbridge's home, obtained her wand, stunned her, administered veritaserum to her, revived her, questioned her, and then executed her."

When asked if the parties responsible for last night's killings were likely to continue, Auror Shacklebolt had this to say: "I think that it is more a questions of when than if." He stated. "Whoever these people are, they clearly detest dark wizards and witches, they probably have all of the evidence that we have found tonight, if not more. They are also clearly determined and brutally efficient. I would guess that rather than being finished, they are just getting started."

This reporter is shocked at the massive corruption that has been exposed within our government today, and feels that there should be a full audit of the entire Ministry of Magic.

Luna silently passed the special edition of the Prophet over to Mrs. Figg.

Mrs. Figg gave a low whistle. "Well well, looks like someone decided to clean up the wizarding world." She said quietly