Disclaimer: I'm too young to be Rowling so there is sadly no way Harry Potter is mine…

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MINISTRY APPROVED

CHAPTER 4

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THE PINK CARDIGAN PRESENTS

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The Pink Cardigan Presents

Dear Readers,

after several management issues, and an ongoing discussion, we, the editors and journalists of the Pink Cardigan issue following declaration:

After presenting and naming our newspaper "The Pink Cardigan" for too many times, we decided go the simple route and just rename it like that, officially. Let it be known, that henceforward, the new, Ministry approved, student issued newspaper – once known as "The Pink Guardian" – is renamed to "The Pink Cardigan" officially.

Dear, readers, we have to say, it took us a while to reach that decision.

After all, we, the editors and journalists of this illustrious newspaper declared ourselves the most devoted followers to our much-loved and adored Headmistress and decided to create this newspaper in her honour and within her holy guidelines – in the same vein: Dolores Angels are still recruiting!

Because of our adoration and our devotion to our beloved Headmistress, we decided to name this newspaper "The Pink Guardian" at the beginning. Its name was to represent our thoughts for our Headmistress who has done great things ever since she came to Hogwarts. After all, who else can say that they united three of four Hogwarts houses, all of them inspired by one goal? Who else ensured that the point system and detentions lost their meaning compared to their need for justice? Who else ensured that for once, we'd learn theory in Defence Against The Dark Arts, first? And who else can say, that they were able to eradicate a dark lord just by silencing a single student?

Yes, who else but our beloved Headmistress could be worthy to have a newspaper named after them?

So, here we were, devoted to her and full of the believe that naming our most illustrious newspaper "The Pink Guardian" was the right way to go. Well, you all know what happened after. To our combined shame, even with firing two head editors, our newspapers name refused every try to recreate it to its originally planned name.

So, after a long discussion, our current staff decided unanimously, that we should do what good business demands. Since the first issue of our newspaper, we have steadily gained more and more readers with every issue. Now, after nearly the whole school is following this newspaper for the lack of other papers to follow – what with the Headmistress' vicious fight against those neat little magazines hiding in the boy's toilet on sixth floor and the girl's toilet on second floor as well as those various private hiding spots in various common rooms and dorms (as an update: Astronomy Tower and the broom closet on third floor have been found and emptied by the Headmistress two days ago!) – we decided that it would be bad business to rename ourselves to our originally planned name.

Hence, from now on, this newspaper's new, official name will be "The Pink Cardigan" in honour to our illustrious Headmistress' favourite way to dress!

We, the editors and journalists of the newly named "Pink Cardigan" hope that our beloved Headmistress will accept our new name in the spirit it is meant to be!

The Editors and Journalists of "The Pink Cardigan".

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Hermione was glaring at the newspaper in her hands. That… that newspaper! She didn't understand how every other student seemed to be enamoured it! The Slytherins, she could understand. Malfoy and his ilk had been crawling up Umbridge's ass since she showed up at the beginning of the school year, but Harry and Neville and Luna? Hermione didn't get it.

And what did that whole newspaper have to do with Dumbledore's Army?

Hermione was a part of the DA! She would have known if the DA had renamed themselves! She was one of the leaders, after all – so what had Neville been babbling about?

She tightened the grip on the newspaper in her hands, creasing the paper.

That piece of rubbish in her hands had nothing to do with keeping the Headmistress from ruining this school. No, while Hermione had only skimmed the articles, she was quite sure that the Pink Cardigan was in the process of singing a hymn of praise about the Headmistress.

Heck! The newspaper had even been named after Umbridge's horrid cardigans! So, why did Neville suddenly pretend that the newspaper had something to do with the DA?

No, Hermione shook her head. She wouldn't fall for the same trick as any other member of the DA. She would not succumb and read ministry propaganda disguised as another newspaper! She intensified her glare. If looks could kill, the newly declared Pink Cardigan would have gone up in flames by now.

"Er… Miss?"

Hermione balled her fists further. She had to do something. She had to stop this before Dolores Angels took over the whole school, leaving the DA at a horrid disadvantage. She needed to find the members of Dolores Angels and then expose them to Harry so that the boy would stop reading that damn newspaper. She needed to…

"Miss?"

"What?" She turned and her glare ensured that the poor first year Hufflepuff next to her shrunk back with tears in his eyes.

"May I have my newspaper back, Miss?" The question was nearly inaudible. "I haven't done the crossword on the back yet and I really wanted to see if I can get it right this time around, you know?"

When Hermione's glare just intensified, the Hufflepuff swallowed harshly and ducked his head. "I didn't get the last one right," he squeaked, confessing it like it was a sin. "I missed the question about wrackspurts."

At that, Hermione blinked.

"Wrack… spurts," she repeated slowly.

The Hufflepuff nodded eagerly. "The last crossword was a collaboration with the Quibbler. I got a version of the Quibbler through a classmate of mine, but I still got the wrackspurts question wrong. I think, today, the Pink Cardigan should have a crossword puzzle about the Daily Prophet in it, but I haven't been able to take a look until now because… well… you took my newspaper?" He squeaked the last part of the question.

Hermione scoffed.

"Don't believe anything that piece of… of ministry propaganda says," she told the first year.

The Hufflepuff nodded frantically. "Yes, Miss," he said. "Now… can I have my newspaper back?"

Hermione stared at the Hufflepuff. The Hufflepuff, though quivering, stared back. In the end, Hermione huffed and then roughly handed back the newspaper.

"Here, take that rubbish if you want it," she said. "I need to go to the library." She needed to find a way to find out the collaborators that wrote that newspaper.

With that thought, she stomped off.

"Weird witch," the first year Hufflepuff said to himself and straightened out his newspaper. "Now I know why Susan warned me that some people simply wouldn't get it. I thought, she meant the Slytherins, but, oh well…"

And with that, the Hufflepuff ambled away, intending to do his crossword puzzle before he had to go to class.

I hope you liked it.

I wish everyone a good start into December, a merry Christmas time and a wonderful day!

This is for the one who named me like every year.

'Till next time.

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