Remembering details, was Re: Help! McGonagall's book...

Steve Vander Ark vderark at bccs.org
Fri Feb 16 20:36:53 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 12441

Hey, fellow lunatic purist:

Relax. You're not insane. 

(Did that sound convincing? I tried to really sound honest when I 
wrote it.)

Snape read from the Evening Prophet when he informed Harry and Ron 
that Muggles had seen the Flying Ford Anglia ("FLYING FORD ANGLIA 
MYSTIFIES MUGGLES!").

"Silence!" said Snape coldly. "What have you done with the car?" Ron 
gulped. This wasn't the first time Snape had given Harry the 
impression of being able to read minds. But a moment later, he un 
derstood, as Snape unrolled today's issue of the Evening 
Prophet. "You were seen," he hissed, showing them the headline: 
FLYING FORD ANGLIA MYSTIFIES MUGGLES. He began to read aloud: "Two 
Muggles in London, convinced they saw an old car flying over the Post 
Office tower ... at noon in Norfolk, Mrs. Hetty Bayliss, while 
hanging out her washing ... Mr. Angus Fleet, of Peebles, reported to 
police ... Six or seven Muggles in all. I be lieve your father works 
in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office?" he said, looking up at Ron 
and smiling still more nastily. "Dear, dear ... his own son. . . " 

That's from chapter Chamber of Secrets, of course, chapter five.

But wouldn't that just be the evening edition of the Daily Prophet? 
Mightn't there be a Morning Prophet as well, which is just the early 
edition of the paper?

Steve Vander Ark
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