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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