Post by ODM on Mar 19, 2009 20:38:56 GMT -5
LONDON - RITA SKEETER, DAILY PROPHET REPORTER EXTRAORDINAIRE REPORTS EXCLUSIVELY
FROM THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC HEADQUARTERS, LOOKING DASHING IN SILKEN BLACK ROBES.
CLEARLY, AGE HAS NOT CAUGHT UP WITH THIS WOMAN. SHE LOOKS AS STUNNING AND ENCHANT-
INGLY BEAUTIFUL AS EVER. A CROWD GATHERED AROUND THE MINISTRY COURTROOMS YEST-
ERDAY MORNING, RUMORS RUNNING RAMPANT THAT THE WIZENGAMOT, WHICH CONVENED AT
THE END OF LAST MONTH FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF MINISTER OF MAGIC KINGSLEY SHACKLE-
BOLT, HAD FINALLY COME TO A DECISION IN NAMING MINISTER SHACKLEBOLT'S REPLACEMENT.
RITA SKEETER WAS FIRST ON THE SCENE, AND, AS THE DAILY PROPHET CAN EXCLUSIVELY REP-
ORT, THE WIZENGAMOT HAS SELECTED SOLINUS LESTRANGE, UNDERSECRETARY TO THE MIN-
ISTER UNDER SHACKLEBOLT'S ADMINISTRATION, TO BE THE NEW MINISTER OF MAGIC. AS
THRONGS OF REPORTERS PRESSED IN AROUND THE COURTROOM, RITA SKEETER WAS ABLE TO
PULL SOLINUS LESTRANGE AWAY FROM THE CROWD FOR AN EXCLUSIVE DAILY PROPHET INTER-
VIEW. LESTRANGE, CLEARLY STILL IN SHOCK FROM THE LIFE-CHANGING NEWS THAT HE IS TO
BECOME MINISTER OF MAGIC, HAD TEARS IN HIS EYES, UNDOUBTEDLY THINKING OF THE DEAD
PARENTS HE NEVER KNEW, AND THE LONG ROAD HE CLIMBED IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
TO BECOME THE YOUNGEST MINISTER OF MAGIC IN HISTORY.
UPON BEING ASKED WHAT THIS MOMENT MEANT TO HIM, LESTRANGE REPLIED "OBVIOUSLY,
THIS MEANS THE WORLD TO ME. THE DEATH OF SHACKLEBOLT WAS SUCH AN UNEXPECTED TRA-
GEDY. THE WIZARDING WORLD HAS BEEN WOUNDED, AND I AM HONORED TO BE IN A POSITION
TO HELP LEAD EVERYONE TOWARDS THE PATH OF HEALING." BUT WHAT DOES HE SAY TO HIS
CRITICS, THOSE WHO ARE SKEPTICAL THAT A MAN WITH THE LAST NAME LESTRANGE WILL BE
ABLE TO RULE FAIRLY AND WITHOUT BIAS? "I BELIEVE I AM LIVING PROOF THAT WHO YOU ARE
AS A PERSON AND WHAT YOU BECOME AS A MAN IS NOT DEFINED BY YOUR BIRTH OR YOUR SUR-
NAME BUT BY HOW YOU ACT AND HOW YOU TREAT THOSE AROUND YOU - WITH FAIRNESS AND
RESPECT." CHARMING WORDS, TO BE SURE, GIVEN THAT LESTRANGE'S PARENTS RODOLPHOUS
AND BELLATRIX LESTRANGE SPENT MUCH OF THEIR LIVES IN AZKABAN FOR HATE CRIMES AGAIN-
ST SO-CALLED "MUGGLE-LOVERS." WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS PARENTS, LESTRANGE ABRUPTLY
CHANGES THE SUBJECT, HIS DARK EYES FLASHING MENACINGLY. TO WHOM DOES LESTRANGE
OWE HIS SUCCESS? LESTRANGE CITES HIS CLOSE FRIEND THEODORE LUPIN, AND, MOST OF ALL
"MY COUSIN CYRUS LESTRANGE. I AM DEEPLY IN DEBT TO CYRUS, WHO HAS BEEN LIKE A BRO-
THER TO ME MY WHOLE LIFE. HE IS MY CLOSEST FRIEND AND MOST TRUSTED ADVISOR. WE MAY
NOT ALWAYS AGREE ON EVERYTHING, BUT I TRUST HIM WITH MY LIFE. AND I AM PLEASED TO
ANNOUNCE THAT I WILL BE APPOINTING CYRUS TO THE POSITION OF UNDERSECRETARY TO
THE MINISTER OF MAGIC. I'M SURE THAT HE WILL BE OF INVALUABLE SERVICE TO ME IN THE
MONTHS TO COME." CYRUS LESTRANGE WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT... CONTINUED | A2
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