Daily Prophet Special Edition!
Date: Sunday, 12 March, 2000
Time: Special Edition
Character Involved: The Daily Prophet
Status: Complete
Rating: G
LUCIUS MALFOY RECEIVES FULL MINISTRY PARDON!
Released From Azkaban Yesterday!
An inside source at Azkaban informed The Daily Prophet of Mr. Malfoy's release yesterday, but we have been unable to confirm the information or the details until now. Amidst a great deal of Ministry secrecy, Mr. Malfoy was released from Azkaban late yesterday afternoon, and his official Ministry Pardon filed with the Office of Public Records early this morning.
It is to be noted that Malfoy's pardon is quite similar to that of Mr. Severus Snape, pardoned a little over a week ago. Malfoy's is a full pardon of all crimes committed while in service of the Ministry for Magic, acting as a spy amongst the Death Eaters. Like Snape, Malfoy is not pardoned the actual crime of being a Death Eater, nor is any attempt made to deny that charge. Malfoy is on the Registry as required.
We went to great lengths to discover how this had come about, and were finally granted interview with the Minister for Magic, Rudiger Shingleton, himself.
"There was really no question of the pardon, once I went through Rufus Scrimegeour's information he left."
Scrimegeour, our readers will remember, was our previous Minister, who died bravely in a Death Eater raid at the Ministry during the war. Shingleton shook a tiny vial at us as he spoke to us.
"Right here, Scrimegeour himself, left me a memory showing me all the information Lucius had provided him during the war, trying to defeat You-Know-Who. Why, just imagine how much sooner the war would have been over if Dumbledore had worked with Scrimegeour from the start--their two inside spies could have worked together as well, and countless lives might have been saved," asserts Shingleton.
Rudiger Shingleton, being the Minister for Magic, does, indeed, have the power to grant executive pardons without the intervention of the Wizengamot or the legislature. However, some members of the Wizengamot have had choice words to offer on the subject.
"Shingleton wants us all to think this is as good as Severus Snape's information, doesn't he? But is it? We all saw Dumbledore's memory as we deliberated Snape's fate. Even some of the reporters when McGonagall was trying to get him a trial. But I wonder, who has seen Scrimegeour's memory, besides Shingleton? You know it's not all that hard to forge a memory, don't you?" says Beatrice Tipton, member of the Wizegamot for nearly 20 years.
For an essay on Mrs. Tipton, and her views of proper levels of security, as taught by the paranoid ex-Auror, Alastor Moody, please see page seven.
It is true, that no one but Shingleton has seen the memory in question.
"Well, honestly, it is still a matter of National Security, and is therefore classified," he says when asked about this. "The pardon is done, however, and it is done for the best. We do not want our best and brightest languishing away in Azkaban after all that has been done to help us. Our world owes Lucius a great debt. A Pardon is the very least we could do."
We have rumours now that Mr. Malfoy is already home at his Manor, and reunited with his wife, rumoured to also have returned from hiding. These rumours are unsubstantiated, as Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy were both unavailable for comment.
Time: Special Edition
Character Involved: The Daily Prophet
Status: Complete
Rating: G
LUCIUS MALFOY RECEIVES FULL MINISTRY PARDON!
Released From Azkaban Yesterday!
An inside source at Azkaban informed The Daily Prophet of Mr. Malfoy's release yesterday, but we have been unable to confirm the information or the details until now. Amidst a great deal of Ministry secrecy, Mr. Malfoy was released from Azkaban late yesterday afternoon, and his official Ministry Pardon filed with the Office of Public Records early this morning.
It is to be noted that Malfoy's pardon is quite similar to that of Mr. Severus Snape, pardoned a little over a week ago. Malfoy's is a full pardon of all crimes committed while in service of the Ministry for Magic, acting as a spy amongst the Death Eaters. Like Snape, Malfoy is not pardoned the actual crime of being a Death Eater, nor is any attempt made to deny that charge. Malfoy is on the Registry as required.
We went to great lengths to discover how this had come about, and were finally granted interview with the Minister for Magic, Rudiger Shingleton, himself.
"There was really no question of the pardon, once I went through Rufus Scrimegeour's information he left."
Scrimegeour, our readers will remember, was our previous Minister, who died bravely in a Death Eater raid at the Ministry during the war. Shingleton shook a tiny vial at us as he spoke to us.
"Right here, Scrimegeour himself, left me a memory showing me all the information Lucius had provided him during the war, trying to defeat You-Know-Who. Why, just imagine how much sooner the war would have been over if Dumbledore had worked with Scrimegeour from the start--their two inside spies could have worked together as well, and countless lives might have been saved," asserts Shingleton.
Rudiger Shingleton, being the Minister for Magic, does, indeed, have the power to grant executive pardons without the intervention of the Wizengamot or the legislature. However, some members of the Wizengamot have had choice words to offer on the subject.
"Shingleton wants us all to think this is as good as Severus Snape's information, doesn't he? But is it? We all saw Dumbledore's memory as we deliberated Snape's fate. Even some of the reporters when McGonagall was trying to get him a trial. But I wonder, who has seen Scrimegeour's memory, besides Shingleton? You know it's not all that hard to forge a memory, don't you?" says Beatrice Tipton, member of the Wizegamot for nearly 20 years.
For an essay on Mrs. Tipton, and her views of proper levels of security, as taught by the paranoid ex-Auror, Alastor Moody, please see page seven.
It is true, that no one but Shingleton has seen the memory in question.
"Well, honestly, it is still a matter of National Security, and is therefore classified," he says when asked about this. "The pardon is done, however, and it is done for the best. We do not want our best and brightest languishing away in Azkaban after all that has been done to help us. Our world owes Lucius a great debt. A Pardon is the very least we could do."
We have rumours now that Mr. Malfoy is already home at his Manor, and reunited with his wife, rumoured to also have returned from hiding. These rumours are unsubstantiated, as Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy were both unavailable for comment.