Who's Who and What's What, Special Edition!
Date: Sunday, 25 March, 2000
Time: Gossip Rag Special Edition
Character Involved: Who's Who and What's What, published by Rita Skeeter
Status: Complete
Rating: G
Hogwarts Gala or Dark Lord - In - Training Event?
Severus Snape: ‘Reformed’ Death Eater or the Next Dark Lord?
by Rita Skeeter
Shocking news, gentle readers! Setting out to the Hogwarts Gala with the intent to report on the who’s who and what’s what, I was rewarded with far more than an eye-full and had to do some research before I could report properly.
Of course, the Gala itself was lovely. Headmistress McGonagall spared no expense, considering she had her 'hand out' for donations. Everyone was dressed in their finest finery. Even Luna Lovegood, daughter of quack-editor of The Quibbler was stunning, though someone really ought to tell her the lily-petal look is so last-season.
Among the first arrivals was none other than Severus Snape, with several other individuals in-tow whom this reporter did not immediately recognise. The allegedly ‘reformed’ Death Eater proceeded to circle the room like a stalking predator. Simple inquiry discovered Snape’s companions to be individuals living in his house. Werewolves, to be precise!
A check of public Ministry Registry Records reveals that there are no fewer than six werewolves living in the very same house as Severus Snape, convicted Death Eater and admitted murderer of Albus Dumbledore.
We, of the wizarding public, have been led to believe that Snape was acting on Dumbledore’s orders, that he was, in fact, spying for “our” side all along-but how do we really know?
Werewolves are not the only surprising residents of the miniscule Muggle dwelling. Draco Malfoy, only son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy also currently resides in the house, as well as Theodore Nott, whose deceased father was also a convicted Death Eater.
All nine residents of the house are on the Ministry Registry as bearing close-observation for known dark ties or at least dark tendencies. If this, alone, was not reason enough for concern, it must now be noted the various and sundry visitors which also make routine visits to the tiny Muggle dwelling.
The most shocking of these visitors, my dear readers, is none other than Harry Potter, Our Saviour, himself! Twice he has been observed, by Ministry surveillance teams assigned to the house, to visit for extended periods. Once he arrived hand-in-hand with Miss Ginevra Weasley, his fiancée, and once he arrived alone, but Miss Weasley was already in the house, having arrived shortly before in the company of Auror Nymphadora Tonks. Auror Tonks was at the house on legitimate Ministry business, performing the required wand-checks on all of the residents within.
Incidentally, Miss Weasley was observed, during the Gala, to keep an inordinate amount of company with Snape, including dancing and dining with him, while Our Saviour was visibly nettled. Is this a hint of the evil machinations we must expect from Snape, perhaps? Was Snape trying to ‘steal away’ Harry Potter’s soul mate?
When asked how he felt about Miss Weasley dancing with Snape, Mr Potter gave us a very irritable ‘no comment’, and seemed to find solice in the arms of former-lover, Miss Hermione Granger, who was quick to drop her present beau, Ronald Weasley, in order to comfort her old-flame. Ronald Weasley, in turn, found his solice amongst 'family', or at least, family-by-marriage, as he danced quite closely with his stunningly beautiful sister-in-law, Mrs. Fleur Delacour-Weasley, married to maimed and mutilated Bill Weasley.
Snape also danced with Narcissa Malfoy, the two female werewolves who reside in his house, as well as other various attendees of the event.
All this seems to beg the question-what did You-Know-Who do in his early years before His rise to power? Did He not surround himself with like-minded associates and attempt to ingratiate Himself to those with more money and political prestige than Himself? Did He not gather followers and, indeed, even servile sycophants to bend to his will and serve his bidding? Did He not do all this and more right under the very nose of the Ministry and the rest of the Wizarding World?
With all of that in mind, ought we not be rightly concerned, now, over the behaviour of Severus Snape?
Is young Mr. Malfoy living in the household of his own free will, or is he a pawn, a tool, a hostage to ensure the support and compliance of his parents, particularly his father? We all know Lucius Malfoy to be a bastion of moral character and a pillar of our community, always funding vital, needy causes and striving for social justice. Yet what father would not be swayed by concern for his child?
Are the werewolves in his house friends? Servants? Slaves? The first members of his own Dark Army?
We did attempt to speak with Remus Lupin, werewolf and known friend of Harry Potter, and ask him if he was a willing resident of the house, but he declined to comment. Clearly, he is afraid of the possible repercussions and the legendary volatile temper of his ‘host’-or jailer.
Is Our Saviour visiting in an attempt to free his friend, Lupin, from Snape’s influence? Or is Harry Potter perhaps also already under the strange and dangerous sway of this ambiguous man?
Is the next Dark Lord starting his rise to power right in front of our eyes?
Clearly this is a situation which bears watching. Hopefully our elected officials are doing so with all due diligence.
~Rita Skeeter
Time: Gossip Rag Special Edition
Character Involved: Who's Who and What's What, published by Rita Skeeter
Status: Complete
Rating: G
Hogwarts Gala or Dark Lord - In - Training Event?
Severus Snape: ‘Reformed’ Death Eater or the Next Dark Lord?
by Rita Skeeter
Shocking news, gentle readers! Setting out to the Hogwarts Gala with the intent to report on the who’s who and what’s what, I was rewarded with far more than an eye-full and had to do some research before I could report properly.
Of course, the Gala itself was lovely. Headmistress McGonagall spared no expense, considering she had her 'hand out' for donations. Everyone was dressed in their finest finery. Even Luna Lovegood, daughter of quack-editor of The Quibbler was stunning, though someone really ought to tell her the lily-petal look is so last-season.
Among the first arrivals was none other than Severus Snape, with several other individuals in-tow whom this reporter did not immediately recognise. The allegedly ‘reformed’ Death Eater proceeded to circle the room like a stalking predator. Simple inquiry discovered Snape’s companions to be individuals living in his house. Werewolves, to be precise!
A check of public Ministry Registry Records reveals that there are no fewer than six werewolves living in the very same house as Severus Snape, convicted Death Eater and admitted murderer of Albus Dumbledore.
We, of the wizarding public, have been led to believe that Snape was acting on Dumbledore’s orders, that he was, in fact, spying for “our” side all along-but how do we really know?
Werewolves are not the only surprising residents of the miniscule Muggle dwelling. Draco Malfoy, only son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy also currently resides in the house, as well as Theodore Nott, whose deceased father was also a convicted Death Eater.
All nine residents of the house are on the Ministry Registry as bearing close-observation for known dark ties or at least dark tendencies. If this, alone, was not reason enough for concern, it must now be noted the various and sundry visitors which also make routine visits to the tiny Muggle dwelling.
The most shocking of these visitors, my dear readers, is none other than Harry Potter, Our Saviour, himself! Twice he has been observed, by Ministry surveillance teams assigned to the house, to visit for extended periods. Once he arrived hand-in-hand with Miss Ginevra Weasley, his fiancée, and once he arrived alone, but Miss Weasley was already in the house, having arrived shortly before in the company of Auror Nymphadora Tonks. Auror Tonks was at the house on legitimate Ministry business, performing the required wand-checks on all of the residents within.
Incidentally, Miss Weasley was observed, during the Gala, to keep an inordinate amount of company with Snape, including dancing and dining with him, while Our Saviour was visibly nettled. Is this a hint of the evil machinations we must expect from Snape, perhaps? Was Snape trying to ‘steal away’ Harry Potter’s soul mate?
When asked how he felt about Miss Weasley dancing with Snape, Mr Potter gave us a very irritable ‘no comment’, and seemed to find solice in the arms of former-lover, Miss Hermione Granger, who was quick to drop her present beau, Ronald Weasley, in order to comfort her old-flame. Ronald Weasley, in turn, found his solice amongst 'family', or at least, family-by-marriage, as he danced quite closely with his stunningly beautiful sister-in-law, Mrs. Fleur Delacour-Weasley, married to maimed and mutilated Bill Weasley.
Snape also danced with Narcissa Malfoy, the two female werewolves who reside in his house, as well as other various attendees of the event.
All this seems to beg the question-what did You-Know-Who do in his early years before His rise to power? Did He not surround himself with like-minded associates and attempt to ingratiate Himself to those with more money and political prestige than Himself? Did He not gather followers and, indeed, even servile sycophants to bend to his will and serve his bidding? Did He not do all this and more right under the very nose of the Ministry and the rest of the Wizarding World?
With all of that in mind, ought we not be rightly concerned, now, over the behaviour of Severus Snape?
Is young Mr. Malfoy living in the household of his own free will, or is he a pawn, a tool, a hostage to ensure the support and compliance of his parents, particularly his father? We all know Lucius Malfoy to be a bastion of moral character and a pillar of our community, always funding vital, needy causes and striving for social justice. Yet what father would not be swayed by concern for his child?
Are the werewolves in his house friends? Servants? Slaves? The first members of his own Dark Army?
We did attempt to speak with Remus Lupin, werewolf and known friend of Harry Potter, and ask him if he was a willing resident of the house, but he declined to comment. Clearly, he is afraid of the possible repercussions and the legendary volatile temper of his ‘host’-or jailer.
Is Our Saviour visiting in an attempt to free his friend, Lupin, from Snape’s influence? Or is Harry Potter perhaps also already under the strange and dangerous sway of this ambiguous man?
Is the next Dark Lord starting his rise to power right in front of our eyes?
Clearly this is a situation which bears watching. Hopefully our elected officials are doing so with all due diligence.
~Rita Skeeter