August 4th


Dementors are back, and they’ve brought something wicked with them.

Late yesterday afternoon, dementors descended on the English countryside, scattering themselves from Cumbria and trickling in as far south as London. The Ministry received a timely warning and employed I.D.R.E.A.D immediately.

I.D.R.E.A.D. was less prepared for a strange, shrieking mist which appeared to be drawing these dementors south.

The mist has reportedly attacked both muggles and wixes, leaving several dead and many injured or changed. As night fell, the entity appeared to retreat or go into hiding. However, those affected are desperate for answers, and there's no rest for the Ministry as the Departments of Magical Law Enforcement and Magical Accidents and Catastrophes scramble to discover the source.

"We've never seen dementors hunt anything other than souls," a source from I.D.R.E.A.D. revealed.

"Attacked by mist! Sounds like an American horror novel doesn’t it?" author Rascal Rosier remarked excitedly, part of a group of wixes and muggles evacuated late last night from the Croydon area.

"It's real. My child is no longer my child," a distraught parent stated, when reached for comment at St.Mungo’s. "He can walk and talk and think, but it's not him. Something else is speaking through him."

Solomon Carstairs, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, has issued a nationwide state of emergency. Wixes are not advised to travel alone outside of urban territories.

The Ministry asks members of the public to practise cheering and patronus charms, to check in at St. Mungo's or with their primary Healer if they feel changed, and to come forward with any information.