31 July 2018

BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Prophet must announce with all urgency that the Ministry of Magic has discovered that the Congress of American Witches and Wizards is developing, and is on the brink of finalising, a weapon capable of causing mass fatalities among muggles.

“The very existence of such a weapon,” declared Minister Carstairs, “endangers the precarious peace between wixkind and muggle society.”

The International Confederation of Wizards has just this morning moved to sanction C.A.W.W. and is calling for the immediate disarming and disposal of the weapon. Minister Carstairs on behalf of magical Britain stands with the ICW in this matter. Some ICW delegates are calling for the arrest of C.A.W.W.W Governor Cassius Inglethorpe for Yet-To-Be-Commited crimes.

“Whether or not our brothers and sisters across the pond realise this, our ultimate aim is peace. How can we have peace, knowing what persecution awaits us should the Statute of Secrecy be irreversibly broken?” reads a statement from Governor Inglethorpe.

Further reassurances have been issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs, to the effect that C.A.W.W. only intends on deploying their weapon under appropriate circumstances.


Discovery of this heinous project was uncovered by heroic British agents risking life, limb, and tongue. The Daily Prophet can also now safely confirm, without risk to brave Ministry personnel, that American spies have been operating in Britain for some years now, with the apparent attempt to ensure the British people be kept in the dark pertaining to their plans.

The exact nature of the weapon is at current time unconfirmed. However Ministry intelligence agents have linked its development to mysterious fatalities in Winthrop[1]. A more recent, unreported incident in Spanish Valley, Utah saw a noxious cloud settling in the streets of the muggle town - a cursed vapor harmless to magical kind but deadly to all others, human or beast. Ministry intelligence believes this was also an early test of a weapon that will soon be ready for use.

Knox Greyfriar, Carstairs' latest apointee to the ICW, spoke to reporters: "If you ask me, a level head in this situation is best. Fear must not be our strongest advisor in the face of adversity. Whatever is it be done, it must be done together."

In the forthcoming days, immediate to these troubling developments, Minister Carstairs will be delivering an official Opprobrium, the Ministry's most strident method of ardent disapproval, to Governor Inglethorpe.

The Daily Prophet is vigilantly confident when it declares its full support and admiration for our protectors that its readers will raise their wands in heart-felt agreement.

1.	16th April - Mysterious Deaths Prompet Travel Warning