Pottermore : Diagon Alley : Daily Prophet http://www.pottermore.com/en/daily-prophet/qwc2014/2014-07-08/dumbledores-army-reunites 18 ShadowQuest12213 Ravenclaw Items: 51 Badges: 3 House Points Friends: 2 Favourites: 0 Settings HAVE YOU DISCOVERED Read the exclusive new writing by J.K. Rowling on the Daily Prophet in the moment Rita Skeeter MORE ON QUIDDITCH Visit the The Campsite and The Golden Stadium Moments to 08 July 2014 discover more about DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY REUNITES AT Quidditch. POTTERMORE QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP FINAL SHOP Want to learn more By the Daily Prophet ’s Gossip wizarding band The Bent-Winged about Magizoology or Quidditch? Correspondent, Rita Skeeter. Snitches – all have caused flurries of excitement, with crowd members scrambling for autographs and even casting Bridging Charms to reach the There are celebrities – and then there are VIP boxes over the heads of the crowd. Visit the Pottermore celebrities . We’ve seen many a famous Shop today. face from the wizarding world grace the But when word swept the campsite and stands here in the Patagonian Desert – stadium that a certain gang of infamous Ministers and Presidents, Celestina wizards (no longer the fresh-faced Warbeck, controversial American 1 of 8 08/07/2014 14:47 Pottermore : Diagon Alley : Daily Prophet http://www.pottermore.com/en/daily-prophet/qwc2014/2014-07-08/dumbledores-army-reunites teenagers they were in their heyday, but might say are better suited to a style- nevertheless recognisable) had arrived deficient twelve-year-old. The famous for the final, excitement was beyond lightning scar has company: Potter is anything yet seen. As the crowd sporting a nasty cut over his right stampeded, tents were flattened and cheekbone. Requests for information as small children mown down. Fans from to its provenance merely produced the all corners of the globe stormed towards usual response from the Ministry of the area where members of Magic: ‘We do not comment on the top Dumbledore’s Army were rumoured to secret work of the Auror department, as have been sighted, desperate above all we have told you no less than 514 times, else for a glimpse of the man they still Ms. Skeeter.’ So what are they hiding? Is call the Chosen One. the Chosen One embroiled in fresh mysteries that will one day explode upon The Potter family and the rest of us all, plunging us into a new age of Dumbledore’s Army have been given terror and mayhem? accommodation in the VIP section of the campsite, which is protected by heavy Or does his injury have a more humble charms and patrolled by Security origin, one that Potter is desperate to Warlocks. Their presence has ensured hide? Has his wife perhaps cursed him? large crowds along the cordoned area, all Are cracks beginning to show in a union hoping for a glimpse of their heroes. At that the Potters are determined to 3pm today they got their wish when, to promote as happy? Should we read the accompaniment of loud screams, anything into the fact that his wife Potter took his young sons James and Ginevra has been perfectly happy to Albus to visit the players’ compound, leave her husband and children behind where he introduced them to Bulgarian in London whilst reporting on this Seeker Viktor Krum. tournament? The jury is out on whether she really had the talent or experience to About to turn 34, there are a couple of be sent to the Quidditch World Cup threads of silver in the famous Auror’s (jury’s back in – no!!!) but let’s face it, black hair, but he continues to wear the when your last name is Potter, doors distinctive round glasses that some open, international sporting bodies bow 2 of 8 08/07/2014 14:47 Pottermore : Diagon Alley : Daily Prophet http://www.pottermore.com/en/daily-prophet/qwc2014/2014-07-08/dumbledores-army-reunites and scrape, and Daily Prophet editors In the immediate aftermath of the battle hand you plum assignments. Weasley, whose famous ginger hair appears to be thinning slightly, entered As their devoted fans and followers will into employment with the Ministry of remember, Potter and Krum competed Magic alongside Potter, but left only two against each other in the controversial years later to co-manage the highly Triwizard Tournament, but apparently successful wizarding joke emporium there are no hard feelings, as they Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. Was he, as embraced upon meeting (what really he stated at the time, ‘delighted to assist happened in that maze? Speculation is my brother George with a business I’ve unlikely to be quelled by the warmth of always loved’? Or had he had his fill of their greeting). After half an hour’s chat, standing in Potter’s shadow? Was the Potter and his sons returned to the work of the Auror Department too much campsite where they socialised with the for a man who has admitted that the rest of Dumbledore’s Army until the destruction of He Who Could Not Be small hours. Named’s Horcruxes ‘took its toll’ on him? He shows no obvious signs of mental In the next tent are Potter’s two closest illness from a distance, but the public is associates, the ones who know not allowed close enough to make a everything about him and yet have proper assessment. Is this suspicious? always refused to talk to the press. Are they afraid of him, or is it their own Hermione Granger, of course, was secrets they are afraid will leak out, always the femme fatale of the group. tarnishing the myth of He Who Could Press reports of the time revealed that as Not Be Named’s defeat? Now married, a teenager she toyed with the young Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger Potter’s affections before being seduced were with Potter almost every step of the away by the muscular Viktor Krum, way. Like the rest of Dumbledore’s Army, finally settling for Potter’s faithful they fought in the Battle of Hogwarts and sidekick. After a meteoric rise to Deputy no doubt deserve the plaudits and Head of the Department of Magical Law awards for bravery heaped upon them by Enforcement, she is now tipped to go a grateful wizarding world. even higher within the Ministry, and is 3 of 8 08/07/2014 14:47 Pottermore : Diagon Alley : Daily Prophet http://www.pottermore.com/en/daily-prophet/qwc2014/2014-07-08/dumbledores-army-reunites also mother to son, Hugo, and daughter, sons are ‘at home with grandpa’. Is this a Rose. Does Hermione Granger prove that euphemism for ‘too disturbed to be seen a witch really can have it all? (No – look in public’? Surely only the unkindest at her hair.) would suggest so. Then there are those members of Sundry other members of the Army are Dumbledore’s Army who receive slightly here, but it is on these six that most less publicity than Potter, Weasley and interest is focused. Wherever there is a Granger (are they resentful? Almost red head one may make an educated certainly). Neville Longbottom, now a guess that it belongs to a Weasley, but it popular Herbology teacher at Hogwarts is difficult to tell whether it is George School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is (wealthy co-manager of Weasleys’ here in Patagonia with his wife Hannah. Wizard Wheezes), Charlie (dragon Until recently the pair lived above the wrangler, still unmarried – why?) or Leaky Cauldron in London, but rumour Percy (Head of the Department of has it that Hannah has not only retrained Magical Transportation – it’s his fault if as a Healer, but is applying for the job of the Floo Network’s too busy!). The only Matron at Hogwarts. Idle gossip suggests one who is easy to recognise is Bill who, that she and her husband both enjoy a poor man, is grievously scarred from an little more Ogden’s Old Firewhisky than encounter with a werewolf and yet most of us would expect from custodians somehow (enchantment? Love potion? of our children, but no doubt we all wish Blackmail? Kidnap?) married the her the best of luck with her application. undeniably beautiful (though doubtless empty-headed) Fleur Delacour. Last of the ringleaders of Dumbledore’s Army is, of course, Luna Lovegood (now Word is that we shall see these and other married to Rolf Scamander, swarthy members of Dumbledore’s Army in the grandson of celebrated Magizoologist VIP boxes at the final, adding to the glitz Newt). Still delightfully eccentric, Luna and razzmatazz of a gala occasion. Let us has been sweeping around the VIP hope that the behaviour of two of their section in robes composed of the flags of younger hangers-on does not embarrass all sixteen qualifying countries. Her twin them, heaping shame on those who have 4 of 8 08/07/2014 14:47 Pottermore : Diagon Alley : Daily Prophet http://www.pottermore.com/en/daily-prophet/qwc2014/2014-07-08/dumbledores-army-reunites previously brought honour to the name intervention. Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs of wizard. Bill Weasley might like to know that their beautiful, blonde daughter Victoire One always hesitates to invade the seems to be attracted to any dark corner privacy of young people, but the fact is where Master Lupin happens to be that anyone closely connected with lurking. The good news is both of them Harry Potter reaps the benefits and must seem to have invented a method of pay the penalty of public interest. No breathing through their ears. I can think doubt Potter will be distressed to know of no other reason how they have that his sixteen-year-old godson Teddy survived such prolonged periods of what, Lupin – a lanky half-werewolf with in my young day, was called ‘snogging.’ bright blue hair – has been behaving in a way unbefitting of wizarding royalty But let us not be severe.