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Front Page News! Daily Prophet Editor Resigns!; Year 5 - Day 10
Topic Started: Jun 21 2010, 07:29:19 PM (500 Views)
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The Daily Prophet
Year Five - Day Ten


A Letter of Resignation

And damn the consequences.

by Charlie Johnson, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet.

Under normal circumstances, I would have had one of my underlings write some uninspired drivel about the Final Task of the Triwizard tournament, set to commence today. Following that blatant piece of journalistic fluff, would be a selection of articles that contained information we deemed important for the Wizarding population to be aware of. This is how things are usually done in the modern era of journalism. It isn't a perfect system, and though we try to ease the public mind with stories about tournaments and potions that make you look younger in minutes, though political influence in our work has always been present to some degree, what is different about the stories you have seen in this daily news publication have been chosen, reviewed, and edited by members of The Office of Magical Law Enforcement.

In fact, there are no other offices left, and the M.L.E. has absorbed all the surviving members of the other offices that will cooperate with them. They are effectively the ONLY office, and we are not only under their complete control as of now, we are under the control of men, trained mainly for combat, whose only real skill is keeping people under their thumbs--that is the role of Law Enforcement and Military Organizations, it is what we trust them to do in times of war, and they, and we, are fools to believe that they could possibly be true leaders of the people.

Yet, they are all that is left of our government, a fact they try not to advertise too much. They're main concern is the maintenance of order, a duty which Abraxas Kemp, his predecessor, Barrabas DuMaine, and their subordinates have all pursued to great effect. It is how they have maintained that order that is the cause for worry, for they do not openly share information with anyone, not even other nations. They have not told the people of the Wizarding United Kingdoms, nor allowed the Daily Prophet to print, any information regarding the sanctions other Wizarding governments are planning to place on the W.U.K. These nations have recognized that what we have here is a despotic military rule whose only ability to maintaining control through whatever means are necessary. Other Wizarding nations--those that haven't fallen prey to attacks similar to that which had been staged by Azariah Amaranth and his Knights of Walpurgis when they destroyed our Ministry--have turned their back on us, seeing us as responsible, in part, for Azariah's rise to power. And they, not the M.L.E., have been working to curtail the numerous terrorist attacks across the world. Our part of the world, it seems, is sealed off from the rest and safe, hiding behind the walls of Military Might and Lies the M.L.E. has built, while the rest of the world has to deal with the problem on their own. They are not happy about this, to say the least.

And how safe are we? Are we not simply kidding ourselves? Has the M.L.E. really made us safer by taking away our freedom? By submitting us to unauthorized searches? By taking whomever they please to Azkaban without trial? By violating our rights?

...or, have they simply given us an illusion of safety--did we exchange a gilded cage for a war that the rest of the world is fighting on its own?

And I do mean the rest of the world. To date, even muggles are not safe. The Statute of International Secrecy has effectively been, not broken, but shattered. Muggles are witness to acts of magic--violent acts that usually end up in their own deaths--every day. Their world, like ours, has been turned up side down, and the M.L.E. has done little more than make it seem as though this is not the case. In Azkaban, the M.L.E. has failed to convince the Dementors to stay as guards, and these dark creatures have now left the Wizarding prison, and attacks of wizards and muggles alike have been covered up by the M.L.E. Azkaban is now under M.L.E. jurisdiction, and they bring there whomever they like, in secret, and Merlin knows what they do to their prisoners.

The M.L.E. create an illusion of normalcy through subversion and subjugation. So far, they have done little more than make Azariah Amaranth's philosophy ring truer in the ears of the masses, and (in another piece of information I have been forbidden to let any of you know) new recruits to The Knights of Walpurgis and organizations like it have been materializing in droves, with attacks we're not allowed to tell you about increasing daily.

These are the things the M.L.E. will not allow me to tell you. They've no idea that I have used the Imperius curse upon their representatives, used dark magic to rip my information straight from their minds, and have put this, my letter of resignation--a word that has, in this case, a two-fold meaning for me--into print as the only story of the day. I can no longer stand by and abide Abraxas Kemp and his men, not after their blatant power-grab has resulted in the arrest of Karolina Sneckenberg, Professor of Potions at Hogwarts School. Her crime? Protecting her students in spite of an order from Barrabas DuMaine to stand by as her student, June Brooks, bled after an attack on her by an unkown assailant over Christmas in the Great Hall of the school (to date, the criminal has yet to be found). She is now in Azkaban, having been sent there without trial. My heart goes out to her and any family she may have.

In the chaos of this, the centaur, Bannishtar, Professor of Divination, saw fit to stand up, not only for his rights, but the rights of humans. He was brought down by agents of Kemp's Elite Special Operations Unit, though subsequently rescued by his fellow centaurs, and is now listed as "eliminate on sight" by the M.L.E. I only hope that he is safe as of this moment.

In light of this, I knew I could not stay on as editor. I knew I could no longer be a pawn in their game. A good friend--a rival journalist, in fact--had once said to me "You always have a choice." Well, I have made my choice, and am prepared-- like Karolina, like Bannishtar, like all those others who have deigned to stand up to a seizure of their rights by the M.L.E. in the name of "safety" whom I have been forbidden to tell you about--to face the consequences.

Signed,
Daily Prophet Editor-in-Chief
Charlie M. Johnson


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