broom Breaking News

Holiday Hoax Handily Habituated

(Hogsmeade) A happy holiday hoax has been happily habituated in the wizarding village of happy Hogsmeade.
As the superb summer holidays dreadfully draw to a close, pupils and professors pray for certain circumstances prolonging the perfect pastime of doing nothing and lazing in the shining sun. Now there has been a horrible hoax, telling everybody about a dreaded Death Eater attack on homely Hogwarts.

However, this hoax proved to be a blissful blessing in dreadful disguise. Since nobody could confirm the rash rumour - or dutifully deny it - school was postponed until the second week of September, when the poor professors will have enough proof that the holiday hoax habituated in Hogsmeade is nothing but a hoax. Until then, everybody can relax in the sun and enjoy the extra holidays. (MF)

Brilliant Birthday Brushes By

Chaotic broom celebrates bashfully the cool birthday of a charismatic bystander. The elvish editors equally elate in clearly congratulating this special spouse. A kilogram of cake will continually come to fully fill your fine flat. We cheerfully chose chocolate cake to contently convey our casual contempt. Bright birthdays bring another year to the long list of little lifetime. And yet you’re still young!

Thirty tiny candles glow in the dark and it apparently appears to be the droll daylight though it is only the nude night. Soft stars shyly smile but creative candles can positively push their pure power aside as they assuredly alight any delightful darkness. The whole heap hopes you have a happy (h)anniversary and more so hopes for many happy returns! Happy Birthday! (ALL)

Lazy Ladybirds Land on Low Land

Innumerable insects ingeniously inhabited the inter3esting islands and cosy coasts of the casual country. Our holy holiday was heftily horrified when a whole lot of lucky ladybirds distinctively decided to dozily dock onto our decided destination and stay for sure at the sunny and sandy shore.
Obviously the old ocean was no obvious obstacle but the idle insects easily introduced themselves to the surrounding islands to which we had firstly fled in order to actively avoid the eighth

of God’s seven pests. Gilderoy Lockhart’s guide was no good against the load of ladybirds. It could not even merely manage to mildly mash the meandering masses.
Wonderful wands were not wholly working as we were wilfully watched by millions of mean Muggles. We luckily left the low land to the little ladybirds and locked longingly for sure shelter in the small surroundings of our shady shed. Please do drop us an obvious owl when the ladylike ladybirds left at last!

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August 1 Summer. Sunshine. We need a swimming pool!
August 2 Summer. Sunshine. We've got a pool - an inflatable rubber one which we found in a Muggle shop. Rosemary, our duck, inhabits it now. We need more water. We plan a trip to  the seaside!
August 4 Summer. Sunshine. We are at the seaside. It's great - only, where's the water?
August 9 Summer. Sunshine. We found out that there is something called the wadden sea. That means, that the water disappears at times. We wonder where it goes.
August 13
Now we know where the water goes: Millions of tourists go swimming or surfing in it and in the process swallow so much water the sea retreats to protect at least some water. Are we brilliant or what?
 August 16 We go home again - but summer and sunshine still accompany us. We bought some souvenirs for our friends. And, which is the most brilliant thing of them all: We've got a sack of new Travelling Tales.
August 20
The thing about loads of new Travelling Tales is that you have to get Geronimo to print them. He only started doing it when we threatened him to publish a whole book of tales. Luckily our printer believes we've got enough stuff for a book. We can be lucky when we have enough for broom!
August 28
Eurgh, it's nearly time for a new broom. Okay, okay, we've got a brilliant set of Travelling Tales. We could do a whole travelling edition - but that might upset people who have to go back to work by September... We'll see.
August 31 Yippieh - broom's done!!!

Travelling Tales 2009: A Lesson a Day Keeps Death Eaters Away

Once again, Brian Cullen and Mike Flatley ventured into the Muggle World to take a break from their manifold duties at broom. This time, they opted for a seaside holiday together with some of their friends, whose names will not be given away for security's sake.

We've Got Feet!
Arriving at the coast in the pouring rain, we found our not-so-fashionable flat. It was situated very close to the beach. However, the rain prevented our going out that day, so we called it a day quite early and hoped for better weather.
Luckily for us, better weather did come and so we went for a long stroll thorugh our resort. Obviously we also needed supplies. Since it is simply impossible to conjur up food, we had to go shopping. In a Muggle shop, nay, a Muggle paradise. You can get everything there: food, drink, eclectic devices for plgs, funny little bulbs, candles and even batteries. We ended up buying some funny items for Arthur Weasley and quite a lot of food and stuff for us.

In the afternoon we set out again, exploring our Muggle surroundings.
The harbour we detected on our walk. Photo: KS

We also played golf, with meagre success but great fun. Then we did some more walking. So the lesson we learned today is: You can survive without apparating, and we re-discoverd our feet! (BC&MF)

Muggle Police Asks For Your Help

(The Muggle World) One more time one of the strange Muggle peculiarities creeps into our every day magical lives. The Muggle please is asking for everybody’s – that includes witches and wizards – help in a hit-and-run-offence. broom spoke to the Muggle please officer who is in charge.

broom: What exactly is a hit-and-run-offence?
PO: It is if someone leaves the scene of an accident.
broom: So what has happened exactly?
PO: A man was riding on his bike.
broom: Is this also an offence?
PO: No, usually not.
broom: Carry on then please officer.
PO:
Well, as I said, the man was riding on a bike.
broom: Sorry to interrupt you again. You now say “the man” instead of “a man”.
PO: Did I, well, does it make any difference?
broom:
Not to us.

PO: Alright, the man…
broom:
But certainly to “the man” or “a man”.
PO: Alright, if you prefer that “a man”…
broom: No, no, no. This is not about us, you see, just for “the man” or “a man”.
PO: …was riding on his bike.
broom: Which usually is no crime, right?
PO: Right, when…
broom: …when it is his own bike, right?
PO: Right, when suddenly…
broom: Isn’t it a shame that all accidents happen “suddenly”. Wouldn’t it be much more convenient to see them happen slowly, some of them could even be prevented.
PO: Yes, but this one happened suddenly.
broom: As you had pointed out before.
PO: Suddenly…
broom: Then again, it is such a nice word for effect.

PO: Is that of any matter to the accident?
broom: No, not the accident, but the story we will make of it. All readers will be quite attentive when they read “suddenly”, suspense will be rising and all of them will be eager to know how the story goes on.
PO: …suddenly.
broom: And in the best of stories the plot is delayed. The people will be very pleased. By the way, are you called “please officer” because you’re always addressed with these two words?
PO: No.
broom: What happened after the “suddenly”?

We here at broom are realy quite puzzled and at a loss why the please man fled. Anyway, a man fell off his bike because a mouse threw itself on the road. Now if you happen to meet a mouse which could be capable of throwing a man off his bike, please do contact your Muggle please forces.
(BC)

Our Old Enemy Is Dead, Long Live Our New Enemy!

(The World) As the late Voldemort no longer proves to be a threat to the like of you and me, some members of the magical world spoke of the fear that there was no one left to be feared. Little did these witches and wizards know what this summer had to offer: A pest worse than a hundred Muggles in your magic home invaded our private and most intimate spheres – the ladybirds.
As ladybirds themselves are not too scary, we decided to give a new name to them. And as this has previously worked so beautifully well with little Tom Riddle, we decided to take on the same strategy and from now on we will refer to the ladybirds as The Insects Whose name We Won’t Mention Any Longer As There Are So Many Of Them Now. Aren’t you scared yet?
Well, then picture this: Whole schools of ladybirds – oops, sorry – The Insects Whose name We Won’t Mention Any Longer As There Are So Many Of Them Now flying through the air and landing on every possible, impossible and inappropriate place – and if we say any we mean any!

We’re actually pretty scared now. Let’s see, which steps are there to be taken next. First of all we will form a new army and as we could neither agree on Brian’s or Mike’s Army, we will call it Geronimo’s Army.
We will recruit as many people as possible and as a second step we will ask the most valuable of these members to join the Order of the Louse – for The Insects Whose name We Won’t Mention Any Longer As There Are So Many Of Them Now are the natural enemies of lice.
We held an opinion poll about this in our office and 90 % of our lice agreed. They even promised to act godlike and take care of one of the members each accompanying them wherever they go.
Now, if your next step is to assume that we here at broom are only faking this problem in order to 1) cover the long summer break and b) to get rid of the lice in our office, then you’re perfectly right and much too clever to join Geronimo’s Army leave alone the Order of the Lice! We would advice you to just find something else for yourselves! (MF)

broom's Best Bad Boy Board

In the last edition of broom’S Best Bad Boy Board you found out that Argus quit his job as caretaker twice ensuring that his family will be hungry the next couple of weeks. Today, you’ll find out what happened next. Quite obviously, isn’t it?
After Argus had quit his job as the ugliest caretaker he did in deed return to his wife and children. Which fair haired mysterious beauty would have eloped with him? Right a blind, deaf and dumb one. Well, there was none at hand and so he had to go back home.
Back home he found a rather angry wife and two particularly hungry children. The sweet Matilda turned as easily into a cursing Xantippa as into a cooing dove. And she wasn’t even magical. This time she didn’t go for cooing dove. All the neighbours turned off their TV sets as this quarrel was much more dramatic than anything  that had ever been seen on TV.
It all ended when Matilda packed he things and children, cast an angry look on Argus and closed the door noisily.

We would have never thought that there was so much drama in Argus’ life, would you? Well, at least there is something for us to write about!
Anyway, Argus felt quite lonely in his flat without any of the children, Matilda or a job. He soon felt quite hungry, too. He also packed his things and left for good, however, without a fair haired mysterious beauty. He set sail – not literally – for London, the city that never sleeps – not literally either.
Once he was there he had to face the truth that it was as hard to find a job in London as it had been in Southampton. And even harder to find a flat or some place to sleep for that matter. He was lucky. It was summer and there always was a welcoming bench in Hyde Park or a cosy box forgottenly waiting in Speaker’s Corner. Unfortunately, we don’t know what he dreamed in the first night there, but we’re sure it became true if it was a nightmare.
Discover in the next edition if he managed to get a new job and keep it if at least until he could buy a bite to eat.

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