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                                                                             Ferocious Football Fights

(South Africa) The World Cup in mean Muggle football fascinates fans all over the wide world.
Pathetic players and successful soccer stars categorically compete in ferocious football fights for the cool cup. Although far less interesting than quirky Quidditch, millions of Muggles

meet in public places to warily watch the great games and meaningful matches.
Whoever bravely becomes World Champion, it is the free spirit of fun which really matters. And fun finally found its way to sunny South Africa! (MF)

Sunny Side Up!

The whole world is wittily waving their fair flags for their favourite football team. You can certainly catch good glimpses of Algerian, Argentinean, Australian, Brazilian, Cameroonian, Chilean, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Ghanaian, Greek, Honduran, Italian, Ivorian, Japanese, Mexican, New Zealand, Nigerian, North American, North Korean, Paraguayan, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, South African, South Korean, Spanish, Swiss and Uruguayan flags.
And sometimes you can certainly catch a good glimpse of Algerian, Argentinean, Australian, Brazilian, Cameroonian, Chilean, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Ghanaian, Greek, Honduran, Italian, Ivorian, Japanese, Mexican, New Zealand, Nigerian, North American, North Korean,

Paraguayan, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, South African, South Korean, Spanish, Swiss and Uruguayan flags hanging upside down!
Though this doesn't matter for the Cameroonian, Danish, English, French, Honduran, italina, Japanese, Nigerian, North Korean and Swiss flag, it is a mad matter of international importance for the Algerian, Argentinean, Australian, Brazilian, Chilean, Dutch, German, Ghanaian, Greek, Ivorian, Mexican, New Zealand, North American, Paraguayan, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, south African, South Korean, Spanish and Uruguayan flag. So you certainly should ensure to usually use the correct colour as the topmost pattern part. The real rule is not sunny side up!

newbroom-e-gram
June 1 Still no broom. That's not the best start for summer, is it?
June 7 There are rumours that we will be given some space for broom by the illegal radio station PotterWatch, run by our dear friend and benefactor River aka Lee Jordan.
June 15 Yes, it works! Hooray, broom is alive and thriving and finally we can prove it to everyone - especially the Death Eaters and their notorious henchmen at the Ministry.		 June 16 It suddenly occured to us that the miraculous resurrection of broom also means we have to do new editions very, very quickly.
June 20 As we are geniuses, we managed to edit a lot of editions at once, single-handedly, and brilliantly. River was suitably impressed.
June 30 And now here goes... Even the latest edition is finished and looks great. We are the champions!!!

Sports

(Hogsmeade) Since sports currently dominate the Muggle World, Mike Flatley decided to follow suit and invite Gwenog Jones, captain of the women's Quidditch team Holyhead Harpies, for a little chat about Quidditch, football and other sports.
MF: Hi, Gwenog. I'm glad you could make it.
GJ: Thanks for inviting me.
MF: Sure. How's it going with your team, the Harpies?
GJ: Oh, fantastic! We're heading the league, and we've found a superb new Chaser for our squad.
MF: Did you play at school?

 GJ: Of course I did! But at that time I didn't dream of being a pro. However, a headhunter spotted me playing at Hogwarts, and, well, here I am.
MF: It's a great success, no doubt. Gwenog, have you ever heard about football?
GJ: Oh, sure I have. It's this weird Muggle game with 22 players, two goals and one ball, isn't it?
MF: Exactly. What do you think of it?
GJ: Well, usually I think it a waste of time, but I do enjoy watching World Cup matches, becasue of the stadium atmosphere and because of the funny teams participating in the Cup. 		MF: I do agree. Tell me, do you know other Muggle sports?
GJ: I'm afraid I'm no expert. I did hear a game called "basketball" mentioned, but not even Muggles would throw a basket to each other, would they?
MF: No, that doesn't sound very likely. By the way, how do you judge the Harpies' chances of winning the national women's Quidditch Cup?
GJ: We've got a good chance, I'd say, but the competition is tough. Keep your fingers crossed.
MF: I will. Gwenog, thanks for your time.
GJ: My pleasure. (MF)

Travelling Tales: A Lesson A Day Keeps Death Eaters Away

Magical people are everywhere
Do you know the best way to start a day harmoniously? No? Well, here’s a piece of advice for you: go swimming. We did, and it was both some physical work-out and a relaxing activity. It’s also great to just watch people, which does give you a satisfactory feeling of being not so bad at all – yes, yes, we know we wrote so before, but the simple truth of it is just so vital we had to repeat our wisdom.
However, you can’t spend a whole day in water or else your skin will look like crumply old parchment. This is the bane of humans only, of course, since there are countless creatures which dwell in water. Among them are the seals. Our holiday resort hosts some sixty of these cute creatures.
Aren't they cute? photo: KS
They come there as lost babies and are raised until they are old and strong enough to fend for themselves. Then the seals are brought back into the Wadden Sea to spend their lives hunting fish and sleeping in the sun. Just to watch the playful young seals in their basins is elating. They are ever so cute, and curious, too.

It seems as if they want to watch their human visitors just as much as the humans want to watch them. No seal is exactly like the others; consequently the animal carers give them names. Some seals were named after people who donate money for their food and medication. Some seals had names referring to their looks or character. But there were also seals named after people we know.

Seal names! photo: KS
People from our world! There was a “Hermione”, for example. Of course Shakespeare used that name, too, but for our days it is highly unusual, isn’t it? So our conclusion is that a magical person mist be among the staff at the seal station. This led to our lesson of the day: magical people are everywhere, even in places where you really didn’t consider any wizard coming close to.

 newbroom's Next Best Bad Boy Board

In the last edition of your favourite magazine you were informed about another one of Greg’s defeats. A wizard caught him in the act of using very evil dark magic. Read on in this month’s edition to see which consequences Greg had to face and how he dealt with them.
“STUPEFY!” The spell echoed through the Forbidden forest and scared most of it inhabitants half to death. Greg was petrified. Unbelievingly, he stared at his opponent who now could easily take his wand.
His thin lips formed a straight line on his face not revealing any emotion. He raised his wand again and Greg was sure to have to face the final blow. So in deed his life had only been a chain of failures. “Finite Incantatem.” These words came as a release and a relieve.
Although the spell had been lifted, Greg was still not able to move. His surprise, anger and fear held him in a tight grip as a pair of cold eyes were staring at him.

 It took some time until Greg had at last found his power to speak again and he could finally answer the man’s question: “What do you think you’re doing here?” “Just practicing.” Greg replied. “Just practicing.” The man echoed and shook his head.
Greg felt a bit self-assured as he hadn’t been killed by the man. In fact, he was quite sure that this man would never kill him.who knew, he might even get away with it and if not there would be enough very evil dark magic spells in his head to get rid of the whole lot.
“What are you doing here, professor Snape?” Greg asked, straight forward. However, professor Snape didn’t reply. He looked deep into the eyes of the boy instead: “You will never ever use any of these spells again. if I ever catch you even only thinking about it, I will call the Dementors.”
Read on in next month’s edition to get to know whether Greg ever had to face the Dementors and if so what happened and if not – well – what happened.

Of Cars and Woods

(Muggle World) For once, Brian Cullen and Mike Flatley graciously stepped aside to let one of their slaves write a comment on a strange phenomenon in the Muggle World: Men’s TV.
TV, for Muggles, is undoubtedly pastime no. 1. There are programmes about nearly everything, and there are also programmes designed especially for one target group. Perhaps the strangest of these is men’s TV.
It’s not the fact that there is something like a programme designed for men. After all, half of humankind is male, so their needs should be taken into account. However, thinking about male interests, one would guess at programmes featuring lots of naked women.

 Yet this is not the case. The programme actually consists of shows hosted by over-the-top enthusiastic so-called experts for cars and explosions and special effects. There is even a programme about woodcutters in some American woods.
In fact, it’s downright weird. Men simply adore watching other men work, things explode and film tricks revealed to be sham. Let’s face it, men aren’t interested in stories or even sense. All they need is the roaring of an old racing car to be happy.
So the solution is quite obvious: Men and women must have separate TV sets so as to avoid arguments. For I just can’t see any woman enduring watching the nonsense in men’s TV programmes for longer than five minutes.
(Slave PhD)

False Football Facts?

(South Africa) The world is currently facing another one of these big events which excites half the population and leaves the rest of us totally puzzled: The Football World Cup. As we here at broom are not part of the first half, we intend to explain the confusion of the latter half.
First of all, there are numerous football facts orbiting around the non-football-fan. These – when put to the test – might prove false. One of these facts is: “The ball is round and a match lasts 90 minutes.” Now, we do remember a bit of our geometry class and we were definitely told that nothing is completely round but only has innumerous edges.
So much for the first part, what about the second part: By now we have watched a couple of matches and none of them lasted 90 minutes. There always was

some additional time after the first and the second half. Interestingly enough, the added time after the first half is not added to the total time.
Another fact is: “The round thing has to go into the square thing.” Why then is there so much space in between the two? And why on earth are there so many players when there is only one ball?
Another fact is that there are only 11 players in each team. Why was the highest number we saw a 26 then? Who decides who gets which number anyway? And why aren’t there any numbers for the referees?
One other fact adds to our confusion, namely that the TV people don’t mark repetitions. We here at broom were celebrating a series of four goals before we realized that it had only been one!
Fact is also that some places not only 		have gone down into history but have become myth as well: Bern, Wembley and Cordoba. Where are these places anyway?
Listening to the football commentators, another fact seems to be that all the referees are irresponsible idiots who don’t see what was there and see what was not there. Why have referees at all if they are such a useless lot? And while we are at it, why are there any trainers as they also seem to be crap?
And why did the commentator just tell us to relax when it was him who shouted because of an almost goal?
Maybe now we have won some of the football fans and turned them into a member of our confused lot. Nevertheless, have a good time – whether you are watching football or no. (ALL)

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