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Treacherous Terror Terrifies Secure States

Terrible terror threats are shakingly shattering our wonderful world. Almost every capital city is endangered by the bad bombings but recent rumours secretly say that soon some other cities will be an attacked aim. Polite politicians attentively asked the sad citizens to immediately ignore this immanent evil and to gladly go on living the wild way they did before. No wrong worries can clearly keep any cool citizen from inevitably

enjoying lucky life. Additionally, the attached aim is surprisingly supposed to be finally found out before the actual attack. No direct danger is painfully put on plenty of people they say. Scientists showed statistically that it is highly unlikely to come across two citizens carrying a bad bomb. It’s only obvious that you should have your own elaborated explosives at the ready – but don’t detonate it! (All)

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November 1 HALLOWEEN? SWEETS? PARTY? NO THANKS! AND DON'T SHOUT!
November 9 We're preparing for the first snow, but nothing is happening. It's winter, we have time and we definitely want to shovel snow, now! We put a spell on our office, look at those cute snowflakes!
November 13 Still no snow outside. The whole of Europe is hidden under a thick layer of snow. We have the right to have snow! We decide to prepare newbroom.
November 14 As there is so much time left we decided to take a loo at our Christmas edition. We still need some songs and we have to talk to Harriet. She always prepares such nice food when we drop in.

November 19 We're currently humming.different Christmas carols. It's not so easy to find a new text for these ancient hymns!
Novem
ber 25 The songs are almost finished by now. We start worrying about our December edition now.
November 26 ELECTION? Damn, yes there is an election in our December edition - well, not yet.
November 28 Both slaves have fallen ill. We're quite sure that the Ministry is behind that! We're not feeling too good ourselves but this is more due to the fact that newbroom isn't finished yet.
November 30 We have given up newbroom simply will not be in time!

Newbroom’s Next Best Bad Boy Board Election

(Headquarters) Yes, it is that time of the year again, when the first snowflakes cover the damp earth with a white layer ad you have to vote yet again for a new newbroom’s next best bad boy. So mice at the ready!
By now it has become a well-known and dearly-loved tradition to vote for a particularly bad guy whose story will be featured in the course of the next year in your favourite magazine. So far only mildly bad guys have won while the chief makers of trouble, namely Brian Cullen and Mike Flatley, were only playing a minor role.
However, this year this is going to change as we will confront you with some details of the bad lives of all the seven candidates. This simply must lead to either Brian or Mike winning the election!
Brian’s and Mike’s lives are so much interwoven that it is hard to tell who does what or in fact who does anything at all. Then again there are some rumours which are accompanied by proofs of various sort that the two are responsible for the fall of some prime and other ministers in various countries and on various levels.
They are also quite famous for treating their slaves badly, namely to stand behind one of them right at this moment, dictating this article and pointing their wands threateningly at her to ensure that she types whatever they say. Rest assured that they wouldn’t hesitate a split-second to do harm to her if it was necessary.

In fact, it won’t matter much who you vote for as the two have prepared everything to forge this election and make sure that either of the two wins. Geronimo even claims that he already had to print out the article announcing the glorious victory of the two.
After this rather extended list of evils it is hardly necessary to add anything about the other candidates, however, as we here at newbroom like to be a good sport here are some pieces of information about the other candidates:
Dolores Umbridge most famously plagues the world with her collection of kitten saucers. Evil! Bellatrix Lestrange has been sticking to the same hairdresser because only he can make her hair scare little children. Bad! Severus Snape’s most evil deed is that he never goes to a hairdresser. Terrifying! Xeno Lovegood brings useless information to the wizarding world. Horrific! Lord Voldemort he runs around telling everyone that he wants to kill Harry Potter but never takes the chance when he has it. Terrible!
Now it’s almost entirely up to you! Make your decision now:
Brian Cullen
Mike Flatley
Dolores Umbridge
Bellatrix Lestrange
Severus Snape
Xeno Lovegood
Lord Voldemort

Odd Odysseys III

(The World) Having been pissed off with bikes we did decide to put another means of transport into our focus: the zeppelin. So please do read on to find out why we here at broom are pissed off with zeppelins, too.

The Zeppelin NT Disaster – this should have told us all! In fact, it did tell us all, only, we didn’t know that we would become part of this. Relaxed we fell back into our chairs while one of our slaves started to tell us about a project of hers. Then again, project isn’t the right word. The right word is – catastrophe.
Picture this: We, that is Brian and Mike, are sitting in a zeppelin. A zeppelin is one of these cigar shaped sky ships, most famously, the Hindenburg. Brian is a cook and Mike is a hair-dresser. This in itself must lead to a catastrophe, however, this is not disaster enough for our slave.
So, please do picture this: The zeppelin is losing height fast and steadily. Something broke during the cruise over the ocean. Anyone in their right minds would use a bit of magic now. Even we did consider this. As a consequence we are reminded that we are only a Muggle cook and a Muggle hair-dresser.

Now, every child knows that there are magical cooks and magical hair-dressers, but not so our slave. It’s quite obvious now why she’s only a slave, isn’t it. She wants us to pretend to be a Muggle cook and a Muggle hair-dresser.
After everything that can be carried and thrown out has been carried and thrown out, the zeppelin is still sinking. It’s quite obvious that one of you has to jump out in order to save the others – slave says.
She explains to us that none of the crew members can jump out because all of them will be needed to carry out the necessary repairs. How are you going to defend yourself and stay on the zeppelin. She doesn’t even offer the choice of jumping just to save the rest of the lot. Slave knows us well.
As anything which could be used to defend ourselves has already gone the way of all flesh, namely down, we would use our fists to be spared. Slave is shaking her head. We were spoiling the whole thing she told us. In fact she has spoiled our journey and now we seem to be losing height – oh my Merlin, are we going to crash. Landing? Oh, what a relieve… (BC&MF)

newbroom's Next Best Bad Boy Board

(The Magical World) In the last edition of newbroom you found out that Greg did everything in his power to ensure the Dark Lord of his loyalty and reliability. And that he soon rose to the same rank as his father. You also learned that there was a certain teacher fighting side by side with them, however, that should be no reason for you to vote for him in the upcoming election.
Severus Snape at least did one good deed when he assured Lord Voldemort, or good old Voldi how we
here at newbroom like to call him, that Greg was to be nowhere near the final strike. Greg simply had to stay at home.
Just imagine that: you feel like the most loyal servant of your master and he tells you to stay home, stay home coordinating the wounded people who return from the battle.
At first
- as you can imagine - Greg was quite angry and argued a lot with anyone who didn’t hide fast enough or raised his wand to stun him. Fortunately, his father finally told him to shut up and to do whatever he was told by the Dark Lord. Greg resignated and stopped arguing. Inwardly, he cursed (one of the unforgivable curses) all the world and wished that they all were dead.

As you can see it weren’t Harry Potter and his followers alone who were able to overthrow the Dark Lord. It was Greg who helped them with his curse. He only realized his own power when more and more wounded people returned to their headquarter and there was no more space left for them.
Finally, his was taken to him as well. He was badly wounded and Greg felt very sorry for his curse. His father brought even more bad news: “Lord Voldemort is dead.” Greg was so sure in his egocentric universe that he was responsible for this fatal blow that his heart was broken.
When his father had recovered, he retired to a lonely island where he is still living. He also broke his wand and refused to do any more magic as this would only lead to evil. Currently he is living from coconuts and sleeping under a palm tree hoping that a simple coconut will strike the final blow on him and finally take his guilt away.

Such was the sad story of Greg Nott who once thought to have it all and in the end was left with nothing. There is a time to fight and there is a time to be sad, however, there is also a time to vote for the next best newbroom’s next best bad boy. Make sure not to let this chance go by! (All)

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One more time, Severus!


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