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Surprising Spring Spritely Sprang Superbly

After an extremely extended autumn episode and an exclusive icy season that shortly stretched itself from sunny September to fresh February, shiny spring certainly settled in. thick snow made way for the fine flowers that superb spring openly offers. However, happy hay fever has happened to the simple scene as

soon as the shy sun smilingly sent its bright beams to the big branches of tremendous trees and perfectly brought the beautiful blossoms to brilliantly bloom. A particular part of the private population has to stay perfectly put interior inside to stop sneezing. Bless you! (MF)

Revolution for Beginners

(newbroom’s Headquarters) All around the world revolutionaries are currently busy to put an end to whatever they think to be unbearable circumstances. We here at newbroom are proud to say that we were the first to stand up against our foes by creating our very own Resistance Rocks.
For donkey’s ages we have been in the business of revolutionaries, however, some of you out there might be quite new to the idea of starting a revolution. You might not even be sure whether it is possible for you to have your very own revolution.
Feeling like the academes of revolutions we would like to provide a quick guide for you how to start your own revolution. Read on and be ready to resist.
The first thing you need is a problem, any problem will do: the renovation of a train station, the presence of a dictator, the presence of a president, the presence of a president and the absence of morality, the absence of jobs, the absence of money, the absence of democracy and so on…you should keep in mind that having no problem is also having a problem.

 The second thing you need is a group of supporters. You will get those when you make the unbearable situation public. Please note that of you lack a decent problem, just tell the people that their situation is unbearable. They will easily believe you as everybody’s situation simply is unbearable.
The third step is to get your supporters to the same place at the same time. This has become increasingly easily as there are now social platforms on the Muggle internet. Please note: if you have neither a problem nor any supporters, you just claim that you’re having a party.
The fourth step is to invite the media. The likes of Rita Skeeter will report happily about you and your followers’ doings. Plus you can put your own Muggle videos and other non-moving pictures on the internet.
The fifth step is not to give up. Just go on and on until something is changing or the people stop coming. In doing so you will either make history or have the biggest party of the world.
Whatever you do, make sure you leave your weapons at home. Yours is supposed to be a peaceful revolution: Make love not war! (BC)

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February 8 newbroom is done. We are great and everyone loves us. Sigh, isn't this a perfect world?
February 9 newbroom is done. We are great and everyone loves us. Sigh, isn't this a perfect world?
February 10 newbroom is done. We are great and everyone loves us. Sigh, isn't this a perfect world?
February 11 Right, it is about time to get back to work. Our employees are taking care of our interview, the revolutionary report, our Travelling Tale, Next Best Bad Boy Board, the Sudoku and one of the BBNs as we have agreed to share their workload.		 February 16 There are actually talks of strike around here. All the research for the revolutionary report has only done harm to the working morale in our team.
February 21 Supervising the work of our employees is quite time consuming, actually. And they keep doing things in the wrong way. Research - if we only hear this word. Oh dear, it's such a waste of time and money, well, time at least...
February 28 Our employees have finsihed their work so we can  fully concentrate on our own work now.
February 31 What does that mean? February only has 28 days? Horace? Horace!
“Students Always Come In The first Place!”

(The Magical World) The who is who of our magical world has already been interviewed by the editors of your favourite monthly newbroom. This moth we have a special treat for you and spoke to the one you didn’t even think could say more than one kind sentence. We’ll see how we fared.
newbroom: Very special thanks to you for coming here.
Snape: Thanks for having me.
newbroom: Professor, some people got the impression that you hate students, what made you become a teacher?
Snape: Actually, there were two people asking me to return to Hogwarts: Tom Riddle and Albus Dumbledore.
newbroom: Yes, and probably some thousands asked you to stay away for ever…
Snape: That is certainly true.
newbroom: Why do you hate students?
Snape: Oh, I don’t hate them. Students always come in the first place. However, I don’t believe in a soft

  treatment – that would only spoil them. They need a firm hand in order to become valuable members of society.
newbroom: So, thanks to you we have many valuable members of society. Are you thanked for this sometimes?
Snape: No, no one has ever thanked me for anything. But I’m not much of a thanking person either, I can understand their point of view.
newbroom: We’re begging your pardon, sir, this simply is not true as we have just thanked you for being here, and you, in fact, thanked us for having you.
Snape: I’m terribly sorry, this occasion must have totally slipped my mind. So please let me correct myself. There have, of course, been instances when I was thanked for something and some others when I thanked someone for something. Are you satisfied now?
newbroom: Yes, that was simply wonderful. Thank you for the inconvenience.
Snape: No need to worry about that.
newbroom: You’ve already told us 		that students always come in the first place, but who made second and third?
Snape: Well, there are a couple of obligations I have to keep in mind. One is for example my special relationship to both Dumbledore and Riddle. You wouldn’t believe it if I told you how much attention they required.
newbroom: No, probably not. They both come in second but now you must tell our readers who is in third place.
Snape: Erm, if you don’t mind, I would rather keep this private.
newbroom: Well, we certainly won’t mind, but our readers will.
Snape: I think I can live with this.
newbroom: And so do we. We know that it is Patience Wood anyway.
Surprisingly, our dear guest had to leave quite abruptly after this question. Still, we would love to thank him for answering at least a couple of our questions and being so overwhelmingly honest to us. Maybe we here at newbroom will be able to reveal some of his other secrets at a later point. (All)

Travelling Tale: When Angels Hang On Walls…

(Florence) What an interesting day this is: Royal Botanic Gardens, Gallery of the Old Masters, Green Vault and St. Mary’s Church – all in one day – and we’re not dead yet at least not so dead that we couldn’t tell you about it.
The Royal Botanic Garden of any city is of extreme importance to us. We beg your pardon? No ROYAL Botanic Garden in our Florence just a plain and common (not to say ordinary) Botanic Garden in our Florence? To us any Botanic Garden is ROYAL, most ROYAL in fact.

 Thistle do nicely - not only Edinburgh has a manifold variety of thistles on offer, but also Florence! This, however, is still a baby speci-thistle once it is grown up it will proudly present the Scottish part of society.                                     photo: UF
This one was very interesting as well. Remembering our dear old friend Harold (the dwarf mountain soft needle fir from Himalaya; check October 2009 if you are totally clueless) we came across an innumerable number of glandular plants.

The one we loved most was called Pinkwart the glandular blackberry – any similarity to a liberal German politician is a mere and unwanted coincidence.
Believe it or not but we also came across Gilderoy Lockhart – not in person, we wouldn’t sink so deeply, however, we met with a couple of very nasty carnivore, namely venus fly traps. It was locked safely behind glass together with some of its fellow speciplants waiting to digest any of the too willing victims who climb into its realm.
One of its fellow speciplants was called Lockhartsia and it became quite clear that the Master himself must have stepped up to fight this plant offering his life just to get one single speciplant to Florence. How heroic, how courageous, how now.

No thistles but still very nice. A sort of Japanese like path. Make sure not to step on the little toads! Oops, too late!                                          photo: UF
Then we hopped into the Gallery of the Old Masters – but believe it or not the people there were mostly quite young! 		There we saw at least 1655 saints and angels, 1327 other biblical figures and some 1452 royals, not to mention the 3763 landscapes. Whoever had so much time to put all these nails into the walls!

 This is the building (Residenzschloss, they call it around here) in which you will be overwhelmed by pictures - non-moving...                                   photo: UF
Of course, we couldn’t have gone to Florence without having a look as the famous St. Mary’s Church. It has been destroyed during a war some time the last century and the people let the debris lie around for more than half a century – imagine all this mess. Molly would certainly have applied a good cleaning charm!
You see we didn’t promise too much. What a day this has been! Aren’t we tired? Well, of course we are and our feet are ready to rebel as is our hand after having to write so much, sorry, quick quote quill, naturally, as if we would ever sink so low as to use our hands for writing. (All)

newbroom's Next Best Bad Boy Board

Perhaps our most eminent editors were not exactly the most brilliant Hogwarts pupils academically. Still, they did manage to be part of memorable events.
In their third year, Brian Cullen and Mike Flatley had a nasty encounter with a stinkfern, as had all third years. After that rather nasty incident, the stinkfern mysteriously vanished from the greenhouses and Professor Sprout claims she never saw it again. Rumours have it that Mike was seen with a spade and Brian with a sack, sneaking towards the Forbidden Forest.
Be that as it may, it is definite that neither of the two had a hand in the great robbery of Honeyduke's - only in detecting the true culprit. Like the super-heroes Brian and Mike got to know in Muggle Studies, they decided to rescue Hengist Alret from being expelled. (All reports claiming that Anne and Patience actually saved Hengist are purely fictitious.)
The fourth year saw a closer cooperation between the eminent editors and the trio which was soon to be known as the

Malignant Magpies. In their unholy union, the five worthy Gryffindors managed to mix Bulbadox Powder, which, as you all know, causes itchy boils to come up.
Who did not exactly come up again in Brian and Mike's fifth year was Professor Binns who died but did not let that impede him from teaching. Still, there were more exciting things to happen, like the glorious bet against the Magpies: Hengist, Anne and Patience were to tease Professor Snape for a week until he either turned mad or had the trio expelled.
Truth be told, neither happened, which was actually a good thing, since the most exciting event ever was when Defence Against the Dark Arts-professor Hunter Preston was revealed to be a member of the Axes of Evil and sent to Azkaban.

This was the first real encounter with the Dark Forces, and only a very slight one, but more was to come. Read on in the next edition of newbroom!

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