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Soft Snow Shovels Easily

The snow shovels have been at least long unpacked and were used for ultimately ushering the fine flakes out of the wet way. At least we think that this must have been the case somewhere. Recently researchers really realized that soft snow is a little lighter than heavy flakes. Surprise, surprise you might mumble or carefully cry out. This is an obvious fact, of course, and still some things seem to be quite clear and exact examination will simply show that they are minor miracles. Take a big bumblebee for example – not literally, please – did you not know that their fat form and their heavy weight should positively prevent them

from flying freely? Big bumblebees were planned to be pedestrians. Imagine that: another antlike insect inspecting the earth in search of food crawling underneath your feet and leaving a big spot once you stepped on it. Anyway wild winter is not the time for tiny toddlers to creatively crawl around. Then again did you know that the name Dumbledore means bumblebee? We’re waiting for some scientists to enlighten us on this tragic topic. Don’t hesitate to send an owl and please do put your answer on a five pound note (Christmas is coming). (All)

Precious Printer in Silly Song

(Europe) newbroom’s precious, proud printer Geronimo gets attention all over unique Europe. A Danish dancer and singer used his native name as the title of her latest hyper-hit. Gorgeous Geronimo now happily spends his total time placidly printing special signed autograph cards. As great as it is that

Geronimo actually uses his ingenious ink for the purpose of pure printing, it certainly puts the publication of the next newbroom in dreadful danger. We just hope that the silly song will soon vanish from the roaring radio so that groaning Geronimo gets to go his actual work. (BC&MF)

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November 1 As usual, the day after a holiday is used mainly for cleaning. Whoever had the brilliant idea to give Geronimo died firewhisky instead of ink to print with?
November 7 By now the office (garden-cum-office) looks as it always looks in November: dreary, wet and desolate. It’s no atmosphere to work in.
November 12 Of course we know that custom is to decorate only after the Sunday dedicated to remembrances of the dead loved ones. Still, we thought of something nice and cheery which will certainly not offend anyone: We put up little candles at night to make things look better.
November 20 Do we have to mention that we get heaps of fan-post? It’s almost eerie. Some people are very nice (“Can we get an autograph?”), others are weird (“I would so like to have a date with the two of you!”), and the third category are the nutters (“If you write about the Dark Lord like that again we will jinx you to Alaska!”).
November 24 It’s Thanksgiving in the USA. We heard that the president himself pardons two turkeys on the eve of the holiday so that those two won’t end up as a roast. We don’t really see the point. What’s the purpose of a turkey’s life if it isn’t being a roast?
November 28 It’s getting a bit too close to December to be entirely comfortable with not having a lot of material produced. Sorry, no time for chatting, we need to work!
November 30 DONE!

Nicely Wrapped

(A Village) Just in time for Christmas our reporters discovered a present with a difference or did they?
You can hardly resist the gaze of a charming, little girl asking for a horse as a Christmas gift. As we all know Christmas gifts and presents must be wrapped. Then again how do you wrap a fully grown, lifesize horse? Maybe you just put on a loose cover - on the horse, not on yourself, naturally.
Still, these might not have been horses wrapped for Christmas but horses protected from wearing out. In deed, erosion could be a problem for horses for all we know (but what do we know!).

This might be increases when you pet the nice horsey.
Another thing that might be increased by touching the horse is the dirt - not on your own hands but on the back of the horse - or wherever you have been petting the horse. Our hands are by far more dirty than the horse. Just think of all the things we touch with our hands and then think again of what horses touch with their backs.
Now that we have thought so much about it, it seems to be quite obvious that this coat or cape is there to protect horses from dirt. And this seems to be quite practical or have you aver tried to put a horse into a bathing tub? (All)

newbroom's Next Best Bad Boy Board

Safehaven was the new place for publishing newbroom – but was it the last place for headquarters?
Well, no, it wasn’t, but let us take a look at more dangerous events first: The Battle of Hogwarts, which eventually brought Voldemort’s downfall, did not take place without participation of our brave editors. In fact, Mike took pleasure in duelling and defeating Amycus Carrow. Brian played a more valiant part, though. He saved the Moon Child. Maybe we will reveal that story later – right now we do not have permission to give details.
Whatever really happened (and a lot happened!), Mike and Brian survived. So did newbroom. They found out that it had been said Moon Child all along who had kept them all safe in Safehaven. And they found out that, our of the combined funds from the Gringott’s vaults of Death Eaters, the new Ministry of Magic under Minister Kingsley Shacklebolt was to finance free press.
Lee Jordan’s wireless programme got funding, and so did newbroom. It made it possible to buy new headquarters in the heart of Diagon Alley. And so there they were, Brian Cullen and Mike Flatley, in their new headquarters and on the brink of venturing into new areas. Since Lee had become a close friend,

Mike and Brian asked him if he was willing to cooperate. He was. Lee’s programme became the first non-print part of the fledgling media empire dubbed broompire by its founders. broompire soon outgrew the Daily Prophet and actually bought that newspaper, too. The first employee who had to go was none other than the infamous Rita Skeeter, who now works as a barmaid at the Leaky Cauldron.
Miranda and Mike were blissfully happy in their marriage and even had two children, Fionnula Dora, whose godmother Nymphadora Tonks could not have been prouder, and Christian Brian. Brian Cullen never married but became an adored godfather to Christian Flatley, Holofernes Weasley and Sirius Brian Snape.
Now that newbroom finished telling the story of the eminent editors and media-moguls of broompire, we have to announce that this was the last ever edition of newbroom’s Best Bad Boy Board. After telling this story, there cannot be another Best Bad Boy. We thank you, dear readers, for following all our memorable bad boys through their lives, even if they were pathetically boring.
So: Here’s to you, Mike and Brian, and to broompire! Hooray!

Oh Captain, my captain

(Hogwarts) Every year, there are two major events at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry which greatly interest the members of the four houses as well as the house teachers. One is, of course, the House Cup, which almost never seems to go to Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. The other is the Quidditch Cup – and there chances are more equally distributed. Each house has its team, and its captain. Brian Cullen took the chance to talk to former Gryffindor team captain Oliver Wood about dedication and responsibility.
BC: Oliver, ever since you started your third year you served as captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. You are one of the youngest captains ever. Was it hard to be captain at first?

OW: It was quite a surprise. After all, I had been Keeper for only a year before I was chosen captain. Almost everyone else on the team was older, so it was not that easy. Besides, my predecessor Charlie Weasley had almost legendary status. You can imagine it was a challenge.
BC: Absolutely. Say, Oliver, what do you think is the most important trait for a captain?
OW: Dedication. You need to be dedicated to your team, you need to know their strengths and try to overcome their weaknesses.
BC: How did you do that?
OW: Well, by constant training. I also thought of different strategies, always matching both our side and our opponents. So I usually took notes

when the other teams played, and it often paid off.
BC: What else does a captain need?
OW: He, or she, needs to be aware of the responsibility of a captain towards both his team and the house. Professor McGonagall was always very good at reminding me of that.
BC: As far as I know she sometimes had to stop you.
OW: Oh that. Maybe I do get carried away a little at times. I still do, even at Puddlemere United.
BC: You are second keeper there, right?
OW: I am, but the coach said that there is an option to become regular keeper in time.
BC: Great! Oliver, we keep our fingers crossed for you and an eye on you.
OW: Thanks a lot, Brian. (BC)

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