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Dreary Day for Dracula

(Transylvania) Tuesday turned out to be a dreadfully dreary day for Dracula, immortal evil prince of darkness and former felon of Romania. First, the vile vampire forgot that he sweetly slept in a closed coffin and brutally bumped his head on the lid. Then, when he looked out of a grimy window into a grey sky, he rashly realized that day dawned. Dreadful though that was, according to the slimy servants, the dreary day drudged on. In cruel contrast to mere Muggle legends, vampires can live in daylight – but suffer severe headaches, so dead Dracula was doomed to moan in martyrdom. Only in the evening the evil vampire was happy when a cloud of surprisingly juicy bats flew in for dinner. Not as guests. You see, even vampires can have bad days.
(MF)

Hello Halloween!

This not so young year yellingly yearns to happily have a holy Halloween happening. Many man and even more wonderful women willingly want to wearily wear witty costumes carelessly causing cool ghosts to clearly keep to themselves. This theme seems to be sadly shared by thousands of serious people. Popular parties painfully play a public part in the current century. Countless critics calmly claim that the terrific spreading of tons of sweets is totally sure to make your teeth suffer.

Their openly opened opinion is to obviously object any original offer. Of course, the critical critics are far away from the age of fine adults who are not as yet fully grown grown-ups. Talented teenagers will traditionally take ‘trick and treat’ to happy households. Be sure to store some sugary sweets as traded treat for the tricky teenagers. Treat them nice and no trick will threaten your door. So happily say hello to scary Halloween. (MF)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The weather was terrible, quite fitting for All Hallows’ Eve. It was cold, it was drizzling and you couldn’t see very much thanks to large clouds of fog drifting up the street. In short, it was a night when you wouldn’t like to be out and about. Nor did the man want to be in the street in this abysmal weather. “I wish I was sitting at home, with a good fire and a pot of tea,” he muttered to himself, rubbing his clammy hands and shivering. If he were honest to himself, it wasn’t entirely the cold’s fault that he shivered.
“At least I can’t miss him. Nobody in their right mind would be out, so I’ll see him – or him,” the man reassured himself. It was strangely silent. Even the animals had had enough sense to stay in. There was not enough wind to rustle the few remaining leaves. So when there came the sound of cracking twigs, the man knew that his waiting period was over. “Hello?”

he called. No answer. A few more twigs cracked. “Is it you, Mr Black?” the man asked. “How many times have I told you not to say my name?” Mr Black hissed furiously. “I’m sorry. I’ve got it,” the man quickly announced. “Very good. Give it to me,” Black ordered. With slightly trembling fingers, the man took a small wrapped box out of his pocket. Black nodded. “And you are sure it is perfect?” “Oh quite. You couldn’t tell the things apart, I swear.” The man puffed himself up with pride at his craftsmanship. Mr Black smiled wryly. “I chose you because you are an expert goldsmith. Tell me, did anything… happen while you were working on this?” “Since you ask, yes indeed. There were whispers.” “Ah. Whispers.” “Yes. It was as if there was… But no, you must think me insane,” the goldsmith laughed nervously. “As if there was what?” Black wanted to

know.
“As if there was somebody imprisoned in there,” the goldsmith admitted. Black nodded. “I see.” He smiled. “Do not worry. What is your price?” “Oh, sir, £ 300, as we said,” the goldsmith said almost apologetically. Black rummaged in his pockets.
What happened next took the goldsmith completely by surprise. Instead of withdrawing the money, Black held a wand and pointed it straight at the goldsmith. The last words he heard made no sense to him. “Avada Kedavra!” He had no time to wonder. As soon as the last sound had been spoken, he keeled over, dead. Regulus Arcturus Black pocketed his wand. “It wasn’t because your price was unreasonable,” he said to the body. “You simply knew too much. And you were too trusting – you must always be on your guard.”

Cooking & Slicing

Every Halloween we are visited not only by ghosts and ghouls, but also by our revered chef Harriet Kettle-Stove, whose recipes are always mouth-watering miracles. Enjoy her refreshing ideas for non-alcoholic Halloween party drinks!
Dear cooks-to-be,
happy Halloween! Every year there are countless parties celebrating this highest holiday of wizardkind. Every year there are countless people out for the count because they drank too much alcohol. This is, frankly, an impossible situation. So I began to experiment and came up with an assortment of completely colourful but absolutely anti-alcoholic drinks. Here are three drinks to refresh your guests:
Fresh Jungle
This drink looks very eerie, since it turns out a shade of light green. However, it’s very fruity and nice. You need, for one glass, 60 ml pineapple juice, 20 ml lime juice, 20 ml peppermint syrup and some tonic water to fill everything up. Fill the juices and syrup into a glass and add iced cubes. Stir until it is light

green, then add the tonic water. Enjoy!
Sweet Kiss
Who doesn’t like a kiss at a party? This drink won’t leave you unkissed, and what you need for one glass is 90 ml cherry juice, 50 ml pineapple juice, 30 ml lemon juice and 20 ml cherry syrup. Fill everything into a shaker and make it shake the ingredients thoroughly. Once done, fill into a glass with iced cubes. Yummy.
Halloween Buster
For four people, you need 750 ml tomato juice, 250 ml Sangrita picante, a bundle of chive, Worcester sauce, salt and pepper and finally some ground red pepper. Mix the juice, sangrita and chopped chives and season with Worcester sauce and spices. Fill into glasses and decorate with some chopped chives. If you want to do something more spectacular, fill the drink into pumpkins. Delicious!
And remember: Never drink and fly your broomstick!
Yours,
H. Kettle-Stove.		 































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(broom Headquarters) We here at broom knew perfectly well 
that Halloween is the time of and for evil spirits and cunning ghosts, however, that 
it is 
also the time when LPG storms into our office, dictates an article just to storm 
out again 15 minutes later, we had completely forgotten. She didn’t – 
unfortunately.

  

  
A Pumpkin A Day Scares The 
  Ghosts Away - Una Cucurbita Per Diem Deterret Larvae



















Dear Halloween-Fans and Pumpkin-Lovers,

Yes, at last it is that time of the year again when you can 
gather the fallen leaves in your garden to throw them over the fence into the 
one of your neighbour. As good sport as this may be, there are even better 
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First of all it is, of course, harvest time – well it has 
been for two months or so anyway, there still are apples and pears and so on. Just take a look around your neighbours’ gardens and decide what would come in 
handy. 

I have, in fact, spotted a fig tree which carries beautiful fruits – figs 
for anyone of you who wondered. In the safety of the night, I will go and borrow 
one. Now while you’re at it don’t forgot to take a pumpkin, too. 

There are – 
obviously – different sorts of pumpkins. Most of them are grown and used for 
decoration purposes only. They are available in most shapes, sizes and colours. 
However, if you go for the traditional Halloween decoration, you have to choose 
a big, round orange one. What follows is the same procedure as every year: You 
cut off the top, take out the flesh until only the skin is left. Finally, you 
have to cut in a scary face.

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this. There are certain 
people who



claim that this is only done to scare away the neighbours who noticed 
that some things from their gardens have disappeared. This is, of course, not 
true.

In fact, the pumpkins are not used to 
scare away the neighbours. A barking and even biting dog will be much more 
effective if you find such a specimen as dogs who bark usually don’t bite.

The scary pumpkin face is used to 
scare away the before mentioned evil spirits and cunning ghosts who haunt the 
town around this time of the year and all year round haunt Hogwarts.

The evil spirits and cunning ghosts 
are also the reason why Muggles wear funny costumes. They really do hope that 
the spirits and ghosts don’t realize that they are only Muggles. Yes, sure…

Now, be that as it may, I wish you a very 
happy Halloween. Enjoy the parties, the food and the look at the beautiful 
pumpkin faces. 



















(LPG)

  






 









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Wicked 
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    (The Muggle World) Once again 
    our two too brave reporters Brian Cullen and Mike Flatley ventured forward 
    into the mean world of weird Muggles just to find out more about one of 
    their strangest customs: Trick or Treating. In fact there wasn't too much 
    venturing forward to be done this time as the willing victim readily dropped 
    in onto our two too courageous journlists. Not knowing what evil would await 
    her a little witch bravely knocked at doors of broom Headquarters and said 
    the three words the two will never ever forget.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    Read on and find out all about this strange Muggle behaviour and how the 
    little girl fared once she had met with our two too boisterous writers Brian 
    Cullen and Mike Flatley.

    MF: I beg your pardon?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Actually I would prefer to see the trick. What sort of 
    artistic trick is it?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Right you want me to guess. Let's see, you can say 'there's no 
    place like home' three times with a spaghetti in your mouth.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: That wasn't right then, I think. Well,  

     
    maybe you can walk on your hands. 
    I certainly would want to see that!

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Miss again, I'm afraid. Well, judging from your costume you 
    might also be sort of a witch. Can you do any magic tricks?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Now I know, you're impersonating an LP which is broken and doomed to 
    say the same thing over and over again.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: As if I hadn't said it.

    BC: What's the problem, Mike, why are you letting the cold in?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: Now isn't that cute!

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: Can we keep it?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: What is it?

    MF: She's a little girl dressed as a witch who is impersonating a 
    broken LP which is doomed to repeat itself over and over again.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: See, I told you so.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: I think you're right, Mike.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: Then again I do have to admit that this is reminding me of 
    something.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Doesn't ring a bell.		
    
      
 
    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: Yeah, I think she must have knocked.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: Right, trick or treating, isn't that what you know kho is doing 
    around this time of the year?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Vicious V.?

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: No, the other ones, the mysterious Ms.

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    MF: Oh, the Muggles you mean, OUCH!

    LG: Trick or Treating!

    BC: Yes, you know, going from house to house and getting sweets.

    MF: Robbery!

    BC: No, Halloween!

    MF: Oh that, I see!

    BC: This is our one chance to get hands on information about the 
    Muggle - OUCH - custom of trick or treating!

    MF: Yeah, let's ask her some questions right away!

    BC: Where is she?

    MF: She has gone!

    Better luck next year, boys. Be sure to read next year's Halloween interview 
    when our two too stupid guys will - hopefully - find out what the custom of 
    trick or treating is all about. (ALL)









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