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Devilish Dentists Doctor Foul Fangs

(Forbidden Forest) Vile vampires clandestinely complain about awfully testing toothache in their ferocious fangs. No normal dental doctors wanted to treat the terrifying pale patients, so some dreadful demons took on the terrible task and began to warily work on the vampires’ foul fangs. Now the vicious vampires have gorgeous good free fangs to savagely swarm out on Hallowe’en to harass everybody who comes into their way. So beware! (MF)

Best Pumpkin Pie Prize

(The World) Another outstanding event actually occurred in the oval office of old Aukley: Plenty of pleasant people publicly put their perfect pumpkin pies to the definite test. The cool competition about exquisite cookery clearly comes for the elegant eleventh time this cute century. There are some several aspects which are usually checked. Among those assorted aspects are the delicious looks, the sweet smell, the total taste and the written recipe. Just if the young jurors carefully claim

that your cooked product exceeds expectations in all the chosen categories, you perhaps have the possibility to be the future possessor of the pumpkin pie prize. The rare reward itself steps up in the shape of a platinum pumpkin pie. However, the whole happiness is not long lasting: As previous performers before, the future first will have to hand over the terrific trophy to the next winner. And therefore the upcoming October will want a new winner to accurately accept the awesome award. (MF)

The Single Glove

In an age when Muggles still sought out the magical people to get their help there was a young wizard by the name of Hyperion. He was not well-liked in his neighbourhood, but whenever somebody fell ill or something inexplicable happened, people turned to him in their fear. It so happened that in a cottage at the very edge of the village a beautiful girl lived with her old and frail mother. The girl’s name was Daisy, because in her freshness she resembled the little flowers. Daisy’s mother was quite ill, and in feverish dreams she said that doom was coming into the village, brought in by a single glove. Nobody paid any attention to her fears; it was such a ridiculous vision! A single glove, what use would that be? Everybody had two hands and would need two gloves, of course.
One day a stranger entered the village. His manners made it seem as if he was a fellow wizard, but Hyperion soon found out the stranger was not magical. He wore a thick cloak to keep him warm, and he was very pale, and he was a convicted criminal – a thief. His left hand was missing. He wore a single glove. He drank deeply the night he arrived, to fight the cold and the hostile stares.
In the morning he woke with a headache and a dull throbbing

pain in his groin. The stranger thought he had caught some venereal disease, and went to seek Hyperion’s advice. The wizard looked at the man and did not know what to do. He had never seen such symptoms. “I cannot help you,” Hyperion said and the stranger left. That night, he developed a high fever. Daisy was sent for to nurse him and went, although her mother pleaded with her not to go.
The man with the single glove died. So did Daisy and her mother. And one by one, all the villagers succumbed to the curse of the single glove. Only Hyperion lived long enough to record the fate of his village. “Every soul is dead and I will die, too. The swellings have come. Here is the single glove. Burn it, lest you want to die.” Thus Hyperion, too, died.
The houses crumpled down, derelict. No trace of the village remained, until a wanderer found an old leather glove and took it home as a souvenir. Not long after he developed a fever and pain in his groin. The single glove brought death to another village.
A rumour says it is still out there, so beware. Don’t pick up a single leather glove, for it carries the seeds of that most terrible disease of them all: the Black Death.

Phobia – Everything You’ve Ever Been Too Scared To Ask

(The World) As this is our special Halloween-edition, we invited a special friend of our magazine to talk to us about fear. He is, of course, the well-known former professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, werewolf and returner from the dead: Remus Lupin.
MF: Remus, thank you for taking the time on this special day to talk about fear.
RL: Well, when if not today! But there is one thing I want to make clear: I’m not a werewolf any longer.
MF: Really? How did that happen or rather unhappen?
RL: It was undone when I returned from the dead. I was cured immediately.
MF: Of course, you didn’t realize that at once, did you?
RL: Well, as a matter of fact I felt different. Naturally, I put this down to being, well, undead, sort of. Later on, when the next full moon came, I  found out that everything was fine again.
MF: I’m very happy to hear that! It’s a pity some took so much effort to cure werewolves when it is actually so easy: you just kill them and let them return to life.
RL: Still, kids, please do not try this at home!
MF: Is this a sign of fear in you Remus?
RL: I’m glad we’ve come back to our topic after all. You see, Mike, fear is

not at all bad. Fear is meant to prevent us from something that is dangerous.
MF: As running amok children who try to kill possible werewolves. I just wonder, does this work with werewolves as well?
RL: Would you please leave professor Snape alone.
MF: Is he a werewolf?
RL: To come back to fear: it is the thing that keeps us from cuddling with lions. It was vital in the process of evolution to have the right mixture of fear and courage and enough brain to decide when you should make use of which.
MF: So all the courageous lion cuddlers have died out.
RL: Yes, in a process that is called Darwinism.
MF: And all the sissy cave dwellers who never left their refuge.
RL: All dead by now.
MF: The question is: who has survived?
RL: As a matter of fact, all cavemen and cavewomen are dead by now. However, our ancestors were those courageous cavemen who hunted lions in groups and were scared enough not to get too near to the lion.
MF: I wonder, can we actually eat lion meat?
RL: I’ve no idea.

MF: Anyway, what you’re telling me now is that fear in certain situations is good while in others courage is better.
RL: Mike, you’ve raised a very important point now: fear is not the main problem. The main problem is not to have enough courage to overcome your fear.
MF: What can we do about it?
RL: We have to realize which fear is okay and which is exaggerated. Whenever it is a matter of life and death fear should win in all other cases courage should get the better of you.
MF: That seems to be simple enough, even for Brian.
RL: It is simple, however, if you are scared, you think any matter is a matter of life and death. You have to learn to stay reasonable.
MF: This seems to be harder to let reason win over emotion.
RL: It is probably the hardest achievement during our lifetime but it guarantees a happier life.
MF: Thank you very much, Remus, for enlightening us on the topic of fear.
RL: You’re welcome.
Now that we know we shouldn’t cuddle with lions we have told the zoo they can’t put some of their cats into our garden office but instead have decided to keep the mice. The next step will be to stop being scared of them. (MF)

Cooking & Slicing

Again, celebrity cook Harriet Kettle-Stove agreed to share her cooking wisdom with newbroom and its readers to make every party you wish to celebrate on this, the magical community’s most amusing, holiday, special. Due to the fact that there will be a new collection of Harriet’s recipes on the market soon, we will have to make do with just one little treat. Enjoy it, nevertheless!

Happy Hallowe’en, dear cooks-to-be!
Here we are again, and I am sure you like to play a little trick on your guests just as much as I do. Why not serve them something

that looks deliciously sweet but has an innate fire? Here we go: Green Pepper Jelly! Since many fans of Hallowe’en reside in the USA, the recipe will for once use the cup-measure. You need 1 cup of finely chopped green bell peppers, ¼ cup of finely chopped hot peppers, 6 cups of sugar, 1 ½ cups of vinegar and some solidifier of your choice. Boil all the ingredients for 1 ½ minutes, then add the solidifier. Fill the mix into jars with lids. Let it cool and set, then serve it with cheese and bread. After the initial shock, you’ll love it!
Have a really gruesome party, yours,
H. Kettle-Stove

Crossword Puzzle
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6   XI    III     7 VIII
     
   
   
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4 children want that
6 used for decoration
8 month
11 another quality		 Down
1 Across 1 or ...
 2 sort of clothes
3 usually put on head
5 sort of ghost
7 special feast (spelled backwards)
9 colour
10 quality

The looked for phrase:
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Agony Auntie Agatha

Dear Auntie Agatha,
Halloween is the time of the year when most people put on costumes to scare people away so that they don’t have to hand out any sweets. So far we haven’t taken part in this sort of activity – that might also have been due to the fact that my husband and I already look quite scary to others. However, this year we have chosen some costumes and put them on. The effect itself was a contrary one. No one is scared of us now but we are greeted friendlier than ever and seem to have turned into everybody’s darling now. Do you think I could convince Rubeus that we never take off the costumes again?
Sincerely yours Mrs H. 

Dear Mrs H,
Actually, I don’t think that Hagrid will ever agree to that and besides it’s much more important what you look like inside. I mean the character of a person is much more important than his out appearance. Though, I do have to admit that there are only few people who will be ready to wait long enough to find out about his character before they run away. At least you’ve got each other.
Yours Auntie Agatha

Dear Auntie Agatha,
We, some five or six students at Hogwarts, are afraid that we have set free - accidentally, of course - some evil spirits. Everything happened last Halloween when we joined a school party. Later on that evening we used some spells which at first sounded quite silly but later proved to have some effect on our surroundings. A very bad effect, actually: There were loads of noises and things fell from shelves. All of us were nearly hit. It all was pretty scary. We have thought about leaving school and our homes for good, however, before we do that we wanted to ask you for help. Do you know any spell to get rid of these evil spirits?
Thanks a million, C. C. 

Dear C. C.,
In fact there is quite a simple way to get rid of these evil spirits. Just tell Peeves that you will tell the Bloody Baron about his bad behaviour if he goes on troubling you like that. And for the future, please keep in mind that you should never say any spells just for fun. You never know what might happen and the Ministry has already enough to deal with.
Yours Auntie Agatha

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