Post by Head Girl Andi on Nov 6, 2005 22:51:15 GMT
November 6th, Manchester England. Close to 70,000 people came to Old Trafford Stadium today to watch a Premiere Manchester United FC match.
Fans expected a good match but the result of the match was soon far from their minds. Sometime around the 30th minute of play, the west end of the stadium shook violently, not from the fans but from something else. In the seconds that followed, enormous fireballs erupted in throughout the west end of the stadium sending 70,000 fans scrambling toward exits.
Ministry officials quickly arrived on scene and immediately were met with the dark mark high up in the sky. According to the Ministry, the damage at the base of the west wall also showed distinct markings of a magical blast, no further details about the blast have been released. Ministry officials did however have an extensive job as they had modify the memories of all the fans in the stadium plus all the muggle authorities who had shown up to assist. Several muggles reported seeing a man dressed in black wandering about the concession stands on the west wall shortly before the blast, they were however unable to give any further detail about the assailants appearance.
At the printing of this article, the Ministry reported that nearly 30,000 muggles were still at the stadium as officials worked to alter their memory then escort them home and modify the memories of their families who would have expected them home sooner. When asked about the damage to the stadium and how it'd be explained to muggles, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge simply said that the muggles had already been informed of the "faulty gas pipe" in a kitchen. Fudge also said that officials will be on hand in Manchester throughout the night until all muggles have been sent home safely.
To combat this latest Death Eater threat, Cornelius Fudge has issued a 5,000,000 galleon reward to anyone with information as to the whereabouts of the Death Eaters. Fudge also announced his plan to hire and train 500 more Law Enforcement Agents by January. Many critics of this plan have pointed to the fact that the Ministry normally trains classes of 40 Agents at a time, and the training takes six weeks per class. "Yes we can train 500 new Agents" said Ferndules Rithgarn, a Law Enforcement trainer, "but how good will their training be? I honestly don't know what he (Fudge) is thinking. Being an agent requires a lot of training in dealing with people and problems, and only about 10% of our Agents are skilled enough to move on to Auror training. We'll be putting 500 poorly training Agents out onto the street and asking them to stand up to Death Eaters. Squads of Aurors can hardly stand up to Death Eaters these days, only a fool would sign up for this..."
Fans expected a good match but the result of the match was soon far from their minds. Sometime around the 30th minute of play, the west end of the stadium shook violently, not from the fans but from something else. In the seconds that followed, enormous fireballs erupted in throughout the west end of the stadium sending 70,000 fans scrambling toward exits.
Ministry officials quickly arrived on scene and immediately were met with the dark mark high up in the sky. According to the Ministry, the damage at the base of the west wall also showed distinct markings of a magical blast, no further details about the blast have been released. Ministry officials did however have an extensive job as they had modify the memories of all the fans in the stadium plus all the muggle authorities who had shown up to assist. Several muggles reported seeing a man dressed in black wandering about the concession stands on the west wall shortly before the blast, they were however unable to give any further detail about the assailants appearance.
At the printing of this article, the Ministry reported that nearly 30,000 muggles were still at the stadium as officials worked to alter their memory then escort them home and modify the memories of their families who would have expected them home sooner. When asked about the damage to the stadium and how it'd be explained to muggles, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge simply said that the muggles had already been informed of the "faulty gas pipe" in a kitchen. Fudge also said that officials will be on hand in Manchester throughout the night until all muggles have been sent home safely.
To combat this latest Death Eater threat, Cornelius Fudge has issued a 5,000,000 galleon reward to anyone with information as to the whereabouts of the Death Eaters. Fudge also announced his plan to hire and train 500 more Law Enforcement Agents by January. Many critics of this plan have pointed to the fact that the Ministry normally trains classes of 40 Agents at a time, and the training takes six weeks per class. "Yes we can train 500 new Agents" said Ferndules Rithgarn, a Law Enforcement trainer, "but how good will their training be? I honestly don't know what he (Fudge) is thinking. Being an agent requires a lot of training in dealing with people and problems, and only about 10% of our Agents are skilled enough to move on to Auror training. We'll be putting 500 poorly training Agents out onto the street and asking them to stand up to Death Eaters. Squads of Aurors can hardly stand up to Death Eaters these days, only a fool would sign up for this..."