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posted by [personal profile] alt_poppy at 09:57pm on 10/05/2010
The pamphlets were entertaining to say the least. Most of them, at any rate. I trust that no one took to heart the social mores conveyed in 'Good Girls Don't/Best Boys Won't'; I'm fairly certain the one that promised to enumerate the places no tongue should go attracted closer study.

I got the elves to bring yesterday's Prophet so I could take a look that article. I'm not sure what was more offensive, the fact that it was given so little space and buried so deeply or the smug way the reporter packaged it up with all the loopy theories of the countryfolk. 'It were Dick Turpin's ghost what did it. He's on the prowl every night, he is.' And if it wasn't the work of a highwayman's ghost, it was Sleepers prowling the heath after dark--unless it was werewolves. I'd say the reporter was under orders to obscure the story as much as possible, and a good job she made of it, too.

If you're reading this, Sirius, all we're really told is that the bodies were badly mangled and were found Saturday evening, lying alongside a footpath between Bushey and Elstree.
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posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 10:05pm on 10/05/2010
From what I dimly recall of my own school days, I imagine any lists of conduct the Ministry feel should be avoided will be immediately seized upon as a checklist of how to have fun.

I think you're right, the intention was definitely to obscure the facts, or lack of them. There was next to no information on the children themselves, who they were or where they came from. Either they don't know, or they don't want to tell.
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posted by [personal profile] alt_poppy at 10:15pm on 10/05/2010
Oh.

You're quite right about that. I hadn't even noticed: they don't name them. I suppose I simply assumed-

What if these aren't the same girls who were advertised missing last week? Surely they must be.

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