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[alt_narcissa]

It seems there are too many owls being employed at the expense of the misprint in this morning's Prophet. Really, there's no need to panic at all. I've already heard from Mr Bole and the editor of the social pages.

There was a simple, if grievous, typesetting error. The article was meant to read, 'Nympadora Tonks, niece to celebrated Auror Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy, announces her marriage to Junius Ponds, Jr., and informs us that she is expecting in May.' Clearly everything prior to my name was accidentally omitted.

Mr Bole assures me the correction will appear in both the Evening edition today and tomorrow's paper. But please, everyone, there's no need to send any further word of alarm.

We are all having a laugh at it, I assure you. There is no cause for concern whatever.

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Private Message to Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy

[alt_crouch_jr]

Did Bole contact you or were you forced to summon him? Truncheon's got him in the conference room now, along with the incompetent sod who edited the page. (Gives new meaning to the term 'wet', that one.)

Bole has offered to take an oath that no disparagement was intended. Also offers to let us use Veritaserum or Pensieve or Legilimency on the editorial staffer. Soon to be ex-staffer, I'd think.

We're letting them stew at the moment, so there's time if you'd care to make a request.

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[alt_nymphadora]

I bet 1000 galleons they're not laughing half as hard as me. What a thought! Remus was horrified. He's still looking a bit peaky from the shock.

[alt_crouch_jr]

Wanted you to know that our enquiry has confirmed Mr Bole's assertion that his only fault was insufficient attention to the latter pages of this edition. Presumably the Prophet will run a tighter operation in future.

The sub-editor charged with the society page is another matter altogether, and that interview has opened a matter of rather more serious lack of oversight on the part of management.

When we looked into her background file, it proved to have been stuffed with misrepresentations and what the young woman asserts are merely 'orthographical errors'--surely such nonsense is utterly inexplicable in the file of a would-be editor.

Least surprising untruth of the lot: she claims full purity, and yet a cursory look into her line reveals that at best she can claim to be quarter-blooded.

Mendacity on hiring parchments is not to be condoned. I trust that the sequel to this episode will underscore that crucial message.