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Enquiry at the Ministry of Magic

"Weasley has brought the Ministry into disrepute. He is clearly unfit to draw up our laws and his ridiculous Muggle Protection Act should be scrapped immediately."
-- Lucius Malfoy in the Daily Prophet (CS12)

Enquiry at the Ministry of Magic

Enquiry at the Ministry of Magic is an article clipped out of a Daily Prophet newspaper in Autumn 1992, which was sent to Draco Malfoy by his father Lucius (CS12).

The article reports that Arthur Weasley, the Head of the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office, has been fined 50 galleons for having bewitched a muggle car to fly – the Ford Anglia car that Harry and Ron had crashed into the Whomping Willow at the start of term (CS5, CS12).

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The article quotes Lucius Malfoy - as a governor of the school - and says that he has called for Arthur's resignation. Draco finds the article hilarious. Ron (who is worried for his father) and Harry don't think so, in spite of being in disguise as Draco's friends Crabbe and Goyle, and this almost causes trouble (CS12).

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Writing by J K Rowling on WizardingWorld.com (Pottermore): Daily Prophet

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