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Sunday, 5 May 2013

Harry Potter Moment of the Week (#2)

Harry Potter moment of the week is a meme started by Uncorked Thoughts. The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object, quote etc. from the books/films/J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related. 

I'm a little late this week, but better late than never, right? This week's the topic is...favourite newspaper in the series.

Okay, I'm going to say The Daily Prophet. Yes, I know, it treated Harry pretty badly, not to mention Sirius and Dumbledore, but that was rogue reporters and editors, and not the newspaper as a whole.

I'm probably taking this week's meme a little seriously, but I'm a journalist, and my industry has been going through some tough times over the last few years. I know that papers are rarely bad, it's the people who work for them that can make them bad, and luckily they are in a small minority.

I think The Daily Prophet was a bad paper for a while, but that was down to Rita Skeeter and then the Ministry feeding the paper propoganda. I like to believe that once the paper sorted itself out, it went on to become a proper investigative, trustworthy source of news.

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for joining us :D. Yeah I get what you mean, I jsut think with the Daily Prophet it would be amazing to see the moving photos. The one of ROn and his family is adorable!

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    1. That is one of my favourite photos. And, in the films, seeing the Death Eaters screaming out from the front page of the Daily Prophet is pretty scary.

      Sarah

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  2. I love love the Daily Prophet too.. and right now I am re-reading book 7 and totally forgot that there is an Evening Prophet too!!!!

    Angie

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    1. I'd completely forgotten about the Evening Prophet. Book seven is probably the one I've read the least.

      Sarah

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