Yesterday's Prophet
Dec. 28th, 2009 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sally_anneDid anyone else see the Prophet yesterday? Well actually the day before yesterday, but I didn't see it until yesterday. The Strettons have it delivered and I like reading it. And usually it's a reliable newspaper, I mean, they aren't allowed to print anything that isn't true. Normally.
Anyway I didn't know what to make of this article. They had someone with a false name saying all sorts of awful, scary things about the disease in the muggle camps, and then at the end of the article they said he was probably a traitor planted by Sirius Black! Which clearly he was but then why did they spend so much time telling us the rubbish he said AND why didn't they tell us first that he was lying? I'm sure it was all lies because the Ministry said so, but after reading about 30,000 muggles dead at one camp and mudbloods dying where they dropped and people having their whole body paralysed AND then that there were rumors the disease can infect halfbloods -- I had horrible nightmares all last night!
It's not right. I ought to be able to read the Daily Prophet and expect to find good information there! That's what a newspaper is for. I
At least they did say right at the top it can't affect halfbloods. But they printed so many lies (a locked ward at St Mungo's for the sick halfbloods! 40% of the mudbloods getting it dying!) it was a very confusing article. Especially since the Prophet normally doesn't print lies, they aren't reliable the way announcements directly from the Ministry are reliable but it's not supposed to be rubbish like that traitor writes in the journals, either.
And then yesterday's Prophet didn't say anything AT ALL about sick muggles and mudbloods. I don't know if today's does or not, I haven't seen it yet. I'm not actually sure it's come.
Anyway I didn't know what to make of this article. They had someone with a false name saying all sorts of awful, scary things about the disease in the muggle camps, and then at the end of the article they said he was probably a traitor planted by Sirius Black! Which clearly he was but then why did they spend so much time telling us the rubbish he said AND why didn't they tell us first that he was lying? I'm sure it was all lies because the Ministry said so, but after reading about 30,000 muggles dead at one camp and mudbloods dying where they dropped and people having their whole body paralysed AND then that there were rumors the disease can infect halfbloods -- I had horrible nightmares all last night!
It's not right. I ought to be able to read the Daily Prophet and expect to find good information there! That's what a newspaper is for. I
At least they did say right at the top it can't affect halfbloods. But they printed so many lies (a locked ward at St Mungo's for the sick halfbloods! 40% of the mudbloods getting it dying!) it was a very confusing article. Especially since the Prophet normally doesn't print lies, they aren't reliable the way announcements directly from the Ministry are reliable but it's not supposed to be rubbish like that traitor writes in the journals, either.
And then yesterday's Prophet didn't say anything AT ALL about sick muggles and mudbloods. I don't know if today's does or not, I haven't seen it yet. I'm not actually sure it's come.