Chapter 76.1- Doom Days
Added 2025-11-02 21:28:05 +0000 UTCThe daily prophet for the First day of August 1995 did not go out in the morning. The news reaching the editors was too confusing for them to feel comfortable releasing an issue. So they did something they were not renowned for. They went out, they conducted interviews. They took pictures of the various sites that the disasters had taken place at, and when they felt they had a good picture of things, they weighed and agonized over the decision of whether to publish or not. Feeling uncharacteristically brave , Baranabas Cuffe overrode all concerns and decided to move forward with the publication.
Cuffe manor would be razed to the ground within a week of the publication, but both he and his wife would have taken residence in an unknown safe house prior to that. The publication that led to the burning of Cuffe Manor went out on the evening of the first of August 1995, a special evening edition of the Prophet that sold at half price and only had a single front page story.
Given pride of place was the picture of Bones Hall with the newly guardianless Susan Bones being consoled by an auror whose hair darkened from grey to black in the picture in the foreground. Bones Hall in ruins was the background. Half the stories manor wads naught but rubble. The other half burned with blue flames, and the whole of it was lit from above by a single specter in the sky— the storied Dark Mark.
The title for the story had read. “A Dark Day for Wizarding Britain: He Who Must Not Be Named Returns”. The article told the story of what had happened the night before. He Who Must Not be Named was personally seen by no less than dozens of wizards as he singlehandedly embarked on a campaign against The Who’s who of Wizarding Britain.
