| The Muggle News By Proffesser Dumbldore When a Muggle wants to catch up on the news, or read an article on something that interests them, they'll go over to the nearest store and buy a newspaper or a magazine. "So what!" you say? "I do that too!" But wait. Obviously, Muggles don't read The Daily Prophet, Magic Magazine, or any other popular wizarding magazine. What do they read? You might be surprised: Newspapers: Muggle newspapers usually have excruciatingly boring names (The New York Times, The Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and at least one "Courier", "News", or "Gazette" per town). They can be quite depressing what with all the wars, diseases,natural disasters etc. that Muggles do not have the power to prevent. The only really astonishing fact about newspapers is that The Peking News was printed continuously from 600 A.D. to 1935! That's 1300 years! Magazines: There are many many magazines in the Muggle World. Many of them are very boring, but some are so funny that they're worth mentioning: Kite Lines: A whole magazine all about kite flying techniques and kite making designs. The Flat Earth News Quarterly: Made for the sole purpose of proving that the world is flat and that space travel has never actually taken place. T.V. Guide: An entire magazine just for telling people what they can see on "T.V." (a Muggle entertainment device). It may sound boring, but Muggles seem to like it a lot: it sells 16 800 441 copies per week there! So next time you happen to be pouring through the latest issue of Magic Magazine or even right now, as you skim through the Daily Prophet,feel glad that you have it instead of the Daily Gazette or the T.V. Magazine. |
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