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alternityAs some of you are aware, Our Lord ordered an immediate investigation of the shocking allegations made by the Daily Prophet regarding illness among our muggle and muggleborn labour force. We expected to find no unusual illness, merely a few individuals with a misguided faith in gossip, or perhaps someone trying to stir up trouble.
Imagine our dismay when we discovered that in fact, there are entire camps of muggles far sicker than anyone can explain. The illness has been covered up for several months by a small number of healers, camp administrators, and lower-level employees in the Division of Protectorate Affairs. Their motives in this cover-up remain to be established: it is possible some were merely ignorant, or were acting in good faith to prevent a panic, but concerns have been raised that some individuals might have maintained secrecy in order to maximize later disruption. The Division of Protectorate Affairs salutes Maxine Hamilton, the courageous reporter at the Prophet who acted on her own initiative to bring this situation to our attention.
Just to be clear once again: only muggles and muggleborns are sick. Camp administrators are in frequent close contact with muggles, and yet the investigation has not turned up even a single example of a camp administrator who has become ill. Either rudimentary magical precautions are adequate for protection, or (as we strongly suspect) true magical heritage prevents infection.
Our wizarding population can also rest assured that we do not appear to be in danger of running out of muggles. There may be some minor disruptions as healthy muggles are moved and trained in, but we do not expect to see shortages of food or other critical necessities.
Now that St Mungo's knows what the problem is, they have dedicated resources toward solving the problem. The ingenuity of wizards is limitless, and we expect to shortly have an answer and a cure.
If you own or manage muggles, we would ask you to take a census and provide numbers to St Mungo's within the next ten days of how many you have who are sick, healthy, and formerly sick but now recovered. St Mungo's is calling this disease 'muggle paralysis,' as paralysis seems to be the most distinctive symptom. Again, wizards are at no risk, but we do encourage you to use scourgification spells and so on to reduce the risk of carrying the sickness between groups of muggles. If you have an enclave of entirely healthy muggles, they should stay healthy as long as they are not exposed.
We have no reason to believe at this time that half-bloods are vulnerable to the disease; nonetheless, foster families of half-blood Hogwarts students who are concerned about the safety of their foster children may return them immediately to Hogwarts by floo rather than having them ride the Hogwarts Express back with their classmates.
Happy New Year to all!
Imagine our dismay when we discovered that in fact, there are entire camps of muggles far sicker than anyone can explain. The illness has been covered up for several months by a small number of healers, camp administrators, and lower-level employees in the Division of Protectorate Affairs. Their motives in this cover-up remain to be established: it is possible some were merely ignorant, or were acting in good faith to prevent a panic, but concerns have been raised that some individuals might have maintained secrecy in order to maximize later disruption. The Division of Protectorate Affairs salutes Maxine Hamilton, the courageous reporter at the Prophet who acted on her own initiative to bring this situation to our attention.
Just to be clear once again: only muggles and muggleborns are sick. Camp administrators are in frequent close contact with muggles, and yet the investigation has not turned up even a single example of a camp administrator who has become ill. Either rudimentary magical precautions are adequate for protection, or (as we strongly suspect) true magical heritage prevents infection.
Our wizarding population can also rest assured that we do not appear to be in danger of running out of muggles. There may be some minor disruptions as healthy muggles are moved and trained in, but we do not expect to see shortages of food or other critical necessities.
Now that St Mungo's knows what the problem is, they have dedicated resources toward solving the problem. The ingenuity of wizards is limitless, and we expect to shortly have an answer and a cure.
If you own or manage muggles, we would ask you to take a census and provide numbers to St Mungo's within the next ten days of how many you have who are sick, healthy, and formerly sick but now recovered. St Mungo's is calling this disease 'muggle paralysis,' as paralysis seems to be the most distinctive symptom. Again, wizards are at no risk, but we do encourage you to use scourgification spells and so on to reduce the risk of carrying the sickness between groups of muggles. If you have an enclave of entirely healthy muggles, they should stay healthy as long as they are not exposed.
We have no reason to believe at this time that half-bloods are vulnerable to the disease; nonetheless, foster families of half-blood Hogwarts students who are concerned about the safety of their foster children may return them immediately to Hogwarts by floo rather than having them ride the Hogwarts Express back with their classmates.
Happy New Year to all!
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Date: 2010-01-01 08:05 pm (UTC)(Happy New Year, indeed.)