Flocks of owls flew into the Great Hall, drawing everyone's attention. The young witches and wizards were bewildered, unsure what was happening.
But soon, they saw the owls drop off copies of magazines and newspapers.
What was going on?
The students looked down at the newspapers in their hands, then at the ones the owls had just delivered, utterly confused.
Hadn't today's newspapers and magazines already arrived?
Why had another batch come?
"The contents are different!" someone shouted. Everyone hurried to pick up a newspaper or magazine, comparing the copies as they leafed through them.
The contents were indeed different, but they had one thing in common: the star of the second edition was still Vaughn!
The first edition had only reported on Vaughn leading the C Executive Committee in a surprise attack on Greyback's Army, killing Greyback and capturing a large number of his followers.
Every newspaper and magazine in the second batch, without exception, carried a paper on Wolfsbane Potion 2.1.
[Wolfsbane Potion 2.1: Breaking the curse of full-moon transformation once and for all] That title alone sent the Great Hall into an uproar again.
At the staff table, Dumbledore also held a copy of The Quibbler. He raised his eyebrows as he read Vaughn's paper and the accompanying article written by Rita Skeeter.
"My dear boy, it has been a very long time since I last saw all the major newspapers in Wizarding Britain publish successive editions on the same day."
Such things had happened before, but only when something momentous occurred. Past examples were mostly concentrated in the periods when Grindelwald and Voldemort had run rampant.
Dumbledore turned to Vaughn. "Did you deliberately wait until the first editions went out before announcing the news about the Wolfsbane Potion?"
Vaughn smiled and nodded. "I figured none of