BREAKING NEWS - PROMINENT PURE-BLOOD WITCH REPORTED MISSING AS YULE BALL COMES TO A CLOSE
3 January 1983
THE CRYSTAL PAVILION, WIZARDING LONDON - The Ministry have said they are “extremely concerned" over the disappearance of a twenty-six-year-old witch who vanished the evening of The Yule Ball almost two weeks ago. Rosalie Flint from Kintbury in Berkshire was last seen around 2300 GMT the evening of Friday 24th December, where she had been dancing with friends and family. An eye witness reported having seen Miss Flint removing herself for a break from the party with an unidentified man in the east wing of the venue but was not seen returning back to the party thereafter. Miss Flint who was expected back at her family home in the early hours of Saturday December 25th, was thought to have not returned home that evening. When her parents checked her bedroom the next morning at 0900 GMT and found their daughter was nowhere to be found she was reported missing to the Ministry. “She’s a good girl,” her mother Lotte Flint told The Daily Prophet through teary eyes. “Rosalie would never simply not return home. She’s not like that. Someone must have her and we will not rest until she’s back home safe with us.”
As the search continues for known werewolf Silas Crump, 38, Head of the Auror’s Office Alicia Avery-Jones warns for people to be on the look out for Miss Flint and Mr Crump who is wanted in connection with the murder of The Minister for Magic’s son Booker Bagnold. Mr Bagnold, also twenty-six, was sadly found dead at the Ministry last October during the All Hallows Eve Ball. Mrs Avery-Jones told The Daily Prophet, “We have reason to believe Mr Crump is targeting prominent members of the wizarding community as an attempt to get the attention of the Ministry for their mistreatment of werewolves. We hope that Mr Crump is not connected to the disappearance of Miss Flint who may have wandered off from the party intoxicated and is hopefully safe with friends,” Mrs Avery-Jones continued. “As Miss Flint has now been missing for 10 days we are concerned for her safety and ask the public to come forward with any information they have regarding her disappearance. She is of a slight build and around 5″6 in height, with long dark brown hair and was last seen wearing a long silver ballgown. Any information on the unidentified man would also be extremely helpful to our inquiry.”
The Ministry are reportedly working hard to find Miss Flint but are remaining tight lipped about the case otherwise. When asked if they were looking at anyone else aside from Mr Crump, including the Minister’s son Harrison Bagnold, 32, who has also not been seen since the night of the ball and Miss Flint’s brother Decius Flint, 30, who did not report his sister missing despite agreeing to travel home with her the evening of the ball, Mrs Avery-Jones declined to comment. With Wizarding London frightened a serial murderer may be at large targeting younger members of the community residing in the capital, many are asking who might be next and what the Ministry are doing to stop him as many lose faith in their ability to catch a killer who has terrorised London for over two months.
ELIAS SPENCER-MOON, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER