| As one of the reporters of the Witch Weekly, I am always investigating to find out about some news that one can only find exclusively in the Witch Weekly Magazine. For this issue, I�m going to share with you a story that reached me about the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes� owners. Everyone have heard of this shop which is located in Diagon Alley. The two owners are the twins Mr. Fred and Mr. George Weasley. These two have studied in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but they didn�t finish all the years a serious wizard or witch would do. It is known that they left the castle in their 6th year.
The Weasleys started off with their business after buying their premises in Diagon Alley. They were doing perfectly well and they are very good in charming objects and even inventing stuff to sell in the shop. One of the items that one would find in their shop was children�s broomsticks. These are broomsticks that if you look at them you will not notice that they are different from normal broomsticks. But these were charmed by professional wizards and witches to allow the rider a limit of 2 to 3 feet of height only. There is a big difference in the price between these children�s broomsticks and normal ones. Normal ones were not sold for less than a 100 galleons while children�s broomsticks were sold for not more than 5 Galleons. Fred and George Weasley were not satisfied with what they were already earning. They wanted more money. Lately, they had been working to find a way of charming the children�s broomsticks to fly up high without limits in order to sell them as normal broomsticks. This way they will make a profit of more than 90 Galleons on each charmed broomstick they sell. Unfortunately, while placing these charmed broomsticks on the shelves with the other normal broomsticks, they mis-placed one of them with the section of the children�s broomsticks. A couple went in the shop and chose this broomstick for their 3-year old son. When they gave it to their son, they thought that they didn�t have to worry about their son being injured since this was a children�s �toy�, they thought. But when they heard something falling heavily on the ground, they came rushing out of the house to see their son crying on the ground, having fallen from about 10 feet off the ground. This fall resulted in 6 broken parts of his body. The Ministry of Magic were tipped off of this accident by the parents of this little boy and they were ready to investigate the case. When they found out about what had happened, they confiscated all the broomsticks that Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes were selling and banned this shop from selling any type of broomsticks for the next 5 years. We hope that this little boy will return to full strength soon. Who knows? Maybe we see him as a Quidditch Player in the near future By Cho Chang 1 |
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