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Issue #212 - Is Vampire Extortion Responsible for August Echelon-Arnost's...
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Not all dental abnormalities can be fixed with spells but a great many can! Mr. Wiggenswade's book is available from most reputable booksellers. 3 Ways To Deal With Crooked Teeth!
As any lady with aesthetically displeasing teeth can attest, it can be incredibly difficult to go about in society confidently when a mere smile can cause immediate embarrassment. However, an unsightly mouth needn't be the end of your social life!


Does this smile look familiar?
1. Use Magic!
While not advisable for those whose magical ability can be a little hit and miss, magic is the most effective way to sort out your unruly set of chompers. Whether some are too large or they've simply arranged themselves disagreeably, there's a spell out there to sort out most simple problems. In fact, Roland Wiggenswade has written a book specifically for the dentally challenged individual entitled Orthadontics for the Ordinary Wizard. Do make sure to practice spells properly before attempting on yourself or others.

Alternatively, brew a polyjuice potion and assume the identity of someone with superior teeth.

2. Seek Professional Help
Why suffer an embarrassing smile if a professional may be able to fix it? Tooth removal may be necessary in order to achieve that winning smile but it will all be worth it when you've finally won the love and admiration of that gentleman you've been fawning over for the last ten months. Finally you can have a conversation with him where your face isn't directed anywhere else but towards him upon speaking!

3. Hide them!
If all else fails and your pearly whites are forever doomed to resemble those of a shark or beaver, never find yourself without an ornate fan at your wrist to spring to your defense should you feel the urge to smile, laugh, or partake in discussion. It is also worth acquiring the habit of covering ones mouth or looking downwards when engaging in activities that expose the teeth. It is hardly an ideal remedy but for some it may be the only alternative to public ridicule and embarrassment.





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Vampires looking to threaten August Echelon-Arnost into providing free legal services may have exploited his past relationship with Charlotte 'Lyra' Potter to get close to him. Is Vampire Extortion Responsible for August Echelon-Arnost's Latest Case?
Many in the community were surprised to hear that the murder investigation of restaurateur Jean-Claude Baudelaire may be delayed by a prolonged legal battle, as reputable defense attorney August Echelon-Arnost (previously mentioned in Witch Weekly on not one but several lists of eligible bachelors) stepped forward to defend the accused vampire, who goes by the name Galina.

This case should have already been resolved, most agree, as the body recovered from the forest showed clear signs of vampiric mutilation, and an eye-witness reported she saw the victim talking with a pale woman matching Galina's description only moments before his abduction. Even without the murderer's cooperation, the case should have proceeded to trial and sentencing based on the strength of the eye-witness account alone. Instead, procedural challenges are likely to draw this out for weeks or even months. Meanwhile, a vampire who could have already been permanently imprisoned or sentenced to death will instead be wiling away her time in a Ministry holding cell.

Why would August Echelon-Arnost want to defend a vampire on a murder charge? Even assuming his client is innocent (a very large assumption indeed), taking such a hopeless case is "like suicide for a solicitor's career," a prosecutor for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement told our reporters. So what does Mr. Echelon-Arnost stand to gain?

Perhaps his life.


August Echelon-Arnost, defense attorney and possible future vampire victim

It is the belief of this periodical that August Echelon-Arnost was threatened by at least one vampire in order to take this case. Since the one who would benefit most from his intervention was under Ministry custody, the implication is obvious: vampires are working together, like a magical English version of Sicily's mafia crime families. Some vampires murder (or, more likely, all vampires murder), some help cover the crimes up by moving bodies or destroying evidence, and, we can now see, some are brazen enough to reach into our own community to try and twist the legal system to their benefit. By engaging a defense attorney, they may hope to actually win her freedom through inane technicalities or they may simply want to draw out the process long enough that they are able to affect a jail break for the imprisoned vampire.

If they are successful in using threats against Mr. Echelon-Arnost to their benefit in this case, it seems unlikely this gang of organized vampiric criminals will stop there. After defense attorneys, why not threaten judges, prosecutors, or even the aurors themselves? If we don't do something about this now, we may find that our children or grandchildren are living in a world where vampires can kill openly and without consequence from the law.



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Love By the Numbers: Astrology & Arithmancy Unite To Find Your True Love!
You may have been looking for love in all the wrong places for months or even years already, but we have news for you: this is a particularly sensitive time of year for astrology and arithmancy, and with our help even the most hopeless soon-to-be-spinsters can find their one true love.

So break out your arithmancy notes! Start by calculating your heart number, then use the charts below to find the name of your true love!

Start with your star sign and heart number:


Then add in your Hogwarts house:


Then: if your heart number is even and the year of your birth is also even, add one. If your heart number is even but your birth year is odd, add two.
Odd heart numbers born in even years should add three. Odd heart numbers born in odd years should add four.

Finally, use the day of the month you were born to find your final number. Also make note of your letter.


Add all four numbers together, adding digits until you are left with a number between one and nine. This is the heart number of your true love. The letter from your fourth chart is the first letter of your true love's name. You may have to break out the ink and quill to work backwards, but you now have all the tools necessary to find your true love!




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