Date:
28 August
2003
Investigated item:
Fluffy children’s toy
Item location:
15 Marybrook
Road, Surrey,
London
Usually stored in small child’s room on the bed
Current
owner: Little girl (Miss Sara Jones) had it given to her as a birthday
gift.
Description of item:
- small, pale pink, elephant shaped fluffy
toy
- black bead eyes, and white on the end of its
trunk and inside its ears
- small cloth tag on right foot with manufacturing
notes and brand name
Current problem:
Owner gets very unsettled when the toy thrashes about when she picks it
up and holds it. Mrs. Linda Jones
(child’s mother) insists that the toy has a mind of its own. The toy was put away in a cupboard and
Mrs. Jones reports that it reappeared ‘magically’ on top of the child’s
bed. Mrs. Jones is very eager to
give the toy away.
Evaluation:
Research into the history of the toy elephant disclosed that a Mr.
Broderbund purchased the toy at the ‘Wizard Toy Shop’ in 1997, as a present for
his niece. Mr. Broderbund was a
prankster and most likely bewitched the toy.
Recommendation:
Send a witch and a child with a popular muggle toy around to see if the
child and the muggle child will swap toys.
If this cannot be achieved send a group from the Retrieval Branch to
recover the toy.
Footnote:
An inspection of the toy revealed the initials L. Broderbund, presumably
(Luci Broderbund), Mr. Broderbund’s niece.
Further inspection led to the discovery of a house elf that was stuck
inside the toy elephant.
Date:
28th August
2003
Investigative item:
Pencil holder
Item location:
Willyama
High School,
Murton Street, Broken Hill,
Room 3:10 on teacher’s
desk
Current owner:
Lady in late twenties (Mrs. S. Johnson), English teacher has owned pencil
holder for a week.
Description of item:
- six cylindrical tubes of different sizes, all
stuck together
- all tubes are open at the top and closed up on
the bottom
- full of pens, textas, erasers, liquid paper,
paper clips, a ruler, scissors, crayons, but no pencils
- flat bottom
- a red-back spider sticker is stuck on one of the
cylinders
Current problem:
Mrs. Johnson reports that her pencils keep going missing. It isn’t the students because the
pencils are there then, but when there is no one in the room at recess and
lunch, they go missing. No one can
get in there because the room is always locked when there is no one in
there.
Three other English teachers, one L.O.T.E. teacher, a
special education teacher, a P.E. teacher, the deputy principal and a numerous
amount of students have checked it out.
Most of them think that Mrs. Johnson is imagining things and that she
should have a week off work, but two year-eight students, Sherean Kennewell and
Emily Mortimer suspect that it might be under a spell of witch craft.
Mrs. Johnson doesn’t want to throw the pencil holder away, as it is
really groovy. She might take the
advice and take a week off work, as she is really freaked out and also annoyed,
as no one will believe her.
Evaluation:
Undercover wizards have investigated the pencil holder and got
information that two year-eight, unauthorized witches, Emily A. Mortimer and
Sherean L. Kennewell, had put a spell on the pencil holder and gave it to Mrs.
Johnson as a present for her and to see if they really are witches.
Recommendation:
Emily Mortimer and Sherean Kennewell will secretly replace the pencil
holder and take the spell off the old one.
They will also be suspended from any type of witchcraft for three
months.
Footnote:
Sherean and Emily have pledged not to do any magic that will harm or
reveal their powers to muggles.
