THE DAILY PROPHET

MILO COURTNEY: MOTHER MURDERER BEHIND BARS

12TH MARCH, 1978
by D. WIGGLESWADE

....after a long, extensive investigation into the murder of famous philanthropist witch Emilienne Courtney, several high-ranking wizards in the Ministry of Magic (including the son of high-ranking Ministry official Abraxas Malfoy) have been able to produce evidence that schoolboy-turned-murderer Milo Courtney slaughtered his mother in cold blood. The supposed-squib has been placed in Azkaban prison, where he will serve a life sentence.....

THE DAILY PROPHET

COURTNEY CASE: COULD VERDICT HAVE BEEN WRONG?

21ST NOVEMBER, 1981
by E. LIMUS

......many wizards are coming forward to proclaim they were under the influence of the Imperius curse during their workings with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and many are calling for a retrial of Milo Courtney, the teenage son-turned-murderer of Emilienne Courtney (a known adversary to the ideals of the Death Eaters). Several dark wizards tried before the Wizengamot have pleaded that they had part in killing Courtney. A retrial will be decided upon later this month.....

WITCH WEEKLY
4TH APRIL, 1990

CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS: NATASHA, BORN TO WIZARD CELEBRITY MATEO PARISH AND HIS MUGGLE WIFE GEORGIE ON APRIL THE SIXTEENTH, NINETEEN-SEVENTY-THREE, TURNS SEVENTEEN TODAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NATASHA!

DAILY PROPHET

TEENAGE MURDER CASE RESOLVED AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS

16TH MAY 1995
by A. FENETRE

.....after seventeen years of wrongful imprisonment, Milo Courtney (aged thirty four) will finally be released from Azkaban Prison. Originally imprisoned for life without parole on the count of his mother's murder, with an eventual reduced sentence of granted parole (that was never given), Courtney has finally been found innocent on all charges after an anonymous witness to the crime provided memories to the Wizengamot. Left with no choice but to free him, Courtney will be released tomorrow morning to a world he left behind as a boy, but returns to as a man.....

DAILY PROPHET

TRAGEDY AT HOGWARS: TRIWIZARD CHAMPION SLAIN

24TH JUNE 1995
by RITA SKEETER

.....tragedy has stricken at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Talented and handsome young Cedric Diggory was found dead at the centre of the third trial in the Triwizard Tournament. His lifeless body was dragged from within the catacombs of the maze by none other than The Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter. A freak accident which Potter's young mind could not comprehend, it would seem, as he returned to the grounds of the Quidditch pitch shouting horrific tales of You-Know-Who's return.....