In its annual joke issue published earlier this month, The Daily Princetonian became The Daily Prophet. The Princeton University student newspaper embraced Harry Potter in a spoof-tastic edition full of stories about muggles, magic, elves, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
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For example, in an Occupy Movement-inspired tale, the Prophet reported on student ire about allegedly unfair “magic distribution.” As the lede noted, “In a surprising turn of events at the normally apathetic university, a small number of students have taken issue with the high concentration of magic on campus and have staged a protest just inside the front gates. ‘It’s completely unfair that 99 percent of the country’s magic is possessed by 1 percent of the population,’ protest organizer Dimitri Galleon said.”
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My favorite snippet is an editor’s note on the bottom left of the front page announcing the retirement of the Prophet‘s previous editor-in-chief due to a “traumatic incident with a fire-breathing hellcat in the Forbidden Forest.” :)
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