Dessie peered over the archives, her nose scrunched up as she concentrated on reading the entire article on Mackenzie's injury a few years back. Sure, it was likely that nothing of importance would be there, but she knew better than to just discard it. There MIGHT be so- AHA!
Summoning a parchment, quill and some ink from her bag, Dessie caught them all and placed them next to her as she started copying down the things that looked worthwhile.
Quote:
... Bruno De Luca took a special interest in Mackenzie's injury, claiming that a curse had been put on him by his latest divorcee which causes anyone he looks at to be badly injured. When our reporter tried to get a few more words out of De Luca, he had been wearing a scarf tightly wrapped around his eyes, and ordering his assistant to guide him through the crowds, while objecting to giving any more comments.
Hmm... Who was Bruno De Luca? He sounded a little familiar. Skimming through the article yet again, Dessie sighed as shes saw that who he was, wasn't mentioned. It was weird, though - usually everyone mentioned got at least a small introduction. Maybe he had been mentioned before, in a previous article in the paper? Looking up, Dessie searched around to see if there were any old copies of the Daily Prophet, as it was them who had covered the injury.
Delighted to see a small pile in the far corner of them room, she grabbed her things and made a beeline for it, quickly finding the issue she wanted. Leafing through the paper, her eyes landed on Bruno De Luca's name and a small grin stretched across her face.
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...Bruno De Luca, recent owner of the massively popular magazine, Quidditch International, has recently been brought to court after a rumour that the magazine, on his orders, had been plagiarizing the works of other, local Quidditch papers from around the globe. While De Luca would not comment on this, a representative of the smaller papers (among them the french magazine, Le Monde de Quidditch) stated that "De Luca had this coming for years. He used to be a journalist once, you know, but when he didn't get the job, he threw all that away and went into business with his father, the guy who owns all the casinos from here 'til Vegas.
There we go.
Scribbling down the page number and the issue, just in case this particular copy got lost, Dessie made her way back to Bossman Beckett.
"Sir, I've found something you might want to look into," Dessie stated and held out the Daily Prophet copy at the page with Mackenzie's injury.
"If you read here, sir, you'll see that a certain Bruno De Luca was very interested in Colin's injury, and I took the liberty of pulling out some information on him - which can be found here," Dessie flicked one page back and showed him the article.
Yeah, no need to state that the reason De Luca had sounded so familiar was the fact that her father had represented him in court. And won the case.
No, no need for that.