y effect on the Langlocked accused.

These are remarkably powerful curses, involving a not insubstantial degree of dark magic charm work, said Dr. Horatio Flack, head of the counter-jinx facility at St. Mungos. If we are unable to release the curse on these men by this weekend, I am afraid the spells may become permanent. As it turns out, one of the accused, identified to this reporter as the goblin, a Mr. Fikklis Bistle of Sussex, did begin to respond to the counter-jinxes over the course of