Quidditch players found to be using performance potions
Healers, officials weigh in on developing scandal
Thursday, April 1, 2005 Posted: 12:25 AM EST
ST. MUNGO'S (PNN) -- A scandal surrounding some of Quidditch's biggest stars' use of designer performance enhancing potions (PEP) has resonated strongly in the wizarding community, where it was expected to spread further Friday.
Reporters in Wimbourne, where star Keeper Bletchley of the Wimbourne Wasps is at the center of the scandal, are bracing for new revelations, as speculation builds that more teams -- including the Chudley Cannons -- are benefiting from PEP.
Fans of the popular teams disagreed.
"Just because a team starts to show a little improvement doesn't mean they are using those nasty potions!," said Ronald Weasley, an avid fan of the Cannons. "They've just been practicing hard is all... Really hard!"
Ludo Bagman, head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, told The Daily Prophet on Tuesday that dispensers of the elicit concoction committed "a very criminal act, against all laws, (in putting) a new chemical potion entity into human beings' bodies untested."
The director of St. Mungo's Hospital's Potion and Plant Poisoning ward has worked with the team that discovered PEP. Stressing that the side-effects PEP can have on wizards are unknown, he said those involved in the manufacturing of the designer potion should face stiff punishment.
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