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It's been dragged up from Telegraph archives by the recent NOTW bullshit but still worth a read to see just exactly what kind of office Brook and Coulson were running...

NOTW offical Harry Potter correspondant was told to appear at a meeting on day after 9/11 in full wizard outfit or else.

**SK: **We heard you weren't well. What's the problem?

**CB: **I've been diagnosed with stress.

**SK: **That bit I do know. Now, tell me about it, and we'll see what, if anything, we can do.

**CB: **There were a couple of events which brought things to a head. A few hours after the attack on the World Trade Centre, I was asked by Rebekah to dress up as Harry Potter. She wanted me to dress up and go to her office in the middle of the newsroom

**SK: **Which date was that?

**CB: **That was on Tuesday, September 11. It was the afternoon, less than three hours after [the attacks]. I went into her office and Andy [Coulson, the deputy editor] was on the sofa and Rebekah was on the phone. Andy asked me where was my Harry Potter suit and I made some excuse, saying: it's not here, it's in the photo studio. [Actually], it was in the office, but it was hardly appropriate for a journalist to be prancing about as Harry Potter. Andy told me I should always have my Harry Potter gear around, in case of a Harry Potter emergency, and told me that the morning after, I was to dress up for conference as Harry Potter. So, at that time, [when] we were working on the assumption that up to 50,000 people had been killed, I was required to parade myself around morning conference, dressed as Harry Potter.