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Chief Warlock Ogden dies, aged 174.

* Tiberius Samuel Ogden, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, has died.
* Elections for the new head of the Wizengamot to be held next week.
* Family long known producers of whiskey.

Tiberius Samuel Ogden, the long residing Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, has died today, aged 174, after a brief illness exacerbated an underlying liver condition. He is survived by three children, William, Leonard, and Nichelle Ogden-Higgs, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. The service will be held Sunday at 2:30pm at St Jerome's Church, in Godric's Hollow. Burial will be in the family plot at Ogden Hall. Friends may call at the Church resting hall from 6 to 9pm.

Warlock Ogden was born in Godric's Hollow in 1891. He attended Hogwarts, where he is recorded as being a steadfast student. After his NEWTs, he joined his family business in 1908, making firewhiskey. As is the custom, he started at the bottom, working each job so that he had experience of the whole process. Consequently, he became embroiled in the Labour Right's movements of 1915, leading to the reforms of 1919. Warlock Ogden continued to work closely with the Ministry thereafter, tackling the unrest that began with the rise of Gellert Grindlewald. During the war, he helped guide labour efforts towards preparations and defences and, after Grindlewald's defeat by Albus Dumbledore in 1945, Warlock Ogden helped with the efforts to rebuild.

* See page 7 for a brief history of the Labour Rights movement.
* See pages 9-11 for more in depth coverage of his war efforts.

Rewarded for his services with a seat on the Wizengamot in 1949, Warlock Ogden briefly resigned from the Wizengamot in 1996 in protest at the behaviour of then Minister Cornelius Fudge, but returned to his position after the conclusion of the Second Voldemort War. In 2007 he was voted in to the position of Chief Warlock, where he approved the appointment of Harry Potter to Head Auror. He remained in that position, steering the court with an even hand, until his death. The position of Chief Warlock is chosen from existing members of the Wizengamot, who put their names forward and are elected with a quorum; the vote for his replacement will take place next week.

* See infobox for more details of Wizengamot procedure
* See pages 7 and 8 for tributes from colleagues and friends

His great grandson Robert Ogden assured this paper there is no truth in rumours that Warlock Ogden arranged to have himself interred in a giant barrel of the family's firewhiskey in order to add some body to it.