Chapter 515: The Impact of the Interview
It's been two weeks since that interview that shook most of the wizarding world.
But its influence has not yet faded-
Rita Skeeter's report, which can be said to be a great success, also made her famous again...... After an "opaque" wizarding war, all the witches and wizards were very interested in the details of this war, and this report undoubtedly caters to the tastes of "readers" to a large extent.
The name Horace Slughorn also became a household name with Rita Skeeter's report...... In particular, his teacher-student bond with Harry Potter's mother and his student Lily Evans deceived many witches' tears.
The term "Order of the Phoenix" also entered the public's field of vision for the first time...... The vast majority of witches and wizards began to have some affection for the organization that had secretly protected them for the past two years and made great sacrifices......
Of course, some of the "Death Eaters" who have not yet been arrested have a new understanding of the reasons for their master's second fiasco after reading this report, so I will not talk about it here.
The Ministry of Magic, for its part, was initially unhappy with the Daily Prophet's column...... Rufus-Scrimgeur, of the Law Enforcement Division, even openly stated in an interview that such a report was a provocation to the entire Ministry......
However, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, Mr. Barnabas Gufe, went against the norm and published a second interview with journalist Rita Skeeter in her column under intense pressure from the Ministry of Magic......
The protagonist of this interview is no longer a living wizard, but a "hero" who died more than ten years ago.
Mr. Edgar Bones is one of the founders of the Order of the Phoenix and one of the best wizards who emerged to fight against the Mysteries during the First Wizarding War. During his lifetime, he successfully thwarted a Death Eater plot to sabotage Port Folkestone in Kent, and even confronted the Mystery Man himself at Canterbury Cathedral.
In November 1979, Mr. Edgar Bones, his wife and two daughters were brutally murdered by the Death Eaters in Harrow...... Until then, he had been the most feared object of the Death Eaters......
This interview focuses on the perspective of some of Mr. Edgar Bones' former friends, and describes what kind of person he is......
The Bones family is a large family in the British wizarding world, and the vast majority of the members of the family are from the Hufflepuff House at Hogwarts...... Lady Amelia Bones, the current Minister of Magic, is also one of them, and she is also the cousin of Mr. Edgar Bones, the protagonist of this report.
With the release of this second report, the overwhelming opposition that had come from within the Ministry of Magic was much quieter.
Although Rufus-Scrimgeour of the Law Enforcement Division still insists on opposing the column and has repeatedly voiced his objections, his opposition has become much weaker in the face of the general trend.
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For Jon Hart, that's exactly what he'd love to see.
At the same time, this is what he planned before.
The interior of the Ministry of Magic is not monolithic, on the contrary, it is actually quite loose...... Such a large government organization has many different factions and wizards of all kinds, who will pull each other back, and even if they find a "problem", it will be inefficient to solve it. This is also the fundamental reason why the seemingly huge Ministry of Magic fell apart overnight due to the invasion of the Death Eaters in the previous life.
The interview plan for the Order of the Phoenix column continues to be well prepared, and Rita Skeeter has been dying of work for the last few days (and of course she herself is happy to be in it).
After the two relatively peaceful "smoke bombs" of Horace Slughorn and Edgar Bones, Jon's next plan is-
Let Rita Skeeter interview the older generation of Order of the Phoenix members such as Efias Dogo and give a report on the theme of "Remembering Albus Dumbledore" in the column.
I believe that such a report will give the entire wizarding world a new understanding of the organization of the "Order of the Phoenix".
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Of course, Jon Hart needs to be busy not only in the columns in the Daily Prophet, but also in Hogwarts Castle, where something big is about to happen—
That is. LS exams have started.
This major annual exam has been postponed for about half a month compared with previous years...... Of course, the reason for this is related to the unrest on the Hogwarts campus some time ago, as well as the accidental death of the former headmaster.
However, it was only postponed, not cancelled.
When the older generation of wizards from the Wizarding Examination Authority arrived at Hogwarts, Jon Hart, as Headmaster, had to go to the Great Hall door to greet him......
The Wizarding Examination Authority is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic, but in fact it is outside the Ministry of Magic...... They are mainly responsible for various exams in the wizarding world, including. L. Examination 、.. Exams and.. T. Test (Wizard General Magic and Basic Qualification Test), etc.
Since the positions in the department are mostly tenured, most of the wizards and wizards under it are very old (the youngest is over a hundred years old), and they have been exposed to education for a long time, and have a deep relationship with Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, on the contrary, they do not deal with the Ministry of Magic very much.
For example, when Dolores Umbridge was appointed as a High Inquisitor at Hogwarts by Cornelius Fudge, then Minister for Magic, the two veterans of the Wizengamot, decided to resign in protest against the appointment...... Subsequently, Marchiban was accused by the Daily Prophet of secretly colluding with the "goblin subversive group......
Jon met the tiny hunchbacked witch at the entrance to the Great Hall, her face wrinkled, like a spider's web, but mentally ......
"You're the new Headmaster of Hogwarts?" Professor Marchband seemed to be a little deaf, but his voice was particularly loud when he answered: "Albus Dumbledore's successor......"
"Hello, Professor March, yes, I'm Jon Hart!" Jon quickly responded.
"The journey went well, the journey went well, it went very well all the way!" Professor Marchband didn't seem to hear Jon's answer clearly, she looked around and seemed a little lost, "I really didn't expect Dumbledore to leave this world before me......"