Chapter 225: Public Opinion
After Ollivander checked the wand that Darren had handed over, he paused again, and after seeing that Darren was not moving, he cast a "fluorescent flash", and then said that everything was normal.
"Thank you," Dumbledore said, standing up at the referee's table, "Now you can go back to class, maybe it would be more convenient to go straight down to eat, they'll be out of class soon, anyway"
As everyone stood up and prepared to leave, the man with the black camera jumped up and cleared his throat, "Picture, Dumbledore, picture!" Bagman shouted excitedly, "What do you think of the referee and the warrior for a group photo, Rita?"
"Well, let's take a group photo first," Rita Skeeter said, but her eyes looked next to Darren, where was Krum, Darren saw that Karkaroff's face was black again, obviously he didn't want to be targeted by Rita, his previous identity was very sensitive, and it was really unlucky to be bitten by this crazy woman!
"Maybe a few more singles later," Rita said as Darren turned around and saw that Krum's face had darkened
The photograph took a long time, Madame Maxim blocked everyone else wherever she stood, and the room was too small for the photographer to stand far and take her into the camera, and at last she had to sit down, and everyone else was standing around her, and Karkaroff kept running his fingers around his goatee, trying to make it roll into a curl.
Krum dodges and tries to hide behind everyone, but Rita Skeeter always catches up and pulls him to a more prominent position, even if she pushes Fleur aside, much to the displeasure of Fleur and the photographer.
After finally taking a group photo, Rita insisted on taking solo photos of the warriors one by one, and it took a long time to finish, although it didn't take long with Darren, because he only took one of them and said it was okay, but he was the last
However, Darren was quite happy about this treatment, because it showed that he did not arouse Rita's interest, especially when Rita Skeeter's article on the Triwizard Tournament was published in the Daily Prophet, and a large part of the first page of the newspaper was occupied by a photo of Krum, and the whole article will be continued to the second one. The sixth and seventh editions are all about him, detailing his life in detail, I really don't know how Rita found out about Krum's situation abroad, Darren feels that if the Aurors Rita had half of their intelligence-gathering ability, the Death Eaters would have been wiped out long ago
Compared to Krum, the content about Beauxbatons and Hogwarts is almost negligible, with Darren and Fleur's names being squeezed into the last line of the article, and it seems that Fleur's name is misspelled for spelling reasons.
After the release of this issue of the newspaper, the Hogwarts students were very angry, thinking that Darren's performance was too bad, if he could perform better in the interview, the focus of the newspaper would be him, for this kind of remarks, Darren said that this is purely "standing and talking without back pain", Rita's article written by the black-hearted reporter, I can't even believe a punctuation mark, just look at the article to describe his and Fleur's performance when they stand with Krum, and describe them as if they are domestic scorpion spirits," Looking up at Krum with infinite adoration"
But there will always be troubles, especially for the houses that are dissatisfied with Gryffindor, and they are even more energetic, "Hey, do you want Krum's autograph, I have one here, he gave it to me on the day he came to Hogwarts, so you don't have to worry about not daring to talk to him and ask for autographs!"
"Ignore him," that was Hermione's suggestion, but well.
"Oh, thank you, bring it, I heard that a lot of girls are grabbing it, and now this signature can sell for several gallons. ”
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"Well, why don't you take it, maybe you don't have it, brag about it here. ”
"Who said I didn't!"
"Then you take it out. ”
"Look, that's it!"
"Well, thank you, Hermione, when I go to Hogsmeade again, I'll be able to buy you that quill. ”
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"'Look up with infinite adoration', hahaha, who told you to only go to the fourth grade, otherwise you wouldn't have to look up. ”
"I can't help it, I don't want to, but the Goblet of Fire has to choose me, a fourth-grader, to be a warrior instead of someone taller than me, hey, it's bad luck. ”
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Although for Darren, there is no problem in dealing with a few hairy apricots, but Rita's ability to cause trouble can be regarded as a lesson, no way, who let her control the tools of public opinion, coupled with the lack of means of information dissemination in the wizarding world, the Daily Prophet has almost become the only means for wizards to understand the outside world, so it is not surprising that Rita can largely influence the opinion of the wizarding world.
In fact, after the Quidditch World Cup, when he was in the Burrow, Darren heard Mr. Weasley complain that there were rumors that because of the riot, which caused heavy casualties, in fact, as far as Darren knew, because of the timely response of the Aurors, the riot was forcefully suppressed as soon as it appeared, although some people were injured, but they didn't even need to go to the St. Mungo's Magic Wound Hospital, they were all skin injuries.
However, in the newspapers, it became "the Ministry of Magic panicked", "the law and order is lax", "the dark wizard is at large", oh, this one is not wrong, Barty Crouch Jr. did run away and, in a colorful way, made up the ridicule of the scene, "After a slanting angle, several corpses were lifted out of the woods", although a "rumor" was added to the end, but it is clear that readers would not take it as a "rumor"!
It was this Rita Skeeter who was in trouble at the time, but because of the negotiation between the Magic Imaging Equipment Company and various Quidditch clubs to shoot leagues, Darren really didn't have the energy to care about her, hey, there were too few people on hand!
Although through various methods, Darren pulled Blake, Lupin, and Weasley brothers, but they all have their own things and can't work with Darren wholeheartedly, and because of the huge difference between the wizarding world and the ordinary world, they can't do many things, otherwise last Christmas, Darren wouldn't have let Ha use the compound potion to buy supplies.
It's so rare to be able to adapt to both the wizarding world and the ordinary world!
However, it is not for nothing, for example, those wizards who grew up in the world of ordinary people, especially those whose parents are ordinary people, did not know the existence of wizards until they received the notice from Hogwarts
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