Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Story of Nicolame

The media in the wizarding world are roughly divided into two camps.

The first is the official media, which includes newspapers such as "Ministry of Magic" and "Wizard Daily", which are completely under the mouth of the Ministry of Magic.

These state media outlets are also the least popular among readers, especially The Wizard Daily.

A powerful wizard once commented: They do not involve the core essence of the problem, most of the time they are just mobilizing or expressing emotions, and they belong to the second-rate newspaper!

The second is the mainstream media, including a series of newspapers or magazines such as Daily Prophet, Wizard Weekly, and Contrarian.

Among them, the Daily Prophet is the most popular newspaper in the UK.

It is not a state media, but it will lean towards the Ministry of Magic because of its ability to generate a lot of public opinion in the wizarding community in the UK.

Of course, according to Wizarding Weekly, the Ministry of Magic funded the Daily Prophet with a large sum of Galleons.

In general, the Daily Prophet is more concerned about the sales of the newspaper, otherwise it would not have allowed a thorn like Rita Skeeter to publish articles on it.

Rita is undoubtedly a leader in the media industry, her articles are a regular in major newspapers, and she covers a wide range of topics...... News on terrorist attacks, major events, Ministry of Magic events, etc.

Occasionally, Rita also writes biographies of influential people, which is quite popular with melon-eating readers.

Compared with Rita, although Lovegood is the editor-in-chief and has his own magazine, the sales are undoubtedly much worse.

"Singing Against the Tune" translated into Muggle magazines is probably "Story Club", "Unsolved Mysteries", "Alien Discovery" and the like.

It is only popular with a small percentage of readers, such as ...... Sand sculpture schoolchildren like Cedric.

Although the children's money is not much, it is very easy to earn.

For example, this year's "Singing Against the Tune - Christmas Special", obviously the cover is different, but the content is the same, Cedric insisted on buying all seven cover magazines for collection.

Rita Skeeter doesn't bother to make such small money.

There are many reasons for her success, but the most important thing is that as a mature journalist, she understands the expectations of her readers.

What are the readers' expectations?

What readers are most looking forward to is the fall of the goddess, the return of the prodigal son, the collapse of idol characters, the divorce of celebrity wizards, and entertainment gossip......

Rita understands this, and her subjects often focus on prominent figures in the wizarding world. The higher the fame and limelight, the more in line with Rita's expectations, as well as the expectations of readers.

For example, her biography of the previous Headmaster, Armando Duppet, "Armando Duppert: Master or Idiot?" 》。

In Dumbledore's words, only a quarter of the content is true, while the remaining three-quarters are pure fabrications.

But it's this kind of fake and real thing that makes this book a bestseller.

Again, this time Rita has her eye on Newt.

She writes in the newspaper that Newt is a scumbag, abandons Serafina Piquelli, the former president of the Magical Congress of the United States, and uses a grass snake gray line to suggest that Piquelli's children may be related to Newt.

Give the story a fleshy backdrop, preferably involving two generations of grievances...... Rita knows how to act!

Although Rita hates it, I have to say that she is well-informed, and she can always get a lot of first-hand top-secret information, and hold the lifeblood of most wizards.

Just like Newt is about to secretly go to Romania to release the fire dragon, Rita actually knows!

Many people want to find out where she came from, but so far no one knows.

In Rita's words, she has a well-trained group of birdies, which adds to her mystique.

After dinner, Newt went to his room with his treasure chest.

The old man prepares to reinforce the box and check if there is any cutie who has escaped from the chaos.

He also had to write a letter to condemn Rita and ask her to apologize immediately in the newspaper, otherwise she would go through legal proceedings and be sent to her lawyer.

William didn't approve of this approach, Newt was too decent, and in that respect, he was indeed the standard Hufflepuff.

But the consequences of decency are also obvious, Rita is an unscrupulous journalist, and when she receives a letter of condemnation, she will only look for words and quotes out of context in the letter.

For example, in the next issue of the newspaper, William is likely to see ...... Justice journalists were threatened by Newt Scamander and stuff like that.

Uncle Newt is indeed an expert in magical creatures, but the means to deal with this kind of reporter should be more intense.

For example: decapitating Rita's favorite animal, putting her head in her bedroom, and not believing her to keep her mouth shut......

The classic fragment of "The Godfather" has always been William's favorite.

Of course, William also made a fuss, and he didn't want to go to Azkaban yet.

After Newt left, Perenal, a kind old man, took Hermione to her room.

Bobo Tea also swaggered after the two.

Nicol took William for a walk around the manor.

Nicolame's birthday party said it was a banquet, but only a few of them attended.

For more than 600 years, the old man never held a so-called banquet, and this manor was rarely set foot in by outsiders.

Whether Nicol has a birthday or not, he will invite William over, so this Christmas holiday, William and Hermione will spend it at the manor.

"When you leave, you're in big trouble." Walking on the flat path, Nicol laughed.

"No young wizard has flooded the Slytherin common room yet."

"I'm sorry too......" William scratched his head, he would probably be killed by Snape when he returned.

"How's it going now?"

"Don't worry, kid." Nicol patted William on the shoulder.

"Albus is so powerful that he can easily restore everything to its original state with a wand."

There was something special about Nicolamay's words, but William didn't taste them.

"William, I invited you here to talk to you...... Talking about it alone, I'm afraid that the letter will not explain it clearly. ”

William sighed, he felt that there had been chaos lately, and he had a lot of questions to ask.

"Let's talk about the daytime first." Nicol paced slowly. "You've heard Newt talk about the sirens, right?"

"That's right, he also mentions the Grim Reaper, and Mercury even says a different version."

"Well, I know, it's so confusing that it's really confusing." Nicol laughed.

"When I was exposed to this, I wasn't much better than you."

"Tonight, kid, would you like to hear my story?" Nicol blinked.

William nodded, and the old man led him into a magnificent building.

The two sat down in dark hand-chiseled dragon leather chairs made of black walnut.

Nick Lemay folded his hands, looked at the ceiling, and after a moment said:

"If you want to know my story, you have to tell the three brothers about it.

That's right, it's a different story than you know."

Nicol snapped his fingers, and Schubert's string quartet, "Death and the Maiden," slowly sounded in the room.

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