In the dining room at 12 Grimmauld Place, Harry Potter was reading the news from the Daily Prophet with a copy of it. From the time he saw the headline on the front page until he read the last reissue, Harry's brow was furrowed and he never let go.

A green flame rose from the fireplace in the dining room, and a figure with a backpack emerged from the flames.

"Good morning, Harry!" Hermione, who had arrived at 12 Grimmauld Place, happily greeted Harry.

"Good morning, Hermione." Harry put down the newspaper in his hand, "How's the holiday going?" ”

"It's been a fulfilling life." Hermione replied happily as she used her wand to clean the ashes from her body, "I didn't expect my family's investment a few months ago in exchange for a small building in a good location, and my parents and I are busy converting this building into a private hospital these days. ”

Hermione then told Harry how she and her parents had designed and planned their own property.

Seeing Hermione say so excitedly, Harry was too embarrassed to tell her that the proceeds of her family's investment were based on the blood of goblins and wizards. At the same time, he was worried that Hermione would create another "Elf Rights Advancement Society", and if that was the case, Harry would have to persuade her to give up the idea of being the enemy of the whole world.

When Hermione finished, Harry wanted to ask her a question. As soon as Hermione finished speaking, she found the newspaper on the table that Harry had just finished reading in the past few days, so she sat down on the edge of the table at home, and said as she picked up the newspaper, "I don't have time to read the Daily Prophet during this time, let me see what news has been happening lately." ”

As soon as I picked up today's newspaper, Hermione's expression changed to (⊙o⊙ when she saw the headline on the front page), and then this expression lasted for nearly ten minutes.

"What's going on?" After reading the headlines, Hermione asked Harry, pointing to the newspaper report "Meeting of Treasurers and Central Bank Governors of the Ministry of Magic of the G20 in New York", as well as Narcissa Malfoy in the news photo.

"As you can see." Harry shrugged his shoulders and said.

"How can the Ministry of Magic have a central bank?" Hermione asked Harry, somewhat uncertainly, "Isn't there only one Gringotts bank in the wizarding world?" ”

"Hermione......" Harry said cautiously to keep the news from irritating her, "Gringotts...... Gringotts is already in the hands of wizards. ”

"How so?!" Hermione shouted in surprise, "Aren't you afraid of the goblins rebelling again?" ”

As Hermione finished speaking, she flipped through the newspapers on the table from the previous days, trying to look inside for news about the elves and Gringotts.

When she picked up a newspaper and read the news on the front page, her mouth opened wide in surprise.

The front page of the newspaper was headlined, "Lucius Malfoy's Curse – Young Auror's Hatred, Death of a Stabbing Horse in the Ministry of Magic."

The next piece of news was titled "London Mutiny, Mutual Fire - Four Ways Army Besieges Death Eaters, Swears to Collect Blood Debt for Dead Elves".

Other than that, the other headlines on the front page looked extremely scary, such as "Harry Potter is missing, I am afraid of an accident", "Several directors are under house arrest", "The Dark Lord is rumored to have died", and "Diagon Alley has become an empty city".

"What's going on?" Hermione continued to ask Harry how unreliable the news was just by looking at the headlines.

"This is the goblin rebellion that happened the other day." Harry looked at the news about himself and replied with a pout, "They attacked and took control of the Daily Prophet the night before it was released, and then concocted it. As a result, before noon that day, the goblin rebellion throughout Britain was suppressed. ”

"Oh my God! What the hell is going on? Hermione was a little confused by this.

Harry took the stack of newspapers, found the one that had been issued on Christmas Day, and then pulled out a copy of the freshly issued Youth Magazine and handed it to Hermione.

"See for yourself." Harry said, "The Leprechauns and Gringotts are all written about, the Daily Prophet is about Christmas Eve, and the Youth Magazine has an analysis of the series of events. ”

Hermione took the newspaper and magazine and sat down at the dining table to read it intently, and Harry could only call Kreacher and ask him to carry Hermione's luggage into the room and put it away.

In the December 25 issue of The Daily Prophet, the photo on the front page of the headline was Voldemort without looking back at the explosion. Photographs and reports of the killings and looting that night in Gringotts took up half of the pages of the newspaper that day.

Needless to say, the exploding Gringotts gates, the porous halls, the corpse-strewn business halls, and the blood-stained floors; Needless to say, black-robed wizards were killing goblins in their rooms, mad wizards were ransacking every office, and the swift Voldemort suddenly swooped out into the sky from the front door. The trench coat worn by Voldemort alone crushed Hermione's three views into powder.

Hermione read the entire story as if she were reviewing the contents of her textbook at the end of the semester, and carefully read every picture in the newspaper three times.

"Harry, there must be a big secret behind this." Hermione put down the newspaper and said to Harry solemnly, "I think it's part of a huge conspiracy by the Death Eaters. ”

Harry didn't answer, just pointed to Youth Magazine on the table.

Hermione flipped through the magazine, and in the table of contents, she saw that the main contents of this issue were "Analysis of the Classes of Magical Society", "Elves and the Seriousness of the Economic Problem", "Characteristics of the Current Economic Situation", "Questioning Gringotts", and "Some Estimates of the Current International Situation" and other articles that analyzed the fall of Gringotts at a deeper level.

At first, Hermione thought that these articles were written by Zhang, but when she saw the author's name, she realized that it was actually the name of the blonde girl who had pestered Harry and Percy in Hogsmeade for their interview. At this time, Hermione suddenly remembered something, picked up the "Daily Prophet" just now, and found that the report that completely recorded the "Kristallnacht" was also from her. But at this time, she is no longer in the mood to pay attention to the author, there are too many evil characters in the world in this matter, and it is not strange that one or two pop up from time to time.

While Hermione was reading the magazine, the fireplace in the dining room lit up again, and it was the Weasleys who came home. As soon as they stepped out of the fireplace, they saw Hermione sitting at the table reading the magazine intently, and they all consciously lowered their voices. Then Ron took out his wand and "biu" Hermione with a voice-blocking spell and said, "That way we won't disturb her." ”

"Harry, where's Black?" Mrs. Weasley asked, "Is he not here today?" ”

The corners of Harry's mouth twitched, and then he replied, "He's been running out a lot these days, and then coming back with the smell of perfume, and the last time he came back, he still had lipstick marks on his neck." He didn't come back last night. ”

Mrs. Weasley, like Harry, twitched the corners of her mouth, not knowing what to say.

After saying hello, Harry noticed that Percy had also arrived, but his face was dark, as if someone owed him hundreds of thousands of gold coins and had not paid it back.

"Percy, why is your face so bad?" Harry asked curiously.

Percy didn't want to talk to Harry and waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

"Harry, is Mr. Zhang here?" Mr. Weasley asked.

"Nope." Harry shook his head, "Is he coming over?" ”

Mr. Weasley nodded and replied, "That's right, he informed Lupin that he would have a meeting with the Order of the Phoenix after lunch today before you return to Hogwarts. ”

"He'll be there when lunch is ready." Ron said affirmatively.