Chapter 10: Fudge who almost met Merlin early
News about this duel instantly spread throughout Europe and had a great impact.
Although in the previous Six Tournament, Harley also used weather charms on a large scale in the first project, and even reproduced the legendary Great Flood to a limited extent.
But after all, the Final Six Tournament is a competition between six universities, and out of the eleven officially recognized magic schools in the world, the number of schools participating in the competition is just over half.
In addition, reporters are not allowed to enter the school to interview and film, and adult wizards cannot go to the scene to watch the game, and only those students are really witnessed.
Therefore, the newspaper's publicity for the six-strong tournament is actually not as strong as imagined.
Although Rita has been doing her best to write the story, it is a pity that she is only one person after all.
But the International Wizarding Duel Tournament is different, wizards from any corner of the world can come to participate in the competition, so almost every country has a newspaper spontaneously sent reporters.
In the breakout stage, almost only journalists from Spain and several nearby European countries entered the stadium through good relations with the authorities, and the quality of the matches was uneven, so there was no valuable news.
But after entering the knockout round, so many places were vacated in the rest area of the players, and many newspapers that did not get tickets finally managed to put their reporters in the field.
And Hallie's game is also the first battle of the knockout round, so it naturally receives the most attention.
As a result, thanks to the efforts of a large number of reporters and photographers, as well as the word of mouth of the audience, the big scenes created by Hallie continued to spread at a breakneck speed.
Nearly every newspaper headline featured the pomp and circumstance of the first round of the playoffs, putting Hallie's weather spell and the snow-clad scene of the tournament in the forefront.
Newspapers, including the British wizarding community, are no exception.
Although Fudge has not liked Harley and Dumbledore lately, and has tried to discredit them in the newspaper every day, it does not prevent the newspaper from reporting Harley to its heart's content.
Like the biggest prophet in the British wizarding world, they do have a good relationship with the British Ministry of Magic.
However, the newspaper was not a Muggle news company, and was funded by the government.
The British Ministry of Magic only provides them with some gold gallons when they need them, and when they don't, they don't pull them out, and they rely on the Prophet newspaper to pay for itself.
The Prophet Newspaper has no serious illness, how can it be faithful to be a dog of the British Ministry of Magic, making money is the first thing.
Offending the Ministry of Magic? If you are offended, you will be offended, and you really don't have a backer in the Ministry of Magic.
Which of those larger newspapers doesn't have one or more neutral pure-blood families standing behind them?
And through the efforts of various newspapers, even the distant Australian and Latin American wizarding circles spread Hallie's fame.
While Harley was resting in the hotel, she felt her anchor number increase wildly every minute.
It can only be said that it is worthy of being the wizard with the largest proportion of extraordinary characteristics of the audience path in the body, and the anchor provided is the same as the extraordinary audience path, and the quality is high!
But Harley is so beautiful, some people are not happy.
"What's going on?" Fudge yelled at his henchman Umbridge at the Ministry of Magic early in the morning,
"Why were the newspapers all the rage praising Porter yesterday?"
"We can't control foreign newspapers, but British newspapers...... Didn't the Ministry of Magic offer them a golden Galleon to discredit Dumbledore and Potter? ā
"They were complimenting Potter when I didn't offer the Golden Galleons, and they were still complimenting Potter after I offered the Golden Galleons."
"Then TM, don't I provide this gold galleon for TM's white?"
"How dare they take money and don't do anything?!"
Umbridge shrank her head as much as she could, her face sprayed with saliva and she didn't dare to say anything, but she was secretly slandering in her heart.
Your Minister of Magic has approved 100,000 gold galleons in the account, and it is only by selling the right to operate the Ministry of Magic's canteen for the next twenty years to the pure-blood family.
As a result, you only gave me 50,000 yuan, and I still have to go to the commissioner to do something, and everyone has to make money.
In the end, it's hard to say whether the newspapers can divide the 10,000 gold galleons equally, really treat people as your dog?
However, Umbridge did not dare to say these words, so he could only accompany Fudge to scold the newspapers while his anger had subsided.
After a rage of incompetence, Fudge angrily asked, "Did they pass the proposal I made yesterday?" ā
Yesterday Fudge had been trying to push the Ministry of Magic to enact a new law, hoping to convict Dumbledore and Harley so that he could justify imprisoning them in Azkaban.
At the same time, Fudge also fantasized about abolishing the re-election system of the Minister of Magic, and directly changing this position to a lifelong system, so as not to keep his status from being spied on.
That's why he didn't find out about the newspaper report until he was idle this morning.
"I'm sorry, Minister." Umbridge cautiously took out a document,
"All your proposals...... were all dismissed, and even your supporters, the pure-bloods, voted against it. ā
"What? Are they all no? Including those who support me? An expression of disbelief instantly appeared on Fudge's face,
"Why? Did they explain why? ā
"The apparent reason is that they don't think these laws are appropriate and will disturb the order of the Ministry of Magic."
Umbridge's voice grew quieter,
"But Mr. Malfoy privately reminds you that if you attempt to judge your past with the laws you have just enacted, you will anger all the pure-blood families who support you."
"And your push for the re-election of ministers is also seen by pure-blood families as plundering their interests."
"That's why the Wizengamot Governing Body is so unanimous, and both half-blood and pure-blood wizards have voted against you."
Hearing this, Fudge's eyes suddenly darkened, and he sat down on the chair for a long time before he recovered.
"Then cancel these proposals, you must not offend the purebloods." He said weakly, and decided not to think about these worries anymore today.
It just so happened that an owl flew into the minister's office and delivered today's Daily Prophet.
Fudge thought he was looking at the newspaper to change his mood, so he picked up today's report.
He first subconsciously glanced at the first page of the newspaper and found that the picture was a gloomy cemetery.
"Well, good, no Potter today...... f**kļ¼ ā
In that frame, a crucible suddenly appeared, and a thin figure was slowly crawling out and mosaicing at key locations.
Moreover, the figure had appeared in public several times more than ten years ago, and even older wizards would be unfamiliar with it.
The figure was Voldemort.
Fudge was so frightened that he threw the newspaper in his hand directly on the table, as if the thin newspaper contained some terrifying devil.
Umbridge, on the other hand, was a little curious, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the face that occupied the whole picture.
Suddenly, there was another terrible scream in the minister's office.
After nearly ten minutes of fear, Fudge finally managed to calm his heart.
He picked up the newspaper with his trembling hands and began to try to read the contents of the paper.
But the first thing that catches his eye is the last thing he wants.
#"The bones of the father, the blood of the enemy, the flesh of the servant - the resurrection of the mysterious man, who is lying?" ć
Author: Rita Skeeter
Photographer: Rita Skeeter
This material is witnessed by the author and is accompanied by detailed evidence, and all the contents are true. #
Even though he hadn't read the content yet, Fudge felt a sharp cramping pain in his heart when he saw the title.
He lost consciousness instantly, and his fat body lunged forward, slamming into the table and then sliding to the floor.
The inkwell on the edge of the table fell and slammed into his head, causing Fudge to faint.
"Minister, Minister!" Umbridge suddenly wailed and rushed to the door like crazy, "Come on, there's something wrong with the minister!" ā
Now only himself and the minister were in this room, and the room was shrouded in magic. If the minister died, her political career would be over.
It doesn't matter if the minister dies or not, his political career is important!
In addition to Fudge, the protagonist of the newspaper report on the incident was also completely angry after seeing the news.
"Filthy bugs! Rats in the gutter! Mudbloods hiding in the sewers! ā
In the chamber, Voldemort angrily insulted and slammed the newspaper against the wall.
He was furious because the newspapers made his resurrection public.
This in itself is nothing, after all, similar news has appeared many times.
However, Rita provided evidence this time, including photos of her resurrection, a picture of her fighting Harley and being beaten and running away, and a theoretical analysis of the magic she used to resurrect.
The magic used to resurrect oneself has been blurred to prevent anyone with a heart from using it for evil.
But the limited information revealed was enough for the magicians to analyze the truth of the matter.
"Lucius, how do you do your information masking?" Voldemort looked at the old Malfoy kneeling next to him, and his anger was a little more vigorous.
His feet slammed into old Malfoy's blonde hair and writhed his bare soles.
Old Malfoy's face was pressed against the ground, and he looked extremely humiliated, but he did not dare to move.
It's just that I've been stepped on, and it's good to be able to escape a curse.
Unfortunately, he was unable to avoid the torture of the Mind Curse in the end, and after Voldemort wiped his feet, he immediately switched to a more efficient torture method.
Finally, looking at the dying old Malfoy at his feet, Voldemort put away his wand.
"How's the mission to invade the Department of Mysteries going on so far?"
"Report to the master," said old Malfoy, enduring the pain as loudly as he could,
"I'm already in contact with Fudge and have already agreed to donate another gold Galleon to him."
"At the same time, I'm going to guide him again, so that he will go crazy for the sake of the Minister of Magic, and fall out with Dumbledore completely."
"I'm sure both of them will be too busy with political battles to take care of our plans to invade the Department of Mysteries."
Voldemort nodded, "I don't interfere much with your plans." ā
"But if you fail, I don't think you'll be qualified to hold a wand anymore."
"By the way, write another letter to those stupid pigs, telling them to speed up their contact with the giants and dementors, and don't interfere with our plans!"
Old Malfoy suddenly resigned, kowtowed repeatedly, and crawled backwards out of the secret room.
In the corridor outside the secret room, the portraits of the ancestors of the Malfoy family looked at the tragic situation of their children, and they couldn't help but sigh, choosing not to see out of sight and out of mind, and disappeared from the paintings.
Old Malfoy also had no shame to look at the portrait of his ancestors, and quickly bowed his head and returned to his bedroom.
He seemed to have made some decision, and a flash of fierceness flashed in his eyes.
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Harley, who was far away in Spain, didn't know that the job she had arranged for Rita almost made Fudge go to see Merlin early, and she didn't know that Malfoy Sr. made a cameo appearance as Voldemort's makeshift footwipe.
She was still competing, and she had won four straight games to reach the final.
And in the next three games, in each of the games, Hallie chose the most pompous style of play and created a big scene.
The field was either filled with flames, raging storms, or covered with thunderclouds.
And the opponents in these three games were also unbeaten, which did not cause her any difficulties.
During the eight-of-eight, Harley encounters an African wizard.
This sorcerer wields a unique African magic ā Transfiguration of the Human Body, which is unique to Ouagadou.
This transfiguration technique not only allows wizards to become animals, but also breaks through the limitations of the Animagus, allowing people to transform into elephants or rhinoceros, animals that are much larger in weight and size than wizards.
It's a pity that the African wizard's actual combat ability is not very good, and after turning into an elephant, he will only rush vigorously, and even carry Harley's flames.
The pigtailed wizard collapsed and was given free medical treatment at the Spanish Magical Injury Hospital, which he couldn't experience in Gavado.
The opponent in the eight-in-four match is half an old acquaintance, a dark wizard from the neon magic office.
Needless to say, this dark wizard and his younger brother's moves are similar, both summoning a large number of Shikigami.
However, the magic he uses is more sinister, and even requires blood to activate these dark magic gods.
And as soon as he saw Harley, he used foul language to provoke, and after the game started, he was the first to hit hard, and all kinds of deadly spells were combined with Shikigami to attack.
Harley wasn't used to him either, and directly used the thunder and lightning spell in the weather spell to destroy all his Shikigami.
However, this neon black wizard didn't know if he was used to it, and he didn't admit defeat after all the Shikigami were destroyed, and he charged hard.
Harley is "soft-hearted" and only wants to give him two lightning bolts and let him go to a magical hospital to recuperate for a while.
How could it be that the mouth of the dark wizard who had a good life was really hard, and he didn't admit defeat when he was beaten to the ground, and he didn't let the referee announce him defeated.
Probably he was waiting for a referee, waiting for a referee who was not easy to see, deliberately biased towards him, and sent him all the way to the finals.
It's a pity that this is Spain, and the referees have good eyes.
The dark wizard from the Wizardry eventually received a two-minute free electrotherapy session and was hospitalized, where he died.
And Hallie didn't do anything, not even being warned by the organizers.
After all, the dark wizard's performance in the competition was obvious to all, and in the end, the organizers decided that he was self-inflicted and needed to bear full responsibility.
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(Thanks to the "Jackdaw Over Qingtan" boss for the tip!) ļ¼
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