279. Daily Prophet: The secret of the Hogwarts warriors
Seeing Ollivander finish his work, Bagman cleared his throat with excitement on his face: "Now that the wand has been checked, the last and certainly the most important work of the day will be carried out. ”
His voice rose a few minutes.
"Group photo!"
"What about Ms. Rita? I'm going to ask her to come up and take pictures of us. ”
Bagman said to the Ministry of Magic staff next to him, "The referee and the warriors have a group photo, I think it's a good publicity highlight." ”
"Mr. Bagman, Ms. Rita is gone."
"What?"
Everyone else, including the two headmasters, was stunned, except for Dumbledore and Lucius, who were not surprised.
"I don't think the Daily Prophet can report truthfully about Triwizard Tournament because Ms. Rita always likes to add some to her articles. Well. Something you make up yourself. ”
Dudley said and glanced at Dumbledore, "I think Professor Dumbledore was deeply touched by this, like the article about the International Council of Wizards. ”
"That article was fantastic." Dumbledore kept smiling as usual, "I especially love to read the passage about portraying me as an old madman with a rigid mind. ”
“.”
Hearing Dumbledore say this, Bagman can't let Rita Skeeter come back, that would offend Dumbledore.
He said he loves to read, can you really think he loves to read?
And there is more than one offense.
Bagman, who is the Director, knows more than anyone else, and Mr. Dursley, another Hogwarts warrior, is the youngest member of the Wizengamot, because he himself doesn't like to be high-profile, so not many people except for those inside the Ministry of Magic know about it, and he doesn't make a lot of publicity.
In a sense, he and Dudley are colleagues.
"But we need someone to take pictures."
Dudley continued, as expected: "I made an appointment with a reporter who sang the opposite tone to do the publicity. ”
In terms of audience level, the contradiction is much more popular than the Prophet Daily, and the effect of asking them to do publicity must be better than that of the Prophet Daily.
The Daily Prophet often criticizes the Prophet as madness, but in fact why not?
Rita Skeeter's kind of can be the number one reporter.
Excluding some fools who don't have the brains to blindly believe the content of the Daily Prophet, in fact, many people know that her article is very watery, but I feel that the relatives and friends around me think that the Daily Prophet is true, and it is not easy to publish other different opinions.
"If Mr. Bagman isn't happy with this, the Poisons and Antidotes Daily will be happy to help you with an interview with the Ministry of Magic?"
"Poison & Antidote Daily?"
"Owned by the Witch & Poison Press."
Bagman was immediately drawn to Dudley's words, if there was anything that was most sought after by young people in the entire European wizarding world right now, it was the Wizard card published by the Witch & Poison Press.
"They're going to publish their own newspaper?"
"Yes, in addition to some news, there is also a new section on it, which contains the serialized content of the second part of the Dragon Lance Chronicles, and of course, the skills of the wizard card and the detailed explanation of the card characters, by the way, do you like the wizard card?"
"Who isn't! Everybody loves The Witcher card. ”
Bagman has now put the Daily Prophet behind him, and his mind is full of interviews.
"I don't care about it, what does Mr. Lucius think?"
As an old fritter, Bagman decisively threw the problem to others.
Lucius spoke slowly and thoughtfully in his distinctive tone, looking at Dudley with deep meaning: "Supporting new industries is what the Ministry of Magic should do, and I'm happy to leave the content of the Triwizard Tournament to the Poison and Antidote Daily." ”
Dudley echoed his meaningful remarks.
"Couldn't be better, Mr. Lucius, and I greet you on behalf of Mr. Carlo, and it's a pleasure to work together."
"It's a pleasure to work with."
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Hogwarts, breakfast time.
"It's too much, it's too much!!"
A roar full of anger sounded, so frightened that the little wizards almost didn't hold the spoon steady, only to see Hermione come over with today's share of the Daily Prophet, and the little wizards along the way were intimidated by the momentum of the 'Gryffindor angry lioness', and very consciously got out of the way.
"Smack!"
Hermione walked over to the group and angrily slammed the newspaper on the table, her chest rising and falling, she had never been so disgusted with a person.
"How could she make up these falsehoods out of thin air?"
"How can she talk gibberish! Didn't she know that she was responsible for what she had written? ”
"I'm!!"
I saw that on the largest page of the Daily Prophet, three headlines appeared in bold and enlarged font.
"Rude and vulgar boy."
"Shocked, love triangle between warriors."
"The secret of the Hogwarts warriors."
The content of the first headline is basically a slander of Dudley, an article composed of some very outrageous words, criticizing Dudley and describing him as a bad embryo.
The second title is more bloody, about Dursley, Potter finally meeting their first love at Hogwarts, and they are inseparable from a girl named Hermione Granger. Yes, both brothers fall in love with Miss Granger at the same time, who is amazingly beautiful. In one sentence, it is a love triangle mixed with a lot of bloody plots.
As for the content of the third title, it is more outrageous. It's about the crazy old madman Dumbledore who was tricked by the conspirator Dursley into setting up many strange organizations at Hogwarts, making a mess of the entire school, and Dursley's plans for an even bigger conspiracy in the future.
Well, it's true that the details of the outrageous process are a bit problematic, but maybe she's right.
Although the newspaper quoted about holding the Triwizard Tournament, it did not mention anything about what Triwizard Tournament was, and in fact only mentioned the two Hogwarts warriors, Dudley and Harry, with a particular focus on Dudley, while Beauxbatons and Durmstrang only mentioned it in passing.
If you're a reader, you don't even know who the warriors of these two schools are.
The content of the newspaper is mixed with many maybe, maybe, and other subjective ambiguous words, and there are few definite words, not so much to speak with facts, but to be a collection of all kinds of outrageous speculations, which can be said to be a name at the beginning, and the content is all up to the editor.
Rita Skeeter had done this before, and there was nothing the Ministry of Magic could do with her, even if it was to publicly diss.
You can't help but let others have normal speculation.
Do you have a ghost in your heart?
No hell, what are you doing in a hurry to cover everyone's mouths?
That's how Rita Skeeter's fame grew.
(End of chapter)