Chapter 239: Rita Skeeter!
Somewhere in London.
A home that Muggles had never seen before.
Rita Skeeter, a special correspondent for the Daily Prophet, is her home.
Rita Skeeter's reputation was so great that she made everyone who knew her angry, swearingβexcept for the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet.
Because she can always hear the gossip and lace news from somewhere, and then deliberately exaggerate and distort the news facts to slander others.
Rita Skeeter doesn't serve anyone, she's just herself.
It was as if she had a grudge against the whole world, and she liked to criticize everything in the wizarding world, and she liked to speculate on others with the greatest malice.
Whether it is a good person or an evil person, she is a villain who is good at disguise, as if she is the only white lotus who comes out of the mud and is not stained.
She's a complete conspirator.
All the big names in the wizarding world were the targets of her writing, and she had written about Gilderoy Lockhart, a professor in Harry's Defence Against the Dark Arts class in his second year.
She called him a liar, and every time she saw him show eight teeth and think she had a charming smile, she wanted to vomit, and the housewives who were fascinated by him were a bunch of brainless goods.
Later, the Ministry of Magic Aurors received a report from the Chaoyang crowd and arrested Lockhart.
Then the "Daily Prophet" also published the critical article that Rita had written before, so others called her "a prophet".
Rita Skeeter also has a "magic weapon" - a dark green shorthand quill pen.
This pen has its own thoughts, and is good at tampering with people's language, and is good at adding oil and vinegar.
Able to convert ordinary sentences in Rita's interviews into unrealistic, fanciful sentences and automatically record them on paper.
Most of the articles it writes are hype and rumors, exaggerating things.
For example, Rita asks a wizard, "Are you human?"
The wizard replied, "I am." β
The shorthand quill will be brushed on the paper and written: So-and-so wizard said that the wizarding world is not a person except him!
This pen is a perfect match for Rita.
Rita had just come out of the bathroom when the Daily Prophet asked her for a manuscript, and she wondered if she could write about anything else besides Sirius recently.
Because she always writes about one thing, which is not in line with her professional ethics.
She is not the one who follows the heat, but the one who leads the heat.
When she dried her favorite blonde hair, she looked up to find that there was one more person in the room.
As a woman who has seen strong winds and waves, she was only surprised at first.
Then he smiled and sat down on the sofa opposite the guest, and said, "Isn't this the famous Harry Potter, I don't know why you came to me." β
She looked at the door, wondering how Harry had come in.
"There's one thing you might be interested in. Harry said.
"What?" Rita furrowed her eyebrows, she hadn't expected Harry to say such a thing to her.
"Today at Hogwarts, hundreds of Dementors stormed the school in an attempt to absorb the souls of the students. β
As the saying goes, the less you talk, the bigger the matter.
Rita, a super-journalist, was dumbfounded, and she knew immediately how serious the matter was.
It is possible to even be written into the history of magic.
"Why are you telling me this?" said Rita nonchalantly, but she couldn't control the urge to pick up the pen.
That's big news!
"I want you to report on this, but not just on the surface, but to dig deep into its core, pointing the finger at the Ministry of Magic and Cornelius Fudge, and rehashing all the incompetence and wrong policies of Fudge since he came to power, and portraying him as a tyrannical pig. You're going to use words to detonate the displeasure of the wizarding world against Fudge, and lead the reader to think about three questions: what, why, how, I believe Merlin said: sometimes the pen kills more than a wand. β
At the same time, at the end of the article, I slightly clicked the name of Comrade Dumbledore, to write about the old man's pathos and powerlessness in the face of the Dementors, to write as if you had seen it with your own eyes, and to praise the old man for effectively organizing the rescue operation afterwards, and for having the responsibility of a great magician. Just take a few sentences, understand?"
Harry finished speaking, and looked at Rita quietly.
Rita's image made him frown, her hair curly and grotesquely, she wore a pair of jeweled glasses, her fingers were thick, her nails were more than two inches long, painted red, and she was wrapped in a white bath towel that showed her white arms and thighs.
Harry felt that she looked a lot like a star, Marilyn Monroe.
It's just a low-profile version.
Rita thought for a moment about Harry's suggestion, a spicy essay had taken shape in her head, and it would definitely be her pinnacle, but she smiled and said, "I won't write it." β
She's a smart person, and she's got a big say in the Daily Prophet, but she also knows that the Daily Prophet is ultimately just a media outlet for the wizarding world.
If the Ministry of Magic really wants to forcibly control the Daily Prophet, it will not be difficult.
She scolded a lot of people in the newspaper, but in fact, they were all moderate, and she wouldn't say anything that really touched the bottom line.
That's why the big guys can tolerate her.
So she won't do this kind of thing that directly attacks Minister Fudge and has a clear political attitude.
Who is Fudge, although he looks at his status now, but he is also the number one in the wizarding world.
A little reporter of hers went to touch the powerful minister of porcelain, wasn't that the old birthday star hanging himself - impatient to live?
"Why did you come to me? Other journalists, newspapers, too. β
Harry didn't react when he heard her say no.
Instead, he replied seriously: "First of all, the Daily Prophet is my first choice, it is famous enough, the most authoritative newspaper in the British wizarding world, second, if I go to other second-media to talk about it, except for the book "Singing Contrarian", which is considered nonsense, I am afraid that no one will dare to report this matter, and even if it is reported, it will not cause any waves, and third, you have a strong ability to talk nonsense, I believe that you will write an article that will make Fudge vomit blood." β
Rita was not angry at all when she heard Harry say this, but was smug in her heart.
She sees it as a compliment to her.
She was about to say, "But no matter what you say, I won't be able to say yes."
Harry then said, "Also, do you think I'm talking to you?"
Rita was amused, "Is there anything more 'you' can do to me?"
Suddenly a feeling of suffocation enveloped Rita, and Rita felt like she couldn't move a finger.
She looked horrified at the thirteen-year-old boy in front of her, only to see Harry raise his left hand, white and slender, with a bright red ring on his finger.
Harry waved slightly.
A sudden cut opened on Rita's arm, and a drop of blood was squeezed out, as if weightless in space, and flew towards Harry's palm.
It is then absorbed by the ring.
Rita felt as if her soul was somewhere else, under control.
Harry probed into the ring and smiled.
Really......
The thing Salazar Slytherin left behind could only be used to control the basilisk, but all other beings with souls.
It's much easier and more convenient than the Imperius Charm.
The feeling of being squeezed and oppressed by the space suddenly disappeared, and Rita gasped for breath, and then ......
"The wand is flying. β
A slender wand flew into Rita's hand.
Pity......
She hadn't uttered a spell yet.
The pain of having the soul torn apart arises.
"Bang dang. "The wand fell on the glass coffee table.
Rita no longer had any thoughts in her head, only pain, pain.
Boundless pain.
"Ahh!!!!!h
"It hurts!
Rita held her head and rolled around on the carpet in pain.
β...... Spare me!...... Uh...... "Soon, she begged for mercy.
Harry was indifferent, at least if he remembered her well enough.
Harry leaned back on the couch and said ruthlessly, "Scream, no matter how loud you scream, no one will hear you!"
"The louder you scream, the more excited I get!"
Harry said this, thinking about Astoria: I don't know if Astoria woke up, she couldn't sleep without my toy pillow.
Slowly, Rita's voice became quieter and quieter, her spirit was on the verge of collapse, and her eyes were dull. In a little while, she'll be tortured and mad like Neville's parents.
Harry asked faintly, "What am I yours?"
Rita seemed to hear the sound of heaven, and she struggled to crawl to Harry's feet, and she said humbly, "I...... You are my ......"
"Ahh
"Are you...... My most honorable master......" She kissed the tip of Harry's shoe with a pained face.
Harry made the pain inflicted on Rita disappear.
Rita's body was convulsive, and her mouth was moaning in pain.
She crawled to the corner of the couch and curled up, cowering at Harry, her eyes red and her hair messy, as if Harry had done something to her.
Harry had caused her pain, she would never forget.
I'm afraid she won't even have the courage to look at Harry in the future, Harry is more cruel than the devil.
Harry said, "What did I say?"
Rita trembled and said, "Everything is under the orders of the master......"
Harry said, "I've read a lot of your articles......"
Rita felt a little proud at this time for some reason: "It turns out that the master values me so much......"
"But I found a big drawback...... Harry said.
Rita forgot to breathe for a moment, and she was unconvinced, because it was a slander against her professional field, even if she was afraid of the person in front of her to death.
But she didn't dare say anything.
Harry didn't care what Rita was thinking, he said, "You're good at making up nonsense and spreading rumors, but you're not good at being alarmist and attracting attention. β
"Try using these titles for your article tomorrow. β
"Shocked! The Ministry of Magic 'connived' with the Dementors to massacre Hogwarts students!"
"Shocked! Stretched out to the clutches of 11~18-year-old flower girls! The man was silent when he heard it, and the woman blushed when he heard it!"
"Shocked! A demon hand darker than the Death Eaters, the Ministry of Magic!"
Knowing that the place shouldn't be, Rita couldn't help but open her mouth wide.
She shuddered, not from fear of Harry, but from excitement.
Harry's simple words seemed to open the door to a new world for her.
Harry was elevated to God in her heart.
"Put your clothes on. Harry frowned, disturbing Rita's thoughts.
Just now when Rita was rolling, she had already untied the bath towel to the side, and she was naked.
"Yes. Rita shuddered at Harry's commanding words.
It's just that when she crawled past Harry's feet, she suddenly stopped, and she knelt on the ground with a flattering smile: "Master, do you need ......?"
......
"Smack!"
Harry was gone again.
If it weren't for the pain in her soul that reminded her, Rita almost thought it was a nightmare.
She covered a red five-finger handprint on her white and tender face on the left, and her eyes were blank.
It seemed that Harry's cold words with disgust still rang out in the room: "You covet my body, you are cheap!"
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Note: With my 2k habit, the update in the past two days should be regarded as a supplement of 3 chapters.