Seeing Ollivander finish his work, Bagman cleared his throat with excitement on his face: "Now that the wand has been checked, the last task of the day is about to be carried out, and of course the most important one."
His voice rose a few points.
"group photo!"
"Where's Ms. Rita? Please ask her to come up and take pictures for us."
Bagman said to the staff of the Ministry of Magic next to him: "The referee and the warriors will take a photo. I think this is a good publicity highlight."
"Mr. Bagman, Ms. Rita has left."
"What?"
Everyone else, including the two principals, were stunned. Only Dumbledore and Lucius were not surprised by this.
"I don't think the Daily Prophet can truthfully report the content about the Triwizard Hegemony, because Ms. Rita always likes to add some... um... fictional things of her own in her articles."
Dudley said and glanced at Dumbledore: "I think Professor Dumbledore is deeply touched by this, such as the article about the International Federation of Wizards Conference."
"That article is really great." Dumbledore kept smiling as always: "I especially loved reading the part that described me as an old madman with a rigid mind."
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After hearing what Dumbledore said, Bagman couldn't let anyone invite Rita Skeeter back, as that would offend Dumbledore.
He says he loves reading, can you really think he loves reading?
And more than one person was offended.
As the director, Bagman knows more than others. Mr. Dursley, another warrior of Hogwarts, is the youngest member of the Wizengamot. Because he himself does not like to be high-profile, apart from the Ministry of Magic Not many people outside of insiders knew about it, and there was no fanfare.
In a sense he and Dudley were colleagues.
"But we need someone to take pictures."
Dudley continued as if he had expected it: "I booked the naysayer reporter for a press release."
In terms of audience size alone, the naysayers are much more popular than the Daily Prophet, and the effect of using them to promote propaganda will definitely be better than that of the Daily Prophet.
The Daily Prophet often criticizes naysayers as crazy talkers, but in fact, are they not the same?
Any nonsense talker like Rita Skeeter could be the first reporter.
Excluding some idiots who have no brains to blindly believe in the contents of the Daily Prophet, many people actually know that her articles are very watery, but they feel that the relatives and friends around them think that the Daily Prophet is true, and it is difficult to express other opinions that differ.
"If Mr. Bagman is not satisfied with this, Poison and Antidote Daily will be happy to help you. How about publishing an exclusive interview with the Ministry of Magic specifically for you?"
"Poison and Antidote Daily?"
"Published by Witches and Poison Publishing."
Bagman was immediately attracted by Dudley's words. If there is one thing that is most popular among young people in the European wizarding world right now, it is the Wizarding Cards published by Witches and Poison Publishing House.
"Are they planning to publish their own newspaper?"
"Yes, in addition to some news, there is also a new section, which contains the serial content of the second part of Dragonlance Chronicles. Of course, there are also detailed explanations of the wizard card skills and card characters. By the way, do you like the wizard card? ?”
"Who doesn't! Everyone loves wizard cards."
Bagman has now forgotten the Daily Prophet, and is only thinking about the interview.
"I don't care about it after all. What does Mr. Lucius think?"
As a veteran, Bagman decisively left the problem to others.
Lucius spoke slowly in his unique accent and looked at Dudley with deep meaning: "Supporting emerging industries is what the Ministry of Magic should do. I am happy to hand over the content about the Triwizard Tournament to Poison and Antidote Daily. take full charge of."
Dudley also responded to his profound words.
"It couldn't be better, Mr. Lucius. I'd like to say hello to you on behalf of Mr. Carlo. It's a pleasure to work with you."
“A pleasure to work with.”
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Hogwarts, breakfast time.
“It’s too much, it’s really too much!!!”
A roar full of anger rang out, frightening the little wizards to the point where they almost lost their grip on the spoon. Hermione came over with today's Daily Prophet in a menacing manner. The little wizards along the way were "Gryffindor's Angry Lioness" ' Intimidated by his momentum, he very consciously gave way.
"Snapped!"
Hermione walked up to the discipline team and threw the newspaper on the table angrily. Her chest kept rising and falling. She had never hated a person so much.
"How could she make these false claims out of thin air?"
"How can she talk nonsense! Doesn't she know that she is responsible for what she writes?"
"I'm furious!!!"
On the largest page of the Daily Prophet, three headlines appeared in bold and enlarged fonts.
"Rude and vulgar boy."
"Shocking, love triangle between warriors."
"The Hidden Secrets of the Hogwarts Warriors."
The content of the first title is basically a slander against Dudley. It uses some very outrageous words to make an article that criticizes Dudley and describes him as a bad person.
The content of the second title is more ridiculous. It says that Dursley and Potter finally met their first love at Hogwarts. They were inseparable from a girl named Hermione Granger. Yes, the two of them were inseparable. The brothers fell in love with the stunningly beautiful Miss Granger at the same time. To describe it in one sentence, it was a love triangle mixed with a lot of bloody drama.
As for the content of the third title, it is more outrageous. It tells that the crazy old lunatic Dumbledore was bewitched by the conspirator Dursley and set up many strange organizations in Hogwarts, turning the entire school into a mess. In the future, Dursley Li is also planning a bigger conspiracy.
Well, there are indeed some issues with the details of the outrageous process, but maybe she was right.
Although the newspaper quoted content about holding the Triwizard Tournament, it did not mention what the Triwizard Tournament was. The actual content only mentioned the two warriors of Hogwarts - Dudley and Harry. , the focus is especially on Dudley, while Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are only mentioned briefly.
If you are a reader, you don’t even know who the warriors of these two schools are.
The content of the newspaper is mixed with many ambiguous words in a subjective sense such as maybe, maybe, and so on. There are few definite words. Rather than speaking with facts, it is more like a big article with various outrageous speculations. The collection can be said to be the beginning of a name, and the content is all compiled.
Rita Skeeter has done this before, and even if she publicly dissed Fudge, the Ministry of Magic couldn't do anything to her.
You can't help but allow others to make normal assumptions.
Is there something wrong with you?
Damn it, why are you covering everyone's mouths in such a hurry?
This is how Rita Skeeter became famous.
(End of chapter)
