Chapter 219 Hogwarts, successful infiltration

Diagon Alley, Daily Prophet newspaper office. new

As the most famous journalist in the British wizarding world, Rita Skeeter has an independent office here.

Her job is light but sometimes hectic.

In addition to being responsible for interviews in some major events, she occasionally pries into the privacy of some big figures and obtains huge benefits from it.

Those big shots would always give her a generous gold galleons as hush money.

No one knew that her animagus was an inconspicuous little beetle - she could fly anywhere without magical defenses.

This makes her invincible.

Sitting on the leather single sofa, Rita Skeeter was drinking coffee leisurely while looking out the window at the busy streets.

She is in a good mood today.

Last night, she received another hush money payment.

Although the man kept threatening her, he still left a large sum of gold galleons in the end, asking her not to talk nonsense in the newspaper.

Rita Skeeter is enjoying her success.

But she is also very smart, and she knows when enough is enough. In this world, some people will reason with her, but some people are just that reasonable.

"Um?"

Rita Skeeter pushed up her jewel-encrusted glasses and looked out the window suspiciously - an owl was flying towards her office. new

"Fans? Or howler letters?"

Rita Skeeter got up and opened the window and let the owl fly in - she received a lot of letters like this every day.

After getting some cookies for the owl, Rita Skeeter glanced at the signature on the envelope.

-Andy Collins?

"Who is this? My new fan?"

Rita Skeeter smiled proudly and opened the envelope.

"Ashea Collins' nephew? My fan?"

Rita Skeeter kept looking.

There was a lot in the letter, but most of it belonged to Lockhart Black. This intrigued Rita Skeeter, who also disliked the flashy man.

Some time ago, Rita Skeeter published a book, and her rival for the top spot on the sales list was Lockhart.

But so what?

She used the Daily Prophet's influence to severely damage Lockhart's reputation, and ultimately won.

Parallel import professor?

Is the spellcasting level better than that of a squib?

Still being easily defeated by a little wizard in class?

Those books called 'autobiographies' are actually not Lockhart's personal experiences, but ones he stole from others?

Rita Skeeter's eyes sparkled.

Explosive!

Especially the photo that came with the letter...

Three young wizards carried the unconscious Lockhart, and a large group of young wizards gathered around and laughed wantonly. As for Lockhart - he looked extremely embarrassed. new

"Ha ha ha ha ha--"

Rita Skeeter laughed strangely, she was extremely excited.

"Gilderoy Lockhart turns out to be just a better liar than a Squib!"

After the excitement, Rita Skeeter sat down again, and she began to think about how to use this incident to expose Lockhart's true face.

A recipient of the Order of Merlin, third degree, an honorary member of the Anti-Dark Arts Association, a well-known writer famous for his autobiographical books - in fact, he is a liar who is only better than a squib!

She believed that this incident would definitely detonate public opinion in the entire British magical community.

The most important thing is that she can become more famous.

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The attack on Azkaban was a big deal, but it had nothing to do with Rita Skeeter.

Interviewing ordinary wizards about their thoughts on the matter?

Or interviewing officials from the Ministry of Magic?

That's what little reporters do.

Fudge has used the power of the Ministry of Magic to put pressure on all newspapers, and no one dares to talk nonsense on this matter.

But things were different with Lockhart.

"Well……"

Rita Skeeter read Andy's letter again.

This photo can indeed be used as evidence, but Rita Skeeter still feels that it is not 'ironclad evidence', and she has to go to Hogwarts to investigate it herself.

Thinking of this, Rita Skeeter hurriedly left the office.

Soon, she won the permission of the newspaper editor Mr. Barnabas Guffey - she was going to interview the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore.

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At about six o'clock that evening, Andy saw a woman in the corridor on the eighth floor.

Her hair was styled into delicate, stiff, weird waves, she wore a pair of jewel-encrusted glasses on her face, and she was wearing a green leather jacket. Her fat fingers were holding on to a crocodile leather handbag, and her nails were two inches long. Long and painted red.

"this…!"

Andy and Hermione were shocked.

Although wizards usually dress very weirdly, it takes a lot of courage to be weird like her.

Seeing the woman walk into the principal's office, Hermione opened her mouth and complained: "Andy, I think the aesthetics of the wizarding world need to be saved."

"Yes, yes!" Andy nodded stiffly.

"What is the relationship between that woman and Professor Dumbledore?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Maybe it's the principal's little lover. After all, it's so late, what do you think they will do in the office?" Andy teased.

Hermione heard this and gave Andy a hard look.

"All right!"

Andy surrendered and said: "She is Rita Skeeter, the famous reporter. I guess she is pretending to find the principal. Her real purpose should be to investigate Lockhart."

"It seems your plan worked." Hermione said.

Andy sighed, "I just hope the next Defense Against the Dark Arts professor isn't Rita Skeeter."

"Hee! How could you say that?" Hermione smiled.

After dinner in the Great Hall, Andy and Hermione separated.

Hermione was going to read in the Ravenclaw library for a while. Ever since she discovered Slytherin's secret room, Hermione had been full of enthusiasm for investigating the Ravenclaw library.

She believes there must be important secrets hidden in the library.

Andy is going to Slytherin's secret room to continue translating those books and manuscripts. Those materials are precious treasures to Andy.

Including those books in the principal's office.

Andy plans to take the copied books home during the Christmas holidays and turn them into a legacy of the Collins family.

While Andy and Hermione were busy doing their own thing, Rita Skeeter walked out of the principal's office with a stiff face.

The interview didn't go well this time. The old bee was too slippery.

She planned to write a book against Dumbledore after his death. I've already thought of a title for the book, it's called "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore".

But none of this matters.

After walking around a corner, Rita Skeeter saw no one around. She took out her wand and pointed it at herself. Her entire body quickly shrank and soon turned into a beetle the size of a button.

Hogwarts, infiltration successful!