Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 521: Who’s trick
"As expected of Albert."
George shakes off the potato fork in his hand in shock after seeing today's Daily Prophet headline.
"By the way, how on earth did he convince that woman, Rita Skeeter."
The Daily Prophet's headlines featured an exclusive interview with the world's youngest wizard chess champion.
This interview swept away all the scandals about Albert.
"I'm guessing it wasn't Galleons to settle the woman."
Fred, who had just put his head close, said his speculation, "According to Albert's habit, it is estimated that he has caught Rita Skeeter and threatened her to correct her mistakes."
"I think so too." George echoed.
Of course they know that Albert has enough Galleons to get rid of Rita Skeeter, but Albert isn't someone who likes to suffer from his own backsliding, look at the Slytherin students who are trying to trouble him The end will be known, and the possibility of Hua Jialong's settlement is very low.
The biggest possibility is to directly grab the handle of Rita Skeeter, hold the other party's head, and let her solve the problem by herself.
I have to say that after being roommates for several years, the twins still know Albert's character very well.
"What's the handle?" Percy asked curiously, he also knew exactly what kind of person Rita Skeeter was.
"How do we know, you go ask him yourself." George thought for a while and said.
"However, I think if you ask Albert, he'll probably tell you that he paid Rita Skeeter to settle it."
If Albert doesn't want to tell, he can find countless truths to answer your question.
"I'm back."
At this moment, Mr. Weasley dragged his exhausted body into the house. He had been working overtime for several days recently. Last night, he even raided seven houses in a row, and found a lot of prohibited items. Taste.
"Dad, you're back." Percy stood up to take Mr. Weasley's briefcase and put it in the usual place.
"It sucks, the Ministry of Magic is in a mess right now," muttered Mr. Weasley.
"What's going on?" Ron couldn't help asking.
"It's not that exclusive interview with Rita Skeeter, which is thought to have the potential to spark an international dispute." Mr. Weasley took the lead, pointed to the newspaper George was flipping through, and said, "Look at it. We'll find out in the next few articles, the interview about Albert Anderson's trip to America."
Several people turned to the third edition and quickly understood why they said that it might cause international disputes.
"I don't think Albert should lie. In fact, he rarely lies and deceives others." As soon as George finished speaking, he felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Albert really didn't lie?
He's just good at misleading people with the truth, so most of the things in the newspapers are 80% true.
Not lying.
Well, no problem.
“Nowadays, there are many wizards in the British wizarding world who don’t like the Magical Congress of the United States, and even start to discuss the policies of the United States that are different from other countries.” Mr. Weasley bit a sausage and muttered, “If it weren’t for the newspapers It says owls are not allowed in the American wizarding world, and I even suspect a bunch of people have sent letters to that Mr. Carter."
"They can use the international mail channel," George said without thinking.
"Yes, yes."
Mr. Weasley muttered, "There is a protest in the United States against the British sending a large number of letters and packages with black magic, or dangerous goods, over there."
"Awesome, I think that Mr. Carter will be pleasantly surprised."
"This is not a good idea. It will cause international disputes." Mr. Weasley sighed helplessly as he looked at his schadenfreude sons.
"Dad, I think Albert's words are true." Fred said solemnly: "America's 80 percent is that ghost."
"That's right." Fred nodded in agreement, "The last time he wrote a letter, he also told us that he would not go to the United States again, and also warned us that it is best to stay away from the United States, not familiar with it. A wizard of the law, it is easy to commit a felony and be put in a forbidden prison."
"We've never seen Albert so unabashedly hate something." Fred and George said in unison.
Mr. Weasley was choked. In fact, many wizards don't really know what's going on in the United States, but the Daily Prophet highlighted one name: "Rappaport's Law" .
Mr. Weasley felt that Rita Skeeter was going to get into trouble.
For example, the newspaper described the staff member of the Magical Congress of the United States as deliberately embarrassing others because of jealousy, and deliberately discredited the champion of the International Wizarding Chess Championship in the Ghost Daily because he defeated the most promising player in the United States.
American reporters also deliberately distorted the facts and found scandals because of Albert's refusal to interview
Rita Skeeter even wrote at the end of this interview:
The author broke a cold sweat for our young international wizarding chess champion, if it weren't for his cautious personality, maybe someone who accidentally violated the laws of the Magical Congress of the United States would need to spend this year in prison in the United States the second half of the year.
It is my sincere hope that the Magical Congress of the United States will consider Mr. Anderson's proposal to print an entry guide to the Magical Society of America, in order to reduce the risk of inadvertent violations of the laws of the Magical Congress of the United States by incoming wizards.
Look, is this what people say?
However, it looks like the Magical Congress of the United States is deliberately luring wizards who go to the United States to violate the laws enacted by the Magical Congress of the United States?
As soon as the paper was published, however, wizards and wizards expressed sympathy for what happened to their young champion in the United States.
Albert received many letters of consolation, and many even sent him lots of sweets and other small gifts.
It's just that these things were sealed up by Albert's Toss Box.
While they were talking about the newspaper news, Ron's untimely voice suddenly rang out, "Dad, I think Harry may be in some trouble, I've sent him 12 letters, but he's always been Didn't reply to me."
"If Harry doesn't reply in the last few days, I'll pick him up in person. You know, I've been busy these days!" Mr. Weasley said.
Although he felt that this kind of thing was a bit rash, he felt that Harry's guardian would not refuse the invitation himself.
However, things changed much faster than Mr. Weasley expected!
Before leaving get off work that evening, Mr. Weasley heard from a colleague that the famous Harry Potter had violated secrecy laws, used magic in the presence of Muggles, and had been warned by the Ministry of Magic.
It's just that Mr. Weasley recently ransacked his house ruthlessly, and he still needs to get approval from the Ministry of Magic. The process is slow, and he regrets that he didn't ask an acquaintance to help connect Floo.
Unbeknownst to Mr. Weasley, Ron and his twin brothers were also discussing Harry's affairs after learning of this.
"I think Harry must be in some serious trouble, otherwise he wouldn't be able to use magic in the presence of Muggles~IndoMTL.com~ He must know it's forbidden." After learning the news, Ron was heartbroken. more and more disturbed.
"Maybe, we can personally pick him up to visit our house." Fred said suddenly, he took out the utility knife that Albert sent them, and there was a note on it: Just in case .
"We can't use magic," Ron reminded.
"Can use Dad's car." George said without hesitation. "I think Albert is suggesting to us that Harry might be locked up, so he thinks we'll use the lockpicking tool for this pocket knife."
"Pick the lock?"
Ron is a little lost.
"That's a Muggle trick, a little trick we learned from Albert, and there are a lot of doors at Hogwarts that can't be opened with the Arahoe opening spell, and can be opened with a Muggle trick." Fred explained.
Based on what he knew about Albert, the other party sent them a universal knife with a message like that. Eighty percent of the time, Albert learned through prophecy that they would save Harry Potter.
Of course, this was in Ron's ears, thinking that Fred and George were just making excuses for themselves, but he agreed to use the flying car.
The car was modified by Mr. Weasley to be invisible, and no one would notice a car flying in the sky at night.
"But how are we going to quietly drive the car away?" Ron muttered.
"Don't worry, I have a solution!" Fred said with a smile, "You go watch Mommy for me, and George and I go get the car keys."
In the middle of the night, Fred used the Flying Charm to get the car keys. The three secretly went downstairs to the garage, got into the converted Ford car, activated the invisible button, and let the car Get out of the garage and fly towards the sky.