It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 307 The Arrested Female Reporter

Rita Skeeter considers herself to be no ordinary journalist.

She was bold and reckless, and used all means to become famous and dig out the privacy of celebrities. With these, she made her mark in the Daily Prophet, a magic newspaper that ranks among the top three in the entire British magic world, or in the entire European magic world. status today.

From the perspective of a professional reporter, she is definitely not a qualified reporter. Of course, she also knows that she does not have those qualities that she should have.

Skeeter never thought that being a reporter was to expose the darkness and shady scenes in the magic world. Such things would be difficult to investigate and would not bring her much popularity, and would put her in danger.

Digging out the privacy of celebrities, adding a little bit of extravagance to it, and provoking public opinion, this is what fascinates her the most.

So if she is in Muggle society, she should be positioned as a paparazzi, and she is the most bottomless kind.

In order to satisfy her sense of accomplishment and desire, she even took risks to learn the high-end application of Transfiguration——Animagus.

And did not report to the Ministry of Magic, becoming an illegal Animagus.

And the heavens seem to be very kind to her. Her Animagus form is extremely concealed, suitable for lurking small insects.

This makes her even more powerful. With this unimpeded access to the private places of various celebrities, she can overhear their conversations and privacy, and then expose them.

This kind of ability made her position in the Daily Prophet like a rocket, and she was promoted rapidly. She entered the Daily Prophet when she was in her 30s, and she became the deputy editor of the newspaper when she was just 40 years old.

Now she is in full charge of reporting on the Triwizard Tournament.

Of course, although Skeeter likes to talk nonsense and peep into other people's privacy, she also has enough self-knowledge.

Like Dumbledore, the wizard ceiling recognized by the entire magic world, she can casually splash dirty water from other people's mouths (she keenly discovered that the current Minister of Magic, Fudge, is not friendly to Dumbledore, Doing so will not only bring her popularity, but the Ministry will surely keep her).

But even if these were a bit off the mark, they could still be regarded as formal procedures. If Skeeter flew directly into Dumbledore's office to peep at his privacy, she would never dare.

So on this Christmas Eve when the whole of Hogwarts was jubilant, Skeeter's intuition told her that there must be big news to dig tonight.

Her goal has been aimed at from the very beginning, Hogwarts has just taken office for a long time, the professor of protection of magical animals - Hagrid.

After the exclusive interview with Harry, she focused on this man with an unusual body shape, and used that hypocritical appearance to communicate with Hagrid during the period. She was excited to learn about the relationship between Hagrid and Harry very good.

All the news that can be related to Harry are included in the key items of the first step for Skeeter.

So she decided to dig deep into Hagrid this Christmas.

However, just when she turned into the form of Animagus, she monitored Hagrid's every move in the auditorium and kept a close eye on him at all times.

A man who made her gnash her teeth suddenly caught her attention.

The Christmas ball had just begun, and Forrest, who had burned her news manuscript in front of her and threatened her, got up and left the auditorium with another female teacher.

Keen instinct told Skeeter, there must be news to dig!

She has been a reporter for the Daily Prophet for so long, and she has never suffered such humiliation. Sherlock is the first!
After that, she also desperately searched for black information about Sherlock, but she couldn't find any.

This Hogwarts defense professor has an excellent reputation. No matter whether it is among the students in the castle or among the wizards who have graduated and started work in the past two years, no one has said anything bad about him.

Even the most vicious Professor Snape didn't tell her anything black about Sherlock.

This makes Skeeter like a fly aiming at the egg but failing to find the gap, and can only "buzz" impotently and furiously aside.

And tonight she felt her chance had come.

After a brief decision, she threw Hagrid aside first, and followed Sherlock and the female teacher secretly, all the way to the garden outside the castle.

But to Skeeter's disappointment, these two people were like two dull gourds, and they didn't have a conversation from beginning to end along the way.

After that, they finally spoke, and she could tell that it was obvious that the female teacher was interested in Sherlock, and the two dogs and men were just looking for a place where no one was around to show their affection.

Not only did he not dig out any serious information, but Skeeter, who was full after a meal of dog food, viciously planned to go back and make up a report, saying that the professors in Hogwarts are messing around with men and women, and taking the school board for nothing The salary and the Ministry of Magic's funds, and finally adding a sentence are all due to Dumbledore's inaction.

However, before she had this thought, she was about to fly back to the auditorium to stare at her original target Hagrid again.

She was caught.

Even if Skeeter thought about it, she couldn't figure out how Sherlock found her.

Compared with ordinary human body deformation, the biggest advantage of Animagus is that the transformed animals have no restrictions at all, and the shape of animals is no different from normal animals.

But even if she thinks about it now, she doesn't change the outcome of the matter in any way.

After Sherlock caught her, he didn't expose her immediately, but waited until the middle of the night before releasing her in the office.

"Did you change back to human form yourself, or do you need me to give you a little help?"

It is not difficult to forcibly dispel the magic of Animagus. Last year, Sirius, Lupine and Sherlock used it on Peter who turned into a mouse.

Skeeter didn't dare to play any tricks at this time, and before Sherlock could make a move, she took the initiative to change back to her original appearance.

Sherlock sat on the chair, looked at the female reporter standing in front of him with an anxious expression and erratic eyes, and said with interest.

"Unexpectedly, Ms. Skeeter, you are still an illegal Animagus."

Skeeter forced a smile, now she didn't have the aggressive aura before, she could only look at Sherlock with that pleading expression.

"Mr. Forrester, I beg you not to speak of this matter."

With a playful smile on Sherlock's face, he stared at the pleading Skeeter and said softly.

"Don't say it? What good will it do me if I don't say it?"

(End of this chapter)