Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

Chapter 250 Power from the Media

Zhang Xu, who was sitting at the dining table, was carefully reading the shocking article in the Daily Prophet that the flowers at Hogwarts were brutally ravaged, and the murderer turned out to be her.

The article pointed the source of the news directly to Professor Babling's paper in the magic magazine, and the photo of the bleeding wound published in the past few days was accompanied by the victim's headshot photo and name.

Zhang Xu has roughly read Professor Babuling's paper on magic, and it can be said that this paper is the core of the "anti-Ukrainian movement".

The thesis not only mentions the identity of the victim, but also deduces the magic used by the murderer from the injury of the victim.

Zhang Xu still can't understand the magic principle. To him, it's like a forensic doctor deduces the tool of crime from the wound, just look at the conclusion.

At the end of Professor Babling's thesis, it was judged that this black magic was improved from an ancient and vicious black magic. The person who improved this black magic must be a wizard who has deep research on black magic.

When the paper was at the end, Zhang Xu had to admire Professor Babuling's killing without blood.

The article mentioned at the end of the paper that "the one who improves this black magic must be a wizard who has a deep understanding of black magic" is Hong Guoguo's misleading ordinary wizard readers who don't usually read magic.

In the eyes of ordinary wizards, a "wizard who has studied black magic deeply" must be a dark wizard.But they didn't know that research scholars like Professor Babling were also a group of people who had deep research on black magic.And Umbridge used to be the latter, but she later embarked on the path of pursuing power, and none of the handful who could climb to the top in the Ministry of Magic were low-level magicians.

So when the readers of the Daily Prophet followed Rita Skeeter's report to find the papers on magic, under the influence of preconceived notions, they would definitely regard the caster as a vicious dark wizard.

Rita Skeeter also tried her best in this news, such as changing concepts, taking out of context, adding oil and vinegar, seeking to refute rumors and so on.

For example, Professor Babling said in the paper that the victim's wound was as deep as the muscle, and Rita Skeeter said in the report that it may leave permanent damage on the bone.

The paper only mentioned the injuries on the victim's hands, and the report stated that only photos that would not cause indecent impact were provided.

The report also said it could not prove that the number of victims was only those mentioned in the paper.

If it weren't for Harry and the others sitting in the cafeteria, and they seemed to be able to eat and drink, Zhang Xu would have wanted to prepare joss sticks for them after reading the newspaper.

At the end of the report, Rita Skeeter just mentioned anticlimactically that the murderer was a certain female professor in Hogwarts, hoping that the Ministry of Magic could claim justice as soon as possible.The tone was like that of a wronged little daughter-in-law, making it look like she was forced not to name the murderer.

On the second page of the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter interviewed several family members of the victims. It can be seen that the family members of the victims are not emotionally stable.

Crying without tears, the elderly grandma begged the Ministry of Magic to give her grandson justice. This is a report from an interview with Grandma Neville.Zhang Xu could imagine that, with the old lady Longbottom's temper, she knew that it was impossible for Neville to shed tears after being injured, and she would only scold the Ministry of Magic for a few hours in anger.It is estimated that this is the case, Rita Skeeter can only say that she is "crying without tears".

Why did the "savior" who escaped from the hands of the mysterious man fall under the hands of the professor? This is a report from an interview with Sirius Black.Black showed his anger in the interview, and said that the cell he once spent in Azkaban was waiting for the murderer to live in.

This is the beacon before the war begins, and this time the interview is with Malfoy's mother.Mrs. Malfoy directly said that if the Ministry of Magic does not give a satisfactory result, just wait for the Malfoy family to declare war on the Umbridge family.

Three ancient wizarding families put pressure on the Ministry of Magic at the same time. It is estimated that Fudge is about to cry at this moment.

After reading the relevant reports on the Daily Prophet, they basically asked the Ministry of Magic to give an explanation.

In the youth magazine, it reported the cause and effect of why the students were hurt.

The students who were present at the time contributed articles, telling how Harry and the others were punished by Umbridge for telling the truth, and Hannah was punished for defending her boyfriend.

Ron Weasley, who was in the limelight for winning the Triwizard Tournament, also wrote an article describing how Harry and Neville's wounds were intractable, and they tried nothing in the common room. The blood on the body stopped, and even made the blood flow more and more.It's just that Zhang Xu saw a strong Hermione style in this article.

Even what Zhang Xu said in class that day was used by Anthony to cheat the manuscript fee. Fortunately, he did not write down Zhang Xu's gesture of threatening Umbridge in the end.

In The Quibbler, Umbridge is pointed at, with information from the front line Luna providing how Umbridge scolds students in the classroom and tortures them with black magic despite their pain.

In addition, this issue of the magazine also revealed black material about Umbridge in the past.

According to the consistent style of the magazine, Umbridge is described as the third generation of Dark Lord after Voldemort.

If it is normal, the readers of the dissidents will just laugh it off after reading it, and they have read the more exaggerated articles in the magazine.

But this time, with the corroboration of magical papers, reports from the Daily Prophet, and articles from youth magazines, the credibility of the naysayer was doubled.

Magic exposed the incident, the Daily Prophet publicized the incident and put pressure on the Ministry of Magic, youth magazines told readers the ins and outs of the incident, and Quibblers revealed the details of when the victim was harmed.

After such a media combination, Zhang Xu could not see the possibility that Umbridge could continue to stay at Hogwarts.

"Evil will be punished." Luna, who was sitting next to Zhang Xu, said after reading the Daily Prophet.

Then Zhang Xu gave Luna a brainstorm, and then said: "Then you can't risk yourself in order to seek evil. Is your hand ready?"

Luna pulled up the sleeve of her robe, stretched out a white arm in front of Zhang Xu, and said, "It suddenly recovered a few days ago, but last night I suddenly felt itchy."

When Luna stretched out her bloody left hand in front of Zhang Xu that day, she frightened him.

When he learned that Luna was punished by Umbridge for defending himself, Zhang Xu didn't know what to say.

Later, when Luna said that she deliberately talked back to Umbridge just to expose Umbridge's crimes, Zhang Xu believed her words.

Zhang Xu was worried at first that the wound treatment was not completed, so he never released the damage transfer Gu puppet.Last night, he was afraid that Umbridge would wipe his neck if he couldn't bear the blow today, and would implicate Harry and the others, so he lifted the magic on the Gu doll this morning.He was a little worried about their situation just now. It seems that Umbridge's treatment in the hospital was very successful.

Just after chatting with Luna, the cafeteria suddenly fell silent. Zhang Xu saw Dumbledore standing up on the professor's chair, as if he was about to announce something.

The dividing line that seems to appear for the first time

A few minutes ago, when Umbridge saw the title and author of the report in the Daily Prophet, he almost fainted.

Because it was Rita Skeeter who published the picture of the injured and bleeding arm in the Daily Prophet.

At first Umbridge believed that Rita Skeeter did not know the details of the photographs.Because according to Rita Skeeter's style, if she knew that these wounded were from the Deputy Minister of Magic, she would definitely jump out and attack her immediately.

As a result, Rita Skeeter was only sensational for several days, and there was no report on the victim's personal information.

So Umbridge thinks that Rita Skeeter doesn't know who the people in these photos are. When she becomes a senior investigator, as long as she controls the flow of information from Hogwarts, she can get this matter out of the source. Strangled to death, and finally just wrote a random investigation report and fooled it.

It turned out that Rita Skeeter unexpectedly revealed the matter at the same time that the Ministry of Magic appointed Umbridge as Hogwarts High Inquisitor.

Umbridge would have spent so many years of salary in the Ministry of Magic for nothing if he couldn't see whether there was a black hand behind this incident.

Although Rita Skeeter reported that

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Babling's thesis, but Umbridge remembers that Babling took Harry and Neville away after seeing the photos in the Daily Prophet, so we can know when Babling knew about it Later than Rita Skeeter.

Moreover, Babling is notoriously indifferent to world affairs in the academic circle, so it is impossible for her to collude with Rita Skeeter.

So Umbridge ruled out the possibility that Babling was the villain.

Umbridge looked to Dumbledore, the number one suspect behind the crime, only to find that Dumbledore was frowning at a magazine.

Umbridge had many reasons to suspect that Dumbledore was behind it.

But she immediately overturned the conjecture that Dumbledore was the black hand, because she didn't think Dumbledore would cooperate with Rita Skeeter.

While Dumbledore could have given Babling instructions, it certainly wouldn't have worked so well with Rita Skeeter.

Soon, Umbridge found a faint smile on Snape's face who was also flipping through a magazine.

Umbridge was wondering why Snape, who usually had a cold face, laughed. Could it be that he was behind the scenes, and now he was happy because he had achieved his goal, but he had no grudges with him in the past, and he had no grudges in the present, why would he want to hurt yourself so much

It occurred to Umbridge that Snape had been coveting his position as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but Dumbledore had always disagreed.

Now that school has started, if he is kicked out, whether it is Dumbledore or the Ministry of Magic, it is impossible to find another professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts temporarily, but the professor of Potions is very easy to find.

Snape and Babling have been colleagues for many years. If Snape asks Babling for a favor, and it is something that is happy for her, such as writing papers, she will generally not refuse.

Snape also often publishes papers on magic, and at the same time, he has a very close relationship with the senior management of the magic magazine. It is not a big problem for an academic journal to publish a day late. The senior management of the magazine sees Snape's face. It is not surprising that the above agreed.

And it wasn't unacceptable that Snape and Rita Skeeter knew each other.

It now appears that Snape colluded with Babling and Rita Skeeter in order to get rid of himself and occupy this position.Umbridge discovers the truth.

At this moment, Dumbledore suddenly stood up and said to the students who had just finished breakfast: "Due to some regrettable incidents recently, Umbridge's teaching of Defense Against the Dark Arts is suspended from today. Defense Against the Dark Arts class will be taught by Professor Snape until the senior investigator sent by the Ministry of Magic investigates the matter clearly."

The students who had read the Daily Prophet applauded immediately, while the students who hadn't read the newspaper borrowed the newspaper one after another and read it.

And Umbridge glared angrily at Snape's slightly smiling face.

For the next whole day, everyone in Hogwarts laughed, including Snape, except Umbridge.

Zhang Xu also admired Umbridge for being able to be hated by the teachers and students of the school after only attending class for a week.

During the whole day, Umbridge stayed in his dormitory and did not come out.

And outside of Hogwarts, a storm has swept through London's wizarding society.

Hogwarts students learned the news in the next day's Daily Prophet.

On Monday morning, a large-scale wizarding demonstration broke out in Diagon Alley. The main body of the parade was the parents of Hogwarts students protesting against the Deputy Minister of Magic, the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, and the professor of magic at Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, the newly appointed senior Hogwarts investigator of the Ministry of Magic, maliciously harmed Hogwarts students and asked the Ministry of Magic to severely punish Dolores Umbridge.

At the same time, all the shops in Diagon Alley, except for Gringotts, which was run by the goblin, were on strike, announcing that they would not resume business until the Ministry of Magic severely punished Umbridge.The shops in Knockturn Alley later joined the strike.

The merchants in Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley went on strike in support of the parade, and it should have nothing to do with the rumor that the Ministry of Magic will send senior business investigators to Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley.

Towards noon, the procession went to the Ministry of Magic through the fireplaces in the shops in Diagon Alley, and continued to demonstrate around the fountain in the Great Hall of the Ministry of Magic, demanding that Umbridge be severely punished.

The Ministry of Magic suddenly entered a state of emergency, and all the Aurors were transferred to the surroundings of the hall to carry out stability maintenance work.

It's just that many Aurors also have children who go to school at Hogwarts, and under their leadership, the Aurors enter the state of fishing.

Then the Ministry of Magic staff, who also had children studying at Hogwarts, also began to leave their jobs and join the demonstrators.

For a while, the entire Ministry of Magic entered a semi-paralyzed state.

At the same time, Fudge, the Minister of Magic who had just been baptized by countless howling letters, was blocked in the office by the representatives of several ancient wizard families such as Longbottom and Abbott, demanding an explanation from the Ministry of Magic.

The ancients said that the strong wind knows the strong grass, and the toughness knows the honest minister.

Just when Fudge was at a loss, two young men stood up.

In Fudge's office, after obtaining Fudge's acquiescence, Percy Weasley, as a friend of Neville, persuaded Neville's grandmother, who is also the leader of several families who are forcing the palace today, Mrs. Augusta Longbottom, I promise that the Ministry of Magic will definitely come up with a proper solution today, please let the ministers go to the conference room for a meeting to decide on the specific solution.

With Percy's persuasion, Fudge was finally able to leave the office.

At the same time, Percy chatted with Mrs. Longbottom in Fudge's office about his and Neville's happy life in Hogwarts before, and stabilized the gang.

At the same time, Cedric Diggory, a new employee of the Ministry of Magic who had received a message from Percy, volunteered to come to the hall and persuaded the demonstrators under the name of Assistant Minister of Magic Percy.

Cedric first won praise from the wizards present with his elegant demeanor.

The main force participating in the demonstration today were the mothers of Hogwarts students. Cedric's mistress' appearance as a killer ensured that he would not be murdered.

After Cedric relayed the promise that the Ministry of Magic would come up with a proper solution today, the demonstrators agreed to quietly wait around the fountain for the results of the Ministry of Magic’s handling without affecting the work of the Ministry of Magic. Ask Cedric if he is free someday for tea.

The most serious incident of the day occurred on the outskirts of London.

In the afternoon, Lucius Malfoy and Sirius Black met on a lawn on the outskirts of London, and they had an argument that turned into a magical duel.

After the Aurors arrived, they found that the magic cast by the two had accidentally burned down a nearby house during the fierce battle.

After the Aurors arrived, the two said that they were just discussing in a friendly manner, and expressed regret for accidentally burning down other people's houses, how much money would it take to open a few, and it wasn't Malfoy Black in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Xu found out after asking around the classmates that the house that was burned down was Umbridge's home.

After Zhang Xu figured it out, he complained secretly, how did these two calf-protecting guys meet together by chance.If the Aurors hadn't arrived in time, one of them might have died yesterday.

However, this is unimportant news to the students, who want to see what happens to Umbridge.

Umbridge hadn't been at the professor's table in the dining hall this morning, and there were rumors that the students on the night tour last night had seen some Aurors come to Hogwarts in the middle of the night and take her away.

The students immediately found what they wanted to read on the headlines on the front page of the Daily Prophet today: Umbridge was deprived of all public office and sentenced to two years in Azkaban for intentionally hurting students. At the same time, one hundred Galleons will be compensated to each victimized student.

And on the dining table in the Lion Court, a row of red heads looked at the newspaper in disbelief for a while, and at the guy who was wandering around in the cafeteria to give money to the victimized students.

Because the Daily Prophet reported at the same time on the front page headlines that the Ministry of Magic passed Education Order No. Professor of Defense and Hogwarts Senior Inquisitor.

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