Forget

As time passed by, the sky outside the window gradually turned from blue to red, gradually darkened, began to wipe black, and finally fell into complete darkness.

Harry glanced down at the time, there were still a few hours until Friday was over.Pan Xi picked up the report again, looked at it seriously, and frowned slightly, as if thinking about some difficult problem.Hermione sat next to her, watching her movements.But on the other hand, Ron and Qiu dozed off in a daze.

"If you're tired, you can take a rest first. We haven't had time to have dinner today." Harry coughed lightly and whispered.

"Dinner?" Qiu woke up immediately.She raised her hand and rubbed it on her face regardless of her image, and opened her eyes. "I forgot about it! There's nothing to eat in the kitchen."

"It's very late now, I don't know if there are any shops open." Harry threw his wallet to Qiu. "I guess you've got a way of getting something to eat.—what do you all want?"

"It doesn't matter what you come across so late, I can pick you if there is nothing." Qiu moved very quickly, and had already gone to the hall to change his shoes. "I seem to have seen a few 24-hour Muggle restaurants when I was wandering outside these days. I'll go and have a look."

Qiu said while knocking on the door and going out.

"I hope she can only buy the ingredients and come back to cook for us." Ron woke up at some point and said. "Autumn cooks far better than house elves."

"I'm so sorry, we don't even allow house-elves in our house." Hermione rolled her eyes.

"I'll just talk about it casually." Ron hurriedly smiled and saved. "The main reason is that Harry has never tasted Qiu's handicraft. This kind of opportunity is rare."

"If you just want to cover this matter, it's actually not difficult. As long as you can find the main person in charge of the Daily Prophet and spend a sum of money to buy the news." Pan Xi put down the newspaper and rubbed his forehead . "But since you can think of asking me for help, it seems that you also feel that this matter is not easy."

"This matter is too big, I think, there is probably no way to completely buy it off." Harry nodded. "So, I wonder if there is a better way to deal with it."

"Of course there are better ways to deal with it. As long as you can find the right person, it's not very difficult to operate. The only problem is time." Pan Xi said bluntly. "The worst result that can happen at present is that it finally failed to prevent this report from being sent out, next Monday. Then, maybe we can release another more eye-catching news before that."

"More eye-catching?" Hermione was a little confused. "I really can't think of any news that could get more attention than this one."

"This question is difficult to say, but also simple to say." Pan Xi said with a slight smile. "If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Potter has already taken some measures?"

Being called out suddenly made Harry smile a little awkwardly: "I'm just trying to see it."

"I don't understand." Hermione was completely confused. "Harry? Since you've already figured out a way, why did you ask me to find Miss Parkinson?"

Harry scratched his head, ready to explain, but Pansy cut him off before he could finish his sentence.

"Because what he really wanted to ask me wasn't what to do," Pansy said. "I'm afraid Mr. Potter wants to know more about the report itself than the solution."

"Actually, I also want to ask what should be done..." Harry retorted softly. "After all, it's the first time I've done something like this."

"Compared to just rolling up your sleeves and rushing to fight the enemy, it's really easier to make people feel uncertain about doing this kind of thing." Pan Xi continued to talk noncommittally. "What Mr. Potter really wants to know is probably why this report appeared, why it appeared at this time, who made it appear, and whether there will be follow-up after it appears."

Hermione looked at Harry in surprise, and Harry nodded.

"I don't know where you learned this, but I have to say, Mr. Potter, you have really improved a lot." Pansy smiled, and she picked up the pile of books that Hermione once hid Past issues of the Daily Prophet. "First of all, the appearance of this report is not accidental. If you study it carefully, you can find that this report has been foreshadowed since the day you came back. Therefore, this report will not be the end. If you let it go After the release, there will definitely be more things that cannot be controlled in the future.”

Hermione felt a chill run down her spine.She picked up the Daily Prophet again, and took a quick look at all the reports about Harry.Sure enough, it seems that they are all separate chapters, like ordinary reports on Harry's recent situation, but in fact, all the reports secretly point to the time when Harry disappeared on leave. If someone puts these reports together, it will take almost no effort Can imagine whether Harry is doing something unknown.

However, when she saw these reports, she only had anger in her mind, but she ignored all the real intentions hidden behind it.Hermione bit the tip of her tongue, she seemed to feel cold sweat was about to fall.

"Secondly, you know whether this report was done on purpose," Pansy turned to Ron. "I heard that this sample magazine was sent to you? Can you explain in detail how it happened?"

"Huh?" Ron really didn't think about it.As soon as he got the sample issue, he hurried to find Harry, and he didn't think of anything else at all.He quickly talked about the process of receiving the letter. "...Colin Creevey sent it to me. He's a Gryffindor..."

Ron said no more.Of course he understood that this meant nothing.He just didn't want Colin to have any other plans, but that was all he had.Pettigrew is also a Gryffindor, but the result?

"I want to know the specific position of this Mr. Creevey." Pansy was not angry, and continued to ask patiently. "For example, is he working hard for the position of president?"

"No. He's only been on the Daily Prophet for over a year now," Ron replied.He thought about it carefully, then continued. "However, I seem to have heard him mention it before. He had done several interviews that he was very satisfied with, but they were all rejected by the club. He drank some wine at a party and seemed to complain that the club only wanted him to do Quidditch. Player lace news articles and such things."

"If your memory doesn't go wrong, then it's probably just an accident for you to see this sample magazine." Pan Xi nodded and said. "An employee whose position is not high or low, who is dissatisfied with the atmosphere in the club, just happened to see unfavorable reports about his former idol, so he made a favorable favor, which makes sense—to be on the safe side, it's best to confirm this thing."

"Well, I'll go right away." Ron nodded quickly, trying to stand up.

"Let me go." Hermione held him down. "I can't help much by staying here. I dare not talk about other things. It's okay to find a child to chat with."

Hermione bid farewell to everyone and also Apparated away.

"Sorry, I really didn't think it would be so complicated." Ron smiled wryly and shook his head.

"It's okay, I really appreciate you telling me the news in time." Harry patted him. "Maybe we are really not suitable for thinking or doing too complicated things, but when we encounter things, don't we always try it first and then talk about it?"

"I'm not at all interested in your bromance." Pansy tapped the table, her finger on a line in the report. "Why don't you take a look at this first and tell me what you think?"

Harry and Ron leaned over at the same time.What Pansy pointed to was the description in the report about Harry's sudden leave of absence.Both of them have read this passage, and after reading it several times at this time, they can't see any problems.

Pansy didn't wait patiently for the two of them to have an epiphany, and circled the words "...not even in time to submit the leave application in person..." with the tip of his finger: "The Ministry of Magic's official statement is that Harry Potter submitted the leave application on a temporary basis. Then I left, but there was no mention of who submitted the leave application.”

Harry went through this sentence several times in his mind, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat: "You mean..."

"Just submitting a leave application, not many people will be dispatched, and not many people will be handled." Pan Xi said. "If the person who submitted it for you has no problem, then it will be clear at a glance where the problem is."