Chapter 46: Minister Fudge's Counterattack

In addition to being a special reporter for the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter is also an unregistered Animagus, and her Animagus is a rare little beetle that flies around Go, it provides great convenience for her to find news materials! After all, it is impossible for anyone to care about a bug at any time, right?

Because she likes to criticize everything in the wizarding world! No matter who it is, no matter how powerful that person is! Even Dumbledore, who is recognized as a bigwig in the wizarding world, is often reported by her with some negative reports! So, of course, the reports she wrote are especially popular with some wizards!

I remember that last year, the Daily Prophet published a news about the invasion of Gringotts, and that report was discovered by Rita Skeeter in time! After it was published at that time, it created a frenzy of public opinion and made the original newspaper a big seller! And now, after only one year, another extraordinary event happened in Gringotts! And this huge event was fortunately received by Rita Skeeter!

A wizard friend of hers had notified her of this incident just in time! Her friend happened to be at the Gringotts Wizarding Bank preparing for business at that time, and he witnessed the first half of the incident, when the little girl subdued all the guards in an instant! So, after he ran out of Gringotts with the crowd, he immediately sent her an urgent message! This allowed Rita Skeeter to apparate to Diagon Alley in time to witness and film the entire subsequent battle process!

So, the next day! The Daily Prophet, the most influential in the magic world, published the entire page of the Gringotts event on the front page before the Ministry of Magic responded with lightning speed! This incident is like a blockbuster, smashing into the wizarding society that has been quiet for many years because of the disappearance of the mysterious man!

In fact, the Daily Prophet is not only the headline on the front page, but also all the news related to this incident is published on other pages! This moment, immediately successfully ignited public opinion in the entire magic world! The wizards rushed to tell each other, even those wizards who hardly read newspapers usually paid generously to buy it, and they all wanted to know if it was true! Even if the Daily Prophet specially printed several times more newspapers than usual, they were all sold out in a short period of time! Wizards are suddenly buying newspapers like never before!

"These bastards! Look at them all! Look at what they wrote! Didn't I tell you to seal the news? How do you do things? Is this how you conduct public opinion supervision?" In the office of the Minister of Magic, Fudge The minister roared and slammed a copy of that day's Daily Prophet newspaper into his secretary's face!

The secretary just smiled awkwardly, and then carefully picked up the newspaper from the ground. When I opened it, I saw that the newspaper was written in huge letters on the front page: Big News! After a year! Gringotts has been invaded again! The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic were wiped out? Then under the title, a small text was used to roughly explain the battle process, and on one side of the small text was a huge dynamic magic photo! The photo shows a group of Aurors tied to stone pillars and dejected, of course, the Minister of Magic, Fudge! In the photo, he was specially placed in the most conspicuous place, highlighting his trembling performance standing on the sidelines to the fullest! Let people who don't know the truth be the first to think that the Minister of Magic is so incompetent at first glance! Not how powerful the enemy is!

"How dare they? How dare they do this! Don't they know the horror of that little girl? How can we blame us for this? These bastards! These damn bastards!" Minister Fudge continued to shout hysterically !

Fudge still has lingering fears about the horror he felt when he faced the little girl yesterday! Could such an existence be rivaled by their Ministry of Magic? You know, even Dumbledore, who arrived in time, was frightened on the spot! so,

It's not that our army is incompetent! But the enemy is too strong!

There are too many witnesses to these things! Why doesn't their Daily Prophet write about this? Just write about him, Fudge? This is for right? Must be right? Is his position as a minister so enviable? Just trying to force yourself to step down like this?

"Uh...!" Seeing the furious minister, the secretary shrank his head, not daring to speak to him out of curiosity!

The leader is losing his temper. If he dares to quibble now, it will most likely be unlucky! The best thing to do now is to keep silent and just accept the scolding! Give the minister a punching bag! When the minister has had enough scolding, is tired of scolding, and his anger is about to subside, it is the time for him, the secretary, to speak up!

So, the secretary lowered his head, and while being scolded, he secretly opened the second page of the newspaper. Today's newspaper came too hastily, and he didn't even have time to read the rest of it! Now that the minister is losing his temper, he has to read the content quickly and think of a way to deal with it later!

After the secretary turned to the second page, he saw it read: Shocking news! A powerful mysterious little girl emerges from the magic world! Below the title is a detailed description of the mysterious little girl's fighting process and the day's record! Including annihilating the guards of the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, instantly disarming dozens of Ministry of Magic Aurors, and killing an ancient white dragon! At the end of the article, of course, the photo of the white dragon that was burned into a skeleton, and the flame bear sitting on the skull of the giant dragon, making an arrogant and ferocious appearance!

On the third edition, the title on it is: Dumbledore or Fearless? Submissive paint to curry favor with the mysterious little girl! Then there are various malicious speculations in the small space. What is the connection between this mysterious little girl and Hogwarts? Hogwarts students were allegedly involved? Then they used the out-of-context photos, coupled with the photos of Dumbledore courting the little girl at that time, to carry out all kinds of unrealistic extended arguments! Anyway, it is probably how to write whatever is unreliable!

It wasn't until the last page of the newspaper that the real cause of the incident was written, which read: Is Gringotts still safe and trustworthy? Where should our money be deposited in the future? Are goblins still capable of managing the Gringotts Wizarding Bank? According to insiders at the scene, the cause of the incident began with a greedy goblin! It took the gold coins of the mysterious little girl without authorization! In order to recover her legal property, this caused the mysterious little girl to brazenly resort to force...

In this regard, relevant sources also revealed that Gringotts has also paid a hundred times the compensation! It was rumored that this compensation might have a huge amount of nearly several million Galleons! At the end of the newspaper, there was still a photo of the goblin leader Bogrod slumped on the ground bowing his head and begging for mercy.

"Didn't I specifically tell you to do your best to keep it secret? Why is it all published in the newspaper now? That's how you keep it a secret? What's the use of you people?" Minister Fudge After venting my temper, I'm still a little dissatisfied! So he continued to glare and glare at his secretary without resentment.

"I'm really sorry, Minister! Although we did our best to arrange manpower to do it yesterday, but...you must also know that there are too many witnesses who know it! We don't even know when How many wizards have left Gringotts! There is really no way!" Seeing that the minister seemed to have lost his temper, the secretary wisely put away the newspaper, and it was almost time for him to report !

"Wouldn't you have acted earlier and come to the door one by one? Or just use the Forgetting Curse!" Fudge immediately said a bad idea.

"Ah! Oblivion Curse? Minister! Are you kidding? We must never do that! Those are wizards! Not Muggles from the outside world! Once we use the Oblivion Curse on wizards on a large scale, the angry people will immediately remove you The position of the minister was overturned!" The secretary was really taken aback by Minister Fudge's whimsical idea! Where can I forget everything and use it on wizards casually? This is illegal! If it's used against ordinary Muggles, forget it! If they dare to use it against wizards, then wait to step down at any time and get out!

"Tsk! Forget it! It's too late to say these things now! Then talk about it! Now think about how to remedy it? Hurry up and discuss it, and be sure to come up with a charter in the shortest possible time!" Now that the matter has come to this point, Fudge also knows that it is impossible to redeem it! Then try to find a way to remedy it!

The priority now should be to think about how to remedy it! These reports from the Daily Prophet are too negative for the Ministry of Magic and for Fudge himself as a minister! We must find a way as soon as possible! Turn your image back from these negative reports! That's the first thing to do now! Urgent! If it weren't for the minister's power not to be abused, he, Fudge, really wanted to order the Daily Prophet to be blocked! This damned newspaper has made him a lot of trouble!

"Minister! If you look at it from another angle, I don't think these reports are all bad things for the Ministry of Magic and you?" The secretary thought about the reports he had just read, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to his mind! He seems to have grasped some key points, thinking of the key to how to break the situation!

Thinking about it, for so many years, the Ministry of Magic has always had a heart disease, and has long thought of meddling in the affairs of the Gringotts Wizarding Bank! Because the benefits here are really amazing! Gringotts can almost be said to have monopolized the finance and economy of the entire wizarding world! All deposits, withdrawals and large transactions are all taken over by Gringotts Wizarding Bank! How much benefit should there be? Even all these years, the finances of the Ministry of Magic have been handled by the goblins of Gringotts Bank!

The previous ministers of the Ministry of Magic also thought about taking down Gringotts, the only bank in the wizarding world! It's not the first time this kind of thinking has occurred! It's just because of the goblin's consistent dominance and lack of a suitable excuse, that's why this idea has been shelved!

But now the situation is completely different! Now there is a huge opportunity in front of them! I believe that as long as it works well, it may be difficult to completely win Gringotts, but it is absolutely certain to step in and occupy a place! This is really a godsend opportunity, the Ministry of Magic must take advantage of this opportunity to make those damn goblins look good! Absolutely can not miss this opportunity!

"Isn't it all a bad thing? Then there might be a good thing? Tell me about it!" Hearing that his secretary said that it wasn't all a bad thing, Fudge, who was relieved, suddenly became interested in listening to it! He's had enough bad news today! Now I want to see, what kind of good news can his secretary bring to him?

"Minister! It's like this! As long as we take the opportunity to put all the blame on the goblin, and then do this, this..." The secretary leaned into the minister's ear and whispered something.

"Haha! Very good! That's it! I need to see everything you just said on the headlines of the Daily Prophet tomorrow! Now, I will delegate this matter to you! Find some staff yourself immediately Go do it! What are you still doing? Go now!" After knowing the secretary's plan, the expression on Minister Fudge's face finally changed from cloudy to sunny, and he smiled happily! For him, this idea of ​​the secretary is really good news! Excellent news!

If this matter is accomplished, then he will never have to worry about someone being able to shake the position of minister under him! As long as I can really intervene in Gringotts and get enough benefits, I believe that those big wizard families have plenty of means to keep themselves! Perhaps, he could become the first Minister of Magic to win the management of Gringotts Wizarding Bank from the goblin? Maybe there will be an Order of Merlin? what! This is really good!

Thinking about the honor he was going to get through this opportunity, Fudge immediately put all the unhappiness behind him! Face or something is not too important! Anyway, face can't be eaten, so if you lose it, lose it! As long as he seizes the opportunity to gain sufficient benefits and political capital, what does it matter if he loses face once or twice for Fudge? Now those bedbugs who are still jumping on the newspaper and peeking at themselves are destined to let them down! Ha ha! Just a bunch of bedbugs! Want to spy on him as Fudge's minister? Still a little tender!

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There are still about 4,000 words in the two afternoons today, because the 4,000-word chapter is too long, so I cut it in half