Chapter 498 Rita Skeeter and Rumors
"Oh, thank goodness, thank goodness!" Mrs Weasley had apparently been waiting for them in the front yard.
She was running towards them now, wearing the slippers she had worn in the bedroom.
She was pale and nervous, clutching a rolled-up copy of the Daily Prophet.
"Arthur! I'm so worried, so worried..."
She threw her arms around Mr. Weasley's neck, and the Daily Prophet slipped from her limp grasp to the floor.
Ivan looked down and saw that the title was: Horror scenes at the Quidditch World Cup.
Below, a shimmering black and white photo of the Dark Mark hanging in the sky.
The stone giant transformed by Aiwen stood directly under the Dark Mark, echoing the giant snake in the skull's mouth.
Not far behind them was the huge ruins of the stadium, silently speaking of tragedy and horror.
"You're all right!" Mrs. Weasley muttered in shock, let go of Mr. Weasley, and looked at them one by one with a pair of red eyes, "Charlie, Bill, Percy, Ron, Ginny, Ivan, Harry, Hermione, you are alive! Oh, son...."
To everyone's surprise, she grabbed Fred and George and gave them a hard hug.
She pushed so hard that the twins' heads banged together.
"Ouch! Mom, you're strangling us!"
"I yelled at you before you left!" said Mrs. Weasley, bursting into tears, tears streaming down her face, "I've been thinking about this! What if You-Know-Who takes you and I don't The last thing you said was that your O.W.Ls were unsatisfactory? Oh, Fred, George..."
"Well, Molly, we're all safe and sound," Mr. Weasley reassured her.
Pulled a pair of twins from her arms, and led her to the house.
"Ron!" he said in a low voice. "Pick up that newspaper, I want to see what it says..."
Following behind the Weasleys, Ivan, Harry, Ron, and Hermione read the contents of the newspaper together.
Unexpectedly, in addition to the photo on the front page, there are also descriptions and photos of the battle between Aiwen and Kelexis.
In the photo, he is controlling the huge fire dragon to wreak havoc in the box, which is extremely cool.
There are palpitating flames everywhere in the box, and the fire dragon inside keeps snarling and roaring at the people outside the screen.
"That's a nice photo..." Hermione said softly.
"Evan, see what they say about you!" Harry pointed to a series of introductory titles and said, "The little wizard who saved a hundred thousand people, the successor to the greatest wizard in the world, and the future star of hope in the magic world , the little wizard who defeated the mysterious man, the truth about Sirius Black’s escape from prison, the Order of Merlin will award the first-class medal as an exception, and..."
Judging from these headlines, this issue of "Daily Prophet" has become a special edition for Ivan.
In fact, it is.
Behind the front page, the "Daily Prophet" used two pages to introduce the attack and the Dark Mark, as well as the ins and outs of the whole incident.
Then, there was the arrest of Keresis and a group of vampires, using the photos of Ivan and Keresis fighting.
It's just a different one, and the Ministry of Magic has obviously been very selective about it.
It seems that they found the right target, but they haven't investigated the details of the group of vampires yet.
Other than that, all the news after that was about Aiwen.
They even posted photos of Ivan fighting the basilisk in the common room before.
It was a photo taken by Colin. The age of Aiwen on it was much younger than now, but it brought out his good looks and courage even more.
Just imagine, apart from Aiwen, which little wizard would dare to confront the basilisk head-on, perhaps even an adult wizard would not have the guts.
"These people are crazy!" Ron exclaimed, looking in disbelief at the entire page full of Ivan's photos.
"Ivan is a celebrity now, even more famous than Harry!" Fred leaned over and said.
"That's right, the most powerful and talented little wizard in the world, this title is very attractive just thinking about it!" George said.
A few of them turned the newspaper over and over, looking at the articles on it excitedly.
Everyone felt that the "Daily Prophet" was a bit exaggerated. Even if Aiwen made a lot of contributions, there was no need to promote it so vigorously.
But not long after, when they read the Hogwarts Journal of Wizardry and Wizardry, they realized that it was more straightforward.
Apart from promoting Aiwen's report, there was no other news.
Because everyone wants to see content related to Ivan, he is now the most watched wizard in the magic world.
Except for the three events of last night's vampire attack, the Dark Mark, and Ivan, no one cares about the rest of the news.
The news of the previously hot Quidditch World Cup match was squeezed into a corner without even a single photo.
The current situation is like this, no matter what, as long as the newspapers related to Aiwen are all sold out in the first place.
In the next few days, even "The Quibbler" saw a big increase in sales, because it had Ivan reporting at Hogwarts for the past two years.
"Hogwarts Wizardry" had cooperated with "The Quibbler" during the difficult period at the beginning of its establishment. Ivan published articles written by Luna related to the curved snoring horned beast and the bubble snot monster. Her father helped Ai This time, he also benefited by promoting newspapers and publishing articles written by him.
As for the "Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry" itself, that is needless to say.
It didn't take long for them to record the highest sales since the "Truth About Sirius' Prison Break" report.
For a few days, it even surpassed the "Daily Prophet" as the newspaper with the largest circulation in the wizarding world.
Because it is a newspaper created by Aiwen, it has an exclusive interview with Aiwen, which is enough.
A few minutes later, everyone squeezed into the small kitchen with newspapers in hand.
Hermione and Ginny made Mrs Weasley a strong cup of tea, which Mr Weasley insisted poured a little Ogden Old Stout.
Then Ron handed him the first few articles of the paper.
Mr. Weasley glanced over, frowning tightly, and Percy looked over his shoulder.
"I knew it would be like this!" he said heavily. "The Ministry of Magic is in a panic, criminals are not caught, law and order is lax, dark wizards go unpunished, bringing disgrace to the country, that's what they always say about the Ministry. Who is this?" Written by? Ah! Of course she is, Rita Skeeter."
"That woman is against the Ministry of Magic!" Percy said angrily. "She said that the Ministry of Magic wasted all its energy and time on the thickness of the cauldron, accusing us of being picky instead of destroying vampires and dark wizards. Could it be that the Crucible... ...."
"Come on, Percy!" Bill interrupted with a yawn. "Stop talking."
"Hey, I'm mentioned here!" When Mr. Weasley read the end of the article on the front page of the "Daily Prophet", his eyes behind the glasses suddenly widened.
"Where is it?" Mrs. Weasley took a sip of whiskey tea, coughed and asked, "I only saw reports about Ivan just now, if I see this, I know you are still alive!"
"No roll call!" Mr. Weasley said. "Listen to this passage. Hundreds of thousands of wizards who came to watch the Quidditch World Cup panicked and waited for news outside the ruins of the stadium, hoping to be comforted by the Ministry of Magic. Sadly, they were disappointed. Shortly after the horrific vampire attack and the Dark Mark, a Ministry of Magic official showed up, declaring that no one was harmed, but refusing to say more. Will his words be enough to calm the Rumors of hundreds of bodies being lifted from the wreckage an hour later remain to be seen."
"Oh dear," said Mr. Weasley exasperatedly, handing the paper to Percy, "no one was harmed, what should I say? Everyone was just frightened, it was all taken care of at the Ministry! The woman really dared to say the rumor that hundreds of corpses were carried out from the ruins. Well, now that she writes this kind of words, the rumors will definitely spread.” (To be continued.)