Chapter 812 Stupid Fudge
Ai Wen's original intention to set up the newspaper was mainly to solve the cost of purchasing magic books and materials, but he also thought that when this happened, he would use the newspaper to fight against the Ministry of Magic in public opinion and make his own voice, which would not be too much. passive.
I have to admit that he thought too simply at the beginning, or rather, did not expect Fudge and the Ministry of Magic to be so clueless.
Controlling a newspaper and restricting its content is normally illegal.
But the Minister of Magic does have this right, and relevant regulations are involved in the Wizarding Secrecy Act and the Law of War.
It's been a long time since this kind of thing happened, obviously it would give the impression of a tough dictator, but Fudge did it, and he clearly mistook it for a war, a war between him and The war between Dumbledore.
"It's not just this trouble, Ai Wen, you should really see what the Daily Prophet has to say about you during this period." Lupin said, "They describe you as a man under the protection of Dumbledore who doesn't know The sky is high, the little wizards who conduct all kinds of dangerous magic research, they even say that you are researching black magic, and they have found a lot of Slytherin students to prove it..."
"Oh, this is really interesting!" said Ivan, who was indeed studying black magic.
Lupin mentioned a few examples in the newspaper of Ai Wen's research on black magic. To be honest, most of them are relatively basic research. There are many Ai Wen who don't need to study at all, and directly write in Tom Riddle's diary or black magic. Books to know the correct answer.
These chaotically fabricated reports are really unrealistic. From Ai Wen's point of view, they feel a little despised.
Although the other party may try his best to think Aiwen is evil enough, he directly pulls him to the entry level of black magic...
Ai Wen wondered if publishing some of his latest research results would directly make the magic world upheaval, and let them know what is true black magic research and what is true ignorance.
If there is no factual basis, don't talk nonsense, okay? !
"What else did they say?" Ivan asked.
"The main reason is that you are described as very dangerous, so your words are naturally not credible." Lupin continued, "In addition to you, Harry is also the focus of their coverage, and unlike you, they are pure They seemed to think Harry was a fool, trying to get people's attention, talking about his scars hurting, beating the Dark Lord as a baby, and thinking he was a tragic bigot. A hero or something, constantly pretending to casually say some snarky remarks about Harry."
"That sounds really bad, was it written by Rita Skeeter?!"
"No, don't know why, she rarely posted anything, but others have done well enough that they seem to have found a draft of your two reports from Assistant Rita Skeeter as a basis, This is what she wanted to write..." Lupin said, "Harry has been very angry about this lately, but the more angry he is, the worse it is for him, there are a lot of eyeliners in the school, those Slytherin's The students are watching Harry, Ron, and Hermione closely."
"Damn Slytherins!" said Sirius in disgust. "They are Death Eaters themselves."
"So, no one in the magic world knows the truth now?"
"Dumbledore told the truth, and that's the main reason why we're in this troubled situation right now," Lupin said. It was announced at the meeting, he gave a speech announcing that Voldemort was back, and then the newspapers were flooded with reports about you, all rumors, because he said the two of you in his speech, that's what he said. ."
There was a brief silence. The current situation was really bad. Ai Wen was thinking about what to do so that public opinion could not continue to spread.
"They are now desperately trying to discredit Dumbledore!" continued Lupin, "he lost his position as president of the International Federation of Magicians last week because they thought he was too old to be able to do anything, but that's simply not true, in After Dumbledore made that speech, the wizards at the Ministry voted him out. They demoted him, he was no longer the chief wizard of Wizengamore, and they were discussing taking back his Ser Merlin First Class Medal."
"Stupid Fudge, it's all about him, everyone knows he's afraid of Dumbledore, afraid of what he wants to do," Sirius said. "He's doing everything he can to maintain his position and rule, and Voldemort and the Death Eaters are taking advantage of it. at this point."
"Indeed, Fudge thinks Dumbledore is plotting to overthrow him, he thinks Dumbledore himself wants to be Minister of Magic," Lupin continued. ."
"But everyone knows that Dumbledore doesn't want to..."
"Of course he doesn't want to, normal people know that," said Sirius. "He never wanted to be a minister, and when Milison Bagno retired, many wanted him to take over. Dumbledore refused. , and supported Fudge to compete with Barty Crouch, and later Fudge took power, but he has never forgotten how many people supported Dumbledore, although Dumbledore never applied for the position."
"Deep down, Fudge knew that Dumbledore was much wiser and better at spells than he was. When he first started as a minister, he still asked Dumbledore for advice and help every three days." Lupin Said, "But then he seemed to like power and his confidence grew. He was obsessed with being Minister of Magic, and he convinced himself that he was the wise man, and that Dumbledore was just making trouble for it."
"It's stupid, right lost his eyes!" Ivan said, sighing.
In a sense, Fudge is actually pretty good, but when it comes to rights it's a whole different story.
Their biggest threat right now is Voldemort, but it's Fudge and the Ministry of Magic who are the biggest trouble, ironically.
"Having said that, that's the main reason why Dumbledore told us not to report on that, Fudge has been staring at us, and there won't be anything worse with Dumbledore for a while, but we're different!" Lupin With a sigh, "If he finds evidence that we're against the Ministry, he'll probably just put us all in Azkaban. That would be too bad, that's what You-Know-Who wants to happen. things, we have to be careful..." Browse to read the address: