Chapter 656: "Singing the Counter-Tune"

Rita Skeeter contentedly stuffed a large stack of sheepskin and a shorthand quill into her crocodile leather bag, and told Luna that she would soon send the final draft to her father.

"Then you'd better hurry up," Luna said seriously, "My father is writing a wonderful article about the Bubble Snot Monster recently. It's a very important article. If you are late, you have to wait for the next issue."

"Sorry, what did you say?" Rita Skeeter looked confused.

"The Bubble Snot Monster," Luna explained to her patiently, "It's a magical animal with a huge nose..."

"Ah... OK, thank you for your explanation, I will send the manuscript to Mr. Lovegood as soon as possible..."

Skeeter smiled perfunctorily, a little regretful...

I actually want to publish an article in an unreliable magazine like "The Quibbler".

After being interrupted by Luna, Skeeter was in no mood to stay here any longer. After hugging and saying goodbye to Fish, she hurriedly left Hogwarts.

"Luna, is Xenophilius really okay?" After Skeeter left, Fish asked with concern, "According to Rita, both the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters may cause trouble for him."

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"Of course, Dad has published many articles exposing the Ministry of Magic and Fudge before, and there has never been any problem." Luna answered confidently.

"That's because those articles before were nonsense..." Hermione muttered quietly, causing Luna to glare at her.

Before they quarreled again, Harry spoke to divert Luna's attention, "And there are Death Eaters, they are different from the Ministry of Magic."

"That reporter dared to write this article, so of course my dad dared to report it!" Luna shook her head, and the pair of carrot-shaped earrings swayed with it. After a moment, she said, "And I will write a letter to remind Dad."

No matter how weird Luna is, she is still afraid of Voldemort and Death Eaters like other wizards.

Harry walked out of the Room of Requirement with excitement and anticipation. He couldn't wait to see Luna's father publish the report. Umbridge would be very happy at that time.

But his good mood only lasted until the evening. After dinner, Harry suddenly came to his senses. He still had to go to Snape to practice brain block tonight!

And what happened this afternoon was likely to be seen by Snape...

He wanted to discuss it with Hermione and Fish, but they didn't know where they slipped away after dinner.

"Isn't Fish still here? Snape shouldn't punish you for this..." Ron comforted, but his tone sounded very guilty, and it was obvious that he didn't believe what he said.

However, no matter how worried Harry was, he still had to learn brain block, so he could only come to Snape's office with trepidation.

"Get ready, let's get started." Snape was not interested in wasting time with Harry. After Harry entered the room, he raised his wand and said, "Legitimate Memory!"

Just like when Fish read Ginny's memory before, the more Harry didn't want Snape to know, the more memories of the afternoon popped up in his mind.

A moment later, Harry, who had finally broken free, looked at Snape with a pale face.

"Hmph..." Snape's mouth curled slightly downward, and he said sarcastically, "It seems that our big star is going to be in the limelight again."

Harry's face flushed instantly, but at the same time, he was relieved in his heart. Since Snape said so, he should not care about this matter, and Fish was also involved, he should not leak it to Umbridge.

And Snape seemed to see his mind and sneered, "I'm not interested in your plan to become famous. Concentrate your mind, eliminate distractions, and let's continue!"

He said in a low voice and used Legilimency on Harry again.

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Harry and Fish accepted an interview with Rita Skeeter and wanted to publish the truth about Voldemort's resurrection in The Quibbler. The members of the Cat Club soon knew about it.

This time it was not Fish who let the cat slip, but Hermione who took the initiative to tell others at the meeting.

"I really want to see Umbridge's reaction after seeing that issue of The Quibbler." Dean said.

His words were widely recognized by the cat knights. Obviously, Harry was not the only one who had such expectations.

After a while of excited discussion, everyone started practicing the Patronus Charm again. It seemed that because of this good news, many people had made obvious progress.

However, so far, except for Fish and Harry, no one among them has successfully summoned a complete Patronus.

In this way, time quickly came to February.

That morning, Fish sat at the long table of Gryffindor with everyone to eat breakfast as usual, and occasionally picked up a piece of food to feed Hermione.

Others were eating breakfast and chatting about various topics in groups of two or three.

However, things changed when the first owl carrying a letter flew into the hall.

A large number of owls flew to the long table of Gryffindor and delivered letters to Fish and Harry, along with two February issues of The Quibbler.

On the cover, Harry was smiling shyly, while the restless Fish was intermittent. Most of the time, only his figure could be seen flashing by, or his head suddenly popping out from the edge of the magazine.

Below the name and issue of the magazine "The Quibbler", there was a line of big red words printed - "The truth that the Ministry of Magic has been hiding: You-Know-Who is back!"

"It's great, isn't it?" Luna wandered to the Gryffindor table and squeezed in between Fish and Parvati. "It came out yesterday. I asked Dad to give you each a copy. I think these are all letters from readers."

She raised her hand and pointed at the owls that almost occupied one-third of the Gryffindor long table.

"Hurry up and help Fish take all the letters down. Fish hasn't eaten yet!"

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Mao Mao put down his knife and fork, quickly pulled the envelopes off the owls' feet, and asked for help from the students next to him.

Everyone giggled and reached out to help him and Harry take down all the letters.

After getting the consent of Phish and Harry, a group of people started to open the letters together.

These letters were mixed, some believed Phish and Harry, and some did not.

But perhaps because Rita Skeeter's article was too wonderful and perfect, or because of the influence of those who had seen Phish, the number of people who believed in them was obviously more, and Phish received more positive feedback than Harry, and even many witches sent their photos to Phish...

Of course, these photos were confiscated by Hermione and other female classmates.

In Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, some members of the Cat Club had also subscribed to "The Quibbler" in advance. At this time, they were passing it around and discussing it, and even a curious Slytherin asked for a copy from them.

And Dumbledore was holding a copy of "The Quibbler" in his hand at this time. He was drinking oatmeal while happily reading the report on it. Obviously, he had received Snape's notice a long time ago. In addition to him, Snape and Professor McGonagall also had a copy of "The Quibbler" in their hands.

Umbridge didn't notice what was going on over there, because the noise from Gryffindor was too loud, so she hurriedly walked down from the staff table and came behind Fish and Harry.

"What are you doing here?"

She asked in a sweet, girlish voice.

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I have to take the junior high school entrance exam tomorrow, so I will stop updating for one day. ()