After hearing Draco's thoughts, everyone couldn't sit still.

Chapter 169 Rita Skeeter 2

Draco looked at the little beetle in the glass jar with great interest. A group of people gathered around him: Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Draco Malfoy.

Everyone looked at the shivering Rita Skeeter in the jar with curiosity, while pricking up their ears to listen to gossip.

Rita Skeeter is an unregistered Animagus who transforms into a beetle and eavesdrops on other people's conversations unnoticed, extracting information worth revealing. She then exaggerates this information into articles to attract readers' attention.

Her ability to transform into a beetle also reflects the annoyance and trouble she causes others, particularly Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore, and also reflects her dishonesty.

Wow, illegal Animagus~ They looked at Rita Skeeter in the jar, and they wouldn't believe it if Draco hadn't said it.

[Rita writes primarily for the Daily Prophet, but some of her articles have also appeared in other media outlets such as Witch Weekly and The Quibbler.

Rita is very nosy and will do anything to write eye-catching content, whether it's turning into a beetle to spy on others or making up sensational stories.

In order to describe the unknown "dark side" of Albus Dumbledore in her biography, Rita even used the elderly and confused historian Bathilda Bagshot, and even gave her the truth serum strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic.

Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald's eyes were filled with rage. "Great-Aunt Bathilda! How dare this woman?"

But after they thought about it carefully, they suddenly knew why.

They...are all dead, right?

Bathilda's narration then became the material for Rita to criticize Dumbledore. Perhaps to make her stories more popular, Rita always described the characters in her articles in a very bad light.

Of course, she would sometimes do the same thing out of spite, such as in 1994 when Hermione Granger scolded Rita for an article that exposed Hagrid.

After this, Rita spread rumors in her articles that Hermione used love potions to play with the feelings of Harry Potter and Viktor Krum at the same time.

Hermione Granger was filled with questions. Viktor Krum? She knew him, a champion of Durmstrang. They had never met, so Viktor Krum probably didn't even know who she was?

And Harry, that's just a younger brother! It's really just a pen at the beginning, and the rest is all made up.

Ron Weasley looked up warily. "Hmm? Someone's thinking about my wife?" He and Hermione Granger had expressed their feelings for each other, and now Hermione Granger was his girlfriend.

This also caused Hermione to receive many offensive letters, but Hermione eventually found a handle on Rita and asked her to stop writing for a year. After a year, Rita picked up her pen again and became as unscrupulous as before.

Although her writing was often biased, Rita was incredibly fast at writing and researching. She wrote her 900-page biography, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, in just four weeks.

There are also inconsistencies in Rita's writing. In an early article, Rita described Hermione Granger as "stunningly beautiful," but in another article a few months later, Hermione became "plain." Rita once said that the purpose of the Daily Prophet was to sell itself.

Although Rita doesn't care about the reputation or journalistic integrity of her interviewees, she is terrified of being exposed as an unregistered Animagus.

Hermione Granger knew that the Ministry of Magic could sentence Rita based on this, so she used it as a handle to ask Rita not to write any articles for a year.

Hermione hoped that this would help Rita change her bad habit of slandering and insulting others, but contrary to her wishes, a year later Rita returned to her old ways.

Still too kind. Gellert Grindelwald glanced at Hermione Granger. But she's quite suitable to be Narcissa Malfoy's student, he thought to himself.

"What should I do with her?" The Imperius Curse? No, that's not a sure thing. Obliviate? But that would be too easy for her. Or should I destroy the body? Fiendish fire? Water prison? His teacher seemed to have told him that his world and country had some very harsh punishments. He thought about it...burning with fire? Drawing and quartering? Beheading? ...

Draco sat there obediently, and no one imagined how many kinds of torture were running through his mind at that moment.

It can only be said that this face is too deceptive. Even Albus Dumbledore in this world subconsciously thinks that Draco is a good boy.

Rita Skeeter felt strangely frightened. She looked at the people around her, her will to survive making her want to return to her human form.

But for some reason, the bottle was completely unable to move, and the Animagus seemed to have lost its effect, so she couldn't transform back into human form.

"Oblithely. She must have sneaked into the school for news. She's probably connected to someone." Draco Malfoy glanced at Harry Potter intentionally or unintentionally.

Harry Potter's face remained calm and he didn't look around, but in fact, his hands were clenched in his sleeves.

He cares about me! He has me in his heart!

Harry looked speechlessly at Harry Potter, who was trembling beside him. Tsk, love-brained.

He thought for a moment. "Why not let her work for us?" he suggested.

He looked at Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. "Ministry of Magic, do you really have no idea?"

Albus Dumbledore opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. No? Impossible. He was as ambitious as Gellert Grindelwald.

"First, we need to have our own voice. Don't underestimate the power of public opinion." Harry knew this best. Lucius had told him long ago that since he came to the Malfoy family, he had secretly acquired the Daily Prophet and the Dissenter.

He broke it down and patiently explained its meaning to Harry. Public opinion is terrifying; few people can stand firm and remain unaffected. When you get to know someone, you often first form a general picture of them from what others say.

If you take public opinion into your own hands, you can seize the initiative.

If one person says something is delicious, you might think they have a problem with their taste. If ten thousand people say it's delicious, you might start to suspect you have a problem with your taste. If everyone says it's delicious, you'll think it's delicious too. This is the simplest form of public opinion.

"Just like Voldemort is dead. The truth only needs to be in the hands of a few people." Harry said calmly.