Rita Skeeter has her own plans.

She can be annoying and yet still thrive because she knows what not to report and who not to offend. There is an interesting fact here: different people attach different importance to the same thing, and the same person attaches different importance to different things.

She can report on the Malfoy family's extravagance and power, but she will not touch on their history of being crowned by the Muggle King, or the fact that they once had close contact with the Death Eaters; she will also use harsh words in her articles to describe Dumbledore as a "rigid old lunatic", but she will never write about the forbidden friendship half a century ago, or mention his deceased relatives. Unless they are gone

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She has formed her own reporting style with this unique understanding of news, which is unique in the wizarding world and has a group of loyal fans. However, she has been unlucky in the past two years and has suffered a series of setbacks.

The first time she failed was two years ago. She met a low-key wizard. She misjudged the situation and thought that it was no big deal to offend him. As a result, she hit a wall and was found.

The second time was also two years ago. The secret of her illegal Animagus was discovered by the idiot Lockhart. She had to take the initiative and use Obliviate to get rid of the trouble. Afterwards, when she learned that Lockhart was a real memory master, she was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. She was well-informed and naturally knew how much weight she had. Her poor Obliviate spell could not trap him for too long, so she hurried to the Ministry of Magic to report the Animagus.

Although her reputation was worse, she also escaped and was only fined.

The third time involved her ambitious work, "Running against the Black Terror". Ever since her rival and confidant was imprisoned in Azkaban, she has been thinking about completing a highly influential new book, and Regulus Black, who has been endorsed by Dumbledore and is the heir of an ancient pure-blood family, has come into her sight. He also has a hidden identity and was once a Death Eater!

She doesn't care whether it is true or not, but this story is very attractive, isn't it? And even more fortunately, both protagonists of the incident are dead. The

only obstacle to this matter may be the only heir of the Black family, Sirius Black. If his wanted poster is still hanging in Diagon Alley, she would never dare to do this, but that Black was eventually proved to be innocent. What a stupid guy, who has been in prison for more than ten years in vain. Rita Skeeter once suspected that he had intellectual problems.

But anyway, since Sirius Black was innocent, she is not afraid of him. Think about it, the last person of the ancient pure-blood family, ran away from home at the age of 16, and never inherited any family connections, what is there to be afraid of?

In her opinion, Sirius should have been busy scheming and restoring the family's glory at that time.

As a result, the development of the situation was completely out of control. First, Sirius Black kept sending her Howler letters, and then there was news that the Dark Lord's loyal lackey had resurrected and escaped capture. This scared her and made her angry at the same time. When did Azkaban become a sieve?

Damn Barty Crouch! Both!

She repeatedly used various relationships to find out the truth. The more she understood, the more chilled she became. She even used a secret intelligence and finally met a senior official of the Ministry of Magic. He looked at her as if she was a dead person.

She immediately turned to the most powerful wizard she could contact, Felix Hep, and did not hesitate to offer all kinds of secret intelligence that she had collected for many years.

She finally knew who she had offended. She had guessed all kinds of possibilities, and even suspected that she was being targeted by a saint, but she never expected that it was a dead person.

The servant pretended to be dead, and the master also pretended to be dead. Is this a strange habit?

Despite Felix Hep's promise, she was worried that she would be used as bait. What if the fish was not caught and she was swallowed instead? After weighing the pros and cons, she decided to go out and hide for a while. She moved to the Muggle community quietly under the pretext of writing a book and temporarily cut off contact with the magic world.

During a walk, she found a newsstand, and the style of one of the Muggle tabloids unexpectedly suited her appetite. Although she didn't like the third page very much... she still used some "skills" to get the identity of a trainee reporter.

After a few small attempts, she became the most outstanding intern under the editor-in-chief, and promotion to a formal reporter was just around the corner. And she was really not going to give up this identity, so she decided to persuade the editor-in-chief with a bad taste in clothes to allow her to have a certain degree of autonomy.

That morning, Rita Skeeter came out of the Sun's station. She promised to bring a heavyweight report to the newspaper every month, and the reward was naturally flexibility in working hours.

At noon, she returned to Diagon Alley.

Rita Skeeter took a deep breath and felt relaxed. On the way back to the Daily Prophet headquarters, she unexpectedly saw various posters posted in Diagon Alley, even the wanted poster of Barty Crouch Jr. was blocked. Rita Skeeter

stared at the dozen people on the posters expressionlessly. They were all warriors of the Tournament. She was familiar with them and participated in the wand inspection before the game and the report of the first project. But now it was obvious that something big had happened that she didn't know about.

Half an hour later, at the Daily Prophet headquarters, she learned what happened from the photographer's assistant.

The second project!

Magic projector!

Of course, there are ancient magic runes!

Rita Skeeter, who had been in the Sun for two months, certainly knew what a projector was, and she even understood the operating logic of the "Future World" company.

"Those little guys are so famous now?" She asked, adjusting her curly hair.

"Rita, you just missed a lot of gold galleons!" said her photographer.

Rita Skeeter lowered her head and peered at him from behind her jeweled glasses. "Oh, Bozo... There's never a shortage of news, and I've done more important things."

"So, uh, what are you going to do now?"

"Of course, a piece of the action!" Rita Skeeter said, reaching into her crocodile leather handbag and pulling out a dark green fountain pen and a shorthand notebook. The photographer stared at her new equipment in surprise, and Rita Skeeter calmly changed the position of the Ouroboros ring on her finger, revealing only a dark green ring.

"Hurry up!" she said sternly, "Don't tell me you haven't done anything during this time! Bring me all the photos you took!"

...

At the same time, Felix stared at a package sent by owl.

It was a birthday gift.

He gently opened the outer packaging, and inside was a birthday card and a birthday cake. After checking several times and finding no trace of magic, he opened the birthday card. The greeting on the card was brief, and the signature was still a simple name, Jane, without a surname.

"Strange... did I mention my birthday? And it's a week late..." Felix said to himself, his birthday was April 8, but now it was the 15th. The owl with the owl post office logo leg ring had flown away, which meant he didn't need to write a reply.