Seeing Xenophilius Lovegood's dazed look, Abernathy did not urge him. Instead, he picked up the Gordigan tea beside him and took a sip.

At this moment, Xenophilius Lovegood seemed to react and picked up the photo on the table. He saw a young blond boy with an elegant smile on his face.

"Who is this young man?"

Xenophilius Lovegood asked curiously, holding the photo in his hand.

Abernathy put down his teacup and replied formally:

"The one in the photo is the best student at Hogwarts and Dumbledore's favorite student!"

"He is the pride of Hufflepuff. He once led Hufflepuff to defeat Slytherin, which has many pure-blood wizards, in a duel. He also caught more than a dozen Golden Snitches in a row in the Quidditch World Cup final."

"The most important thing is that he is only eleven years old and a freshman at Hogwarts, but he has already demonstrated unparalleled magical talent. Even Dumbledore praised him as the greatest genius Hogwarts has seen in a thousand years!"

Abernathy spoke seriously, and Xenophilius Lovegood looked confused.

After Abernathy finished speaking, Xenophilius Lovegood was silent for a moment, but still said with a puzzled look on his face: "I'm sorry, Mr. Abernathy, could you please explain it more clearly? I don't seem to understand what you mean."

Seeing Xenophilius Lovegood's confused look, Abernathy took out a newspaper impatiently and handed it to Xenophilius Lovegood.

The newspaper that Abernathy took out was the one that had previously published Rita Skeeter's article about Dumbledore.

Abernathy pointed at the Daily Prophet in Xenophilius Lovegood's hand and said, "Anyway, I want you to publish a report to refute the Daily Prophet! Tell readers that the reason why Dumbledore stayed with a Hogwarts freshman late at night was because the freshman was so outstanding that Dumbledore was willing to be his personal guardian."

Xenophilius Lovegood looked at the newspaper in his hand and heard Abernathy's story. He suddenly realized something and said, "I see. You want to whitewash Dumbledore? No, shouldn't the Witch Party and Dumbledore be..."

Before Xenophilius Lovegood finished speaking, he saw Abernethy frowning deeply, and heard Abernethy say with some disgust: "The point is not Dumbledore! The point is this young wizard named Wentworth, and his excellence!"

Hearing this, Xenophilius Lovegood turned around and picked up the photo again. A bold idea came to his mind. Xenophilius Lovegood held the photo in his hand and said with a slight tremor:

"Could it be that this little wizard is Gellert Grindelwald's..."

Before Xenophilius Lovegood could finish his words, Abernathy interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said word by word:

"You shouldn't care about the identity of this little wizard! You just need to follow my instructions and write a good report like this, that's all!"

Xenophilius Lovegood was getting impatient after being interrupted by Abernathy again and again, and his arrogant tone. He put the newspaper and photos on the table, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, but I can't speak out about something I don't understand, and I can't possibly publish such a report in my The Quibbler!"

Xenophilius Lovegood even used some emphasis when he spoke of my The Quibbler.

But Abernathy chuckled, then took out a thick stack of gold galleons from his pocket and placed it in front of Xenophilius Lovegood.

Although Xenophilius Lovegood seemed to swallow a mouthful of saliva when he saw the gold galleons in front of him, he finally shook his head firmly.

Seeing this, Abernathy reached into his arms again.

Seeing Abernathy's actions, Xenophilius Lovegood said quickly: "Don't waste your energy. No matter how many gold galleons you take out, I will not..."

Xenophilius Lovegood looked at Abernathy in confusion, but heard Abernathy say calmly:

"Now, I'll give you a choice, Galleons or the wand?"

Xenophilius Lovegood asked in a trembling voice:

"What do you mean?"

Abernathy looked at Xenophilius Lovegood in front of him with a sharp gaze and said in a cold tone:

"If you choose gold Galleons, then write this report according to my requirements. If you choose the magic wand, that's even easier. As long as you can defeat me, I will naturally not ask you to do anything else!"

At this point, Abernathy paused, and then said with a hint of amusement in his tone:

"I allow you to use the Dark Arts, including the Unforgivable Curses, if you can!"

As Abernathy finished speaking, the room fell into silence for a moment.

At this moment, Luna on the side suddenly said: "Excuse me, would you like to have lunch together here? Would you like some raw cheek grass juice first?"

Luna's invitation to lunch broke the silence in the room. Abernathy smiled kindly, shook his head and said, "No, we won't disturb you and your father from having lunch together!"

As he spoke, Abernathy took back his wand, put it in his arms, looked at Xenophilius Lovegood and said, "For the sake of Luna and her mother, I can give you a day to think about it. I believe you will make the right choice!"

After saying this, Abernathy stood up and walked out.

Although he was full of fear and dissatisfaction with Abernathy, Xenophilius Lovegood still fulfilled his duty as a host and also stood up and escorted Abernathy and Auston Greengrass out of the room.

Seeing them disappear, Xenophilius Lovegood walked back to the room with a worried look on his face, only to find that his daughter Luna was looking at the photo carefully.

"Luna, what are you doing?"

Luna tilted her head to look at her father and answered:

"I'm trying to see if this new student at Hogwarts is really that good."

Xenophilius Lovegood said with a smile:

"What can you tell from the photo?!"

Luna nodded, slowly put down the photo in her hand and said:

"So, why don't we ask people who know the new student if he's as good as Abernathy says? For example, the headmaster of Hogwarts!"

(End of this chapter)