Late at night, when Rita Skeeter returned to her home, her face was still full of excitement. Her recent report about Dumbledore had caused a great controversy in the wizarding world, which led to a big sale of the current issue of The Daily Prophet, and she also received a generous reward.

Although at the same time, The Daily Prophet and herself also received many complaints from readers, Rita Skeeter didn't care. After all, real money is the most real things. A hater is still a fan, and a black fan is still a red fan.

Rita Skeeter returned home. Although it was late at night, she could not hide her inner happiness. She opened the wine cabinet at her door, took out a bottle of red wine, poured herself a glass, and waved her hand gently. The lights in the room lit up instantly.

However, as the lights came on, Rita Skeeter was horrified to find that there was an older wizard sitting on the sofa in her room, with his head down, silently playing with his wand.

And behind that wizard, there was even a young wizard standing, holding a wand, his eyes always fixed on him.

These two people were, of course, Abernathy and Auston Greengrass, who had been waiting at Rita Skeeter's house.

As soon as she got home, Rita Skeeter was caught off guard and was startled by the sudden scene, and the wine glass in her hand fell involuntarily.

"Wingardium Leviosa!"

Seeing the wine glass in Rita Skeeter's hand fall, Auston Greengrass, who was standing behind Abernathy, waved his hand gently, and the levitation spell accurately acted on Rita Skeeter's fallen wine glass, and not even a drop of the red wine in the glass fell out.

As a reporter for the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter considered herself to be well-informed. If she were in another place or a different scene, and saw a wizard who could perform such a subtle levitation spell and control magic so well, she would probably be unable to help but praise him.

However, if it was a wizard who inexplicably appeared in her home late at night, Rita Skeeter would feel a surge of palpitations in her heart.

Especially now, when the other party was just looking at her quietly, as if sizing her up, Rita Skeeter didn't even dare to breathe.

For a moment, the room fell into an eerie silence.

After a moment, the wizard sitting on his sofa slowly asked, "Rita Skeeter? Did you write the article about Albus Dumbledore in the Daily Prophet?"

Hearing the other party's question, Rita Skeeter seemed to understand in an instant the other party's purpose of sneaking into her room in the middle of the night.

So, Rita Skeeter quickly said, "I did write that article, but it was only for the sake of newspaper sales. If the principal is not satisfied, I can correct it immediately!"

In Rita Skeeter's opinion, Abernathy was most likely sent by Dumbledore, so she played the emotional card as soon as she opened her mouth.

As a wizard who graduated from Hogwarts, Rita Skeeter had no problem calling Dumbledore the headmaster.

But to Rita Skeeter's surprise, the other party chuckled disdainfully, and then said nonchalantly: "Whether Dumbledore lives or dies has nothing to do with me. It's just that your report made our young master very unhappy!"

Hearing Abernathy's answer, Rita Skeeter was confused again. She didn't expect that the other party was not Dumbledore's man! As for the little master mentioned by the other party, Rita Skeeter was also confused and didn't know what it meant.

But then, Abernathy stretched out his hand, pointed to a sofa next to him, and motioned Rita Skeeter to come and sit down.

Rita Skeeter did not dare to delay and hurried over. Under the control of Auston Greengrass, the glass of red wine slowly floated over and was placed next to Rita Skeeter.

Seeing Rita Skeeter sitting down, Abernathy didn't waste any words. He took out a piece of letter paper from his pocket and handed it to Rita Skeeter.

What was written on the letter paper was the press release that Rozier had written personally at Wentworth's request.

"Is there any problem with publishing the contents of this paper in the Daily Prophet under your name?"

Rita Skeeter quickly took the manuscript handed over by Abernathy with both hands and read it carefully.

However, after reading the entire manuscript, Rita Skeeter shook her head repeatedly and said bitterly, "Sir..., there is no way this kind of manuscript will appear in the Daily Prophet, even if it's signed with my name!"

Seeing Abernathy frowning, Rita Skeeter swallowed and quickly explained:

"Sir, it's not that I don't want to help, but I'm just a small reporter. There are editors-in-chief and editor-in-chief above me! This report is full of flattery and praise for the young Hogwarts wizard. Even looking at this report alone, Dumbledore is just his bodyguard."

"But the problem is that the little wizard is just an unknown person in the magic world! It is impossible for the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet to agree to spend so much time and effort to introduce a little wizard who is not famous in the magic world!"

"Unless this little wizard has some special identity, for example... he is Dumbledore's illegitimate son?"

Rita Skeeter looked at Abernathy and asked tentatively.

After hearing her words, Abernathy flew into a rage and said angrily: "Bullshit! Dumbledore? Is he worthy?!"

Abernathy's reaction really frightened Rita Skeeter. Rita Skeeter could only say with some grievance:

"Then there is nothing we can do! And looking at this report, Dumbledore is a good headmaster who loves students and cares about their safety! This is completely contrary to my previous report! The Daily Prophet will not slap itself in the face so quickly."

At this point, Rita Skeeter even leaned in Abernathy's direction and said mysteriously:

"Moreover, as far as I know, some people in the Ministry of Magic are very afraid of Dumbledore. You know, the Daily Prophet is actually very closely connected with the Ministry of Magic. I knew this news, so I dared to write that report about Dumbledore."

"But this press release portrays Dumbledore in a much more positive light. So, there must be someone in the Ministry of Magic who doesn't want to see such a report, and the Daily Prophet will definitely not approve it!"

After hearing Rita Skeeter's explanation, Abernathy realized that there was so much water inside a newspaper.

"So you're useless, right?"

Abernathy suddenly spoke up.

(End of this chapter)