Chapter 146 News Report (I)
Peter Pettigrew is planning his escape.
He knew that if he did not act, once Minister of Magic Fudge had used him to gain enough fame, only death would be waiting for him.
Before that, he decided to retaliate against the people in Hogwarts who sent him to Azkaban.
After being handcuffed and shackled every day for half a month, and being paraded through the streets by Fudge in front of reporters and editors from newspapers such as the Daily Prophet and Witch Weekly, he finally found his opportunity.
—Rita Skeeter.
The journalist, who loves to fabricate information to catch the readers' attention, is trying to write a feature story for him.
When she appeared in front of him for the umpteenth time, Peter Pettigrew, whose facial features resembled a mouse, rolled his eyes twice and revealed an aggrieved expression:
"I... I am a poor man... I am always helpless..."
This really aroused Rita's great interest. She thought she was about to dig up some big news, and her eyes lit up:
"Why do you think so?"
Pettigrew shuddered inside the iron bars:
"When I was at Hogwarts... the professors didn't like me... they were mean to me... they told me I was dumb and stupid..."
Rita Dumbledore Black Skeeter's dark green shorthand pen scribbled across the paper quickly, leaving dark marks:
[Dumbledore, who was revered by many students, was extremely impatient when teaching him and destroyed the hope of a poor student. 】
She leaned forward, and even her golden curls glowed with interest:
"What about your friends at school? Have they given you any help?"
Pettigrew let out a loud sob and looked like he was going to pass out any second:
"No... I thought we were friends... Sirius, Remus..."
"It was all my own fault... They forced me to practice Animagus... Because of werewolves..."
Rita's shorthand pen moved faster than ever before, and she asked in an almost sharp and hurried tone:
"Werewolf? Who is the werewolf?"
Pettigrew covered his mouth, looking very reluctant as he had accidentally spoken out of turn.
"Don't worry, Peter, our newspaper will protect the privacy of every interviewee."
Rita tried to put the person in front of her down, but at the same time she was thinking -
Perhaps other reporters at the Daily Prophet would omit some of the material, but what did that have to do with her, Rita Skeeter?
"Okay... okay..." Pettigrew said hesitantly, "Remus Lupin, the current professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at school..."
The quill pen began to write with great vigor, the tip of the pen moving deftly across the paper.
[He was bullied by his friends... and was forced to turn into a mouse to face the terrifying werewolf...]
[One of the bullying groups, Remus Lupin, hid his werewolf identity, colluded with Dumbledore, and taught at Hogwarts...]
Peter Pettigrew touched his ear and realized that it had become a hole. Hatred for Snape surged in his heart.
"And Snape, the Potions Master at Hogwarts."
He continued to talk about his own pain, trying to discredit everyone.
"Since school days, he has never gotten along with James, Sirius, and Remus... The three of them bullied him, so he could only vent his hatred towards them on me... I'm not that strong... I had no choice but to let him bully me..."
"You had a very unfortunate student life. Hogwarts was full of bullying and discrimination..." Rita showed a sympathetic and pitiful expression. "What happened later? How did you become what you are now?"
Her appetite had been completely whetted, and she decided to turn down other interviews and instead spend the entire day digging for information from Peter Pettigrew.
"I was afraid—He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named—I was terrified—I had to turn into a mouse—"
"I went to the Weasleys - they had modified a lot of Muggle items without permission, cars..."
After an hour of revealing the secrets of his former friends and the Weasley family, he turned the topic to Jane.
After her Animagus identity was exposed, she had become his number one enemy.
"The situation at Hogwarts is worse now than it was when I was there... there's a terrible Slytherin student... Jade Jane... she..."
He shuddered. When he thought of Jian Yu, he thought of those horrible snakes that tightly twisted and compressed his internal organs. He broke out in a cold sweat and felt his body begin to ache again. He couldn't utter a word.
But Rita was more anxious than him. She shook her head left and right, trying to see his expression clearly. Even the earrings began to shake and collide with each other, making a sound:
"What did she do? I think the school is a pure land for underage wizards to grow up. It is my responsibility to call on the public to maintain the morals and order there."
Peter Pettigrew took two deep breaths, as if this gave him the courage to continue:
"She is spreading an extremely scary, cursed black magic item in the school!"
"That kind of prop has a strong attraction to wizards, and it is more tempting than Veela. As long as your hands touch it, your eyes, hands, and body will never be able to leave it..."
"Those little wizards would keep stroking it obsessively from morning till night until late at night...forgetting to sleep...forgetting everything that happened around them..."
Rita was so shocked that she dropped the shorthand pen in her hand.
She caught it quickly, thinking to herself that it was a close call, as she almost broke her eating utensils.
"It's just horrible."
She sighed, and the movement of her hands writing almost left afterimages.
Rita continued to agree with him, in order to induce him to reveal more secrets:
"How could Dumbledore allow a werewolf to be a professor? How could he allow a student who spreads dark magic props to stay in Hogwarts?"
Seeing her behavior, Pettigrew seemed to have found an ally and shook his body in fear.
"I...I believe you...You must not tell anyone...She will kill me..."
Rita almost patted her chest and promised him that she would never tell anyone else, which prompted Pettigrew to continue:
"It will confuse students' minds, they will not go to class, they will not do their homework... they will hold illegal gatherings... they will discuss how to fight against the professor..."
"In the middle of the night, they were talking in their sleep, saying things like 'take up your wands and duel', 'fight to the death', 'either you die or I live'!"
"It's a pity that their parents have been kept in the dark until now, and have no idea that their children have been cursed into that state!"
Rita almost lost her grip on her fast-writing quill again.
This Hogwarts sounds like it has become some kind of illegal organization, and all the students are reserve dark wizards!
And this Jian Yu is the leader of the dark wizards, and he seems to be controlling all the students!
She had already started thinking quickly about the title of the report. The information uncovered in this interview was enough for her to publish a special issue!
She, Rita Skeeter, is bound to become the most famous and household name reporter!
"What is the name of this black magic prop?" she asked anxiously.
Seeing that he was about to achieve his goal of bringing misfortune to Jian Yu, Peter Pettigrew replied to her with a hint of secret joy:
“Students call it a gaming console.”
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