Hogwarts: From Luna's family to god

The interview officially began. As a reporter, Rita Skeeter's interviewing skills are worthy of recognition. She always asks the right questions.

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"Mr. Lovegood, with your knowledge of magic, it's hard to believe that you are only in your second year." Rita Skeeter stood up and the shorthand quill flew back into her bag.

"Maybe I have a chance to witness... the birth of the second Albus Dumbledore... Of course, according to Headmaster Dumbledore, you will only be the first Wizzet Lovegood."

"Actually, I have a question." Wizzet took his hand out of his pocket, "Why would you... discredit Headmaster Dumbledore?"

"Very interesting question." Rita Skeeter raised her eyebrows, "Many people don't like those who are high and mighty... and I am willing to pull them down from the altar."

"Just like that Gilderoy Lockhart... and Headmaster Dumbledore... The more glorious and tall, the greater the shadow behind them... This is my opinion."

"To be honest, after talking with Headmaster Dumbledore today, I seem to have a little change in my opinion of him. He is so powerful, but he is so gentle..."

"Now his style is actually more in line with my thoughts... Why did he change? Mr. Lovegood... ...Is it because of you?"

Before Vizette could answer, a strange voice came from outside the door, "Mr. Lovegood, are you in there? The award ceremony is about to begin."

"What a pleasant exchange." Rita Skeeter helped open the door, "Looking forward to our next meeting... I hope that one day, I can also dig out some shadows from you."

"Really?" Vizette smiled slightly, "In fact, I also look forward to digging out some secrets from you."

"For example, why can you always make timely reports... Even get some photos that you shouldn't get... I believe this will be an interesting process."

He seemed to remember something, "By the way! Ms. Skeeter, in fact, you didn't spell some academic words correctly, but it doesn't matter, I corrected them for you."

"Corrected it for me?" Rita Skeeter's face changed, and she ran quickly towards the parchment scroll floating in the air...

Chapter 69 Illegal Animagus

[Blonde girl Rita Skeeter, now 42 years old, still has a fascinating temperament. Even the rising star of Hogwarts who had conflicts with her in the past could not resist her charm. ]

Seeing the first paragraph at the beginning, Rita Skeeter was relieved.

When she heard what Wezzet said, she thought that Wezzet had cast some kind of magic and directly changed the content of the article.

"Academic vocabulary is not spelled correctly?" She exhaled, and a trace of mockery appeared at the corner of her mouth, "It seems... there is a gap between Ravenclaw and Ravenclaw..."

She was confident that she would not make mistakes in the relevant academic vocabulary. At most, she quoted a more ancient spelling.

After all, when she was practicing Animagus, the main reference books were from the Middle Ages, so it was normal to have some differences.

She had forgotten the specific name of the book, but she remembered that the author of the book was a witch named Cliona, who was an Animagus and appeared on the Chocolate Frog card.

Ms. Sophie Cleona, who is here today, is the direct descendant of this book.

"No! He just said he helped me correct it? Did he really touch my interview transcript?" Rita Skeeter's face changed, and she quickly turned to the interview content at the back.

Those academic words were really modified, like annotations, with a black circle, a small correction and message.

[Ms. Skeeter, the spelling of these words is very interesting. You can use "From Moon Dew Flower to Full Moon, Animagus Detailed Explanation" as a reference...]

Before she finished reading this line, Rita Skeeter subconsciously clenched the parchment, and a faint feeling of uneasiness rose in her heart.

[When I was writing my thesis, this book gave me a lot of inspiration. In fact, the spelling in it was corrected by the author's descendants. After all, the readers are modern wizards...]

[If the article does not use modern vocabulary to facilitate understanding, I am afraid that no one will be willing to read it, and they may even doubt your professionalism. Here, its spelling should be like this...]

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"You actually borrowed my words?" Rita Skeeter adjusted her glasses and turned to the next page, one page after another.

Only in the first annotation, Vizet wrote a lot of extra content as an explanation, and the subsequent annotations were relatively brief.

The more she flipped through, the more obvious Rita Skeeter's uneasiness became.

Her fingers pinched the footer of the second-to-last page, and she seemed to have lost some courage, making it difficult for her to generate a little strength to turn to the next page.

Animagus is an extremely difficult transformation magic, but Vizet really knows it too well, as if he was the inventor of it.

Has he... discovered my secret?

A trace of cold sweat seeped out of her forehead, and more and more cold sweat seeped out, covering her forehead.

Hualala...

The sound of turning pages is like thunder. There is a large blank area on the last page, and there is a picture drawn on that area;

It is a picture of an insect, not very detailed, and you can only barely see that it is a beetle.

Most of the details of this beetle are omitted, only the marks around the antennae are fully depicted;

The marks were very special, like glasses covered with gems, like the glasses that Rita Skeeter wore.

"How is it possible!" Rita Skeeter's eyes widened, her figure trembled, and the sweat on her forehead dripped onto the lenses, making it difficult for her to see clearly.

She clumsily wiped her glasses, clumsily opened her crocodile leather handbag, and clumsily took out the shorthand quill.

"How could he know? How could he know so clearly?" She raised her head quickly, trying to find something.

She finally found the figure of Vizet, but she felt that it was not a figure of a person, but a Dementor in a tattered cloak, escorting her to Azkaban...

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Compared to Gilderoy Lockhart, Rita Skeeter is a qualified Ravenclaw.

However, there is actually a very similar point between them, that is, they will show off like a male peacock.

During the interview, Rita Skeeter's professionalism in Animagus is not like a reporter who focuses on manipulating public opinion.

During this period, the various questions mentioned by Rita Skeeter were always extremely sharp and incisive, and they could also trigger Wezzet's associations and help him advance his thesis on the "Second Form of Animagus".

This also aroused Wezzet's suspicion.

Because Rita Skeeter knew too much about Animagus;

When he was instructing Luna on Animagus before, there were places that needed special explanations, but Rita Skeeter had no threshold to understand;

So... could Rita Skeeter be... an illegal Animagus?

After all, he knew that James Potter, Sirius Black, and that Peter were all illegal Animagus, so the appearance of another illegal Animagus was not so unusual.

Since such a guess has been made, it should be argued to determine the truth of this guess.

Rita Skeeter showed off the shorthand quill pen, saying that the shorthand quill pen was well trained and could communicate with her mind.

The shorthand quill is a common magic prop that contains magic similar to Legilimency, which can write text based on what the user hears and thinks.

However, in general, the text written by the shorthand quill is relatively dry, far from the effect of Rita Skeeter's shorthand quill.

This situation means that the shorthand quill knows Rita Skeeter very well and can master Rita Skeeter's unique writing style.

In this way, the advantages of this shorthand quill have become a breakthrough, allowing Vizette to explore Rita Skeeter's secrets.

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Although Lockhart is an out-and-out scum as Rita Skeeter said, Vizette must admit that he has learned a lot from Lockhart.

The "fulcrum theory" extended by the forgetfulness spell allows Vizette to go further in mental magic, and also allows him to pry the shorthand quill through the "fulcrum theory".

If you want to find out whether Rita Skeeter is an illegal Animagus, then the "fulcrum" to pry is naturally Animagus.

Vizet doesn't even need to do anything more, just continue the interview, slowly pry with Animagus as the "fulcrum", and finally the shorthand quill will give him the answer he wants.

It turns out that his guess is correct, Rita Skeeter is indeed an illegal Animagus.

The form of Animagus is also very pleasing, the beetle is very concealed, and it can be seen everywhere, which is indeed difficult to detect, which is very suitable for Rita Skeeter's profession.

Vizet shook his head gently, "Being able to make timely reports... Being able to get photos that should not be obtained... It turns out that it is because of "eavesdropping"... The answer is really on the puzzle."

"What are you going to do?" At this moment, Rita Skeeter's voice sounded from behind.

Although she tried to keep her tone calm, her voice was inevitably trembling, indicating that she was not calm at all at this moment...

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The "eavesdropping" mentioned here is "bugging", which not only means "eavesdropping", but also means "turning into a beetle".

Chapter 70 Thank you Yaya for not digging out my potion

The bottom line of the magical world is the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. On top of this, the Ministry of Magic will be much more flexible in enforcing various laws.

Normally, as long as there are no extremely strict explicit regulations, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement can freely weigh which types of cases should be invested more in law enforcement resources;

Some cases where the investment of resources and the return are unbalanced are often neglected or even abandoned...

Unless there is definite evidence, and the suspect's own value is large enough, the Ministry of Magic will naturally enforce the law strictly to ensure that the suspect pays enough price and compensation...

Just like the illegal Animagus Rita Skeeter, it is very suitable for this situation, which is why she is panicking.

In order to get exclusive and explosive news, she often takes special measures, using the convenience of the beetle Animagus to conduct more covert investigations to obtain some secret intelligence;

Once the identity of the Animagus is made public, fines and imprisonment are only the apparent punishments. Her biggest worry is that she will no longer be able to work as a reporter because her Animagus form is exposed.

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"What exactly are you going to do?" Rita Skeeter asked again, her tone becoming more urgent.

"Is it considered completing the previous goal? Digging out some secrets about you..." Vizette said, "As for what to do, there are only three things for now..."

"Hurry up!" Rita Skeeter's eyes flickered, and she interrupted Vizette somewhat rudely.

Vizette said slowly, "First, reconsider the interview manuscript, those sentences like 'irresistible charm'... I don't want anyone to misunderstand, and don't fool yourself."