Scott said: “So people probably won’t take the content of this comment seriously. But combined with the actions of the All-Witch Conference, it may not be the case.”
“It doesn’t matter, I’m ready.” Eddie said confidently, “The All-Witch Conference’s public opinion war is doomed to fail.”
Scott had no objection to this.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that Eddie can reverse public opinion or even affect the results of the ministerial election by publishing a few articles alone.
The main reason is that the All-Witch Conference is already at a disadvantage.
After Medea was cursed and fell asleep, the possibility of Mr. Graves becoming the new minister has been greatly reduced.
The so-called public opinion war is just a desperate effort by other people in the All-Witch Conference.
Even without Eddie’s help in public opinion, Mr. Graves’s chances of being elected are still lower than Ms. Burns.
William, who has turned undercover, is not optimistic about the victory of the All-Witch Conference.
The reason why Scott and Eddie spent their energy to participate in this matter is just to completely eliminate the possibility of Mr. Graves being elected as minister.
They want to help Milton and get Mr. Graves out of the state of being closely watched.
Of course, Eddie is also interested.
The development of things did not exceed their expectations.
Every day that followed, reporters published similar commentary articles in the Daily Prophet, and the attacks and smears on Dumbledore and Ms. Burns in the articles became more and more obvious.
It was not just the Daily Prophet, but the more entertaining Evening Prophet even had gossip about Dumbledore and Ms. Burns.
I don’t know who secretly took a photo of Dumbledore and Ms. Burns talking together.
In this photo, the two of them looked a little close.
In short, this gossip caused an uproar in Hogwarts.
Unlike the previous commentary articles in the Daily Prophet, those articles, although they interpreted Dumbledore maliciously from a political perspective, did not arouse much interest.
But as soon as this gossip, which was obviously false, came out, many people immediately became excited.
Although most students did not believe that there was really anything between Dumbledore and Ms. Burns, after all, Dumbledore was already a hundred-year-old man, some students talked about it with relish.
Even some students who did not believe it were happy to see such a “joke”.
Seeing the reactions of those people, Eddie said to Milton: “See, I told you that people just like scandals. They only care about the fun they get from it, not whether the scandal is true or false.”
“I didn’t expect that some of the students at Hogwarts were affected by this kind of news.” Milton said worriedly.
Scott said: “As you can imagine, the situation outside the school is even worse.”
“It seems that ‘Hollingworth’ needs to appear next.” Eddie said impatiently.
Before this, “Hollingworth” still represented some vague comments and did not fight back against those slanders.
“What a pity.” Eddie looked lonely like a master, “The Queen of News has been defeated by my previous attack. She may not appear again with her reputation damaged.”
“It’s just that she may not appear in person.” Scott said.
Rita Slater has long been a member of the All Witches’ Coven, and she will definitely use her advantages to contribute to the organization’s actions.
Even if she doesn’t go into battle in person, she may instruct others or provide intelligence.
“What are you going to do?” Milton asked Eddie, “Will you publish an article to clarify for Principal Dumbledore and Ms. Burns?”
Eddie shook his head directly, “Clarification, no need. What I want to do is to add fuel to the fire and turn one side’s public opinion attack into a real public opinion war.”
He patted Milton on the shoulder.
“Let me make it clear in advance that I will attack your father, find fault with him, and even slander and discredit him. Moreover, the content will become more and more exaggerated.”
Milton was stunned, “What’s the use of this?”
Eddie laughed, “People are always easily swept up by public opinion, and always like to be smart.”
“Before I attacked Mr. Graves, many people might be influenced by those articles and have a bad impression of Dumbledore and Burns.”
“But as long as I increase the offensive here, even more and more exaggerated, they will spontaneously “wake up.”
“They will realize that this mutual attack is just a mutual attack caused by the election of the Minister of Magic.”
“At that time, the “smart people” who think they have seen through this method will use what they think is very rational , complacent, and condescending attitude towards the exchanges between the two sides. “
“They will enjoy the farce and will no longer believe those slanderous words.”
Roger rarely praised Eddie, “It’s amazing, it seems that you have understood this very thoroughly.”
Eddie put his hands on his hips and smiled complacently, “Hehe, the future media king is not a joke.”
Milton spoke up at this time, “I think I understand what you mean, Eddie.”
Eddie asked him, “What do you think, you really don’t care?”
Milton shook his head decisively, “I really don’t care, just do it according to your ideas, as long as the result is good.”
Then, he muttered in a low voice, “I will not read the newspapers for the next few days at most.”
Scott laughed secretly.
Sure enough, Milton did not have no complaints about Mr. Graves.
The subsequent development of the incident was similar to what Eddie had expected.
When “Hollingworth” officially stated his position, the war of public opinion between the two sides began.
The planned slander and defamation of Dumbledore and Burns by the All-Witch Coven also completely turned into a farce in the eyes of many people.
In terms of gossip and tidbits, Eddie’s experience is much richer than those reporters who serve the All-Witch Coven.
He seized on Mr. Graves’s behavior of falling in love with someone else and abandoning his wife and children, and made up many very exciting stories.
People like his stories, just like reading a serialized melodramatic novel, indulging in the exaggerated and tortuous plots, and following them every day.
Of course, such an effect can be achieved thanks to Mrs. Zabini’s legendary experience in the past.
Although Milton wanted to maintain the mentality of out of sight, out of mind, he still couldn’t help but care about the progress, and these things also caused him some trouble.
As a poor little person abandoned by Mr. Graves in Eddie’s writing, he received many sympathetic and pitying eyes.
This made him, who has always been very sensitive, very uncomfortable.
This is not over yet. “Hollingworth” is still attacking Mr. Graves in all aspects.
After all, Mr. Graves is not only criticized for his private life.
In terms of political capital, his disadvantages and shortcomings are also obvious.
Compared with Ms. Burns, his previous position was not high enough, and he did not have enough time to emerge in politics.
In this way, time came to the last day of September.
On this day, Ms. Burns, the director of the Department of Law Enforcement, was successfully elected as the new British Minister of Magic.
And, after the news was announced, more and more eyes gathered on Milton with sympathy, pity, gloating, etc.
But Milton did not have time to care about these.
That night, he finally received a message from Mr. Graves again through the [Magic Phone].
After talking with Mr. Graves, Milton told Scott and the others, “My dad said that he was probably abandoned by the entire witch council. They were angry about the failure and decided not to give him any political support.”
Eddie shrugged his shoulders, “Obviously, Ms. Burns will transfer your dad from the position of Secretary General and replace him with her own trusted subordinates after she takes office.”
“My dad said the same thing.” Milton said, “He said that although he may not give any support anymore, it may be a momentary angry remark. But his value of use will indeed decrease, and there will not be so many people watching him.”
Scott said, “This is a good thing. The deeper you get involved, the more dangerous it is.”
Milton smiled.
“My dad also said that his marriage to Mrs. Zabini was the result of the Slytherin lady’s leadership. He and Mrs. Zabini have never been close, and they will divorce soon.”
Hearing him say this, Scott and the other three were stunned for a moment.
But they quickly reacted and began to congratulate Milton, saying that his family would be restored.
As for what they thought in their hearts, no one said it.
The next day, October arrived.
The atmosphere in Hogwarts gradually became tense.
According to the agreement, after October, professors will start signing letters of recommendation for students they like.
All students who want to go to the Triwizard Tournament have started to take action.
Everyone wants to be the first person to collect 5 letters of recommendation, or at least the top 25.
Only in this way can they represent Hogwarts to exchange with Beauxbatons, or even become warriors to participate in the competition.
Everyone is about to explode after enduring for a month.
This time, everyone is an opponent, and it depends on who will collect enough letters of recommendation first.
It happened to be Saturday, and Scott came to Professor Flitwick’s office early in the morning.
“Oh, I know you will come, Scott.” Professor Flitwick said with a smile, “Of course, I think you will be on the list of students going to Beauxbatons.”
Scott also laughed, “Thank you, professor, I have such confidence.”
“Very good.”
Professor Flitwick quickly wrote the letter of recommendation and handed it to Scott.
“Go find other professors quickly, I won’t waste your time. Come to me again after you confirm that you have got the quota.”
Scott agreed, bowed, and left.
He came to Professor McGonagall’s office.
“Scott? I know why you’re here.” Professor McGonagall said with a smile, “Of course, you are one of the best students in Hogwarts, I will recommend you a book.”
She wrote a recommendation letter neatly.
Scott also thanked and left.
At the door, he met Harry and the others.
“Oh, Scott, you got a recommendation letter from Professor McGonagall!”
Hermione glanced at the parchment in Scott’s hand.
“How many did you get?” she asked nervously.
“Two.” Scott took out another parchment signed by Professor Flitwick.
“Congratulations, you are really fast.” Harry said.
Scott nodded, “Do you want to try it too?”
“We may succeed, right?” Ron was a little embarrassed, “I mean, Harry is a celebrity, and Hermione’s grades are very good.”
“Oh, don’t say that, Ron!” Harry was also embarrassed.
Obviously, he didn’t like Ron mentioning his fame.
Scott’s face remained unchanged, “Of course, I wish you good luck.”
“Thank you,” Hermione said. “I think it is possible that we can get a recommendation. After all, as far as I know, you are not over 17 years old.”
“Come on.” Scott waved his hand, turned and left.
In the following time, Scott visited Professor Victor, Professor Babling, and Professor Slughorn, and successfully obtained 5 recommendation letters.
Because Professor Slughorn pulled him to chat for a while, when he came to the principal’s office, Cedric was already there.
“Oh, Scott, you’re the second one.” Cedric said with a friendly smile.
Scott sighed, “It seems I’m still not as popular as you, Cedric.”
“Don’t say that.” Cedric said very modestly, “I think it’s because I’m just a few months older than you and have reached the age limit, so the professors simply agreed to my application.”
Dumbledore took the five recommendation letters from Scott and said cheerfully: “You are all excellent students that I am optimistic about. I believe that you will be able to represent Hogwarts and show your excellence.”
Scott and Cedric thanked them and left together.
After leaving the principal’s office, Cedric said to Scott, “Although it’s a bit cunning to say this, I still want to say it. Fortunately, your age is not up to the standard, Scott, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have the confidence to be elected to Hogwarts.” warrior.”
Scott laughed, “Oh, are you confident now? You know, there will definitely be seventh grade students from Hogwarts participating.”
Cedric naturally showed a confident demeanor, “Of course, since I intend to participate in it, it means I have confidence in myself.”
“Then I have to say it.” Scott said, “If the rule over the age of 17 is dead, if there is a chance to bypass this rule, I will also participate in the competition.”
Cedric was shocked at first when he heard this, but then he laughed again, “If you can find a way to bypass the regulations, it will only prove that you are indeed more suitable to be a warrior than me. I will also congratulate you then, after all, we represent It’s all about Hogwarts.”
“You guy.” Scott laughed, “I have to say, you are really a good person.”
Cedric shook his head and patted Scott on the shoulder again, “I want to remind you, Scott, that’s just your assumption. I haven’t given up yet.”
“Then let’s talk about it then.” Scott said, “Of course, if you are the warrior representing Hogwarts, I will also sincerely congratulate you.”
“Thanks?”
“There’s no need to say thank you so early. Maybe the method of choosing a warrior will be beyond your expectations, and I will successfully overcome that rule.”
“Then let’s wait and see.”
Happy New Year to all my readers!
