themonasnovels Chapter 176 Nicole May's Story
Chapter 176 Nicole May's Story
Chapter 176 Nicole May's Story
The wizarding media is roughly divided into two camps.
The first is the official media. They include newspapers such as "Information of the Ministry of Magic" and "Daily Wizard", which are completely the mouthpiece of the Ministry of Magic.
These state media are also the least popular newspapers among readers, especially the Daily Wizard.
A powerful wizard once commented: Their analysis of problems does not involve the core essence, and most of the time they are only mobilizing or expressing emotions, which belong to second-rate newspapers!
The second is the mainstream media, including a series of newspapers or magazines such as "Daily Prophet", "Wizard Weekly", "Quieker".
Among them, the Daily Prophet is the most popular newspaper in the UK.
It is not an official media, but because this newspaper can have a great influence on public opinion in the wizarding world in Britain, it will lean towards the Ministry of Magic.
Of course, according to the disclosure of "Wizard Weekly", the Ministry of Magic funded the "Daily Prophet" with a large sum of Galleons.
In general, the "Daily Prophet" is more concerned about the sales of the newspaper, otherwise it would not let a thorn like Rita Skeeter publish articles on it.
Rita is undoubtedly a leader in the media industry. Her articles are frequent readers of major newspapers, and her coverage is extremely wide... news about terrorist attacks, major events, Ministry of Magic activities, etc.
Occasionally, Rita also publishes biographies of influential figures, which are quite popular with readers who eat melons.
Compared with Rita, although Lovegood is the editor-in-chief and has his own magazine, the sales volume is undoubtedly much worse.
"The Quibbler" translated into Muggle magazines is probably "Story Club", "Unsolved Mysteries", "Discovering Aliens" and the like.
It's only popular with a small group of readers, like... sand-sculpting schoolchildren like Cedric.
Although the children's money is not much, it is very easy to earn.
For example, this year's "The Quibbler-Christmas Special" is obviously only different in the cover, but the content is the same, so Cedric bought all seven cover magazines for his collection.
Rita Skeeter didn't bother to make such little money.
There are many reasons for her success. The most important point is that as a mature reporter, she understands the deepest expectations of readers.
What are readers' expectations?
What readers are most looking forward to is the fall of the goddess, the return of the prodigal son, the collapse of idols, the divorce of star wizards, and entertainment gossip...
Rita understands this, and her coverage often focuses on prominent figures in the wizarding world.The higher the fame and limelight, the more in line with Rita's expectations, as well as the readers' expectations.
For example, she wrote a biography for the previous Hogwarts headmaster, Armando Dippet - "Armando Dippet: Master or Idiot?" ".
In Dumbledore's words, only a quarter of the content is true, while the remaining three quarters are pure fabrications.
But it's the fake and the real that makes this book a bestseller.
Again, this time Rita has her eye on Newt.
She wrote in the newspaper that Newt was a scumbag and abandoned Serafina Picquery, the former president of the Magical Congress of the United States, and hinted in a grass-snake-gray-line style that Picquery's child might be related to Newt.
To create a rich background for the story, it is best to involve the grievances and grievances of two generations... Rita is well versed in Tang's acting method!
Although Rita hates it, I have to say that she is well-informed and can always get a lot of first-hand top-secret information, holding the lifeblood of most wizards.
Just like Newt was going to secretly go to Romania to unleash the fire dragon, Rita actually knew it too!
Many people want to find out the source of her information, but so far no one knows.
In Rita's words, she has a group of well-trained little birds, which adds to her mystery.
After dinner, Newt went to his room with his treasure chest.
The old man is going to strengthen the box, and check to see if there are any cuties who escaped in the chaos.
He also wrote a letter to condemn Rita and asked her to apologize in the newspaper immediately, otherwise he would go through legal procedures and send it to the lawyer Han.
William didn't quite approve of this method. Newt was too decent. From this point of view, he was indeed a standard Hufflepuff.
But the consequences of decency are also obvious. Rita is an unscrupulous reporter. After receiving the letter of reprimand, she will only extract words from the letter and take them out of context.
For example, in the next issue of the newspaper, William is likely to see... a righteous reporter being threatened by Newt Scamander or something.
Grandpa Newt is indeed an expert in magical creatures, but to deal with this kind of reporter, the methods should be more drastic.
For example: decapitate Rita's favorite animal, put the head in her bedroom, and if you don't believe her, she won't shut up...
The classic fragment of "The Godfather" has always been William's favorite.
Of course, William just rants, he doesn't want to enter Azkaban yet.
After Newt left, Perenal, a kind old man, took Hermione to her room.
Bobocha swaggered behind the two of them.
Nico took William for a walk in the manor.
Nicolas May's birthday party was said to be a party, but only a few of them attended.
For more than 600 years, the old man has never held a so-called banquet, and few outsiders have set foot in this manor.
Regardless of whether Nicole has a birthday or not, he will invite William over, so this Christmas holiday, William and Hermione will spend at the manor.
"When you left, you were in big trouble." Nico laughed as he walked on the flat path.
"No little wizard has flooded the Slytherin lounge yet."
"I'm sorry too..." William scratched his head, he would probably be killed by Snape if he went back.
"What's going on there now?"
"Don't worry, kid." Nico patted William on the shoulder.
"Albus is very powerful. As long as he has a wand, he can easily restore everything to its original state."
There was a special meaning in Nicolas May's words, but William didn't feel it.
"William, I invited you here because I want to talk to you...to talk to you alone. I'm afraid the explanation in the letter won't be clear."
William sighed. He felt that there was chaos recently, and he also had a lot of questions to ask.
"Let's talk about the daytime first." Nico walked slowly. "You've heard Newt talk about sirens, haven't you?"
"Yes, he also mentioned Death, and Mercury even said a different version."
"Well, I know, there are so many things that make people really confused." Niko laughed.
"When I was exposed to these things, I was not much better than you."
"Tonight, kid, do you want to hear my story?" Nico blinked.
William nodded, and the old man led him into a magnificent building.
The two sat down on the dark hand-chiseled dragon leather chair made of black walnut.
Nick Flamel clasped his hands together, looked at the ceiling, and said after a while:
"If you want to know my story, you have to start with Death and the three brothers.
That’s right, this is a different story from what you know.”
Nico snapped his fingers, and Schubert's string quartet "Death and the Maiden" slowly sounded in the room.
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(End of this chapter)