Chapter 231: Unscrupulous Reporter

This time, when facing the interview, Harry took the booklet in his hand early, which made him full of confidence and at ease.

A blonde woman grabbed the front of Rita Skeeter and asked in English with an accent: "Mr. Potter, would you be willing to introduce to everyone how you made the river water part?"

Harry was well prepared for this question. "It's the Earthly Stems Summoning Record, a long but powerful Chinese spell."

"Can you explain this spell to everyone?" the reporter asked.

Harry paused and said concisely: "This is a spell that can change the terrain. To solve the problem of magic consumption, the chanting time was lengthened."

"This spell takes fifteen minutes to prepare. With such an amazing length, how did you memorize it?" The female reporter seemed unusually curious about this spell that parted the sea. Harry stood on tiptoe and looked, Rita, who didn't grab a position, took another path and went to interview Hermione instead.

"Alright, then I'll translate it for you roughly. This actually tells the method of my parting the sea. The spell is like this," Harry followed his own ideas and translated the spell randomly. "Please look at this god with a human head and a snake body, this magical animal without arms and covered with fish scales, and these Muggles who are working like cattle and horses because they reported for the civil engineering major. Don't be surprised, everyone. These things that look strange are to realize my ideas. My ideas also look a bit strange, but don't rush to wake up, everyone. Please mobilize your eyes, ears, arms, and arms to help me realize this idea, let it look not so strange..."

"This is indeed strange," the reporter interrupted him, then laughed awkwardly and smoothed her hair. "Then I want to ask, why did you think of choosing to use this spell to make the river water part, instead of going underwater yourself?"

Harry felt that every one of her questions seemed to hit the key point of why he had to start fifteen minutes late, which made him feel unusually uncomfortable.

"This is the result of our think tank discussion, thinking that although this takes a longer time, it is the safest and can complete the project without any mistakes," Harry said.

"That is to say, you think fighting with Grindylows is a risky thing, and it is possible to be defeated by them, is that so?" the reporter continued to ask.

Harry felt a bit angry all of a sudden. As expected of a foreign reporter, she liked to pick on him. He said with dissatisfaction: "Of course I have the confidence to defeat Grindylows. What I worry about is being sneak-attacked by other champions after going underwater. This is the most critical point."

"Yes, we noticed that after you made the river water part, you used invisibility to avoid conflicts with other champions. Is it because you are worried about losing in a duel?" the reporter asked another question.

Harry glanced at the booklet and said with full confidence: "I think dueling is unnecessary and not advocated. The referee group deducted points for Renata because she initiated the attack first. This is very obvious. The idea of avoiding conflict is in line with the competition's tone."

"But your behavior of avoiding dueling also led to point deduction. What do you think about this?"

"I don't think this is a reason for point deduction," Harry looked at the booklet again. "It's the organizer worrying that giving us full marks would make other champions look bad, so they made trouble out of nothing and deducted some points."

"Have you considered that if Renata didn't attack other champions underwater, but opened the treasure chest immediately, your spending time preparing the spell would instead make you fall into a lagging situation?" the reporter continued to ask.

Harry looked at the recommended answer on the booklet, and his eyebrows jumped.

"But the fact is we got first place," he said indisputably. "Why, are you not convinced?"

After sending away this annoying reporter, Harry originally wanted to say a few words to Rita. However, perhaps Rita had the confidence to fabricate a speech draft out of thin air, or perhaps the last interview left her with a shadow, she went straight away without looking back after interviewing Hermione.

After the interview, Harry returned to the train and let out a long sigh of relief, but before he could relax, he immediately thought of another thing.

"I have to find Donna, Beauxbatons seems to have some undercurrents," Harry said. "Krum told me he found Professor Harkness quietly configuring Polyjuice Potion."

"Oh, this is nothing worth being strange about," Zhang Qiu said. "He sometimes uses Polyjuice Potion to turn into others, or let his bed partner take it to turn into himself, adding a little fun."

Harry felt it was truly an eye-opener. He stammered: "But, how do you know?"

"Donna told me. In fact, we also did quite a few things together," Zhang Qiu stuck out her tongue. "If you treat her as the Harry Potter of Beauxbatons, then things are easy to handle."

"You wouldn't be doing divination things again, would you?" Harry suddenly relaxed a lot after thinking of this layer: there was no dark conspiracy, only a Zhang Qiu driven crazy by divination.

"Right, almost. You have to be caught by Snape during a night tour, and fortunately, Moody helped out, but Moody took away your Marauder's Map," Zhang Qiu said.

"This, I'm here, this is completely impossible to happen."

"So we have to use the universal assignment method," Zhang Qiu laughed triumphantly. "I appointed Donna as Harry Potter, and Barty, who didn't like her, became Snape, and Jack, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who was willing to help her, became Moody. Then, with a little guidance, the divination was reasonably fulfilled like this."

"But where did the Marauder's Map come from?" Harry felt he couldn't keep up with her thinking.

"I took her to make it, the Marauder's Map of Beauxbatons," Zhang Qiu shrugged. "During the period before the first task, after all, I have seen you make maps for Torchwood. This is actually quite easy to learn, isn't it?"

"How many bad things have you done together?" Harry shook his head. "Needless to say, the one who set the Dark Mark at the Quidditch World Cup was also you, right? And was seen from afar by Krum."

"It wasn't me, it was Cassandra," Zhang Qiu argued stubbornly.

"Fine, then there's nothing to worry about with these things," Harry breathed a sigh of relief. "Importantly, Krum told me a prophecy: on the last day, the burial ground, say that name, and then the war that originally ended continues."

"This is nothing," Zhang Qiu said indifferently. "Who knows which war and which name it refers to? In itself, this prophecy may not necessarily be related to the Triwizard Tournament."

"That's true..." Harry felt the string tightened in his mind gradually relax. "Before June 24th, I can still rest and rest."

The day after Harry finished saying "rest and rest," a copy of the Daily Prophet made his eyes go dark.

Under a color photo of Hermione smiling very brightly, there was such a terrible headline:

"Charming Miss England, Champions Fighting for Her, Bewitched"

While celebrating the victory of Harry Potter and Cedric again, we perhaps shouldn't forget a girl who played a decisive role—Rita Skeeter reports.

In the team going to France to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, besides the most excellent student Cedric and the most immeasurable genius Harry, there was also a Hogwarts student who shouldn't have participated—Hermione Granger, who was born in a Muggle family but was proficient in English, French, and German.

Miss Granger is a beautiful girl, and she is good at using this beauty. After becoming the private consultant of Alina Kaslana, this white-haired girl from Ilvermorny soon showed unusual trust in her assistant. According to multiple follow-up reports by Planet Daily, almost everyone believes that she and Alina have cultivated true love. However, just at this most critical moment, she suddenly withdrew, making Alina have to entrust this emotion to Fleur, and Fleur, who was unwilling to respond to this emotion, not only made Alina heartbroken and performed poorly, but also made the relationship between the two unusually stiff.

However, it wasn't just the Beauxbatons champions who were influenced by Miss Granger's charm.

"Krum has always been absent-minded," Sean Temple said. He was an ordinary boy at Beauxbatons and also a fan of Viktor Krum. "Ever since he was rejected after sending a dance partner invitation to Hermione, he has been out of state. I can tell."

At the end-of-term ball held at Beauxbatons, Viktor Krum, who had long been deeply in love with Miss Granger, had a big fight with his teammate and girlfriend Renata Yevgeniya Chicherina because of this matter. The heavy contradictions they couldn't cover up were seen by almost everyone at the ball, and their behavior of hostility and lack of cooperation was also directly reflected in the competition score.

At the same time, Miss Granger cunningly hid behind Professor Tang Tang Nade Fontroy. This former Auror is now an honorary alumnus of Ilvermorny and once served as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, and his social status and magic level are impeccable. Regarding Miss Granger's behavior, he expressed tolerant acquiescence.

Tang Tang Nade described Miss Granger's behavior like this: "Undoubtedly, Hermione is toward Hogwarts, but she didn't tell us anything, but acted alone, using a series of seemingly unrelated or even meaningless actions to secretly help Harry and Cedric gain an advantage. Before this, no one could guess her thoughts. Every move she made was part of the plan. I call this kind of person who is thoughtful and completes the plan alone a 'Wallfacer.' Only very excellent people can do it."

We pay tribute to the help Miss Granger gave to Hogwarts, but this behavior might not be worth imitating by everyone.

Harry put down the newspaper with a belly full of confusion. He even checked that the header of the newspaper was clearly written with the words "Daily Prophet," not "The Quibbler." ===== CHAPTER 232 =====