Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 534 Big News
"What if that person escapes?"

Jack's words made Charles frown.

If a wizard who has a deep relationship with Muggles wants to hide, it will be difficult for wizards to find him.

For example, if a guy who turned into a mouse didn't hide in the Weasley family but somewhere in the UK, he could really hide there forever.

Charles pinched his chin and said, "Then we have to find him first. Where do you think he would be now?"

Jack replied: "Why don't you go to New York First People's Hospital and look for it."

Charles couldn't believe that the old man was playing a joke from his memory, and found out that he was wrong.

He subconsciously thought that the man would run away after his secret was exposed, forgetting that he didn't know about it and was still lying in the hospital like other wizards.

"That's easy." Charles said with a wicked smile.

Jack asked curiously, "What are you going to do?"

He knew very well that if this grandson wanted to do something bad, he would be very mean.

"Nothing." Charles smiled, "I just happen to have a bottle of drink here."

Jack was speechless. This guy was really bad.

After Legilimency and a bottle of Ganges water were administered, a patient's condition, which had been improving, suddenly worsened. Everyone became nervous, thinking that the poison had taken effect.

At Dumbledore's request, Charles invited Slughorn and other potion masters who were researching the antidote for werewolves to come for support.

By the weekend, Snape also appeared in the United States.

"Here." Snape handed Charles at least twenty pounds of parchment. "Your homework."

Charles said helplessly: "In fact, you could have accidentally lost it along the way."

Snape just sneered, turned and left the International Confederation of Wizards headquarters.

There is no point in talking to Charles. I can't waste my precious time on such things. Greater challenges are waiting for me.

Charles was just about to go out for a walk when someone called him from behind.

These days Rita has been digging up all kinds of news in New York, sending all of it to the Daily Prophet.

Charles asked her, "Miss Skeeter, do you have any latest news for me?"

Rita said: "I just heard the latest news that the culprit of this incident is a wizard from outside the earth."

Charles nodded, thinking that this statement was not wrong.

Rita didn't think he really believed it, and whispered business: "Are you free tomorrow night? Someone sent a letter to my room last night with important news, asking me to go alone and not tell anyone."

As she spoke, she took out a letter from her purse. The words on the letter were cut out from newspapers and pasted together. She told the letter to be delivered to the designated location at three in the morning.

"This must be a great clue." Rita said in a professional tone, "The other party is very worried about being found out, so he used this method to contact us."

"But I'm worried about some danger. Dumbledore is too conspicuous. There may be someone else watching him, but they certainly won't pay attention to you."

Charles thought she had a point.

The reporters were bold but not reckless, and all of them had a tacit understanding in their professional work. No reporter revealed that they had received news that someone claimed responsibility for the attack, but everyone secretly brought bodyguards with them when they went to get clues.

At two o'clock in the morning, a bat flew to the top of the Empire State Building with a beetle in its grasp.

Rita knew that Charles knew she was an Animagus, and when Charles turned into a bat in front of her, she thought Charles was also an illegal Animagus, so she turned into a beetle.

They arrived an hour early. The place was empty, with only a large gift box on the ground that was particularly eye-catching.

A label hung on the gift box that read "For Miss Rita Skeeter."

A quarter after three o'clock, Rita was the first to transform back into human form and walked cautiously towards the gift box.

She cast a spell three steps away, opened the gift box little by little, and took out the things inside after confirming that everything was fine. There was a letter and several GIF photos in the gift box.

When Rita saw the photo clearly, her eyes almost popped out of her head in shock. This was the first time she had encountered such a thing in all her years as a reporter.

Charles went over and asked, "What's in the box?"

Rita immediately covered the disgusting photo with the letter and screamed, "Don't come over here, this is not for you to see!"

Charles pretended to be frightened and stopped immediately.

Rita said, "I'll go back first."

She said this and Apparated away, followed by Charles.

Two days later.

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The morning edition of the New York Ghost News carried a major headline news that an organization calling itself "Hydra" claimed responsibility for the attack on the Magical Congress of the United States of America in order to maintain world justice!

The next few pages reported the causes and consequences of the incident, starting from the rescue of a girl on a small island in the Caribbean last year and ending with the scum hidden in the Magic Congress, with a large number of mosaic photos as evidence.

On the same day, newspapers from magical societies around the world published similar news. The Daily Prophet and other newspapers in many countries increased their space and published articles condemning this behavior. The article by Mos Jeff, a subordinate of Charles, took up two pages.

For a time, the evil deeds of those people in the American Magical Congress were known to everyone from Ireland to China.

Dumbledore put down the newspaper, looked up and asked Fudge who was having breakfast across the table: "Cornelly, have you known about this for a long time?"

The Ministry of Magic delivered the Daily Prophet every day. After Dumbledore finished reading the New York Ghost, he read the Daily Prophet and found Fudge's statement in it.

Fudge said, "Rita told me in advance."

Dumbledore felt that there might be some hidden secret behind this matter not being told to him in advance.

This matter is very serious and the International Confederation of Wizards must make a statement. As the president, Dumbledore needs to hold a formal press conference.

He was considering the details of the official statement when unexpected news arrived.

The American wizarding community is deeply divided over its attitude towards No-Majs.

At the end of the 18th century, there was an incident in the United States that seriously violated the International Statute of Secrecy. A witch revealed a large amount of information about the magical society to her handsome No-Maj lover, so that the International Confederation of Wizards sent people to clean up the mess. Later, the Rappaport Act was enacted to completely separate the No-Maj and wizarding societies, and even prohibited male and female wizards from making friends or marrying No-Maj, and imposed heavy penalties on wizards who were too close to No-Maj.

However, after World War II, America's "Beat Generation" despised social laws and order and opposed all secular conventions. Wizards from No-Maj families brought this concept to the wizarding society, not to mention the hippies that came later.

Although the Rappaport Act was repealed in 1965, traditions and stubborn witches still exist, and the conflict between the two sides continues.

But today, the two groups agree on one goal.

All the people involved in the case reported in the newspaper were killed. The extreme conservatives believed that they were too close to the No-Maj people and might have leaked the secrets of the wizarding society again. The extreme open-minded believed that they had created a negative impact on the wizarding community in the No-Maj society, so some people were poisoned and then hit with a killing curse.

"They're all dead." Charles went to the hospital and then came to the roof of 40 Wall Street again. "You didn't want Dumbledore to know about this. Is this your purpose?"

Jack said in a deep voice: "If he knew in advance, he would be prepared, and then there would be a lengthy legal process."

Charles joked, "You've kept them alive until now and killed them with someone else's help, which means your temper has become much milder than before. Falling in love really can change a person."

Jack smiled and said, "Actually, when I picked you out of the trash can and decided to adopt you, I made a decision in my heart that I would never kill anyone again, as it would corrupt you."

“Who knew that what I picked up would be such an incredible thing.”

Charles smiled and asked, "What about the other purpose?"

"I don't know." Jack said in a deep voice, "I don't know if it will develop as I expected. I'm not good at this, but my intuition tells me to do this."

Charles said indifferently: "Never mind, let's take it one step at a time."

"I'll be back at Hogwarts in a couple of days."

(End of this chapter)