Big news. Big news that would shock the whole world of magic. But there was one crucial problem.
Rita recovered from her momentary shock.
"I can write it!" She said bluntly, "But the Daily Prophet will not publish it. No other media will publish such a story. I think you know that no one wants to believe such a ridiculous story. Everyone thinks you're delusional. If I were to write it from another angle …"
"We don't need another article about Harry being crazy or Elwyn badmouthing him!" Hermione said angrily. "There's enough already, thank you. What we need to do now is tell the truth!"
"There's no market for that kind of article," Rita said coldly.
"You mean the Daily Prophet won't publish it because Foggy won't let them?" Hermione said indignantly.
Rita glared at Hermione for a moment and then said emotionlessly, "All right, Foggy has the Daily Prophet, but that's another thing. They won't publish articles that say good things about you. No one wants to read them. It goes against the public's psyche. "
"So the Daily Prophet exists to say what people want to hear, does it?"
Rita sat up straight, raised her eyebrows, and drained her fire whiskey.
"The Daily Prophet exists to sell itself, silly," she said coldly.
Hermione kicked Elwyn hard under the table to get him to talk.
"That's why we want to work with you!" Elwyn said. "The Daily Prophet has made a big mistake in helping Foggy hide the truth. I think this is a good chance to get ahead of them. I run a newspaper too, you know... "
"Yes, the Hogwarts Magical Paper!" Rita said contemptuously. "I hear you've been hiring ghosts to write articles."
He had always been disdainful of such small newspapers, but the Hogwarts Magical Paper had grown rapidly in the past two years. It had stood out from the rest of the small media, such as Contrarian and Twenty-five Ways to Talk to a Muggle.
In Rita's opinion, Elwyn and the others were just lucky to have come across a few important pieces of news.
The snake attack at the beginning of the paper had been the biggest news in the world of magic back then. Not only was it exciting, it also revealed the past of the Lord Voldemort when he was young, and it started a trend of discussion about the history of the Four Heads of Hogwarts.
With this incident, the public in the magic world would remember the newspaper Hogwarts Wizardry.
In particular, the cooperation between the Daily Prophet and the Hogwarts Magical Paper, which had published and republished many of the articles, helped the newly established Hogwarts Magical Paper to make a name for itself.
Everyone was very interested in a newspaper created by a young wizard. After the snake attack, they continued to order a few more issues out of curiosity. The reports written by the ghosts were also very interesting, and they were all trivial things that no one knew about.
There was also Elwyn's analysis of magic research, which lit up the eyes of many professionals and opened up new ideas.
This was all knowledge that Elwyn had obtained from Tom Liddell's diary. After sorting it out, he chose the knowledge that could be published in the newspaper, which allowed the Hogwarts Magical Paper to quickly occupy a small market.
Originally, everyone thought that this was the limit of the Hogwarts Magical Paper, but when the news of Sirius's prison break broke out, and Elwyn and the others got first-hand information, it was needless to say that its influence even spread abroad and in the Muggle world.
As an exclusive report, the circulation of the Hogwarts Magical Paper surpassed the Daily Prophet, becoming the newspaper with the largest circulation in the magic world less than two years after it was founded.
This incident was considered a miracle in the magic world, and the discussion about Elwyn became a hot topic.
Everyone thought that Elwyn and the Hogwarts Magical Paper were just lucky, and when the popularity died down, they would soon be forgotten. Who knew that they would get first-hand information about the vampire attack in the Albanian forest that summer?
This was probably the most tragic and vicious incident in the magic world after the failure of the Lord Voldemort.
However, because the location of the incident was too remote, and the dead were all dark wizards and desperadoes, the incident did not attract much attention at first, because the whole magic world was paying attention to the upcoming Quidditch World Cup.
However, the attack launched by the Vampires at the World Cup had rediscovered this forgotten incident.
The circulation of the Hogwarts Magical Paper expanded rapidly, and after the Sirius prison break, it once again surpassed the Daily Prophet. The world-class duel between Elwyn and the vampire leader Keresis attracted everyone's attention.
At this point, the Hogwarts Magical Paper could be called a first-class media in the magic world!
The subsequent Top Three Tournament in Hogwarts attracted the attention of the entire European magic world. Everyone was optimistic about the development of the Hogwarts Magical Paper, and thought that it might be able to reach a new high with its geographical advantage.
Even Rita could not help but take the opportunity to go to Hogwarts to see what was going on with Elwyn.
Who would have thought that it would end up like this, and who would have thought that the Top Three Tournament would end abruptly?
What followed was the momentum of the Hogwarts Magical Paper's development. Under the joint suppression of the Ministry of Magic and the mainstream media in the magic world, the circulation of the Hogwarts Magical Paper was getting lower and lower, and now it was less than a quarter of the subscriptions at its peak.
From Rita's point of view, this was because Elwyn did not know what the readers wanted to read.
Their previous success was just a coincidence, and they wasted a great opportunity.
"But you're right. This matter contradicts the public's psychology. No one is willing to believe that the Lord Voldemort has returned. Now is not the time. We can wait," Elwyn said.
Rita looked at him in surprise, not knowing what Elwyn meant.
"It's true that the man has returned. The Ministry of Magic doesn't want people to know about this, but there will be more and more evil incidents in the magic world that they can't explain. What we need to do now is to let people know about these things, and when the time is right, we can announce his return to the public." Elwyn continued, "This time we asked you to sign a long-term cooperation agreement with you, and let you specialize in reporting on this series of events and special comments. If you agree, the Hogwarts Magical Paper will publish all the articles you write, and the price will be paid according to your Daily Prophet fee..."
"What do you include in these things?" Rita asked. "I have not heard anything."
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