Chapter 300
Reporter: What’s in the truck?
Chapter 300 Reporter: What’s in the truck?
Rita Skeeter was so frightened that she dodged to the side and then immediately recovered.
When transformed into a small insect, it is very convenient for eavesdropping, but it has no ability to protect itself.
Once, Rita Skeeter was swallowed up unexpectedly after she transformed. She didn't even have a chance to see what was eating her.
Of course, she quickly lifted the spell and avoided becoming the digested fecal residue, but the experience of bursting that predator was so terrible that Rita Skeeter still doesn't want to recall it.
After returning to her human form, she was no longer afraid of the strange bird. Skeeter quickly tidied her golden curly hair and was about to walk out of the alley with her small handbag.
——It’s better to transform after entering the building.
Skeeter thought so.
But before he took two steps out, he heard a voice coming from behind: "Rita Skeeter? I heard that you are the best reporter of the Daily Prophet, but also the reporter who likes to talk nonsense the most."
Skeeter raised his eyebrows and turned around suddenly, and saw that a young wizard had appeared behind him at some point, and the bird that had landed on the ground a few seconds ago was gone.
She panicked for a moment, knowing that her transformation had been seen by others - once the identity of an illegal Animagus was exposed, Skeeter would not only face a large fine, but also imprisonment.
But then, she thought of the disappearing bird, her eyes suddenly lit up, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise, and her face was full of excitement.
"Yeah, I'm the best," Skeeter said proudly. "But my news isn't bullshit. It's just exposing some people's frivolous reputations, boy."
"Well, digging up other people's secrets, and then exaggerating the facts and fabricating content to make it sensational..."
In the face of Rita Skeeter's unfriendly eyes, Wade smiled and said, "But your writing is indeed the best, and it can instantly catch the readers' attention. So I came to you specifically - are you interested in a really big news?"
"What big news? An exclusive interview with Vid Grey? Don't tell me you're not—I recognized you right away."
Rita Skeeter immediately took out a shorthand quill and notebook from somewhere and looked at Wade excitedly:
"To be honest, I have wanted to interview you for a long time, but I have never found the opportunity. Are all your inventions your own? Or is Terrence Murray behind the scenes? How did you get the full support of a long-established alchemist? And..."
The notebook in his hand suddenly caught fire with a bang, and the blazing flames almost burned Skeeter's hair.
She screamed and dropped the notebook.
Looking at the smiling young wizard in front of him, and then seeing that his hands were empty and he had no wand at all, Skeeter's excited and frivolous expression suddenly subsided.
Although the wizard in front of her was young, he was the type she least wanted to meet—
She is neither an empty-headed fool who is deceived by false reputation, nor a weak commoner who can be bullied by her at will, nor a "good person" who is highly capable but kind and abides by the rules and will not retaliate even if offended.
"How did you recognize me?" Wade asked curiously, "My photo shouldn't be in the newspaper."
"I wanted to find a chance to interview you, so I waited outside Flourish and Blotts for a few days around the start of last year's school year..."
Rita Skeeter said wryly.
At that time, when she finally confirmed who was Wead Grey among the students coming and going, something happened outside the bookstore - Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley had a fight. It was the first time that Malfoy had fought with someone in public, and Skeeter was so excited that she almost lost herself in the book. The quill almost flew on the notebook. After Malfoy and his son left, she chased after them for an interview.
It was not until she finished recording this emergency and was the first to submit the manuscript to the newspaper that Rita Skeeter remembered her original purpose, but she had missed the opportunity.
"The big news I'm talking about is not about you interviewing me." Wade paused and said, "Did you know that not long ago, several countries jointly investigated some dark wizards?"
"I've heard a little bit about that," Rita Skeeter said honestly. "I heard they didn't find anything, just caught a few thieves and smugglers, and now they've disbanded."
"I have discovered a group of guys who are doing things in secret. I have already grasped the whereabouts and appearances of several of them. I can be sure that the Ministry of Magic knows nothing about them. Are you interested in this news?" Wade asked.
In fact, those werewolves might not be related to the dark wizards who abducted underage students, but Wade was vague and led Skeeter to think in this direction.
He knew that Skeeter had been warned many times by the Ministry of Magic for her nonsense in the newspapers. If there was a chance to slap the Ministry of Magic or even Dumbledore in the face, she would not let it go.
Rita Skeeter is a vengeful woman. In the original plot, because Hermione quarreled with her, she turned around and wrote in the newspaper that Hermione was a slut who played with the feelings of Harry and Krum.
Sure enough, Rita Skeeter's eyes sparkled and her mouth widened.
She licked her lips subconsciously and pretended to hesitate before saying, "But... if I report this kind of news, the dark wizard might retaliate against me..."
"—Would you like to come with me? Or should I go find another, more courageous reporter?"
"——I'll go!" Skeeter put forward a condition: "In return, you have to give me a chance for a private interview later."
"Okay!" Wade agreed readily.
……
The ship has sailed.
There was a buffet restaurant on the ship. Rita Skeeter, who was wearing a headscarf and dressed as an ordinary housewife, took some food and, following Wade's instructions, took a closer look at the people who were sitting together eating.
The table was filled with roast chicken and roast lamb. A man with thick eyebrows was cutting a steak that was probably only one-third done. When the slightly charred surface was cut open, the red raw meat inside was exposed. The juice was flowing down, and the inside of the plate seemed to be stained with a layer of blood.
Skeeter glanced at them casually and then looked away, walked to the side to join Wade, and asked softly, "Are they them?"
Vader nodded and said, "There are two more, in the cabin below."
He took Skeeter down to the cabin and found the truck.
The two people in the car have not woken up yet. The cabin is quiet, with only a few staff members in orange clothes checking the security of the vehicle.
Rita Skeeter whispered, "What's in the truck? They have to leave someone guarding it when they get here."
Make up for last night's chapter
(End of this chapter)