Chapter 98 The Truth Is Often Hidden Under the Most Heated Public Opinion

However, the most important thing now is not to go to Kunlun, and the problem of the patronus is not so urgent to solve.

Even if the patronus cannot be manifested, it will not affect his use of the Patronus to drive away the Dementors.

The most important thing now is to consider how to make Dawn gain a foothold.

Although he has arranged for Seni to acquire the newspaper so that he can fight a tacit double-act public opinion war with Rita Skeeter.

But before things are completely settled, no one dares to be sure that the International Confederation of Wizards and the Wizengamot will really treat all this as a childish quarrel.

If the rules here are not handled well, it may be the encirclement and suppression of the entire magic world.

There is no doubt that after Grindelwald's rebellion failed, the magic world basically has zero tolerance for this behavior.

Once everyone understands that Dawn is serious and has a practical plan, they will definitely find a way to eliminate this hidden danger.

The determination of the wizarding world's rulers to maintain the Statute of Secrecy is firm and unwavering. As long as the wizarding world can survive, they will spare no effort to deal with Dawn.

Speaking of which, up to now, Dawn is not even a little bit better than the old organizations.

Whether compared with the Death Eaters under Voldemort or the Order of the Phoenix under Dumbledore, Dawn is still too immature.

A group of students who have just graduated or even not graduated are not yet capable of facing the experienced Order of the Phoenix and the ruthless Death Eaters.

In the entire Dawn, except for Gretel, no one dares to say that he can definitely get an advantage from the Death Eaters and the elites of the Order of the Phoenix.

Not Cerny, Penelope, Cedric and other members of the lower grades, even less likely.

Morn Sechter can guarantee his own safety, but once he is besieged, he can't fight four hands with two fists.

This is still the reason why Dumbledore and Voldemort did not take action.

Once these two people freed up their hands and lowered their status to attack Dawn, only Grete could survive in the entire Dawn.

But even he could only ensure his own safety in the hands of these two people.

For him now, it is nothing but a daydream to suppress the long-famous Dumbledore or Voldemort.

He is already very powerful to be able to fight these two people without losing.

Grete is quite self-aware. Now, even if he counts the items on the panel, he can only fight them 40% and 60% at most.

He is 40%.

[Homologous] guarantees his endurance, but does not increase his upper limit.

The upper limit still needs to be broken as he gets older.

Counting his battles, in order to ensure safety, he always catches others off guard by using information asymmetry.

The only one who was defeated head-on was Gilderoy Lockhart, a fake.

Many times, Gretel even wanted to contact the arms dealers in the Muggle world and buy a batch of real weapons from them, so that the old guys in the magic world could know what the times have changed.

Later, thinking about it, this idea was thrown out of his mind.

God knows, if the wizards who were already worried about the Muggle world saw the dawn and each of them had an assault rifle, would they immediately unite and wipe out the dawn into a pile of ashes?

Slytherin left the academy at that time because he had a different philosophy from the other three founders on how to treat Muggles.

In that era when wizards were in danger, Muggle wizards, even half-blood wizards, were all under Slytherin's suspicion.

He left the basilisk to eliminate the unstable factors in Hogwarts.

After all, in his opinion, Muggle wizards were not wizards, and they would one day become spies of Muggles in the wizarding world.

The best and fastest way to deal with spies is of course to eliminate them.

Whether it is humane or not, it is not too late to consider it after the pure-blood wizards are completely safe.

Therefore, when thinking of the wizards who already lacked trust in Muggles, and the people who saw the dawn still using Muggle-made weapons to shoot at wizards, Grete didn't need to imagine what would happen next.

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In the end, Grete didn't learn the specific situation of Kunlun from Grindelwald, but only knew that Kunlun was a gathering place for extraordinary people in the mysterious East.

They generally call themselves Kunlun Ruins, and the only magic school in the entire East is there.

It is also the oldest magic holy land in the world, which has continued to this day, and the magic school in Kunlun Ruins is also the oldest magic school in the world.

From ancient times to the present, no matter how the outside world has changed, only the mysterious East has not had a magic fault.

Grindelwald also revealed a piece of news to Grete that the wizards in Kunlun Ruins have a very similar attitude towards Muggles as Grete.

If it weren't for Grete's appearance and age, he didn't meet the characteristics of Kunlun Ruins.

He suspected that Grete was someone who came out of Kunlun Ruins.

Before Gretel left, Grindelwald suggested that he go to Kunlun Ruins as soon as possible.

Kunlun Ruins is about fate. The token in his hand is not a permanent certificate. If he misses the opportunity, it will not be so easy to visit Kunlun again.

Gretel agreed and turned into a sky full of light spots, dissipating in front of Grindelwald.

"What a cocky kid."

Grindelwald placed three balls wrapped with particles in front of him.

He felt that Gretel's strength had improved so quickly, which must be inseparable from the magic particles.

Although he no longer planned to set foot in the outside world, this novelty really made him regain his vitality.

It was like finding the days in Godric's Hollow again.

He stretched his body, took out his phone and called Vladimir.

"Vladimir, please help me find Cailin, Titanic, Daphne...

Let them deal with the matters at hand as soon as possible. I have something to study with them."

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"The warriors who dare to challenge the White Lord come from Hogwarts. Their name is 'Dawn'"--The Daily Prophet

"The ridiculous clown is slandering the great Dumbledore"--Today's Magic News

"Cultivating brave teenagers is the only right thing the White Lord has done since taking office"--The Daily Prophet

"This is a conspiracy against Dumbledore"--Today's Magic News

"The White Lord is scheming, and the students of Hogwarts are brave enough to resist"--The Daily Prophet

"Only Albus Dumbledore can save the magic world"--Today's Magic News

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Under Gretel's arrangement, the two newspapers openly fought against each other.

Whenever Rita Skeeter published a work that disparaged Dumbledore according to the requirements of the sponsor, Today's Magic News would publish an article with the opposite tone accordingly.

Rita Skeeter was a little worried at first. After all, her articles were all exaggerated, fictitious, and basically quoted out of context.

She was not worried that Dumbledore would come to her for trouble. She was only worried that the articles would not satisfy the sponsor.

In particular, she found that the money the sponsor gave her last time was not to buy out her pen, but to receive a considerable amount of gold galleons for each article she published.

As a reporter who has been immersed in this field for many years, she is not afraid of the parties causing trouble for her.

Although Rita Skeeter has a bad reputation, her popularity is well-known in the British and even the entire European magic world.

If someone causes trouble for her, it means that they will send her article materials, or empirical materials after her own personal experience.

Dumbledore will never cause trouble for himself.

Because she has long seen that the older a person is, the more he cherishes his feathers.

She has used this unwarranted method to blackmail countless famous old wizards.

Dumbledore, who has been a shining figure all his life, would never come to her, because that would mean asking for trouble and giving her real black material.

So, she was not afraid of Dumbledore's revenge.

However, fortunately, the sponsor asked her to discredit Dumbledore, and a gentleman can be deceived by a trick.

If the sponsor asked her to discredit the Dark Lord, she would not dare to write even if she had more money.

If she threw dirty water on the White Lord, she would at most be spit on by Dumbledore's fans in the magic world.

But so what, it would not prevent her from making money.

Besides, she could see that the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge supported her openly and secretly.

She and the Minister are now on the same front and wearing the same pants.

She is not only the pen of the sponsor, but also the first general of the Minister's indispensable public opinion front.

But when someone stood up to play against her, she was completely panicked, and others might have a feeling of doubt about her article.

But as an editor, how could she not know that 99% of her articles were made up by her own imagination? If she really wanted evidence, she couldn't produce any.

But as the opponent, the Magic Today News, when they praised Dumbledore, they listed the merits and achievements, which can be found in the records.

She was afraid that the magic world would stand up to stir up trouble because of the rivalry, causing those ignorant people to wake up and defend Dumbledore.

She didn't dare to imagine how angry her sponsor would be if that happened. Would he cut off his contact with her in a rage, or even take back the salary he paid her out of anger.

She didn't think the sponsor couldn't do it. The person who could pay her so much money must not be someone she could afford to offend.

At worst, the sponsor could go to the black market and find those desperate people who didn't care about their lives. Those black wizards who were short of money were happy to serve such a generous sponsor.

By the way, she didn't mind using her life, body, bones, and soul to study those crazy black magic.

She didn't care about the minister's anger. Even if she was expelled from the Daily Prophet's reporter team, she had other places to go.

If it weren't for the fact that she was affiliated with the Ministry of Magic and could protect her safety to a certain extent, she would have jumped to other newspapers long ago.

However, in recent times, her pen has long been convinced by the generosity of the sponsor.

If she could really board the sponsor's big ship, she would not wear the Ministry of Magic.

Rita Skeeter was worried for a whole day with the uneasiness of being abandoned by the sponsor.

However, her worry lasted less than a day.

Shortly after the article compiled by Today's Magic News was published, the hurricane to defend Dumbledore had not yet formed.

She received the latest request for an article from the sponsor.

Later, she even asked her to write several articles in a row.

Then, she realized that the other side was playing a game against her.

As in the past, after she published various exaggerated and shocking fictional articles, corresponding rebuttal articles would appear in other newspapers and periodicals.

But those articles often contained criticism of her, Rita Skeeter, the Daily Prophet's best reporter herself.

There are even some articles that are full of revelations about her from beginning to end.

But this time it was different. The opponent had a tacit understanding and avoided her.

Don’t even mention her article.

Instead, he worked tirelessly to help the British wizarding community review Dumbledore's glorious moments.

That is Dumbledore, famous enough and with enough fans.

Another person would have been slandered by Rita Skeeter in more than ten articles in a row.

Not to mention ruined his reputation, at least his face was disgraced.

Unlike now, two completely different public opinions have formed in the entire magical world, and they have even gradually spread to the entire Europe.

Whether Dumbledore is a good guy or a bad guy has been a hot topic for a while.

Some people say that since Dumbledore has made so many contributions to the wizarding world, he must not be a bad person.

Besides, if Dumbledore was a bad guy, after defeating Grindelwald, he would have been able to claim the throne with his fame.

Judging from the situation at that time, no one would stand up and raise any objections.

Also, Rita Skeeter's reputation is known to everyone who knows it, and there is no need to explain it to those who don't.

She has always been the kind of person who ignores the facts just to make headlines. Now that she stands up, no one will believe her.

These people fully expressed their trust in Dumbledore, and many of them planned to send letters of complaint to the British Ministry of Magic to ask the Daily Prophet to kick Rita Skeeter, an incompetent reporter, out of the Ministry of Magic's ranks.

Of course, some people felt that Rita Skeeter was not trustworthy in the past, but this time it was different. This time, the British Minister of Magic stood up to endorse her.

Cornelius Fudge personally stood up and said that the Dark Lord had not been resurrected, saying that this was a smokescreen prepared by Dumbledore to seize the position of Minister of Magic.

Could it be that the dedicated Minister of Magic is no longer worthy of trust?

Others came forward to support Rita Skeeter, saying that Dumbledore studied dark magic with Grindelwald when he was young.

This is something Dumbledore himself admitted. Now that he is older, it is not impossible to miss power.

Who knows if Dumbledore wants to use the Ministry of Magic to find a way for him to live forever.

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Penelope followed the plan prepared by Gretel and didn't care about how Rita Skeeter arranged Dumbledore.

She only needs to ensure that the views about their dawn in the article fabricated by Rita Skeeter are positive and have not been tampered with.

After it was determined that the public opinion in the wizarding world was gradually entangled with Dumbledore, and no one discussed it, and a large number of students quit Hogwarts in anger, the dawn was finally temporarily hidden.

At least until now, there has been no news from the internal agents they have arranged in the Ministry of Magic that anyone feels the need to impose sanctions on Dawn.

Although the focus of public opinion turned to Dumbledore, the private goods they exported were successfully communicated to interested parties.

According to the information Seni communicated with her every day, they were finally convinced that there were many more people who could develop into companions than they imagined.

Especially after the public opinion war was in full swing, many people Saini came into contact with finally no longer looked wary.

Although I don’t trust him that much, I can finally sit down and get to know him better.

Penello also feels that the recent work is much easier than before. At least, when accepting new comrades, he no longer has to worry about explaining the importance of confidentiality regulations to them.

As the organization's oath of confidentiality, there was finally no need to explain it to them one by one.

Generally, after confirming to join Dawn, they will take the initiative to sign an oath to help each other and not betray each other under the witness of their companions.

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Dawn Code of Conduct:

never betray

never give up

never give up

never retreat

stay in awe

Our original intention will never change, and we will continue to live and fight for the freedom of all people.