harry potter book of crimes

Rita Skeeter's article about the Triwizard Tournament has finally been published.

It can be seen that she has ignored Maka to the greatest extent, which should be written about in a big way. In this article, the information about Maka is only limited to one name.

Correspondingly, Harry is somewhat doomed - this is not so much a report on the tournament, but an exaggerated depiction of Harry's personal life.

A large amount of space on the first page of the newspaper was taken up by a photo of Harry, and the entire article was spread across the second, sixth and seventh pages, all about Harry.

Of course, the above content is all false, but it has to be said that those things look very eye-catching and can cause various misunderstandings among uninformed people.

As for Beauxbatons' Fleur Delacour, her name was squeezed into the last line of the article along with Maka, and even her name was spelled wrong.

As for the specific content of the article, apart from the unfounded conjectures and strange descriptions, a certain paragraph in it made Hermione feel very uncomfortable.

Rita Skeeter writes:

"...Harry finally found his first love at Hogwarts. His close friend Colin Creevey said that Harry and a girl named Hermione Granger were inseparable - yes

, she is the famous fourth warrior of this competition. Miss Granger is stunningly beautiful and was born in a Muggle family. Like Harry, she is also one of the top students in the school."

There is not much news in this narrative, and Rita Skeeter must have just wanted to add a little pink flair to the article to make it look more gimmicky.

This is just one of countless things about Harry's daily life, but it makes Hermione completely intolerable.

If it had been in the past, she might have just ignored it - it wasn't true anyway, and it didn't matter to her. But now, after she discovered her thoughts, this passage became very glaring.

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"Amazingly beautiful? She?" Pansy Parkinson of Slytherin said strangely when she met Hermione for the first time after Rita's article was published, "What is she judged on - Golden Flower

Rat?"

"Keep your voice down, Pansy!" Another girl said exaggeratedly, "She is the girlfriend of the savior!"

Then, the group of Slytherin girls started giggling.

Hermione was shaking with anger, but when she heard this sentence, the first thing she did was to look around. The Slytherin girls couldn't help laughing even more when they saw her guilty look.

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"Harry and I are just friends!" Hermione yelled angrily and left quickly.

She couldn't let Maka hear these unreasonable rumors, even if she thought that Maka would never believe such nonsense. But...

"Oh - what's wrong with me, I need to calm down." Hermione retreated into the dormitory again, deciding not to go out if it was not necessary.

What if people make fun of her about that again... What if she happens to meet Maka when they call her "the savior's girlfriend" again... What should she do?

Hermione felt that she was always panicking recently, which was a bit bad. Maka had obviously reminded her to be careful. In this state...

"Well..." Hermione scratched her hair in frustration, "It's Maka again."

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On the Saturday before the first project, the school allowed students in third years and above to visit Hogsmeade. Hermione told Harry that taking a walk outside the castle might make him feel better.

In fact, Harry was eager to go out and relax for a while, so there was no need for her to persuade him.

"But where is Ron?" he asked, "don't you want to go with him?"

"Oh...that's right..." Hermione blushed slightly, "I think you can meet him at the Three Broomsticks Tavern..."

"No way! I don't want to... wait," Harry said strangely, "won't you go with me?"

"No, I...I still have something to do." Hermione hesitated.

"What's the matter?" Harry said, "I can do it with you. You know, I just want to relax and have nothing else."

"no!"

Hermione shouted out subconsciously, and then was startled by her own voice. She looked around, and then continued: "No, I mean... there are some things that I can only do alone...

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But Harry said dullly: "Then I'll be alone again... That's awesome!"

Hermione raised her head helplessly. She thought for a while and then reluctantly said: "Okay, okay... then you must stay quiet and don't ask anything!"

She repeated it again with emphasis, "Remember, don't ask anything!"

"Why -" Harry asked half-way subconsciously, but when he saw anger immediately appearing on Hermione's face, he couldn't help but hold back the words.

"——I don't ask, I don't ask anything." He immediately changed his words.

In this way, Harry put on his invisibility cloak in the dormitory, came downstairs, and set off to Hogsmeade with Hermione.

Harry felt particularly at ease under the Invisibility Cloak.

As they walked into the village, Harry watched the other students pass by. Although no nasty comments were made about him, and no one quoted from the stupid article.

But Harry found that many people were looking at Hermione and pointing.

"What are they talking about-"

"Stop talking, don't ask anything!" Hermione quickly blocked Harry's question.

They soon arrived in front of the Bee Duke Candy Shop. Every time they came back to Hogsmeade, they would go here for a walk. But this time, Hermione didn't even look at it.

Skip this and continue walking forward.

Harry really wanted to ask why, but due to the circumstances of the previous two times, he finally held back.

After they passed by Zuko's Magical Joke Shop again, Harry found that Hermione stopped at the door of Fuga Wizard Clothing Store.

"Wait here!" Hermione whispered and ran in like a gust of wind.

Harry stood at the door and blinked inexplicably, then looked inside in confusion.

"Uh... I'm still wearing an invisibility cloak, so she can't see it." He hesitated on the spot, but in the end he couldn't hold back his curiosity and cautiously opened the door and followed me in.

"jingle--"

An unexpected ringing of the doorbell made Harry freeze in his tracks.

"Oops!"

He didn't dare to take a breath, but the next second, he was hit by something and staggered.

"Ouch! What's in front of you?" A voice came from behind Harry. He hurriedly ran forward two steps and hid behind a vertical clothes rack hanging a coat.

At the same time, Hermione, who was talking to the owner in the store, also hurried to the door - she thought Harry had sneaked in!

But what she saw was a middle-aged witch.

"Oh... Madam, what's wrong with you?" Hermione said, looking around carefully.

"Um...it's okay, thank you." The witch smiled, glanced at the door doubtfully, and then walked inside.

"Harry, are you in?" Hermione asked softly, but received no answer.

Of course Harry wouldn't say anything. If he spoke now, it would be a waste of the coincidence. Besides, no one would take the initiative to scold him, right?

However, Hermione suddenly turned around and grabbed Harry.

"How do you know-" Harry lowered his voice and said in surprise.

But Hermione had no intention of explaining to him. She opened the store door and pushed Harry out.

"Does your coat stick up on its own when it's on the hanger..." She muttered in a low voice and hurried back to the store.

"Does she want to buy clothes?" Harry stood outside the door, looking at the clothes displayed in the window, and asked doubtfully, "But...the clothes here look quite expensive."

After a while, Hermione finally came out.

The two walked in silence for a while, and finally Harry couldn't help but speak.

"Um...sorry, just now-"

"Stop talking!" Hermione said angrily, "Okay, please take off the invisibility cloak for a while. No one here will cause trouble for you."

"Oh, really?" Harry said, "Look behind you."

Rita Skeeter and her photographer friend had just come out of the Three Broomsticks Tavern. They were talking quietly about something and walked right past Hermione without even looking at her.

Instead, Hermione clenched her fists and glared at her back angrily.

Harry was afraid that Rita Skeeter's crocodile leather bag would touch him, so he quickly hid under the wall of Honeydukes candy shop.

After the two people left, Harry said: "She is still in the village. I dare say she will come to watch the first event."

As soon as the words came out, he felt a burning sense of panic pass through his heart, but he didn't say it out loud. He and Hermione rarely talked about what the first competition event would be.

He always felt that Hermione seemed reluctant to consider this matter.

"She's gone." Hermione said, looking through Harry and looking at the end of the street. "How about we go to the Three Broomsticks for a glass of butterbeer? It's getting a bit cold, isn't it?"

Harry didn't answer, and she felt as if she was talking to nothing.

"I'm just going to have a drink, you don't need to talk to Ron!" She guessed the reason why he didn't speak and said irritably.

The Three Broomsticks Tavern was full of people, mainly Hogwarts students, all enjoying the freedom of the afternoon, but there were also many people from the wizarding world that Harry rarely saw elsewhere.

It is worth mentioning that they saw Maka in the corner. At this time, he was chatting casually with Fudge, the Minister of Magic, holding a large glass of butterbeer in his hand.

"...Don't worry, you've done everything you need to do, just wait and see." Maka raised the cup towards Fudge and said calmly.