The Great Writers of Hogwarts

Chapter 25 Xenophilius' Ambition
After seeing the location marked by Andre on the map, Xenophilius showed doubts on his face.

He thought that when Andre said he was going to travel to London, he would want to visit famous Muggle attractions such as Big Ben and St. Paul's Cathedral. Newspaper headquarters.

"The Daily Mail, a Muggle newspaper? What are we doing here?"

Andre showed a smile.

"Go and see how Muggles make newspapers. I have seen some related information by chance, and I think it's quite interesting. Aren't you interested?
Maybe there's something there that The Quibbler can learn from. "

After Xenophilius heard what Andre said, a look of arrogance appeared on his face.

"See how Muggles make newspapers? I heard that everything in a Muggle newspaper is motionless, even the photos. What kind of newspaper is that?"

"How could the Quibbler learn anything from a Muggle newspaper..."

Only after saying these words, Xenophilius agreed to Andre's arrangement considering that this trip to London was originally for Andre's wish.

"Okay, let's go to the Daily Mail first, but I don't think the Quibbler has anything to learn from the Daily Mail."

On the bus to the headquarters of the "Daily Mail", Xenophilius repeated this point of view several times in a row.

When he got off the bus and looked at a huge building beyond his imagination, Xenophilius' sense of superiority became more and more obvious.

"Hey, let me just say that Muggle buses are not very reliable. The bus we got off at the "Daily Mail" station, it sent us near a tall building...

Let me see, is this the Muggle St. Mungo's?Or where Muggle officials work? "

The next moment, Xenophilius took a few steps forward and turned an angle, and saw the giant sign hanging on the tall building - "Daily Mail".

Immediately, the sense of superiority on his face solidified, and the whole person was silenced.

It wasn't until Pandora cast the Disillusionment Curse for everyone and entered the lobby of "Daily Mail" that Xenophilius finally woke up from the shock and asked stammeringly.

"Merlin, this, this... the entire building belongs to the Daily Mail?"

"Where did they get so much money!"

Andre said quietly.

"Because the "Daily Mail" was founded in [-], and since [-], four years after its founding, they have sold more than a million copies."

"After so many years, with such a huge sales volume, plus all kinds of advertising revenue, it's strange that you can't buy a building, right?"

Hearing the number reported by Andre, the minds of Xenophilius, Pandora, Luna and the Weasley brothers who followed him were buzzing.

Pandora looked at Xenophilius' dull expression with a strange and authentic expression.

"Xenophilius, dear, you keep saying The Quibbler has nothing to borrow from the Daily Mail."

"However, they can reach one million sales within four years of their establishment, and they have already buried a building as their headquarters. I think "Daily Mail" is really worth learning from "The Quibbler" in terms of making money.

Even if you can learn one percent..."

Xenophilius couldn't refute Pandora's words, and even made him swallow his saliva.

One percent of the annual income of the "Daily Mail" is probably enough for the Lovegood family to enjoy, and it is more than enough to buy a store in Diagon Alley as the headquarters of "The Quibbler".

If that were the case, the Quibbler would probably be on par with the Daily Prophet.

Just as Xenophilius was wandering in his beautiful imagination, a crisp bell rang in the "Daily Mail" building.

"The monthly regular meeting will start soon, please invite employees from all departments to the meeting room."

The ringing of the bell not only awakened Xenophilius from his fantasy, but also alarmed many employees in this building who were drinking coffee, reading newspapers and fishing.

Members of each department filed out of the office and rushed towards the largest conference room.

The building quickly became more crowded than King's Cross.

Andre led everyone with him through the crowd like swimming fish, and entered a huge auditorium.

Here, they stood behind the general manager of the "Daily Mail", looking down at the densely packed, neatly organized employees divided by department.

Here, they listened to the monthly regular meeting of the "Daily Mail", listened to the head of the content department talk about reader survey data, listened to the head of the marketing department talk about last month's advertising revenue and this month's heavyweight cooperation, as well as the copyright department, human resources department, Reports from representatives of major agents at all levels across the country...

If you don't come to such a place in person, but just read a few words from some general books or magazines, you can't imagine how a large modern enterprise operates in an internal order, and how all departments cooperate to keep up with it. Changes in the market...

The eyes of the "natives" in the magic world who were traveling with Andre were almost dumbfounded.

Xenophilius' mouth opened wide, where did he still have the previous sense of superiority over Muggle newspapers?

He was about to be shattered, and felt a shocking feeling.

Everything I saw before my eyes had even subverted Xenophilius' definition of a newspaper.

Compared with "Daily Mail", "The Quibbler" can only be regarded as a small family workshop, which is equivalent to the gap between primitive society and modern society. There is no comparison between the two!
In a daze, Xenophilius and others followed Andre and left the Daily Mail building.

Suddenly looking back, Xenophilius looked at the building behind him, his breathing gradually became heavy, eagerness and longing appeared in his eyes, and something called "wild hope" appeared in his heart.

"Muggles can do it, and so can I."

"I used to think that the "Daily Prophet" was already the pinnacle of newspapers, but now it seems that it is nothing more than a small workshop, and it is not worthy of being the target of "The Quibbler."

"I'm going to make The Quibbler the Wizarding Daily Mail!"

(End of this chapter)