The sickly iron fist beauty in Harry Potter

"Look, a piece of news about the Malfoy family has made them so agitated. If it were about Sirius and Voldemort, do you think they would let the real news report spread?"

"Headmaster, you don't want Voldemort to return, but the entire wizarding world will pretend nothing happened, giving him the opportunity to grow stronger, right?"

Dolly's words caused a lot of discussion among the headmasters in the portraits, and even Dumbledore, who had been indifferent, frowned.

He knew Fudge very well and did not want to provoke him.

But if what Dolly said came true, the danger waiting for them would not be just Voldemort alone, but the army that Voldemort had gathered.

"I can agree to mediate with the Ministry of Magic regarding matters related to the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, but the remaining legal matters will be up to you."

"Also, I must remind you, Miss Dursley. Even if you have enough Galleons, Mr. Lovegood alone cannot withstand the attacks of the Daily Prophet."

"Of course I understand this, don't worry."

Luna's father's talent is only enough for him to run a printing company normally. As for anything else, he naturally needs Dolly's help.

For example, now facing the attack of the Daily Prophet's front-page headlines for several consecutive days, Dolly must find a way to suppress the Daily Prophet's momentum.

But this is not an easy thing to do.

Because the Daily Prophet is not just a newspaper, it is essentially the only news media organization in the entire British wizarding world. It is supported by the Ministry of Magic and is responsible for building momentum for every election of the Ministry of Magic.

Or to put it more bluntly, the Daily Prophet is the Ministry of Magic's external propaganda department, and the Ministry of Magic would be the first to refuse to overthrow it.

But this is also a simple matter. All Dolly needs to do is to make the Daily Prophet less single-minded.

As for how to do it... Dolly went to find Malfoy.

Looking at Qiu Zhang and Luna behind Dolly, Malfoy and Crabbe and Goyle behind him, although they were taller and stronger, they subconsciously took two steps back and brought Malfoy, who needed their protection, to their front.

Malfoy turned and tried to grab the man back and protect him in front of him, but it was too late.

I could only tremble and say: "You, what are you going to do!"

"If you still want to cast a spell on me, then I will definitely tell Professor Snape!"

Dolly smiled, spread her hands, and said, "Take the money."

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Chapter 246: “Ruthless” Dolly.

Malfoy looked puzzled. Was Dolly going to rob him?

Thinking of this possibility, Malfoy breathed a sigh of relief... Oh no, he should be angry!

Could it be that in his subconscious, being robbed by Dolly is the easiest way to get through it?

Malfoy felt extremely humiliated, he reached into his sleeve and took out his wand.

Then, in front of the surprised gazes of several people, he cast a small spell on his purse, and dozens of gold Galleons fell out.

"This is all I have with me. I was planning to use it when I go to Hogsmeade. If you want it... I'll lend it to you for now."

Malfoy didn't care about this little money, he could just give it to his father.

However, what he cared about was his own face. He had given in to a girl... If anyone dared to tell others about it, he would definitely fight them to the death!

As for now, the Slytherin students knew how to judge the situation and he was only retreating temporarily.

It's a pity that Dolly didn't want such a small amount of money. She said, "One thousand gold galleons, not a penny less."

Malfoy's eyes widened in astonishment and he said, "You're crazy!"

"Such a large sum of money... Although it's not that I can't take it out, if you want to take it away from me, even if I'm no match for you, my father can still report you to the Ministry of Magic!"

One thousand gold Galleons is enough for Hogwarts to hire two or three professors, which is a huge fortune for ordinary wizards.

"Hey, Dursley."

Malfoy rolled his eyes and said, "If you are really short of money, it's not that I can't give you enough money, but I have a small condition."

Malfoy felt as if he could turn the situation around with Dolly. He stepped forward with a playful smile, extended his hand, and said, "How about we work together? I'll give you 50, no, 100 gold Galleons every month as a token of our friendship... uh, help?"

Qiu Zhang showed a look of contempt, and Luna was speechless.

Just a hundred gold galleons, and you want to conquer Dolly? Isn't this a dream?

I'm afraid Dolly's wealth is now enough to buy the entire Malfoy Manor?

If Dolly knew what Luna was thinking, she would definitely say that it was not enough.

The main problem was not that Dolly didn't have enough money, but that Gringotts Wizarding Bank couldn't convert all of Dolly's money into gold Galleons.

"It's not impossible to be friends with you. But we have to settle the account of these 1,000 Galleons, Malfoy."

Dolly flipped her wrist and the wand appeared in her hand. She easily pushed Malfoy's hand away and tapped his wrist.

"I cured the three of you of injuries that even Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse, was unable to treat. Shouldn't you be paying for this treatment?"

"Don't tell me you didn't ask me to treat you. If you say that, I can only help you recover from your previous injuries."

"The kind that even Madam Pomfrey couldn't cure."

Malfoy's face turned pale instantly and he quickly stepped back. He no longer had the slightest intention of being friends with Dolly. In his eyes, Dolly was clearly an evil ghost.

He wanted to say something else, but Dolly was too lazy to waste words with him and said, "I want to see the gold Galleons tomorrow, otherwise the next time the four-color collar will publish some news about the Malfoy family."

After saying that, Dolly snapped her fingers and Dot appeared next to Dolly.

Dot is not Dobby, but Malfoy seemed to have understood something when he looked at Dot, and his teeth began to chatter.

"By the way, tell your father Lucius that I will not keep this money for myself, but will publish it on the front page in the name of the Malfoy family sponsoring the four-color collar."

"I wouldn't mind having the Malfoy family become honorary consultants of the Four Color Collars at that time. This would be the first honorary consultant of our newspaper, a title that would hang there for thousands of years."

"I hope your father can seriously consider it."

After saying that, Dolly waved her hand and turned away, leaving Malfoy with a beautiful background.

But in Malfoy's eyes, the wings of the big devil were clearly flapping on Dolly's back.

This kind of thing is no longer something Malfoy can solve.

So he rushed back to the dormitory and began to write down the whole process in detail to his father. Even now he still couldn't quite understand what Dolly was going to do.

But he knew his father would understand.

The fact was just as Malfoy expected, and Lucius understood it in an instant.

The Malfoy family's goal was to use Buckbeak's injury to force Hagrid away and disgust Dumbledore, nothing more.

Of course, a sum of money will be given to the Daily Prophet during this process, which can be regarded as maintaining the friendly relationship between the Malfoy family and the Daily Prophet on a daily basis.

Although this process was not entirely aboveboard, for the Malfoy family it was just a basic operation of using their gold Galleons in exchange for influence.

Lucius performs such operations several times a year, which is an important reason why he was able to become a Death Eater and get away with it, and why he can even maintain influence in the Ministry of Magic now.

Unexpectedly, one of his daily actions was spotted by Dolly, who even planned to bite off a piece of flesh from him.

What is referred to here is of course not the one thousand gold Galleons, but Dolly's plan to tie him to her chariot and make the Malfoy family serve Dolly from now on.

How humiliating is this?

Who is Dolly?

A Muggle!

A little third-grade witch!

Even though she was beautiful and capable, and would definitely become a big figure in the wizarding world in the future, how dare this little brat, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, want to swallow up his Malfoy family?

Lucius was so angry that his face turned red, and he was hitting everything in the house madly with the snake cane in his hand, which scared Narcissa so much that her face turned pale.

She waited until Lucius was tired before picking up Malfoy's letter. After reading it, she said angrily, "Lucius, why are you so angry?"

"Although you're no longer a school trustee, you can definitely use the power of the Daily Prophet to kick this little Mudblood who blackmailed his classmates out of Hogwarts!"

"Even if she started a new newspaper, it only sells a few hundred copies a week. How can it compare to our influence?"

"Tell Fudge about this; he'll be more than happy to make a big fuss about it!"

Narcissa was confident, and her method was a set of procedures that the Malfoy family was very familiar with and had a very high success rate.

But this time, her words were met with a roll of the eyes from Lucius.

"More than!"

Lucius practically roared, "She's got Dobby!"

"That damned little bastard knows all the secrets of our family, and now those secrets are in the hands of that little Mudblood. Do you think she'll hand them over to Dumbledore after we deal with her?"

Narcissa's face changed drastically, and she finally understood the crux of the matter.

She stammered, "Then if we...if we bleed profusely, we might still be able to fight her. Not everyone believes what Dumbledore says, right?"

"And we can try to... get Dobby back. He's at that little Mudblood's Muggle house, isn't he?"

A hint of seriousness flashed in Narcissa's eyes. As a Slytherin family member and the wife of a Death Eater, Narcissa naturally could not be a naive person.

If things really reached a point of no return, it would not be unacceptable for her to pick up the wand and use the methods of dark wizards.

"Yes, she is indeed a little Mudblood from a Muggle family, but she is also Harry Potter's sister and someone Dumbledore pays special attention to."

"If you dare to hurt her family, she will bring Dumbledore to our house to hold us accountable!"

Lucius collapsed on the sofa helplessly.

Although he had lost several battles with Dolly and Dumbledore before, he just felt that Dolly would be a problem in the future and did not think that he had really lost.

After all, there will always be failures when using tricks, and he is not a proud and complacent tactical master, so he naturally allows himself to fail.

But now it's different. This huge feeling of powerlessness makes him realize that Dolly is growing much faster than he expected.

He doesn't have many choices now.

"So, what should we do?"

"You can't really rely on her, right?"

Narcissa also felt the anger. How humiliating was it to be dominated by a little witch?

Just as Lucius was silent, another owl flew over.

Narcissa quickly took out the letter and handed it to Lucius. It turned out to be from Malfoy again.

The letter simply read: "That Dursley has arranged an interview for me. It's with Rita Skeeter. I have no idea what's going on, and I don't know how to refuse."

"Father, please tell me what I should do!"

Lucius stood up immediately, his expression changing from gloomy to bright. Narcissa, who was standing beside him, took the note and read it before saying, "What is this little mudblood going to do now?"

"Why did she invite this guy from the Daily Prophet?"

Lucius pondered for a moment and said, "She won't give us time to prepare and won't let me play tricks. If I don't give her a satisfactory answer, we might be ruined next week."

Narcissa covered her face in frustration and said, "How could she be so cruel?"

"No, could this be Dumbledore's order?"

Narcissa's words made Lucius look up suddenly, as if he finally understood everything.

"Yes, it must be him!"

"and many more……"

Lucius seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly searched for the Daily Prophet on the newspaper rack, and finally found the report about Sirius and Peter Pettigrew's escape from prison.

It was all nonsense, and Lucius knew it very well.

Originally, he didn't care much about it. It was just the Ministry of Magic's daily way of shifting the blame. He didn't know how many times the Ministry of Magic had done this.

He didn't care about the fate of Sirius and Peter Pettigrew. Whether they were dead or alive, they could not threaten the status of the Malfoy family.

But now it seems that someone is going to take action against them.

Did Dumbledore want to save Sirius and clear his name?

Or should he simply use this incident to teach Fudge a lesson, so that Fudge would maintain his awe of Hogwarts?

Thinking of this, Lucius felt that he was gradually understanding.

It is no secret that Sirius is Harry Potter's godfather. After all, they had such a good relationship back then, so it was natural for him to do such a thing.

If Sirius wants to live a normal life with Harry Potter next, then Sirius must be whitewashed, and to whitewash Sirius requires the power of the media and to make Fudge bow his head.