Hogwarts: I am Harry's eldest cousin

"Hmm." Ollivander put his ear on the wand and listened, as if listening to the wand's whisper. Then he twirled the wand between his slender fingers like a baton, and the wand sprayed out many pink and gold sparks.

"Not bad." Ollivander finally returned the wand to Fleur. "Nine and a half inches. Very strong. Made of maple wood and contains, oh, a Veela hair."

"It's my grandmother's hair." Furong admitted very decisively. The silver-haired girl smiled and her two rows of white teeth sparkled in the sun. She did not deny the fact that she had Veela blood, but was very proud of it.

Half-bloods of magical creatures and wizards are discriminated against in the wizarding world. Their situation is even worse than that of Muggle wizards. At least there are so many Muggle wizards that scolding one is equivalent to scolding a whole group of them.

As for half-bloods, especially half-bloods like the Veela, many male wizards treat them as... um... And female wizards are very unfriendly to them, guarding against them seducing their husbands, and even spitting on them.

For example, Dudley felt that Bagman's eyes involuntarily glanced towards her when he heard that Fleur was of Veela descent.

If it's hard to understand Veela, you can replace Veela with Succubus-hybrid Succubus, or female. She is bound to be treated unfriendly.

"A very nice design, very suitable for you, Miss Delacour."

Ollivander returned the wand to Fleur with a calm expression. At his age, he had seen all kinds of storms.

Not to mention the little witch who is one-quarter Veela, he has even seen little witches who are one-half or three-quarters Veela.

"Mr. Krum, it's your turn." Ollivander turned his gaze to Victor.

Victor walked forward with his feet turned outward and handed his black, thick, large and heavy wand to Ollivander.

When the wand was placed in Ollivander's hand, he could clearly feel his body sinking down. Victor's wand was very heavy.

Ollivander hammered on the wand for a while and said, "Gregorovitch's product. This is an excellent wand maker, although I don't quite understand his style."

"But it's very healthy."

It is hard to imagine that someone would use the word healthy to describe a wand, but this is Ollivander's characteristic. In his eyes, there is not much difference between a wand and a person.

"Next, Mr. Potter."

Ollivander turned his gaze to Harry again, his light eyes flashing with excitement. "It all seems to have happened yesterday. I remember it clearly. Come on, let me see how it is now."

Harry handed over the wand hidden in his sleeve. The shiny wand reflected a different kind of brilliance under the light.

“It is very well maintained, like new.”

Ollivander stroked Harry's wand carefully as if he were stroking his own wife's body, and even put the wand under his nose and took a deep breath.

To outsiders, it seems a little bit abnormal.

"It seems you take care of it regularly. Did you oil it yesterday?"

"Ah, yeah," Harry was a little confused by Ollivander's question and answered reflexively.

It was true that he often maintained his wand, but he didn't apply any oil yesterday.

Actually, it would be correct to say it was oil, but it was human oil. In other words, Harry had polished his wand until it was shiny.

Ollivander returned the wand to Harry, and he looked very happy that his work had found a good owner.

"And finally, Mr. Dursley."

Ollivander paused and looked at the last warrior.

"If I remember correctly, your wand should be iron birch, thestral tail feathers, nine inches."

Of course he remembered it clearly. The wand he sold to Dudley was his least satisfactory creation. However, now Dudley had become a Hogwarts warrior with it. Naturally, he became more curious about the status of the wand.

Dudley was not ambiguous and handed the wand to Ollivander.

"You modified it?" Ollivander stared blankly at the wand in his hand that had changed drastically. If he was not sure that this was the one he gave to Dudley, he would have doubted whether this wand was made by him.

“Oh, what a genius idea.”

After all, Ollivander was a wand master famous throughout Europe. Even though the production process he used was different, he still figured out some tricks.

"It's also interesting to talk about how it was made. You know, a lot of works come out of a flash of inspiration. And this one came out of a flash of inspiration for me."

Ollivander would never use very hard wood like iron birch to make the body of the wand, because it has very poor flexibility and ductility, and he would not use the Thestral tail feathers as the core of the wand, because the Thestral tail feathers are a very unstable material.

The only well-known wand that uses the tail feathers of the Thestrals as its core is the Old Wand, one of the Three Deathly Hallows.

Under normal circumstances, Ollivander wouldn't even look at these two completely incompatible materials.

Suddenly one day he suddenly had a seizure and made one with these two materials.

“I thought it was the worst of all my works.”

“I didn’t expect it to be a semi-finished product, waiting, waiting for someone to take it away.”

Ollivander handed the wand back to Dudley: "And you finished it"

"Though I personally don't like having my wand modified like this."

He was referring to the practice of embedding magic crystals into magic wands.

“But it’s happy, and I’m happy too.”

Ollivander's attitude towards wands is actually no different from that towards children. It is not the wizard who chooses the wand, but the wand that chooses the wizard. This is Ollivander's favorite saying.

“I wish you a good result in the competition.”

Chapter 281 Daily Prophet: The Untold Secret of the Hogwarts Warrior

Seeing that Ollivander had finished his work, Bagman cleared his throat and said excitedly, "Now that we have checked the wands, we will move on to the last task of the day, which is of course the most important one."

His voice went up a few notches.

"group photo!"

"Where's Ms. Rita? Please ask her to come up and take a picture for us."

Bagman said to the Ministry of Magic staff next to him, "Let's take a group photo with the referee and the warriors. I think this will be a good publicity highlight."

"Mr. Bagman, Ms. Rita has left."

"what?"

Everyone else, including the two headmasters, was stunned. Only Dumbledore and Lucius were not surprised.

"I think the Daily Prophet cannot report the Triwizard Tournament truthfully because Ms. Rita always likes to add some... um... fictional things to her articles."

Dudley said, glancing at Dumbledore, "I think Professor Dumbledore feels deeply about this, like the article about the International Confederation of Wizards Convention."

"That article is really great." Dumbledore kept his usual smile. "I especially enjoyed the part about me being described as a crazy old man with a rigid mind."

"."

After hearing what Dumbledore said, Bagman couldn't ask someone to invite Rita Skeeter back, as that would offend Dumbledore.

He says he loves reading, can you really believe he loves reading?

And he offended more than one person.

As the head of the Ministry of Magic, Bagman knew more than anyone else. Mr. Dursley, another Hogwarts warrior, was the youngest member of the Wizengamot. Because he himself did not like to be high-profile, not many people knew about it except those within the Ministry of Magic, and it was not widely publicized.

In a sense he and Dudley were colleagues.

“But we need someone to take pictures.”

Dudley continued as if he had expected it, "I have made an appointment with the naysayer reporter to do the publicity."

Judging from the audience level alone, The Contrarian is much more popular than the Daily Prophet. Asking them to do the publicity and promotion will definitely have a better effect than the Daily Prophet.

The Daily Prophet often criticizes the naysayers as crazy, but aren't they the same?

Rita Skeeter, who talks a lot of shit, could be a top reporter.

Excluding some idiots who have no brains and blindly believe in the contents of the Daily Prophet, in fact, many people know that her articles are very untrue, but it seems that her relatives and friends around her all believe that the Daily Prophet is true, so it is not easy to express other different opinions.

"If Mr. Bagman is not satisfied with this, the Daily Poisons and Antidotes would be happy to help you all. How about publishing an issue of the Ministry of Magic just for you?"

"The Daily Poison and Antidote?"

"Published by Witch and Poison Press."

Bagman was immediately attracted by Dudley's words. If one were to ask what was the most popular thing among young people in the entire European wizarding world, it would be the wizard cards and novels published by Witch and Poison Publishing House.

"Are they planning to publish their own newspaper?"

"Yes, in addition to some news, there is also a new novel section, which contains the serialized content of the second part of the Dragonlance Chronicles, and of course, there are also detailed explanations of the skills and card characters of the wizard cards. By the way, do you like the wizard cards?"

"Who doesn't? Everyone loves wizard cards."

Bagman had put the Daily Prophet out of his mind for now, and was only thinking about the interview.

"I don't care about it at all. What do you think, Mr. Lucius?"

As a seasoned expert, Bagman decisively passed the problem to someone else.

Lucius spoke slowly in his unique accent, looking at Dudley meaningfully, "Supporting emerging industries is what the Ministry of Magic should do. I am happy to hand over the content of the Triwizard Tournament to the Daily Poisons and Antidotes."

Dudley responded with a meaningful remark.

"That couldn't be better, Mr. Lucius. I send you Mr. Carlo's regards. It's a pleasure to work with you."

"Pleasant to work with."

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Hogwarts, breakfast time.

“It’s too much, it’s really too much!!!”

An angry roar sounded, scaring the little wizards so much that they almost dropped their spoons. Then Hermione came over aggressively with today's Daily Prophet in her hand. The little wizards along the way were frightened by the aura of the 'Angry Gryffindor Lioness' and consciously made way for her.

"Snapped!"

Hermione walked up to the disciplinary team and angrily threw the newspaper on the table. Her chest kept heaving up and down. She had never hated someone so much before.

“How could she make up these false contents out of thin air?”

"How could she talk nonsense! Doesn't she know that she is responsible for what she writes?"

"I'm furious!!!"

On the largest page of the Daily Prophet, three headlines were clearly displayed in bold and large fonts.

"A rude and vulgar boy."

"Shocked, a love triangle among the warriors."

"The untold secret of the Hogwarts Warrior."

The second title is more melodramatic, saying that Dursley and Potter finally met their first love at Hogwarts and they were inseparable from a girl named Hermione Granger. Yes, the two brothers fell in love with the stunningly beautiful Miss Granger at the same time. To put it in one sentence, it is a love triangle mixed with a lot of melodramatic plots.

As for the third title, it is quite outrageous. It is about the crazy old lunatic Dumbledore who was bewitched by the conspirator Dursley to set up many strange organizations in Hogwarts, making the whole school a mess. In the future, Dursley is planning a bigger conspiracy.

Well, the details are a bit off, but maybe she's right.

Although the newspaper quoted content about the holding of the Triwizard Tournament, it did not mention what the Triwizard Tournament was. In fact, it only mentioned two warriors from Hogwarts - Dudley and Harry, with the focus on Dudley, while Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were only mentioned in passing.

If you are the reader, you don't even know who the Warriors from these two schools are.

The content of the newspaper is mixed with many ambiguous words such as "maybe", "perhaps", and so on, and there are very few definite words. Rather than speaking with facts, it is more like a collection of all kinds of outrageous speculations. It can be said that it starts with a name and the content is all up to the editor.

Rita Skeeter used to do this, and even if she publicly DISS Fudge, the Ministry of Magic couldn't do anything to her.

You can't just stop others from making normal assumptions.

Are you hiding something from me?

Why are you in such a hurry to cover everyone's mouths?

That's how Rita Skeeter became famous.

Chapter 282: The Wizengamot Subpoena

Beauxbatons were happy to see the contents of the Daily Prophet, especially Fleur, who looked over with a gloating look on her face. She didn't like Dudley, the man who spoke so much when the Warriors' List came out, and of course she didn't like Harry very much, even though he was the legendary 'boy who lived', she didn't think there was anything great about him.

The students of Durmstrang were very angry, but the headmaster Karkaroff looked gloating. No expression could be seen on Viktor's face, as he actually had a good impression of Dudley and Harry.

"Well written."

Compared to the indignant people at Hogwarts, Dudley looked much calmer. He slowly read the newspaper and flicked it lightly with his finger.