The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 395: Singing the Opposite Tune
"Now that we have these photos, what should we do with them?" The day after the photos were taken, Ryan developed the photos that had been tampered with. However, Hermione began to have a headache looking at the dozen or so selected photos. She felt that if she sent them to everyone one by one, the old toad would find them after a few, and there was no way she could let many people see them. She originally wanted to send them to Rita Skeeter, but thinking about her bullying personality, she probably wouldn't send them out. It would be terrible if she got into trouble.

“That’ll have to wait until this Sunday. I want to have a good discussion with the twins to see if these things can be put in the store for distribution.

At the weekend reading group, everyone went all out to answer questions in the shortest possible time, so as to squeeze out more time for practical practice. Perhaps because the Shield Charm is more suitable for private practice, everyone mastered this spell in just one week. Even Neville could successfully use this spell to block the Disarming Charm that Hannah fired at him. So under everyone's encouragement, Ryan began to share with everyone the Obstacle Charm that he had just learned last year.

"The barrier spell can block any physical object that attempts to attack you. Let's start with this." Ryan began to explain while standing on the podium.

"Why don't we learn more powerful spells? Like the Stunning Spell?" Justin raised his hand and asked. "I heard from Cedric that this spell is also the most commonly used by Aurors. It is not only popular but also useful."

"Because I think it's more important to learn to protect yourself than to attack the enemy when we really need to fight. After all, if you fail to attack once, you can choose the next opportunity to attack, but if you fail to defend, there is a high probability that you will never have the opportunity to correct this mistake." Ryan tapped his left hand lightly with his wand and said. "Of course, this doesn't mean that we only learn these. When everyone has a good grasp of these basics, I will naturally teach you more powerful spells, such as the Stunning Spell."

After Ryan convinced everyone, the practice of the barrier spell began. With the successful example of learning the armor spell, everyone's progress was faster when learning the new spell. When the party was about to end, some people were able to use this spell.

"Very good, that's all for today's practice. You can practice these spells at any time. We'll see you next week at the same time." After saying that, Ryan walked down from the podium and together with Hermione stopped the twins who were about to leave.

"Fred, George, we have something we want to ask you for help—" Then Ryan laid out their plan in detail.

"That's great, we didn't think of this method. This is how we should fight back against Fudge and his gang who spread rumors." "Wait, this may not be a rumor. At least I don't think Umbridge is qualified to be the Deputy Minister of Magic. Maybe she really got to the position through this method. We are now revealing the truth." The twins praised Ryan's suggestion.

"Aren't you worried about the impact on your business?" Hermione asked cautiously. She felt that this business should be very important to the twin brothers who were short of money.

"Hermione, making money is indeed important, but we can give it up for a just cause." Fred raised his eyebrows and said. "Besides, Ryan is the major shareholder. He has decided to lose money, what can we small shareholders do?" George also added, but from the smile on his face, it can be seen that he absolutely agrees with Ryan's plan.

"Then let's think of a good way to spread the truth." The four people whispered to each other, and they hurried back to the common room until the curfew bell rang.

"There's great news." Three days later, the twins stopped Ryan in the hallway as he was about to go upstairs to rest after lunch. "A magazine is willing to publish these photos in their book."

"What? Which magazine with a brain drain would publish something like this? Aren't they worried about Fudge's revenge?" Ryan stared at the twins with eyes wide open, eyes full of disbelief. "Well, it's really a magazine with a brain drain." Fred showed a somewhat strange expression. "We asked the clerk to stuff the photocopies of these photos into the boxes of those products as waste paper for packaging and shock absorption. As a result, the day after the batch of products was shipped out, Xenophilius Lovegood came to us and hoped to allow him to publish these photos in his magazine."

"Xenophilius Lovegood? The name sounds familiar," Ryan said, tapping the back of his hand with two fingers.

"He is the father of our reading club member Luna Lovegood, and he runs a magazine called The Quibbler." George added. "Of course, we know there isn't much valuable in this magazine. They don't even get paid for their contributions, and those who contribute to this magazine just want to see their names on the book. But it's a magazine anyway, and the photos published in it will always spread faster than if we publish those photos separately."

"And our father thinks this magazine is quite interesting. There won't be too few people who want to read it." Fred finally comforted Ryan.

"Okay, then let's allow him to publish it. Every extra person who gets the publicity is good for us." Ryan finally made his own decision. Of course, this was the only choice. After all, they couldn't expect the Daily Prophet to put these photos on its own page.

"The fire has been lit. Now it depends on how you, Fudge, deal with it." Ryan whispered after the twins left, with the corners of his mouth curled up.

The Quibbler didn't publish the photos right away, and when asked during another weekend party, Luna told the twins that her dad was waiting to publish a long, fascinating article about the recent discovery of the Scimitar-Horned Snorlax. "Of course, that's a very important article, so your photos may have to wait until the next issue."

"Next time, next time." Ryan spread his hands after hearing the news from the twins. "After all, there must be someone willing to post these things, right? Besides, it's not appropriate for us to urge for updates for free stuff."

Naturally, the following days were relatively peaceful. Nothing special happened except that Umbridge kept jumping up and down and insisting on disrupting every professor's class.

Ryan also adapted to Umbridge's Defense Against the Dark Arts class during this period. Umbridge came to Hogwarts to prevent students here from mastering fighting skills, so naturally she didn't care about the students' learning progress at all. So recently, whenever Ryan had Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he pretended to read seriously, but in fact he was calculating something in his sea of ​​consciousness after entering shallow meditation.

He told the others about these methods, but unfortunately only Hermione could complete the whole work in her mind. The twins fell asleep after trying it once, and Ginny and the others had even worse results. They couldn't enter the shallow meditation at all. It seems that this method needs enough magic to support it.

In this daily routine, the first month after the start of school has passed, and the first Hogsmeade Day of this semester is about to arrive.

(End of this chapter)