The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 658 Newspaper (Please subscribe, collect, and vote)
"I have sent people to negotiate with the Ministries of Magic in various European countries, but to be honest, the results are not very good." Professor Dumbledore said with some distress. "The only one that has been successful is the vampires. After meeting the envoys I sent out, several famous vampire families promised that they would do their best to keep their people away from Britain."

"I'm curious why?" Professor Dumbledore's tone was full of doubt. "I didn't promise them anything, nor did I send them any gifts. They just made the promise as soon as they heard that it was the messenger I sent out."

"Could it be that they deceived you?" Hermione asked a possible question. "Those vampires from an ancient family cannot be kind creatures. For the sake of profit, lying is as easy as eating and drinking for them."

"No." Dumbledore shook his head. "The messenger I sent out told me that these vampires swore in the name of Cain. For vampires, this oath is something they cannot break."

"Anyway, this is a good thing. We don't need to dwell on it too much." Ryan said. He thought this was probably the result of his killing of an entire branch of vampires in his fourth grade. After that incident, Professor Dumbledore's reputation spread among the dark creatures. The near extinction of the European giants further strengthened this rumor.

For those vampires, they naturally wouldn't mind taking advantage of the chaos to gain benefits for themselves. However, if there was a high probability that the lives of the entire clan would be sacrificed, the vampires would naturally not be so stubborn as to choose money over life.

After discussing everything that happened before, Ryan and the others said a few more words and then said goodbye to Headmaster Dumbledore. Because the headmaster still had a lot of things to do, and Ryan and the others also needed to discuss the content of the latest issue of "Look, This is Muggles" and make some preparations for the publication of the new daily newspaper.

Since the outbreak of the war, the newspapers and magazines in London have basically become the propaganda channels of the Ministry of Magic in London. In Hogsmeade, apart from the newly established Hogwarts Light Radio, the only magazine that can be used for propaganda is "Look, It's Muggles" jointly published by Ryan and Weasley's Joke Shop.

Originally, the Hogsmeade Ministry of Magic still hoped to use the longer-running The Quibbler as its own propaganda tool, but unfortunately they just couldn't get along with Mr. Lovegood. At the same time, the absurd content of The Quibbler made the credibility of this magazine not high, which was not conducive to the subsequent propaganda work.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Magic in Hogsmeade is now seriously short of staff and can only concentrate its personnel on some indispensable departments. There is no one left to run a newspaper. In this case, the only choice is to support "Look, This is Muggles" hosted by Ryan and others.

Although the Ministry of Magic was short-staffed and could not provide human resources assistance, it provided great convenience in other aspects. For example, it gave them the exclusive right to interview, and provided enough ink, printing equipment, and corresponding paper. In this case, in addition to converting "Look, This Is Muggles" into a monthly magazine, Ryan and his team also planned to publish a daily newspaper to compete with "The Daily Prophet".

"Don't you think the name of the British Magic News is a bit too common?" After returning to his residence, Ryan looked at the first daily newspaper sample that would be published tomorrow and said that when they were in Beauxbatons, they were mainly used as a cover, so they had more free time. Naturally, they prepared all the work for the publication of the newspaper.

"At least it's much better than the Hogwarts Light or Pravda you mentioned." Hermione glared at Ryan. "The former name not only sounds like a school newspaper, but it also plagiarized the name of the radio station that Lee Jordan is currently running. As for the latter name, don't think I don't know where it came from."

"Well, the name you came up with is the most suitable." Ryan had to admit that he was really bad at naming things, and he quickly changed the subject. "I hope everything goes well with our newspaper distribution tomorrow."

"It will go smoothly." Hermione held Ryan's hand, "Because this newspaper contains a lot of original things of ours, at least the detailed teaching of magic principles and combat magic can never be found in other newspapers." Thanks to this war, Ryan and his team have gained the best opportunity to popularize basic combat magic. Because everyone needs this in the current situation, and the pure-blood families who would object because of their interests are now on the enemy's side.

"What about the pure-blood families on our side?" Ryan asked seriously. "Although I believe everything will go smoothly given the current situation, it would be better if we could minimize the conflicts within our ranks."

"It's not a big problem." Hermione took out a pile of parchment. "Didn't we ask a lot of people about this issue at the last reading club meeting? These are the replies from their families, and they are basically supportive."

Ryan took the letters and read them one by one. From these letters, he could confirm that the Weasley family, the Abbott family and the Longbottom family all supported his approach. They even attached some small spellcasting tips that were circulated within their families to the end of their letters. Especially for the Longbottom family, the tips sent by Neville's grandmother were enough to train an Auror.

"This is much better than we thought." Hermione frowned. "I just don't understand why they would - why they would fully cooperate with us and even provide so much additional information. You know, this is their pure contribution. I didn't even make any requests before."

"The logic here is very simple." Ryan explained, looking at Hermione's distressed expression. "The Weasley family is good at making magic props, while the Abbott family is good at various magics related to housework and food preparation. So for the people of these two families, magic related to combat is not what they are good at, and spreading this knowledge will not affect them. On the contrary, supporting the spread of knowledge will bring them a good reputation. They will naturally seek benefits and avoid harm, and choose what is beneficial to them."

"And the Longbottom family." Ryan paused here. "They have been Aurors for generations. In theory, they won't support us. But now, the future of the entire Longbottom family depends on Neville alone. For them, the most important thing at this time is to restore the family's reputation, rather than clinging to the heritage and disappearing into the dust of history like the Marvolo family."

"I even suspect that the reason why Mrs. Longbottom provided us with so much valuable information was to build momentum for Neville, even though it was not the core knowledge of their family." Ryan looked again at the thick book of magic records that Mrs. Longbottom had sent along with the letter. "You know, for a pure-blood family, reputation can sometimes determine the rise and fall of a family."

"You mean, it's out of everyone's selfishness that we can move forward with this matter so easily." Hermione seemed a little frustrated. She had always thought that her previous persuasion out of justice had worked.

"If our classmates can be moved by the cause of justice, then the heads of those ancient pure-blood families are not that simple. These families with hundreds or thousands of years of history have experienced so many things. They are definitely not able to survive to this day just because they are committed to justice."

Ryan said as he picked up the sample of the newspaper that would be published tomorrow and turned to the eighth page of the spell analysis column. The first issue of spell analysis was the method and skills of using the coma spell, and there were also some small tips from the information provided by the Longbottom family. "But there's nothing wrong with this. At least our goal has been achieved. This knowledge will be spread to everyone who needs it."

(End of this chapter)