The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 414 Confused Ada

Rita Skeeter is a nasty person, but she is a courageous person, she just uses her courage in the wrong place.

Compared with official history, people prefer to read unofficial history and novels, as long as it is erotic and interesting enough. Rita Skeeter grasped this point, which made her famous, and this is also her cleverness.

With Quirinus Quirrell in the front, Gilderoy Lockhart in the middle, and Rita Skeeter in the back, Ravenclaw's reputation has been damaged once again.

Ida put down Armando Dippet: Master or Idiot?, a book by Rita Skeeter that brought her a lot of fame and money.

Ada took some time out of her spare time to read a lot of Rita's works. Ada found that there was still a little bit of truth in Rita's works, a little bit of truth mixed in with the lies throughout the whole work.

This is the most sinister approach, but also the smart one.

Rita Skeeter is not the first journalist or writer to do this, nor will she be the last. This kind of reversal of right and wrong, confusion of black and white, and violation of conscience and morality happens every day in this world.

An intelligent person, for his own selfish desires, slanders and spreads rumors to harm others, especially when this intelligent person is a journalist. This is the most unforgivable thing about Rita Skeeter.

Words are like knives. Words are the sharpest blade in the world. They can kill people without anyone noticing, and they are hard to defend against. Every writer should keep this in mind, because they are the ones who understand the importance of words the most.

She no longer paid attention to Rita Skeeter, nor did she pay attention to the follow-up of the trial. Daniel and Sergei knew what to do, and someone like Rita was not worth Ada's further energy.

Compared to unscrupulous reporters, things in school are obviously more attractive to Ada. While waiting for the second project to arrive, Ada and the twins discovered some interesting things.

I thought Mad-Eye Moody was invited by Dumbledore to guard against Karkaroff, but I didn't expect that Moody not only kept a close eye on Karkaroff, but also monitored Potions Professor Snape.

Dumbledore trusted Snape, and he also trusted Moody, otherwise he would not have entrusted the task of keeping an eye on Karkaroff to Moody. However, the two people whom Dumbledore trusted did not get along well with each other.

No, that's not accurate. It should be said that Moody always assumed Snape's behavior with the greatest malice.

Snape's harsh words to Harry were regarded by Moody as persecution of Harry; Snape's words that Harry stole the honor of a warrior were regarded by Moody as hostility towards Harry.

In short, in Moody's eyes, Snape is not a good person. Snape is still a follower of Voldemort and a Death Eater.

Now Snape is just a wolf in lamb's clothing. When the time is right, he will tear off the sheepskin and choose his prey to bite.

Snape, who was always eloquent and sarcastic, was like a beast without claws and fangs, ready to be slaughtered when facing Moody.

Moreover, Snape had no way to deal with Moody. He even felt a little afraid when facing Moody.

Ada and the twins saw Snape being speechless by Moody more than once. Snape, who usually didn't have many emotional changes, would always be so angry that he was furious.

Is it really just because Snape was once a Death Eater that Moody distrusts and even is hostile to Snape?
Ada always felt that things were not that simple.

Although his reputation is very bad now, Alastor Moody was once the most famous Auror, a man that the dark wizards were terrified of. But now Moody looks nothing like the legend, he seems to be really "crazy".

He is suspicious and distrustful of everything around him. Sometimes he is too cautious, but sometimes he is not very cautious. He is extreme and seems to believe that people will never change. If you are a bad person once, you will be a bad person every day for the rest of your life. His various "crazy" behaviors are very worthy of his nickname Mad-Eyes.

Ada couldn't understand why Dumbledore would trust such a person.

In any case, Ida herself would not trust such a person, nor would she entrust such a person with important matters. Their madness and empiricism would ruin everything.

This is what Moody is like now. Reason and calmness seem to be a luxury for him.

As for Snape, Ada never understood him and had complicated feelings towards him. For a person who had helped her a lot, even though he was really annoying and made people want to punch him, Ada just couldn't hate him.

Ever since the incident with Sirius, Snape has been deliberately distancing himself from Ada.

At first, Ada just thought that the Potions Professor was still angry, but there should be a limit to this anger, it shouldn't be endless, right? If it wasn't because of anger, then what was Snape's reason? I couldn't figure it out, and this question had troubled Ada for several months. Maybe she could see a clue when Snape wanted to put Ada in detention at the beginning of the school year.

But the confinement did not take place, which resulted in Ada being confused now and seeing everything in a fog.

This year's Hogwarts seems calm on the surface. Nothing has happened except the extra warriors. This just shows that this time the "opponent" is cunning and more difficult to deal with than any previous opponent.

The more you talk and do, the easier it is to reveal your true colors. Doing nothing is the easiest way to hide. A master who doesn't know his purpose.

The gun is easy to hide, and the dark arrow is hard to prevent.

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Time was slipping away again, as if someone had cast a spell on the clocks, making them spin very fast, and in the blink of an eye the second project was right in front of us.

All along, the Black Lake has been like a part of Hogwarts, lying there quietly. The large iron-grey, cold lake surface and the dark, cold bottom of the water seemed to be waving to the four warriors.

Hogwarts was still very cold at the end of February, and the water temperature of the Black Lake was only acceptable to the group of tough guys at Durmstrang.

The macho men, led by Krum, always swim in the Black Lake, no matter how cold the weather is, and they only wear a pair of swimming trunks.

This school year, Ada has hardly been to the Black Lake. She is not one of those crazy girls who drool over muscle sticks.

Muscular man, what’s the point of that thing!
If Fleur Delacour did synchronized diving in her bathing suit, or performed a water ballet with her classmates, Ada might be interested in watching.

Viktor Krum, let him go wherever he wants!
The night before the competition, Ada carefully checked her belongings, including clothes, jewelry, books, and money, and nothing was missing.

It seems that the most beloved treasure that was "taken away" was not these objects. If it was not an object, then it could only be a person. Compared with those material possessions, people are obviously the most important, and feelings are the most precious.

But Ada had just separated from the twins, and the other three people in the dormitory were also there, so who else could it be?

You can't really throw Professor McGonagall into the water! Please, be a human being!
If Professor McGonagall was really thrown into the cold Black Lake, a cold and a fever would be the only minor injuries after she was fished out. Dumbledore would probably have to teach the Transfiguration class himself.

The next day, February 24th, the second project was about to begin. After breakfast, the students left the castle and came to the cold grounds, walking along the lawn towards the Black Lake.

Ada was also in the crowd, and next to her were Fred and George. Apparently the mermaids didn't "kidnap" them last night, probably because mermaids didn't like the big dung eggs either.

The seats that surrounded the dragon enclosure last November now lined the opposite shore in tiers, with reflections in the lake below.

At nine o'clock, the sun gradually rose higher, and Ada felt that her body was finally warmer. But before she could bask in the sun, she, Fleur and Krum were taken to the tent at the edge of the field to change clothes.

After all, we are going to go into the water soon, and we can’t do it wearing heavy winter clothes.

At 9:20, Ada, Fleur, and Krum stood in front of the referee's table.

Although the anti-freezing spell would not make Ada feel cold in her swimsuit, she still wrapped herself in her cloak and cursed the planner of the second project in her heart.

How cute does one have to be to come up with such a cute project!

At 9:25, Harry still hadn't shown up at the referee's table, seemingly having forgotten about saving his Wee Cub (Dobby's language).

Ada's eyes swept through the crowd. She saw her good friends sitting in the stands, and also saw Professor McGonagall.

Looking away, Ada was confused. Who was she going to save when she went into the water? It couldn't be Snape!

Thinking of this, Ada looked up again.

(End of this chapter)