The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 459 Rumors and Criticisms
The summer heat wave finally reached Versailles. The high temperature was too much for people who were afraid of heat to bear. They had to hide in the house or soak themselves in the bathtub.

The brick-red buildings of the Rose Manor were shrouded in a drowsy silence. The usually lively and active animals no longer ran around, but lay lazily under the shade of trees and in the flowers.

Ada hid in the cool room, opened the window wide, hoping for a non-existent cool breeze to blow in.

The heat always makes people irritable and lazy. But in this summer, Ada has no time to be lazy, she has a lot of things to do.

In front of her was a thick and old book, with yellowed pages showing traces of time. This made Ada very careful every time she turned the pages, fearing that she would accidentally damage the crisp paper.

The Rosier family has a rich collection of books, and this old book is one of them, which records a lot of ancient black magic.

But because it was too old, and had been kept for hundreds of years, the text in the book was very difficult to understand. There were even some words that Ada could not read fluently.

In order to be able to read fluently and not be a fool, Ada had to prepare an ancient dictionary so that she could consult it at any time.

Ada hopes to find more records about Horcruxes from these books. If you want to destroy Horcruxes, you must understand them. It is far from enough to just know Tom Riddle's diary.

Since the holiday, Ada has been doing research and investigation on Horcruxes, dark magic and transfiguration.

She hid in the room, holding one or several large ancient books, never going out of the house, just like a lady from a prominent family.

Every time Laura came to treat Ada to dinner, she would call her "nerd".

With a heavy sigh, Ada closed the book in her hand with force, and the pages made a crisp sound under the heavy weight. This sound seemed to make her feel better and vent the resentment that had been accumulated in her heart for a long time.

It was another futile effort. Ada still didn't find what she wanted to find, but she did remember a lot of miscellaneous black magic. For nearly a month, Ada's efforts were almost in vain.

She only found a few words about Horcruxes in the sea of ​​books and words, and they were all what Dumbledore had said to her. How could she not be angry!
At this moment, an owl flew into the cool suite through the open window and landed next to Ada.

Ida waved her hands in disdain, trying to dispel the hot wind brought by the flapping of the owl's wings, but it had the opposite effect. The shaking palms only brought more hot wind.

The owl stared at Ada with its round eyes and its beak made a clicking sound, as if saying: Are you polite?
To apologize, Ida scooped up some water with her hands and wanted to feed the owl. There was an ice basin at Ida's feet, which could not only cool down the heat, but also cool some fruits and juices.

But Miss (Mr.) Owl did not accept Ada's apology. She turned her head at an exaggerated angle and ignored Ada.

Ada was not amused, so she gave up apologizing and took the newspaper and letter brought by the owl. As soon as she took off the items, the proud owl immediately flew away.

Putting the letter aside, Ada first picked up the English newspaper and scanned every page.

The Daily Prophet remained the same, saying nothing about Little Hangleton or Voldemort, and continued to pretend that all was well and peaceful.

Moreover, Fudge must have put a lot of pressure on the newspaper staff, who tried their best to discredit Dumbledore from the beginning of the summer vacation. The words they used were much harsher than Rita Skeeter's.

Almost all reports about Dumbledore do not have any positive comments. They describe Dumbledore as a dopey old man, saying that he is senile and confused.

In some personal columns, in order to attract attention, those columnists even described Dumbledore as a conspiratorial rebel who was obsessed with power and clinging to a high position.

They believe that all of Dumbledore's remarks this summer were intended to create extreme panic so that he could gain supreme power in the wizarding world.

In the scraps of newspapers, the names of Ada and Harry sometimes appear. One of them is Dumbledore's accomplice, and the other is the puppet that Dumbledore wants to support.

Harry was said to be an extremely self-centered patient with severe delusions, irritable, angry, neurotic, and extremely aggressive. The "boy who survived" became a street rat that everyone wanted to kill this summer. Not to mention Ada, all her negative information was exposed. She was the last disciple of the dark wizard Grover Cecil, and she killed three people in a rage... These were all half-true and half-false smears.

In all the articles that mentioned Ada, she was described as an extremely dangerous person, a crazy woman who would kill anyone she saw. A crazy woman like Ada was not expelled from Hogwarts, and she even served as the president of the Girls' Union, which became one of the weapons to attack Dumbledore.

Ada admitted that her temper was indeed a little bad, but she was not as antisocial as the newspapers said, right? If she was really that irritable, she would have burned down the headquarters of the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet.

Flipping through the newspaper again, Ada saw a report about the International Confederation of Wizards, in which Dumbledore lost his position as president.

The newspapers said that Dumbledore was old and unable to do the job, but in fact it was because he had just given a speech about "Voldemort's return."

Now, Dumbledore is no longer Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot, and is even discussing taking back his Order of Merlin, First Class.

Ridiculous! Ada's teeth almost fell out with laughter. I've seen stupid people, but I've never seen such stupidity! Fudge's head must have been kicked by a donkey when he was a child, and recently it happened to be caught by the door!

The newspaper full of lies was thrown to the ground, revealing Fudge on the front page. The Minister stood in front of the monument of "Magic is Power", using his stupid smile to appease the people.

Ada leaned back in her chair, staring at the ceiling in a daze. Ada didn't care about these rumors and criticisms. She was prepared, and Dumbledore had also given her a shot of prevention.

What really concerned Ada was Voldemort, the Voldemort who remained inactive.

Different from the clown-like behavior of the Ministry of Magic, there has been no news about Voldemort in more than a month. It seems as if the second generation Dark Lord disappeared out of thin air.

There was no wanton destruction, no assassination or poisoning, and Voldemort did not carry out any terrorist attacks. These were the methods he was best at, as if he had really been reborn that night.

Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha. How could this happen to Voldemort? No matter which part of the body you use to think about it, it is an impossible thing.

When the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, this is the most dangerous situation. You never know where and how your enemy will attack you.

I don’t know whether Voldemort, who is hiding in the dark, reads the newspaper. If he were reading the Daily Prophet, I guess he would be laughing so hard that his teeth would fall out, and he would be so happy.

Many hands make light work. After a month of smear campaigns, Dumbledore and Harry's standing in the hearts of the people plummeted, and they lost the support of the majority of the public.

This situation couldn't be better for Voldemort. Fudge and the Ministry of Magic are really his good teammates! These remarks that smeared Dumbledore and Harry might have been instigated by Voldemort and the Death Eaters.

After being in a daze for a while, Ada's irritable mood was relieved, and she picked up the letter, the letter from the twins.

Fred and George had originally planned to visit France during this holiday, but some personal matters got in the way: they had to take the Apparition exam and prepare more products to handle their growing orders.

There was no choice, so Fred and George had to put their plans to travel to France on hold.

The letter was short, with only a few lines of words. The two brothers briefly talked about two interesting things in their lives, the dark house, and the portrait that cursed people without repeating themselves.

At the end of the letter, there was a line of words written in large letters, and in order to highlight the key points, the twins also deliberately made the words bold.

"Dumbledore wishes you to return to London as soon as possible."

Thanks to the book friend 20210218151243096 for the reward

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