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Dolly's mind raced, realizing that she might be able to do something about it.

Her newspaper is about to publish its first article. Making a name for herself is not an easy task. Although Dolly has prepared some promotional methods, they are not as quick as crushing her competitors.

Clearly, if the Malfoys were to cause any trouble later, it would be a good opportunity for Dolly.

With that in mind, Dolly stopped caring about the matter.

After reassuring Harry and his two friends for a few moments and telling them that the Ministry of Magic would give them a fair answer, he went to find Professor McGonagall.

Good afternoon, Professor. I wonder how you've been reading our inaugural issue?

Dolly had already told Dumbledore about creating the publication, and he was willing to have the Hogwarts professors endorse it. Therefore, Professor McGonagall had the unpublished inaugural issue for her to read and review.

Professor McGonagall seemed pleased and said, “A very good idea, Miss Dursley.”

"I admit I haven't seen such a wonderful story in many years. Although Muggles' imagination of magic is very different from ours, it is still another way for us to understand Muggles."

"More importantly, this newspaper is very pure and showed me the direction of your life. Nothing makes me happier than that."

The subtext of this statement is almost: I'm glad you didn't cause any trouble.

"Thank you for your compliment. Do you have any suggestions for the name of this newspaper?"

"name?"

Professor McGonagall glanced at the blank name in surprise and said, "You haven't confirmed this yet?"

"We actually discussed it for a long time, but we wanted to take the professors' opinions into consideration in the end."

“Then we shouldn’t interfere in this matter. Go ahead and name it with confidence, or name it after yourselves. This is an honor you deserve.”

With McGonagall's approval, Dolly began discussing naming with the girls around her.

Dolly had suggested naming it after Lovegood, but Luna sternly rejected the idea.

She was very clear that what appeared to be a collaboration between Dolly and her family was, in essence, an opportunity for Dolly to increase their income.

While her dissenting voice had some influence, it was clearly not enough to justify her collaboration with Dolly. Dolly was only doing it because of their familiarity with each other.

"Let's name it after the four of us: you, me, Luna, and Hermione."

Qiu Zhang's suggestion was clearly constructive, but the question was how to name it after four girls?

In the end, Qiu Zhang came up with an idea.

"Let's just call them the Four Colors."

Dolly and Cho Chang both guessed her intention: to incorporate the representative colors of the four Hogwarts houses, thereby making everyone realize that the newspaper was endorsed by Hogwarts and enhancing their sense of familiarity with it.

After all, theoretically all wizards in Britain graduate from Hogwarts, and everyone would be interested to see a newspaper from Hogwarts after leaving the school.

"We can even solicit articles from Hogwarts to record some interesting stories about Hogwarts, which will make it more interesting for everyone."

Then Luna suggested, "Four colors are a bit too much, how about four collars?"

"Or perhaps it's for the collar?"

She didn't think her suggestion would be accepted because it seemed a bit odd.

Dolly's eyes lit up, and she said, "Great, now we have a logo."

Dolly then drew a person's collar. Because the person was wearing two different clothes, a suit and a shirt, there were several collar corners. She then colored the four collar corners with the same colors as the four houses.

At first, Cho Chang and Luna didn't understand what this meant, but they understood the moment they saw it.

Such formal attire implies that this newspaper is primarily intended for adults, yet the adult wizards in their suits still cannot forget their time at Hogwarts—this is the connection between the newspaper and Hogwarts.

"Perfect!"

"It can't get any better!"

Dolly looked at her work with pride, and most importantly, she even played a pun.

Such puns are very effective when they first spread, as they increase people's memorability.

People might find the four colors inexplicable, but the four collars can be quite memorable.

Dolly then mailed out the printed copy, and all that was left was to wait for the first issue of the newspaper to be officially released.

As for Malfoy, just as Dolly expected, Malfoy and his three henchmen were all wrapped in bandages, looking as if they had all been seriously injured.

Clearly, the Malfoys wanted to turn the tables on this matter.

Back in second grade, the Malfoys were thoroughly humiliated by Dolly and Lucius even lost his position on the school board.

Now that he has the opportunity to cause trouble for Hogwarts, Lucius has no reason not to do so.

Seeing that the other party had made a move, Dolly naturally wouldn't hold back either.

She wrote a short essay herself, vividly describing how the three Malfoy brothers provoked magical creatures and were then attacked, which became her first Hogwarts school submission to the Four-Colored Collar Newspaper.

Of course, Dolly omitted the names of the three people.

Dolly knew that the Daily Prophet, with the Malfoy family's financial support, would publicize Malfoy's injury extensively, and then everyone would naturally know who the fool Dolly described in her newspaper was.

This wasn't Dolly leaking information; the Malfoys couldn't find anyone to cause trouble for her.

Moreover, Dolly is no longer afraid of the Malfoys at all. As long as Dobby is still with Dolly, the Malfoys won't be able to cause any trouble for Dolly.

Soon, a few days passed.

Just as Dolly had predicted, the Daily Prophet published a story about Malfoy being attacked by the foolish half-giant professor Hagrid and his dangerous magical creatures during his Magical Creatures Protection class.

However, when Malfoy excitedly received the Daily Prophet, he was surprised to find that his classmates had all received a brand new copy of the newspaper.

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Chapter 245 The Prophet's Daily Report: Interception.

Students are naturally fickle and easily bored.

Even though the Daily Prophet contains very novel news, students are still happy to experience this new kind of fun when faced with a newspaper full of fresh content.

Moreover, Dolly provides Hogwarts with a full one hundred free newspapers each issue for the students to read. The newsstand has already been set up at the entrance, and anyone can simply put it back after reading.

For Dolly at this moment, it's just a drop in the ocean, and she can even make the decision herself.

However, the impact it brings is enormous.

When the students at Hogwarts look at Dolly, it's usually because half of it is due to her beautiful face, and the other half is because they find it pleasing to the eye to watch her interact with several pretty girls.

But now, their gazes toward Dolly were filled with a clearer sense of admiration, because they knew that these works from the Muggle world had been translated by Dolly and a few others.

Although it was just an English-to-English translation, changing some words that were incomprehensible in the wizarding world to have meanings that could be understood here, it was obviously an enormous achievement for the few first, second, and third-year wizards.

So much so that all the professors who entered the restaurant today, except for Snape, greeted Dolly and her friends and praised their work.

Of course, not everyone realized how much wealth and power Dolly had to establish this newspaper; after all, this was not something the young wizards could focus on.

But when they saw the embarrassing things the unnamed Malfoy trio did in their Magical Creatures class, even the young wizards with no social experience realized that Malfoy was probably going to be furious.

The same is true.

Malfoy was so angry he almost choked when he saw the words on it.

He still had his arm bandaged and was about to tell others how serious his injury was, that even magic couldn't heal it.

In a fit of anger, Malfoy slammed his hand on the table. When everyone looked at his injured arm, Malfoy realized what was happening and exaggeratedly shouted, pretending that he was still injured.

"Dolly, I think he needs your healing spell."

Cho Chang complained to Dolly, who replied with a smile, "No, he needs to get hit on the head a few times before he can recover."

Malfoy clearly intended to continue causing trouble. He and the Malfoy family certainly didn't dare to directly attack Dolly now, but they undoubtedly still had the guts to attack a magical creature.

Or perhaps this matter had nothing to do with Dolly; the Malfoys probably carried out the plan out of a desire to disgust Dumbledore.

Unfortunately, Dolly and Buckbeak were already friends, so she naturally couldn't bear to see such a sentient animal killed by the Malfoys' schemes.

Next, Malfoy began loudly refuting Dolly's newspaper, intending to make the Slytherin students think it was all rubbish. However, someone soon reminded him that the article was translated by Dolly and her friends.

Malfoy then changed the subject and began to criticize the person who wrote the news article as an idiot, saying that it was one thing to spread rumors, but to dare to slander the Malfoy family.

Upon hearing Malfoy's words, Cho Chang and Luna looked at Dolly with trepidation, because Dolly had written the news article.

Dolly naturally concealed her name, after all, she had already shown her face quite a bit, and there was no need for her to become a thorn in the side of the Malfoy family.

But now that the Malfoys have stepped forward, she won't hold back.

He raised his wand directly at Malfoy, hitting him amidst Malfoy's scream.

Snape, who was eating, stood up in surprise, but then sat back down steadily.

Because Malfoy was running around the table, waving his arms and legs, he didn't look injured at all.

The Slytherin students initially glared at Dolly, but after she "cured" Malfoy and his followers with three consecutive healing spells, the Slytherin students dared not look at her anymore.

Especially when they saw the two guards, Humphry and Hare, screaming in pain alongside Malfoy, even though they greatly respected Malfoy's bloodline, they couldn't help but frown and turn away in pain.

It's because Malfoy and his gang were too ugly.

It's true that Slytherins are extremely xenophobic, but many people still can't get past the hurdle of their own dignity to protect the Joker or anything like that.

“A beautiful healing spell, Miss Dursley.”

Seeing this, Professor Sprout couldn't help but speak up and gave Dolly an extra five points.

In fact, with Dolly's newspaper, the public pressure that Malfoy had created at Hogwarts was already offset by the professor's credibility.

They naturally disliked Malfoy's clownish appearance, but as professors, it wasn't convenient for them to intervene directly because they had to consider Snape's feelings.

But now that Dolly has made her move, there are naturally people who would like to make Slytherin even more uncomfortable.

Sure enough, the next second Snape said coldly with a dark face, "Mr. Malfoy, if your injuries were half the volume of your voice, you would be rolling on the ground bleeding profusely right now."

"If I were you, I would thank Miss Dursley, then take a strawberry pie that's as muddled as your brains, and go back to your idiot's den, grounded for a week starting today."

Malfoy was naturally dumbfounded after being scolded by Snape.

At the same time, I realized that I had done something stupid.

The wound, which had already been healed by the school doctor, now felt warm and even stronger than the uninjured hand. How could he possibly keep up the act?

He could only leave the restaurant with his head down, leaving behind the laughter of the other three houses and the disgruntled looks of the Slytherin students.

"You're welcome, Professor Snape."