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Anyway, even if his son gets tricked, he can still save him. That's a real-world lesson for Malfoy.

Dolly's side, Cho Chang and Luna were also full of doubt, not understanding what Dolly was going to do.

Dolly couldn't explain the problem to Sirius Black, so she could only say, "First there was the Malfoy family, and then there was this reporter. With their covert help, the Daily Prophet is no longer a threat to us."

The Daily Prophet, despite its apparent immense power and control over the entire British Ministry of Magic's propaganda efforts, is a powerful organization.

However, since there are only so many people in the entire wizarding world, the Daily Prophet has at most a few dozen staff members.

These dozens of people, when divided into editorial teams, typesetting and printing staff, distribution staff, logistics management and other departments, mean that only a few people can truly influence the Daily Prophet.

Rita Skeeter is clearly one of them.

From the perspective of the main characters, she is cunning, greedy, and unscrupulous. She resorts to various unethical and even illegal means to obtain exclusive news and create a sensation.

But as a journalist, she is undoubtedly a pillar of the Daily Prophet.

Dolly only needs to influence her, and that will be enough to affect the Daily Prophet's aggression towards the Four-Colored Collar, ensuring the Four-Colored Collar's survival.

After all, Dolly wasn't expecting to make a profit from the four-color collar.

In an effort to boost sales, Dolly even decided to launch a prize draw.

The amount of Galleons won in the next draw will be based on the sales volume of the previous period. At most, it will be tens of thousands of Galleons a month, while hundreds of thousands of pounds are just pocket change for Dolly.

As for how to control this reporter, the answer is, of course, to wait for her to walk right into our trap.

Dolly believed that with her intelligence, she would surely discover Malfoy's strangeness, insincerity, and timidity.

Given her personality, once she senses the possibility of bigger news, she will absolutely not give up on it.

The following day, Rita obtained permission from Hogwarts to interview Malfoy.

In theory, it would be extremely difficult for Rita to get into Hogwarts, even if Lucius pushed for it, since Lucius is no longer a member of the Board of Governors.

However, Dolly wrote to Dumbledore, asking him to let Rita in, and that she could handle the rest herself.

Because of what happened before, Dolly and Dumbledore had developed a certain understanding.

In other words, Dolly shouldn't disturb Dumbledore in nurturing his little savior, and Dumbledore shouldn't deliberately cause trouble for Dolly.

Dumbledore's decision to allow Rita to enter Hogwarts clearly falls into the category of granting favors.

In order to repay Dumbledore for his help this time, Dolly didn't mind telling him that if they wanted to exonerate Sirius in the future, the four-colored collar could play a role.

In this way, the previously somewhat chaotic logic is now in a closed loop.

The smallest closed loop is that Malfoy wants to frame Buckbeak, and Dolly wants to teach him a lesson.

The closed loop in the middle is that the Four-Colored Collar is being blocked by the Daily Prophet, and Dolly wants to divert the Daily Prophet's attention.

The biggest closed loop is the Malfoy family. The Daily Prophet is just a pawn for Dory and Dumbledore to help each other. All of this will only really take effect when Sirius enters the scene.

Having figured all this out, Dolly felt like a true genius.

She only explained small closed loops and medium closed loops to Luna and Cho Chang, and the two girls looked at Dolly with admiration.

Although they were all very intelligent, they were far inferior to Dolly in using her intelligence to influence the magical world outside of school.

In the afternoon, Dolly received information from Spot.

Rita has finished her interview with Malfoy.

Malfoy's face turned deathly pale, as if he had been greatly frightened.

Rita, on the other hand, looked completely satisfied; she had clearly fabricated another news report.

Yes, it's fabricated.

If journalists in the Muggle world at least adhere to the bottom line of one truth and nine falsehoods—after all, we still live in the era of television and newspapers, fabricating fake news would result in viewers and readers blocking the door to complain—then it's a different story.

As the top news reporter for the Daily Prophet in the British wizarding world, Rita Skeeter had absolutely no qualms about fabricating fake news.

As long as the other party doesn't have any means to retaliate against her, she doesn't mind making anyone a news figure.

She has a shorthand quill pen, a special quill pen made from the feathers of the harlequin bird, which can automatically record very ordinary language into flowery, unrealistic sentences.

Clearly, she fabricated some news during her interview with Malfoy.

But Rita dared to fabricate news that was detrimental to the Malfoy family?

Clearly, Rita's burden is not that heavy; the Malfoy family is one of the few who have the ability and the willingness to counter her.

So she only made a few sarcastic remarks about Malfoy; the real person she fabricated fake news about was Dolly.

"Quickly, go tell Dursley!"

"We can't let this woman leave alive!"

After Rita left, Malfoy told Spot the same thing, and it quickly reached Dory's ears.

What did that woman do?

While sunbathing with Dolly, Akiharu asked in surprise, "How did this get involved with you?"

"No, I think this is normal."

Dolly secretly watched the interview from the corner. It didn't dare to look at what Rita had written, but Dolly knew what Rita had written from its description.

"Malfoy was so startled by me that she unconsciously said my name a few times. I guess she must have made up a love story about a rich young man who had a crush on a witch from a Muggle family."

Qiu Zhang was initially surprised, then looked disgusted, his face turning pale, and said, "This kind of thing absolutely cannot be published in the Daily Prophet!"

"Of course, don't worry, Rita will need my permission to leave Hogwarts."

Dolly wore a confident smile.

Hogwarts does not allow Apparition, and there are only a few ways to enter and exit Hogwarts normally, and the house-elves are responsible for picking Rita up and down.

Although this job wasn't done by Spot, Dolly wasn't just close to Spot; in the eyes of all the house-elves at Hogwarts, Dolly was the most popular wizard.

So if Rita really is going to leave, Spot will inform Dolly.

Now that Dolly hasn't received any news, Rita obviously won't leave.

So where is she?

Dolly raised an eyebrow and said, "Chu Zhang, let's go to my dorm, how about it?"

"what……"

Qiu Zhang was taken aback, his pale face slowly regaining its color, and he said, "Is this time alright?"

"Anyway, Hermione isn't here, and too much sun exposure isn't good for the skin."

"Ok."

How could Qiu Zhang possibly refuse? He even enthusiastically took Dolly's hand and quickly walked towards the dormitory.

The thing she minded most was that Dolly and Hermione were in the same dorm room and slept together every day.

Although she had no evidence, she felt that the two of them must have often showered together, stayed close together, and slept together.

This is not surprising. It is normal for two girls who are close in the same dormitory to have such intimate behavior.

But the thought of that scene made her feel a pang of sadness, and she longed to replace Hermione or at least join in.

Unfortunately, she didn't receive an invitation from Dolly, and she couldn't very well force herself to sleep in Dolly's dorm room.

Even if Dolly agrees, if Hermione objects, the professors and prefects will come after her if the matter escalates.

Soon, the two arrived at the dormitory.

Qiu Zhang glanced at the time; there wasn't much time left before get out of class ended, so he knew he wouldn't be able to get much done.

However, there are still some things that can be done.

She pulled Dolly to sit on the sofa, hugged her without a word, kissed her cheek, and her face flushed.

Dolly blushed, but she still feigned surprise and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just wanted to thank you for inviting me, so is there anything we should do?"

Cho Chang held Dolly's arm and didn't make any further moves; she didn't want to frighten Dolly.

As for Dolly, although she also wanted to do something, unfortunately, an uninvited guest was following them.

A beetle landed on the balcony and curiously observed everything in the room.

Dolly's room had completely taken on the style of the Muggle world, complete with working appliances, which dazzled Rita.

A Muggle is using mysterious Muggle devices extensively at Hogwarts?

With just this title, Rita could write another front-page headline attacking Dumbledore.

Not to mention the possible romantic entanglement between Dolly and Malfoy, Rita is confident she could write about it for a week without repeating herself!

Of course, she also wanted to obtain more information.

After all, Dolly is a very mysterious girl. She is also Harry's sister, and she has caused quite a stir in the Daily Prophet before.

At that time, Rita wanted to meet Dolly, but unfortunately, she didn't have the chance.

Now the opportunity has finally come.

Impulsively, Rita didn't do much research before flying into the room, intending to land behind Dolly and Cho Chang to listen to what they were saying.

They were so affectionate that they certainly wouldn't care about her, a little beetle.

That's right, she can transform into a beetle, which is how she always manages to uncover big news.

She is an unregistered, illegal Animagus, and her beetle form makes it easy for her to come and go anywhere.

But this time, Rita miscalculated.

Dolly had spotted her on the lawn long ago; after all, while there were plenty of beetles at this time of year, there weren't many curious beetles flying around people.

Not to mention that it has now followed us into the room; if it isn't Rita Skeeter, then who is it?

Dolly snapped her fingers, and all the doors and windows closed simultaneously.

The Puffys do this work. Dolly's Puffys are smart enough to understand Dolly's simple commands and do some work.

For example, to close the doors and windows, Dolly only needs to snap her fingers in a specific direction.

But this terrified Rita so much that her soul almost shattered.

She wasn't afraid of being locked in this room; as a beetle, she could escape at any time, through the crack in the door or even through the pipes.