But that wasn't all; Professor McGonagall then produced the Daily Prophet.
The front page headline of the Daily Prophet featured a moving photograph.
The photo shows a man in a suit, looking angry and anxious, with several cameras surrounding him. The background is the entrance of the Lightwheel Company.
As for the content of the article, it begins with Rita Skeeter's interview with the Lightcycle Power Company, which includes a series of statements from the company's boss who is unwilling to admit to internal corruption and collusion with dangerous external elements.
Yes, that's very Rita Skeeter.
Denying means not daring to admit it, and not daring to admit it means doing it but not daring to take responsibility. This time, Guanglun Company is directly facing a death sentence. Rita is definitely a professional reporter who is well-versed in journalism (tabloids).
Then came Dolly's peculiarly styled denunciation, which stood out from the rest of the Daily Prophet.
Even Rita Skeeter, a notorious journalist, wrote in a very proper and even elegant style, though she made up a great deal of things in the content.
But it's different with Dolly. As you read the text, you can almost see a young girl crying and screaming at the top of her lungs.
Despite lacking photos and illustrations, this article evokes vivid imagery, so much so that the Daily Prophet dedicated half of its front page to it, almost giving it a significant portion of the screen, alongside Rita Skeeter's work.
Of course, the subsequent pages still featured Rita's articles, which were news reports about her frantically interviewing everyone involved in Nimbus 2000, from the boss to the sales staff to the shareholders, making readers think that Nimbus 2000 was going to go bankrupt tomorrow.
But they had just released the Nimbus 2000 model, which is the fastest flying broom in the wizarding world. It should have been the most popular broom ever, but instead, it suffered this unexpected disaster.
You can imagine how frustrated they felt.
Now, without Dolly's prompting, or even waiting for the Ministry of Magic to complete the process of suing Nimbus, Nimbus will launch a massive investigation into the mole.
As she watched, Dolly almost burst out laughing.
Then she realized that she was still in Professor McGonagall's office, and Professor McGonagall was looking at Dolly with a look that said, "I knew it."
Dolly, a little embarrassed, said, "Professor McGonagall, is there anything else? You won't criticize me, will you?"
Professor McGonagall sighed softly and said, "If you were to sign this article, I would criticize you loudly, but for now, I can only say try not to do it in the future, as it will cause some trouble for the principal."
"After all, we have always advocated that school matters be resolved within the school. However, this time, Guanglun Company has really gone too far, actually surrendering to the forces of evil. This is unacceptable to us."
"at last……"
Professor McGonagall blinked and said, "I used to think you should go to Hufflepuff, but now it seems you're a good fit for Ravenclaw."
"Don't worry, Professor, I don't want to be a reporter in the future."
"If I'm going to do it, I'll be the boss!"
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Professor McGonagall didn't make things difficult for Dolly. She gave Dolly a few more words of advice and then let her leave.
Although Professor McGonagall disliked Rita Skeeter, she had to admit that she was an excellent student in Ravenclaw.
Here, "excellent" refers to success in the conventional sense.
During their student years, moral character may be the primary concern, but once students enter the workforce, their ability to earn a living becomes a crucial criterion for evaluation.
Rita Skeeter is undoubtedly one of the best among them—of course, this is Professor McGonagall's assessment of Rita without knowing that she is actually an illegal Animagus.
An illegal Animagus is someone who has learned to transform into an animal but has not registered with the Ministry of Magic, which requires all Animagus to register.
This is to prevent wizards from being hunted as animals after transforming, or from being harmed by other wild animals, or from being unable to find missing persons after they cannot transform back.
Rita got to where she is today not only through her fabricated journalistic techniques, but also because she can transform into an insect to eavesdrop on exclusive news.
So once it's revealed that Rita is an Animagus, many people will be happy to send her to Azkaban.
By then, Rita will naturally have no connection with the outstanding Ravenclaw graduates.
But Rita is still shining brightly.
A few days later, after the hype surrounding Nimbus 2000 had died down a bit, Rita dropped another bombshell.
The owner of Lightwheel Company secretly met with a mysterious person late at night to discuss how to handle the matter. The two argued angrily, but the whistleblower did not reveal who the other person was.
The whistleblower was actually Rita herself. She saw Lucius appear, and it was clear that he could no longer stand idly by.
No matter how much Guanglun Company investigates, this matter will definitely be pinned on him. After all, Guanglun Company cannot allow its own company to go bankrupt just because it fears his status and position.
Rita, wary of Lucius's influence, concealed his identity, but this report undoubtedly put Nimbus 2000 in the spotlight once again.
Meanwhile, Attorney Fei's lawsuit against Nimbus Corporation was finally accepted, and the Ministry of Magic's summons was delivered to Nimbus Corporation, although at first glance, the charge of murder seemed impossible to establish.
But to what extent will this new wave damage the reputation of Lightwheel Corporation?
No one can give a definite answer anymore.
Today, Dolly and Harry have to meet someone else.
Dolly didn't want to see him at first, but considering that Harry's broom might not be available, she eventually accepted his invitation to meet.
In the original books, Harry's first broom was a gift from Professor McGonagall.
However, because Professor McGonagall knew about Harry and Malfoy's bet, the delivery of the broom was delayed, probably to be done after the matter was resolved.
Otherwise, buying a Nimbus 2000 but having no one use it would actually be a considerable burden for Professor McGonagall.
After all, Professor McGonagall only earns two or three hundred Galleons a month, and the job of a Hogwarts professor is indeed not easy if you rely solely on salary.
Of course, most professors have extra income. Any articles they write or magical creations they produce at Hogwarts become hot commodities in the market.
The person Dolly and Harry wanted to meet wasn't anything special; he had been writing to Harry Potter for a long time, wanting to see him.
This person is Fat Bob, the sales manager who swept through the company.
Sweeping Company is a direct competitor of Lightwheel Company, and Lightwheel 2000 and Sweeping Seven Star are two products with comparable performance.
While Sweeping Company was still planning various sales strategies to compete with Lightwheel Company, Lightwheel Company encountered such a huge internal mess, so Sweeping Company was naturally overjoyed.
The even more astute sales manager, Fat Bob, planned to sell Seven Stars Sweep to Harry Potter. By simply releasing this information in the Daily Prophet, Nimbus Inc.'s fate would likely be sealed.
The main reason Dolly didn't want to see him was that this man asked to take a photo with Harry and put it in the newspaper, and Dolly didn't want Harry to be exposed to the media so early.
But then I thought, if Harry gets some experience now, maybe he won't be so embarrassed when facing a reporter like Rita in the future.
As for the flying broomstick, whether it was bought at a low price or given to her as a gift, it was not a final decision for Dolly.
After all, the Dursleys could afford to buy Harry a flying broomstick.
The group met in Professor McGonagall's office. Fat Bob, true to his name, was as round as a ball.
But his endearing smile, the warm hug Harry gave him, and the price of a single Galleon for the Seven Stars made Harry feel extremely fond of him.
"In short, the Galleon is just a ceremonial gesture, representing our company's support for you. We can return the Galleon to you after the photo is taken."
"We only need one photo, and we require you to use our company's products in the competition for three years."
"Of course, if you plan to upgrade to our company's new products in the future, we will still sell them to you for one Galleon, how about that?"
Faced with such conditions, Harry could hardly say no.
Even Professor McGonagall didn't expect that the Nimbus 2000 incident was not over yet, and that the subsequent impact had already allowed Sweep to catch up.
Who would have thought that the one who stirred up this storm was just a first-year Ravenclaw girl?
“We can agree to that, sir.”
Harry ultimately gave the right to negotiate to Dolly, who said seriously, "But you can only post an article tomorrow saying that Harry bought your brooms and will use your brooms in future competitions, but he is not your spokesperson."
"If you want to use Harry's name for further publicity, then it's a different price."
Fat Bob looked at Dolly with some surprise, then finally laughed and said, "Miss Dursley, you're from a Muggle family, just like me, aren't you?"
Dolly laughed and said, "If you weren't from a Muggle family, I really wouldn't understand how you know so much about marketing."
Fat Bob laughed and agreed to Dolly's request in full.
It wasn't because he was so agreeable, but because he was just representing the Sweeping Company to capitalize on Harry's current popularity. Besides that, they also needed to find members of the Quidditch national team to advertise.
Harry's current fame isn't enough to justify becoming the spokesperson for the sweeping company.
Moreover, all it takes to ride on Harry's fame is a few hundred Galleons, so what's so unacceptable about that?
Even these hundreds of Galleons are the quoted price; only they themselves know the cost price.
"Then it's a pleasure to work with you!"
Then, Harry and Fat Bob took a photo side by side, Harry holding a brand new Seven Stars in one hand and smiling happily.
Not long after leaving Professor McGonagall's office, he sprinted to the playground, enjoying the exhilarating speed of sweeping across the seven stars.
Compared to Nimbus 2000, Sweep Seven is faster, but slightly less sensitive.
Both have their own merits, and how to maximize their performance depends on the player's own inspiration and training.
Harry had initially thought the matter was over.
He already has a weapon that can sweep away all enemies, what more could he want?
But two days later, the people from Nimbus Company requested to see Harry again.
They were even more generous, bringing a Nimbus 2001 that hadn't even been released yet, as well as six Nimbus 2000s.
These were all given away for free. They wanted to completely revamp the Gryffindor school team, just for a group photo with Harry and the entire Gryffindor school team.
Just as Dolly had predicted, the Sweeping Company's move yesterday became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the Daily Prophet was full of promotional articles about Sweeping Seven.
Originally, with its excellent products, Guanglun Company didn't need to worry too much about sales, even if it temporarily lost ground in public opinion.
But the intervention of the Sweeping Company finally made the Light Wheel Company feel a life-or-death crisis, after all, the Sweeping Company really did have the excellent product Sweeping Seven Stars.
If all of Nimbus's potential customers buy Seven Stars Sweep, they'll be finished.
Just because a middle manager was Lucius Malfoy's classmate, he accepted 200 Galleons from Lucius and then dragged the entire Nimbus Corporation down with him.
Don't even mention Lucius couldn't do it; even the Minister of Magic couldn't do it!
Although Wood and Harry were very interested, they did not immediately agree to Nimbus Corporation's offer.
Instead, they sought out Dolly to seriously discuss the matter, even though Dolly was actually a Ravenclaw, and the two houses were rivals in Quidditch.
Because they knew very well that without Dolly, let alone six Nimbus 2000s, they would have to ask Professor McGonagall to buy Harry's Seven Stars.
"My request is simple: I want them to explain what happened to Harry's Nimbus 2000. It has to be an explanation published in the newspaper."
"As for how to explain it, I don't care, but it must be put in black and white."
Dolly could tell that Nimbus Corporation and the mastermind behind the murder had fallen out.
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