Harry Potter Returns from Baldur's Gate

But it gave people the feeling that he had changed to a new place to catch up on his sleep, and from time to time he would take out his gourd and drink something.

Ron, who was honing his muscles on the side, was very envious of Qiu Zhang's way of training.

But after seeing Qiu Zhang step on the flying sword and rescue Harry from the flying broom.

Ron knew that there might be a slight difference between the current Qiu Zhang and the Qiu Zhang he knew.

So he completely ignored Qiu Zhang who went to sleep in another place and just focused on honing his muscles.

But to Crabbe and Goyle, Qiu Zhang's behavior was too much.

Why can I exercise here while she can sleep there?

So the dissatisfied Crabbe and Goyle lodged a strong protest.

In response to Crabbe and Goyle's protest, Hermione rarely suppressed them but expressed her

"If you can wake her up to exercise, your training load for today will belong to her."

Upon hearing Hermione's words, Crabbe and Goyle were as excited as if Gringotts had suddenly announced that the vault was not guarded and anyone could take Galleons at will.

He clenched his fists and walked towards Qiu Zhang.

However, before they could get close to Qiu Zhang, a wooden stick flew out from the woods and hit him so hard that he fell to the ground with his head in his hands.

But Qiu Zhang continued to sleep soundly on the tree branch as if nothing had happened.

However, this peaceful life only lasted until breakfast time.

As today's Daily Prophet arrived, even Harry, who had seen a lot of battles, couldn't help but spray cereal on the newspaper.

Harry wasn't the only one who had sprayed cereal, or anything else, this morning.

After seeing today's Daily Prophet, the entire Hogwarts Great Hall was filled with exclamations.

The front page of the Daily Prophet today was quite normal, with the headline "Harry Potter Becomes the Youngest Ever Winner of the Order of Merlin, First Class", and the accompanying photo was a group photo of Draco, Hermione, Harry, Qiu Zhang and others.

Among them, Lockhart, who was standing behind Harry, smiled particularly brightly, while Black seemed to be a little disgusted with Lockhart who was standing next to him.

The content is just a text version of that boring speech from last night.

But when I turned to the second page, the headline of the newspaper was "Harry Potter's Secret Affair".

One of the two matching pictures is a photo of Harry, Cho Chang and Black chatting together, but under this photo there is a line of small words "Harry Potter and his chief girlfriend have a pleasant conversation with his godfather."

The three people in the photo are gathered together and having a pleasant conversation.

The other photo was taken when Harry went to talk to Hermione.

In the photo, Harry is walking towards Hermione, who looks a little lonely.

This photo also has a line of small words under it: "Harry Potter and his secret lover"

The content of the entire report is full of the author's subjective conjectures. For example, when Harry was talking to Qiu Zhang, his eyes were on Hermione, or when Harry was chatting with Qiu Zhang, Hermione showed an unwilling expression on her face.

And when the author asked about Harry Potter's relationship with Qiu Zhang and Hermione, both Harry Potter and the two ladies said they had no comment.

Even Sirius Black, who was released from prison more than half a year ago, threatened to attack the author with a curse.

It is obvious that Harry Potter is deeply involved in a love triangle, and from the current point of view, Qiu Zhang, who has been recognized by Sirius, has a clear advantage, and she is also one of the only two audience members invited by Harry Potter to this awarding ceremony.

However, Ms. Hermione won the Order of Merlin, Second Class, by fighting alongside Harry Potter, and readers can also get a glimpse of the relationship between the three from the photo on the front page.

It remains to be seen who Harry Potter will choose in the end.

Harry looked at the words 'Our special columnist Rita Skeeter will continue to report to you' at the end of the article and began to wonder if there was any way he could improve the moral standards of this reporter.

As a journalist, he actually fabricated news like this. Do he have any professional ethics and moral standards?

109 Let the Owl Fly for a While

Although for various reasons, Harry had dealt with bards a lot in the past, and he even had a bard friend with whom he had a good relationship.

But Harry had never gone on an adventure with the bard.

This doesn't mean that Harry doesn't know how to deal with bards, or that the paladins of Woking have special skills in dealing with bards.

Even if the moral level of the paladins is high enough, it does not mean that they will not retaliate.

Especially for a paladin like Harry who has received professional training from the Church of Woking, he knows how to deal with this problem correctly.

So before the end of breakfast, Harry sent a reply to the publishing house that had contacted him before, expressing his willingness to cooperate and that everything could be discussed.

Then Harry sent a letter to his godfather Black.

Knowing that Black was impulsive, Harry asked Black to stay calm and not be impulsive in the letter. He also hoped that Black could help him find out how many newspapers and publishing houses there were in the wizarding world, and who were the people behind these newspapers and publishing houses.

After sending all the letters, Harry returned to his normal life as if nothing had happened.

It wasn't just Harry who had no particular reaction to Rita's report, other than writing several letters.

Even Hermione and Qiu Zhang looked very calm, not as if they had just been portrayed by the newspaper.

Ron was surprised to see his friends taking it so calmly.

After all, just over a year ago, Ron had witnessed how much distress Rita's report had caused Hagrid, Hermione and Harry.

And now they can act like nothing happened.

Ron asked Harry in surprise, "Harry, why don't you react at all?"

"How should I react?"

Harry looked back at Ron.

"Should I jump up, scream and curse the unscrupulous reporters? If that would work, I would do it, but the reality is that it doesn't work, so let's skip the emotional venting part and go straight to the next step."

"Next step?"

Ron didn't understand what Harry meant.

"You mean to find a way to catch Rita when she turns into a beetle and lock her up?"

"Ok?"

Harry was a little surprised.

"That reporter can also turn into a beetle?"

"Yes, she relies on turning into a beetle to eavesdrop on other people's secrets."

Soon, from Ron's narration, Harry learned that this reporter named Rita could transform into animals like Professor McGonagall.

And relying on this ability, he fabricated a lot of articles against himself and Hermione when he participated in the Triwizard Tournament in his fourth year, which brought him a lot of trouble.

"Thanks, buddy."

After listening, Harry patted Ron on the shoulder.

"Aren't you going to do something?"

Harry watched as Ron forced a faint smile onto his face.

"I have done it, now let the owl fly for a while."

Although Ron didn't know what Harry had done, Harry would not explain to Ron what he wanted to do.

This is the experience Harry learned from his long adventure: don't even tell God what you really want to do.

Those smart teammates will naturally figure out what you want to do from the clues, but it will be useless to tell those not-so-smart teammates.

What's more, what Harry has to do now is the standard routine of the Woking Church to deal with troublesome bards.

First, find a way to acquire shares in the theaters, taverns, and inns where the bards perform, and cut off the bard's main performance venues.

After all, no bartender would allow these bards to arrange their bosses at their workplace.

It doesn’t matter if you didn’t hear it, but if you heard it and still don’t care, do you still want to stay here in the future?

Of course, bards are free. After losing their traditional performance venues, some stubborn ones will naturally choose to perform in places like fountains or squares.

Although the citizens there are not as wealthy as the adventurers, they have the advantage of large quantity. As long as there are many people watching, they can still make some income.

When this happens, the Church of Woking will donate money to the City Guard for various reasons.

If the donation was intended to allow the City Guard to attack other temples, the City Guard would definitely not agree.

But if it was just a small matter like dispersing some bards to maintain law and order and prevent crowds from gathering, the guards of the city guard would not mind.

Usually at this point, the bard's only options left are to surrender and go to the Temple of Woking to express his wrongness, or to violently confront the city guards or leave the city.

Harry, who now had a pile of gold in the vault, was ready to complete the first step.

Anyway, sooner or later you will have to deal with these media when doing business, so you might as well establish some connections now.

Harry quietly began to wait for feedback from Black and those publishing houses.

As a paladin, Harry was always patient.

After all, business negotiations are like fishing. You can't be impatient, or the fish won't take the bait.

While waiting for replies from those publishing houses, Sirius Black actually sent a reply to Harry.

It was not until Harry received a reply from Sirius that he realized how much power his godfather, as the last member of the Black family, had in the wizarding world.

In Sirius's reply, Harry learned about the relationship between the Daily Prophet and the publishing house behind it, as well as the situation of several major publishing houses in the British wizarding world.

The most influential of these is naturally the Daily Prophet and its publisher.

Since this newspaper is the main way for British wizards to obtain new information, the fixed newspaper sales alone are profitable, plus the additional advertising income and other book publishing businesses.

This, combined with its good relationship with the Ministry of Magic, made The Daily Prophet the safest buy in the UK, with its board structure having remained unchanged for two centuries.

Squeezed by the Daily Prophet, most other publishing houses can only choose directions other than current affairs news.

They delve deeply into their respective professional fields, such as Quidditch, music criticism, and spell knowledge, etc.

The one that Harry found most amazing was a magazine publishing house called The Quibbler.

The only two people in this publishing house, including the owner and his daughter, are its employees.

There were no reporters or editors, just the two of them tinkering with the magazine in their house.

The Quibbler magazine naturally didn't publish anything serious, mostly stuff like 'Harassing Bulls' and 'Crumple-Horned Snorkellers', which were 'too magical' or fake even for wizards.

Seeing that a publishing house like The Quibbler could survive, and then looking at the Daily Prophet who did whatever it wanted, Harry felt that his initial thoughts were a little too conservative.