In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

  Chapter 30 30. News in newspapers

  Ron also noticed the newspaper that Jon picked up.

"Oh, yes, in the letter, my mother also said that my father stuffed some newspapers from the past few months in it, and he hoped that I could learn more about current events in the wizarding world. But if you ask me, it is impossible to understand by reading the Daily Prophet For any real news, everyone knows that after three consecutive reporters who dared to dig out big news disappeared, that newspaper is now kneeling and licking the magic government in all directions, not even daring to tell the truth."

  Jon listened to his words, and his attention was still on the front page news about Barty Jr.'s award.

   Indeed, as Ron said, this entire article is admiring Barty Crouch Jr., but it is vague about what merit he got the second-level badge for.

   Neville also tilted his head to watch the news with Jon, and he commented from the side.

"I've heard from my father a long time ago that the badge of the Knights of Merlin completely lost its former glory after that man became the president. He gave badges to almost everyone of his most loyal core subordinates. This is called Barty Crouch's man should have a third-class badge before, and now he has a second-class badge, but it's ridiculous that he is actually the most famous deed for executing his own father. "

  Jon looked away from the newspaper with a look of surprise.

   "Execute your own father?"

   Neville shrugged.

"Yes, Barty Crouch's father is also called Barty Crouch. The Crouch family is a pure-blood family with a long history, but his father is indeed a staunch anti-pure-blood man. And resist that man's rule over the magic world. At that time, he was still the director of the Magic Law Department of the Ministry of Magic, and all the Aurors in the magic world were members of his subordinate department. After that man successfully captured the Ministry of Magic, Old Crowe Strange was arrested, and he didn't grovel and surrender like other Ministry officials, even though his only son held high positions among the Death Eaters."

"I heard that the man at the time just wanted to keep him in prison for the rest of his life, but the old Crouch's son, the now award-winning Barty Crouch, offered to put his father to death. In the end the man agreed, and the executioner was his own son."

   After listening to his story, Lavender and Justin all opened their mouths. Ron also looked at the hypocritical smile of the young man in the newspaper in disgust.

   "My parents have always told me that this guy is not human!"

   "Killing my own father with my own hands, it's terrible," Lavender said with a pale face.

Because of the impression in the original book, Jon is not too surprised by the actions of Little Barty in this world. After all, in the original book, he also killed his father himself, but now the time has become earlier and the nature is more serious. It's just bad.

  Jon put the newspaper down. Mr. Weasley sent Ron a lot of old newspapers, and he was very interested in these things that could provide information about the current wizarding world.

I flipped through several pages in a row. Except for some information about the changes of some officials in the Ministry of Magic and some lace news, they were all articles praising Voldemort's merits. As Neville said before, "Mr. Great" has obviously become the official name for him in the wizarding world, but looking at Jon, he felt a chill in his heart, and his arms were covered with goose bumps.

  Finally, he saw a news article about the Hogwarts led by Dumbledore in a newspaper dated September 12.

   It reported that during a routine patrol, Auror accidentally discovered the number one dark wizard in the magic world, the most wanted criminal Albus Dumbledore, and the whereabouts of his terrorist organization. The Aurors at the scene started to attack without waiting for the reinforcements from the Ministry, but the operation failed, and the whereabouts of the criminals were lost.

For this reason, the great gentleman who rarely intervened in the internal operation of the Ministry of Magic clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with the director of the Auror Command—Lucius Malfoy. The few Aurors who escaped were sent to Azkaban for dereliction of duty.

  This news is not on the front page of the day, but in a corner, and there is no picture on it. It seems that the Daily Prophet does not attach great importance to this matter.

  Jon felt something was wrong.

   But he couldn't tell where this wrong feeling came from. He just felt that Voldemort didn't seem to attach much importance to Dumbledore and the Hogwarts he was in now.

   Otherwise, with his character, would he just express his dissatisfaction with Lucius?

   But Jon now knows too little about Voldemort in this time and space. He knows that if Voldemort remains unchanged from the original book, it is impossible to force Dumbledore and Hogwarts to such an extent.

  So he didn't always use the inherent impression in his mind to try to figure out the psychology of this "great gentleman".

  Jon shook his head, and just as he was about to put the newspaper back in his hand, the headline of another news article on the back of the newspaper caught his attention again.

  【The one-year anniversary of Nick Flamel’s death, the Philosopher’s Stone is still missing】

  He frowned and read the report carefully, and finally looked up at Neville, who had shown signs of "know-it-all".

   "Is Nick Flamay dead of old?"

  Neville also glanced at the news, nodded and said.

"Yes, the alchemist who lived for centuries finally died of old age with his wife. He went to the Ministry of Magic to report to the police three months before his death, saying that his Philosopher's Stone had been stolen in England, He's a French wizard, but he also lives in Devon from time to time, and that's when the Philosopher's Stone was lost."

"It is said that when he went to report the crime, the man had a private meeting with him. It is unknown what he said, but after that, the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic tried their best to help him track down the whereabouts of the Sorcerer's Stone, but there was no one. What a clue, until Nick Flamay himself ran out of some of the last remaining elixir of elixir, and he and his wife eventually died in Devon as well."

   Ron cut into their conversation.

"George and Fred talked about this at home last year. They both suspected that people from the Ministry of Magic actually stole Nick Flamel's stone. These people were originally a group of robbers. I wanted to come back, but in the end you also saw it.”

  After listening to the two of them, Jon looked back at the news in the newspaper thoughtfully.

  (end of this chapter)