That Makes So Much Sense

"That woman did it on purpose."

In the Great Hall of Hogwarts Castle, every girl who had read the latest issue of the Daily Prophet was furious, because Rita Skeeter had failed to mention Albert at all in her article about the Triwizard Tournament.

The front-page story in this issue of the Daily Prophet was less a report on the Triwizard Tournament than an exclusive interview with Harry Potter. Harry's photograph took up the entire first page, and the article was all about Harry Potter, embellishing every detail of his personal life.

As for the names of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang Champions standing alongside Harry Potter, they only appeared in the very last line of the article—and their names had even been deliberately misspelled.

How could that newspaper not infuriate Albert's supporters? In their eyes, what was Harry? He was a thief who had shamelessly stolen a share of Albert's glory as a Champion.

Thus, on the very day the paper was published, quite a few students sent letters of protest to the Daily Prophet. Some upper-year students even sent Howlers, burning the quills on Rita Skeeter's desk to ashes and nearly making the special correspondent's nose twist out of shape with anger.

Not mentioning Albert had not been her fault. Albert himself had refused to be reported on. But how would Hogwarts students know that? How would the Daily Prophet's editors know that? In any case, all the blame landed squarely on Rita Skeeter's head.

"That woman definitely did it on purpose!"

Rita Skeeter felt wronged, but she said nothing.

Faced with the angry girls before him, Albert remained quite calm after reading the Daily Prophet.

"That's right, she did it on purpose. We should keep sending Rita Skeeter Howlers." Fred began stirring things up for no reason. He