What's Norberta Up To? / You Really Shouldn't Mess with Doctors

Besides, although this guy is a fool, he does have real talent in Quidditch. As long as he doesn't get involved in those shady things again, Harry won't mind letting him play the role of a prodigal son who has turned over a new leaf.

In addition, he can also teach Will how to play Quidditch. Although Will's goal is to become Chaser, he is not a perfect match for Ludo, who is Hit Wizard. But he is still better than those amateur coaches.

After dealing with Ludo's matter, Hermione returned later that evening. The young couple hadn't seen each other for a few days, and naturally, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Harry, of course, didn't forget to bring back a gift for Hermione, the same one as Luna Lovegood's —a griffin figurine made of amethyst.

Lifelike and able to fly, it naturally won the heart of a young girl, leading to someone taking flight with the griffin figurine that night...

For the next few days, Harry didn't go to see Nicolas Flamel. Instead, he hid in the alchemy lab by himself, spending his days with Norberta, Zouwu, Nagini, and a certain prisoner who had been imprisoned, doing some breeding and research that would be useful in a few months.

Harry wasn't keen to make a decision about the Sorcerer's Stone right now.

Admittedly, he now knew that this blood-red stone was really nothing good; in fact, it could be described as an evil object.

Nicolas Flamel probably wanted him to know this so that Harry could make a decision: whether to continue using it or destroy it.

But beyond that, Harry was thinking about something else entirely.

Why should I, as a perfectly good teacher, have to learn about these things?

The trip to Armenia may have been a spur-of-the-moment decision, but even if I hadn't walked the pilgrimage route, wouldn't my teacher have openly told me all of this?

It's obvious that the other party will say something, and their goal is to force you to make a choice.

But... if the Sorcerer's Stone is destroyed, it means the Elixir of Life can never be made again...

Time flies, and April has arrived. During this Easter holiday in 1995, a lot of things really happened.

The Daily Prophet and the Quibbler published a rare simultaneous statement from the Britain Ministry of Magic: Harry's trip to Albania did indeed happen, he did encounter the You-Know-Who, and he won a decisive victory in his confrontation with the You-Know-Who and his men, successfully driving them away.

This also means that the You-Know-Who has secretly returned!

Moreover, Azkaban previously experienced a major prison break, which was orchestrated by the You-Know-Who, and now a group of Death Eater have returned to his ranks.

The Ministry of Magic had kept the matter tightly under wraps, but this time it took the opportunity to publicly apologize to the public.

The sudden news shocked the entire Britain and also caused a huge uproar across Europe. While all wizards were shocked by Harry's current power, they were also inevitably dominated by their old fears once again.

In no time, the 'bad news' spread throughout the streets and alleys, and almost everyone in the Britain Wizarding World was on edge. People stayed at home and stayed indoors, and Hogwarts even saw a wave of calls to drop out.

Even Diagon Alley used to be packed with people, has become incredibly deserted after Easter... except for Granger Odd Jobs.

The Odd Jobs Shop was one of the few shops that didn't close. Of course, Harry had no intention of closing it. He was gradually replacing Dumbledore as the bellwether in the fight against Voldemort, so naturally he had to raise his banner high and forge ahead.

The Weasley Brothers, who went back to work during their holiday, even developed a series of special joke merchandise to express the Odd Jobs Shop's attitude towards the 'return of Voldemort '.

Edible Dark Marks -- Anyone who eats it will feel disgusted;

Toy Death Eater Gallows – Anyone who gets close will be hanged;

They even hung a huge purple banner on the third floor of the shop.

Why are you worried about the You-Know-Who (YOU-KNOW-WHO)?

You should care

U-NO-POO (U-No-Poo)

Constipation is a tormenting problem for many Chinese people!

Well, while it might be a bit vulgar, this blatant mockery of Voldemort undoubtedly demonstrates great courage during this particular time.

The principals of the three Europe schools were also unfazed by Voldemort's presence. They jointly issued a statement in the Daily Prophet, indicating that the Triwizard Tournament would proceed as scheduled for the final match on the evening of June 24th!

At the same time, Dumbledore added a sentence to the newspaper: Hogwarts is the safest place in all of Britain, and we will ensure the safety of every student!

In response, the Quibbler published a series of Harry's past battles against various monsters and demons, as well as his deeds in protecting Hogwarts. It also featured the photo of Harry breaking through the Dark Mark with his Patronus Eagle during the Quidditch World Cup.

That's like telling the readers... that Hogwarts has actually been the safest place these past few years because of Harry.

Of course, in any case, "The Quibbler" indirectly corroborated Albus Dumbledore's statement in the Daily Prophet, which was a rare instance of the two major media outlets cooperating with each other.

The reason, of course, is that the Daily Prophet has now changed hands.

Harry found an opportunity to meet with Barnabas Cuffe, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, and they had a very pleasant conversation.

In fact, the Daily Prophet is also on the verge of collapse.

After all, no matter how established the newspaper is, it can't change the fact that the number of wizards in Britain is small. Therefore, newspaper sales can only cover daily expenses. When it comes to big projects, they really need sponsorship and advertising support.

However, in the past two years, the Daily Prophet has been firmly controlled by the Ministry of Magic and Pure-blood Family, and has had to fight against the Quibbler time and time again. Every time they fight, they inevitably lose a group of old customers.

Now, they're almost entirely reliant on funding from the Ministry of Magic and Pure-blood Family, but even these two "sugar daddies" are nearly worn out by Harry, so they're really struggling to keep up...

Now that former enemies have become family, this is something that Editor-in-Chief Cuffe has been eagerly anticipating.

He wasn't a politician to begin with; he was just a businessman who wanted to keep the newspaper running. Why would he turn down a profitable opportunity?

"I've finally found my people!"

This guy practically said that to Harry outright.

After all, Harry is now the dominant figure in public opinion, and making news about him is much easier than racking your brains to find excuses and justifications for the Ministry of Magic.

Chapter 725 What is Norberta up to?

By the way, what's Harry's news style?

In short, it boils down to two words: assertive!

His approach to attacking the Ministry of Magic is always to present photos, play audio recordings, and then bombard them with a barrage of evidence and analysis, leaving them utterly humiliated.

Editor-in-Chief Cuffe, who had been forced to defend himself all along, can now finally taste the sweetness of being teammates with Harry.

For example, the Daily Prophet reported on internal job changes within the Ministry of Magic, with Arthur Weasley replacing Dolores Umbridge as Senior Undersecretary of Ministry of Magic and acting Minister, while former Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt replaced Piers Thicknesse as Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and so on.

As soon as these related matters came to light, the special edition of "The Quibbler" immediately posted evidence of Fudge, Umbridge, and Thicknesse's secret dealings and acceptance of bribes from various Pure-blood Family. The level of coordination in this move was simply perfect.

So what should the Daily Prophet do at this point? Naturally, it should publish a letter of inquiry on behalf of its many long-time customers, questioning the current transitional leadership of the Ministry of Magic about whether they should investigate these matters, when the investigation would be completed, and demanding that they publish the results at any time for public scrutiny.

After that, if the Ministry of Magic ignores it, then keep tagging them in the headlines every day and relentlessly hold them accountable; but if the Ministry of Magic gets fed up and chooses to make it public... sorry, go find another media outlet, we do not accept your authorization to publish.

As a result, the Ministry of Magic had to look for other channels of cooperation—such as the Witch Weekly, where it could publish government announcements.

But do you think that's all?

Of course not~

Once the news is published in <Witch Weekly>, Cuffe will be the first to rush in and buy out the exclusive rights. If you don't sell, he'll smear you too.

They either follow the Ministry of Magic to their doom, only to be crushed by the two giants, the newspaper and magazine publishers, and lose everything; or they follow behind their older brothers, scraping by and maybe even getting a few scraps... Which do you think * Witch Weekly * would choose? Of course, they'd happily pick up the money!

Once the Daily Prophet gets hold of these Ministry of Magic information, the timing and amount of its publication are no longer within the Ministry of Magic's control.

After being lectured by Harry, Editor-in-Chief Cuffe deeply realized his mistake... They are media professionals; how could they casually publish fake news like before?

However, taking things out of context and partially concealing information do not equate to complete fabrication, and the timeliness of information can also be manipulated.

Cuffe, who had been getting a lot of flak from the newspapers for the past two years, was almost overjoyed to be able to turn the tables on the Ministry of Ministry of Magic.

During this period, another person who was overjoyed was a certain Half-blood- Giant had just gained a new favorite.

Harry and Hagrid's legal dragon-keeping licenses have been approved. These are unprecedented private licenses since the legislation was enacted, and the license certificates, in black and white, bear the official seals of the Ministry of Magic, the International Confederation of Wizards, and the Dragon District—the three main institutions involved. They are absolutely genuine.

Hermione had previously planned to offer to participate in the competition in exchange for Harry having the legal right to keep dragons, but she originally intended to have the right registered under Hogwarts' name. However, Albus Dumbledore twisted her request, changing it to a reward for winning the competition.

As a result, Harry's dragons now have absolutely nothing to do with Hogwarts.

Besides having the legal right to receive his own Longhorn Dragon, Hagrid also received it as he wished, and now he cherishes and protects it every day.

Harry planned to let Hagrid try to hatch the egg himself.

After the last incident, Harry felt even more guilty for not being able to protect Hagrid, so he also made a wristband for Hagrid.

The wristband was imbued with Harry's magic; if Hagrid could fuse his own magic with it, they might be able to inject their combined magic into the egg as flames.

With Norberta's help during this time, Hagrid might actually be able to hatch a baby dragon that recognizes him as its mother.

However, Norberta initially rejected Harry's idea completely.

The female Dragon declared righteously, "Harry, as my property, what you've done is simply hurting the heart of a young girl in the prime of her life."

She's a virgin female dragon, she's never even had a cub, why should she have to incubate someone else's eggs... especially since they're not even from the same species!

Besides, even if we were to hatch them, it would have to be the ones you and I hatched together, right?

So... if you're considering having a litter with me, I wouldn't mind hatching another one after I give birth.

So, how about this, consider it payment in kind? Are you in or not?

Regarding the female Dragon's series of price gouging practices, Harry stated...

"Norberta, you've really overdone it lately!"

In the alchemy lab, Harry, who was examining snake blood under a microscope, flicked the head of the howling miniature Dragon beside him in exasperation.

Even so, the latter still persistently climbed onto Harry's shoulder, while licking Harry's cheek with her little tongue.

Harry, who was busy observing the growth of a group of 'little cuties', didn't have time to play with it repeatedly and could only let it lie there.

The female Dragon has been behaving strangely lately; Harry even suspects it's the start of a new menstrual cycle.

Moreover, its strangeness this year is significantly greater than last year.

The most obvious manifestation of this is its excessive intimacy with Harry. Ever since Harry brought it back from the Forbidden Forest, it has stopped going back to its suitcase and spends its days staying by Harry's side in its shrunken state.

Harry followed it everywhere, whether it was in the nursing home, the alchemy lab, or anywhere else.

However, it wasn't as troublesome as it was last year, and instead often clung to Harry like before, so Harry just let it do as it pleased... Besides, all it took was a little bit of 'charm' to get Norberta to help Hagrid hatch the dragon egg, so why not?

But another strange thing was... it actually started reading a book!

When Harry discovered that Norberta was engrossed in reading a magazine, he was genuinely surprised. He wondered when this female Dragon, who couldn't even learn to vocalize using magic, had developed such a hobby.

However, when Harry later discovered that Norberta was actually reading the swimsuit magazine he had given to Wolf Beauty, he was completely taken aback...

Holy crap... is the female Dragon trying to evolve?

On the day it happened, Norberta was vaguely trying to argue with Harry, but Harry directly pressed his index fingers against her temples, making her howl in pain.

"Still looking at pretty girls? Phoebe is pretty enough, isn't she? You didn't even glance at her when you were in my pocket!"

And so, it paid the price for its lies...

Well, although it's a rather ridiculous situation, Harry thinks it's quite serious.

Norberta's behavior shows that it has never stopped having its "unreasonable desires," and as it grows older, its ideas become more upright, and it has even learned to devise plans!

Looking at swimsuit magazines and stuff, isn't that practically a transformation?!

Chapter 726 Those who study medicine are truly not to be trifled with.

By the way, Harry had tried to persuade Norberta, who was secretly trying to become human, with great earnestness.

He wasn't saying he had to trample on the female Dragon's girlish heart, it's just that this whole thing is really, really unreliable.

As mentioned before, the HP world is ultimately just a low-powered, light-fantasy realistic world. Modern wizards can't even control Elemental Power, let alone those forbidden, wide-area combat spells that can destroy the world at any time.

Therefore, given the limitations of such a low-powered world, for a female Dragon to dream of transforming into human form through cultivation, like the Dragon in typical fantasy... no, more like those in modern China online fantasy novels, is essentially pure wishful thinking...

Even if it secretly cultivated the Humanmagus developed by Harry, it would be in vain.

Because the so-called Humanmagus transformation is essentially Human Restoration Spell. In other words, if a creature originally had no human blood at all, then the Humanmagus would be impossible.

After learning about this, Norberta was genuinely depressed for several days...

But it only lasted a few days.

After that, it started to stay by Harry's side again, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what he did.

But Harry didn't let his guard down; instead, he became even more worried.

After all, if Norberta has simply given up on becoming human, that's really not a good thing...

"Alright, stop fooling around, I still need to go give someone a shot~"

Putting the miniature Dragon that had been clinging to his shoulder into his pocket, Harry prepared the necessary equipment, and most importantly, the snake blood that had been cultured multiple times, and took them into the Magical Combination Chest in the corner of the laboratory.