Even the pink tone did not change the chill carried by the cold wind and snow on this letter.

Harry opened the letter.

Rita's invitation, hoping to meet him at Hogwarts tonight, she will sneak into Hogwarts through a secret passage.

She was looking forward to hearing back from Harry and agreeing on a meeting place, the Gryffindor common room was not a good choice.

Harry wrote back to her, writing the address of the abandoned classroom where he took dueling classes in the evening.

night.

Neville was knocked down again, and he was about to get back up.

Harry looked towards the door: "Here we come."

Neville was taken aback.

What's coming?

He followed Hermione and Ron to look towards the door. The door was closed tightly. There should be Filch outside pretending to stop the professor. Of course, the point was to stop the students who were wandering at night, and nothing happened.

He was about to ask.

A panicked head swelled out.

It was Rita Skeeter's ladybug face that made Neville jump back, lose his footing, and fall over.

"Mr. Potter!" Rita panicked, "Werewolves!"

"There are werewolves lurking in the secret passage!"

Harry looked at her. "You came from the Whomping Willow?"

Rita froze and nodded.

"Those two werewolves are Professor Snape's collection." Harry said, "Don't be afraid, they are not threatening, and they cannot escape from the Whomping Willow."

"Collectibles?" Rita seemed to have difficulty understanding this word.

Satisfied, Ron spelled out the word: "Collectibles, souvenirs, refer to items of symbolic significance that have special meaning to a certain thing."

"Mr. Weasley, I know this word and what it means." Rita interrupted him, purely speaking of language skills, she may be the one with the highest level in this classroom, "But Professor Snape. "

"You don't need to know about this." Harry pushed back her eager curiosity, "Is there something that I can't say in the letter, we must meet?"

Rita conjured a stool for herself and looked tentatively at Harry.

Harry nodded, conjuring up chairs for his group as well.

After they sat down, Rita sat down, and at this moment, she noticed a relatively unfamiliar person: "Neville Longbottom?"

"Why is he here!"

Harry replied, "He's always been."

"Then I, Animagus." Rita bared her teeth.

Harry nodded.

He paused slightly: "I didn't say, you showed him yourself."

Rita was dejected: "Forget it, you know if you know it, I'm already considering whether to register with the Ministry of Magic, after all, I'm no longer a gossip reporter."

She quickly adjusted her mood: "Mr. Potter, I have investigated two things."

"I seem to have found Fenrir Greyback."

Harry stood up abruptly, with a serious face: "Where is it?"

"Wait, Mr. Potter, don't be so excited." Rita waved her hands and continued softly, "I haven't found the exact location yet, but I just heard a message from the wizard of Knockturn Alley, Christmas Eve werewolves It seems to be planning something."

"The werewolves want to take revenge on the wizard and make Christmas Eve blood flow like a river."

"Fenrir Greyback must appear."

Harry nodded slowly. "Which blood are they going to let flow?"

"Hogsmeade." Rita replied succinctly.

"No wonder you're scared like this by just two werewolves." Hermione nodded, and her doubts were resolved—Animagus are the least afraid of werewolves, and Rita's reaction was very abnormal.

only?

Rita looked at the little witch strangely.

A werewolf is enough to make the entire group of wizards panic. This is obviously a normal reaction of hers!

Your Potter, and the group of the Order of the Phoenix, they are abnormal!

She couldn't say these words, she sighed in a burst of resentment, and spit them out from her mouth.

"Any other details?" Harry pressed on.

Rita nodded, and continued with her fingers: "The following information may not have much credibility."

"Greyback has gathered ten werewolves, and there will be twenty or thirty at most."

Hermione sneered: "Can the whole of Great Britain find so many werewolves who are willing to make trouble with Greyback?"

"So there is not much credibility, at least it can be used as a reference." Rita argued for herself, "And, wizards of Knockturn Alley, this operation is a gift to celebrate the return of the mysterious man, and it is the prologue of the stage."

When she talked about this paragraph, she felt very calm.

The news that the mysterious man hadn't completely died yet, and was trying to be resurrected, was repeatedly brought up by the Order of the Phoenix, and a strong fortress had already been built in his heart.

"Will Death Eaters be involved?" Harry cut her words short.

Rita nodded: "It is said to be so."

Harry didn't make any comments, and waved his hand: "What else?"

Rita frowned, her tone hesitant: "And the elves, I couldn't find Legnac, but recently."

"Some goblins from Gringotts often go to Knockturn Alley to meet some people. Although the goblins don't refuse whoever does business with them, after all, the current situation is like this. I paid attention, but the room where they talked was covered by the magic layer. layers of protection."

"Mr. Potter, you know, except for Animagus, I'm not good at anything else."

Harry looked at her.

She quickly added to herself: "There are also news reports. I only have these two things. I always remember what happened last time. I didn't dare to break into that house. The goblins can do some weird magic. I'm afraid they will find out." I."

"However, although I failed to sneak into that room, I squatted for several days and let me discover a very incredible thing."

"It will scare you, Mr. Potter!"

She paused for a moment, and said in a deep tone, "I found out that among the wizards that the goblins met, one of them looked a lot like Bellatrix Lestrange."

Harry wasn't intimidated.

Neville stood up, knocked over the chair, and stared at Rita: "What are you talking about, Lestrange?"

Startled by him, Rita raised her hand: "Mr. Longbottom, don't be so serious. I'm not sure if it's her, but it looks like it."

"Maybe I was wrong. After all, she has been in Azkaban for more than ten years."

Harry waved his hand: "Have you checked in Azkaban?"

Rita shook her head.

Harry said nothing, just looked at her.

"I see, I'll investigate." Rita nodded intuitively, "Then if Lestrange and the others really escaped from prison, then..."

"The public has the right to know?" Harry said, "I remember that's a phrase you often say."

Rita swallowed her saliva: "Of course, not only me, but many reporters have kept this sentence in mind."

Harry spread his hands.

Rita then said some unimportant news. Bojinbok has not opened for business for a long time. There are rumors that the old liar was killed in Knockturn Alley. Many people covet that store, and there are indeed some brave Visit late at night.

But after those people entered, they all disappeared.

The Aurors came to investigate, but found nothing.

The Malfoy family sold another batch of family heirlooms. Since the old Mr. Malfoy was sent to Azkaban, the life of the Malfoy family has become more and more bleak. Last year, there seemed to be some surplus, but this year, they had to sell the family property to survive.

Perhaps in a few years, they will be like the Gunter family back then, only guarding the old house with four walls and living in poverty until the last heir died suddenly.

This seems to be the fate of all pure-blood families who abide by "purity".

Gaunt, Black, Rozier, now it's the turn of the Malfoys.

The Ministry of Magic is very noisy.

Scrimgeour did not hide his ambition at all. He mentioned the impeachment of Fudge many times in the regular meeting, and won the support of many people, and every time the regular meeting, the number of supporters increased. Fudge was very tired of dealing with him, even if there was nothing else, According to this increase in the number of people, at most three or four months, the Ministry of Magic will usher in a new owner.

This made Ron cheer.

He had long disliked Fudge, and asked himself to be the Minister of Magic. No, even having Sirius as the Minister of Magic was better than Fudge.

As long as Dumbledore or Harry speaks, nod and agree: "Ah, yes, yes, yes", wouldn't it be fine?

And Mundungus Fletcher, Rita gritted her teeth at the mention.

The thief!

How can he be compared with himself? As a spy for the Ministry of Magic, as soon as he entered Black's old house, it was like returning to his own home. In less than an hour, he went around from the basement to the top floor. In their industry terms , is to step on the point.

No matter how you look at it, Rita thinks he's here to steal.

But Dumbledore said he was useful, and Rita could only resist sharing the information she had collected so hard with him.

There are a lot of miscellaneous news.

It is indeed a letter that cannot be finished.

Rita kept talking until the early hours of the morning before turning back into a ladybug and leaving.

Neville rubbed his face, the huge amount of information made his simple brain unable to handle it, Ron was still adding fuel and vinegar, talking about some old rumors - Tom Riddle likes to visit the women's bathroom at night, and his seduction is too mature woman or something.

Let Neville maintain a state of being "completely petrified" until the school infirmary.

two days later.

The new issue of "The Quibbler" is out of stock again.

On the front page were a few photos of the empty prison, and a few smaller photos of the prison being no longer empty, but with corpses lying almost dry.

"Inescapable Alcatraz? Or a resort where you can come and go freely?"

In the article, Rita used the most popular words to introduce the current situation in Azkaban. Those vicious Death Eaters are all gone, Lestrange, Malfoy, Mulciber, and "Jailor" We, the group of dementors abused their power and sucked the souls of most of the prisoners, leaving only a few living prisoners. They seemed to be food reserves raised by the dementors.

Azkaban has been jailbroken again!

And the dementors seem to be getting out of control.

Back then, when a "vicious" Sirius escaped from prison, the entire wizarding world was in turmoil. Now, there are a group of vicious Death Eaters. Except for Hogwarts, a warm haven, the outside world is in chaos.

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