"Oh, yes, mom also said in the letter that dad stuffed me with some newspapers from the past few months. He hoped that I could learn more about current events in the magical world. But let me tell you, it is impossible to learn about it by reading the Daily Prophet.
For any real news, everyone knows that after three reporters who dared to dig up big news disappeared in a row, the newspaper is now kneeling down to the magical government in all aspects, and it does not even dare to tell the truth."
Jon listened to his words, still focusing on the front-page news about Barty Jr.'s award.
Indeed, just as Ron said, this entire article is praising Barty Crouch Jr., but it is vague about what achievements he made that earned him the second-level badge.
Neville also tilted his head to watch the news with Jon, and he commented from the side.
"I have long heard from my father 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 had a third-level badge before, and now he has obtained a second-level badge, but the funny thing is that his most famous deed is actually the execution of his own father."
Jon looked away from the newspaper with a surprised look.
"Execute your own father?"
Neville shrugged.
"Yes, Barty Crouch's father is also named Barty Crouch. The Crouch family is a pure-blood family with a long history, but his father is indeed a staunch anti-pure-blood person.
And resisted that man's rule over the magical world. At that time, he was still the Director of the Magical Law Department of the Ministry of Magic, and all the Aurors in the magical world were from his subordinate departments. Then after that man successfully captured the Ministry of Magic, Old Crow
Strange was arrested and he did not surrender like other Ministry of Magic officials, even though his only son held a high position among the Death Eaters."
"I heard that the man originally wanted to keep him in prison for the rest of his life, but Crouch Sr.'s son, the now award-winning Barty Crouch, actually offered to put his father to death.
Finally the man agreed, and the executioner was his own son."
After listening to his story, Lavender and Justin both opened their mouths, and Ron also looked at the hypocritical smile of the young man in the newspaper with disgust.
"My parents have always told me that this guy is not a human being!"
"Killing your own father with your own hands, this... this is too terrible..." Lavender said with a pale face.
Because of the impression from the original work, Jon was not too surprised by what Barty did in this world. After all, in the original work, he also killed his father with his own hands, but now the time has become earlier and the nature is different.
It's just worse.
Jon put this newspaper down. Mr. Weasley sent Ron many old newspapers. He was very interested in these things that could provide information about the current magical world.
I flipped through a few more pages in succession. In addition to information about the changes of some officials within the Ministry of Magic and some tidbits, they were all articles praising Voldemort's merits. These articles were full of praise, and they were just like
It was the same as what Neville said before. "Mr. Great" has obviously become the official name for him in the wizarding world. Just looking at Jon felt a chill in his heart and his arms were covered with goosebumps.
Finally, he saw an article in a newspaper dated September 12th about the Hogwarts school led by Dumbledore.
It was reported above that during a routine patrol, the Aurors accidentally discovered the whereabouts of the most wanted dark wizard in the wizarding world, Albus Dumbledore, and his terrorist organization. The Aurors at the scene did not wait for reinforcements from the ministry.
They started the operation privately, but the operation failed and the whereabouts of this group of criminals were lost.
For this reason, the great gentleman who rarely interfered in the internal operations of the Ministry of Magic clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with the director of the Auror Command, Lucius Malfoy. Lucius was directly punished by Dumbledore for this reason.
The few Aurors who escaped were sent to Azkaban for dereliction of duty.
This news was not on the front page of the day, it was just in a corner, and there was no picture on it. It seemed that the Daily Prophet did not take this matter very seriously.
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 pay much attention to Dumbledore and the Hogwarts he was currently in.
Otherwise, given 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 work, he will not be able to force Dumbledore and Hogwarts to such an extent.
Therefore, he did not always use the inherent impression in his mind to speculate on the psychology of this "great gentleman".
Jon shook his head, and just when he was about to put the newspaper back in his hand, the title of another news article on the back of the newspaper caught his attention again.
[On the first anniversary of Nick Flamel’s death, the Philosopher’s Stone is still missing]
He frowned and carefully read the report in its entirety, and finally looked up at Neville, who showed signs of being a "know-it-all".
"Nick Flamel died of old age?"
Neville also glanced at the news article, nodded and said.
"Yes, this alchemist who lived for centuries eventually died of old age together with his wife. Three months before his death, he went to the Ministry of Magic to report that his magic stone had been stolen in England.
, he is a French wizard, but he also often lives in Devonshire, and the Philosopher's Stone was lost at that time."
"It is said that when he went to report the crime, the man met with him privately. It is not known what he said specifically. But after that, the Aurors from the Ministry of Magic tried their best to help him track down the whereabouts of the Sorcerer's Stone, but they still couldn't find it.
There were few clues until Nick Flamel's last remaining elixirs were used up, and he and his wife eventually died in Devon."
Ron interrupted their conversation and said.
"George and Fred talked about this at home last year. They both suspected that it was actually people from the Ministry of Magic who stole Nick Flamel's stone. These people were originally a group of robbers. He went to report it just to get himself.
The stone is coming back, but you have seen the result."
After listening to what they said, Jon looked back at the news article in the newspaper thoughtfully.