Mysterious Journey
Chapter 419: Time to Get to Work
Running a mature magazine was far more cumbersome and time-consuming than she had imagined.
As the expected publication date of the new edition of *The Quibbler* drew closer, a constant stream of problems occupied almost all of her remaining attention, to the point where Eileen was becoming a little neurasthenic.
Now, as far as Hermione and the others were concerned, Eileen had successfully seized all the initiative, becoming the most terrifying Demon Lord in the girls' group – even Luna thought so.
The first unexpected situation to erupt was that Hannah's way of slacking off was finally discovered by Eileen.
"This is it, your food review after a week?!"
Eileen waved the parchment in her hand with force, making a frightening wheezing sound.
Opening the nearly ten thousand word food column manuscript submitted by Hannah, all that met the eye were the most simple and sincere dining feelings from the students of Hogwarts, such as...
"Wow, this is delicious!" "Slurp, slurp, slurp!" "Very tasty!" "I like that one the best!" "That one's also so delicious!" "It would be better if there was more salt" "The potatoes are cooked too soft" "The Hufflepuff dishes next door smell so good"...
Faced with such blatant acts of laziness – copying comments and purely padding out the word count – if it weren't for the fact that it was her own wing, Eileen would have even prepared to hit her directly. Even so, the girl's face was frighteningly gloomy.
In this dangerous atmosphere, even Luna Lovegood, who had come up with the bad idea, sat obediently next to Hannah, not daring to say a word, her two "Na" faces smiling foolishly at Eileen, almost turning her entire face shape into ovo.
You must know that in Eileen's plan, the *A Bite of Hogwarts* section was the top priority for future development, and if possible, it even had the potential to form a separate publication.
The comments collected by Hannah would not be too much of a problem if they were placed in the comment section after the logistics channels matured and an online ordering process was formed.
However, the current focus is on stimulating people's hunger and interest, not such ghostly bullet comments.
"Forget it, the food copywriting for the first issue of *A Bite of Hogwarts* will be written by Hermione and me."
After glaring at the two silly Nas for a while, Eileen sighed helplessly.
Thinking carefully, Hannah and Luna were only ten or eleven years old lolis. In any country, it would already be a remarkable achievement for children of this age to write good diaries and routine accounts.
It was indeed a bit forced to ask them to conceive and write soft articles that were well-written and made people's appetites increase.
In order to fill the gap as soon as possible, in the next two days, Eileen could only drag Hermione to work overtime and write manuscripts, spending almost all of her time in the library, with the two of them scrutinizing all the food manuscripts again and again.
Although Hannah and Luna escaped the punishment of writing, they also ushered in a more cruel punishment – every night, they had to recite and read the manuscripts written by Eileen and Hermione on the bed.
And the most direct result of this was that after two days, Luna, who was originally a little malnourished, quickly became rosy, and Hannah and Hermione's weight jumped up by one kilogram.
In addition to this, perhaps influenced by Eileen.
During this period, although the three little lolis behaved especially well when dealing with the impatient and sensitive white-haired dumpling, when facing other little wizards who were behind on their manuscripts, they inevitably brought a bit of Eileen's flavor.
The Weasley twins and Rubeus Hagrid can be said to be the people who felt this change the most deeply.
"Mr. Hagrid, I'm here to urge you to submit your manuscript again."
Luna Lovegood stood quietly at the door of Hagrid's hut, gently knocking on the closed wooden door.
After waiting for a while without a response, Luna took a step back, looked up at the chimney at the top of the hut, which was still emitting hot air, shook her head helplessly, and raised her voice to shout.
"There's no need to hide, I know you're hiding inside the house. Eileen told me to tell you that tomorrow is the final deadline for submission. You must submit those detailed contents and living habits about unicorns to us – otherwise, she will come to urge you to submit the manuscript in person next time."
On the other side, the Gryffindor common room.
"Hermione, how can you come in? This is a boys' dormitory?!"
"That's right, this is not a place where you girls should come."
The Weasley twins, who were caught, looked helplessly at the little witch in front of them, with a particularly helpless expression on their faces.
Even with the Marauder's Map, they couldn't avoid this unreasonable tactic of trapping a turtle in a jar. As long as they still wanted to lie on the warm bed in the dormitory, they would be caught by Hermione sooner or later.
"Obviously, the founders of the school thought that girls were more reliable than boys."
Hermione Granger shrugged and replied in a relaxed tone, "If you have seriously read *Hogwarts, A History*, you will find that not only Gryffindor, but all the common rooms of the colleges are like this."
After a slight pause, Hermione crossed her arms and looked seriously at the two boys in front of her.
"George, Fred, you can't keep hiding from me and Eileen... You promised to submit the manuscript related to the Hogwarts secret passage before Sunday. Mr. Filch's content has been written – now all that's missing is you two."
Considering that these two brothers usually have to go to the Ravenclaw Tower to "serve their sentence" during the day, Hermione didn't urge them too much at first.
Another reason was that, for some reason, Hermione had a strange feeling these days.
The schedule of this pair of brothers always seemed to coincide with her, and every time she went to catch people, she was "just" a few minutes late – as if there was an invisible force helping the twin brothers escape the urging of the manuscript.
However, seeing that the time was approaching the final deadline, Eileen also issued an ultimatum – since she couldn't catch anyone in the school during the day, she might as well wait until the lights went out at night and go directly to the boys' dormitory to block people.
According to Eileen, when facing these old rogues who deliberately owed the manuscript, not to mention hiding in the boys' dormitory, even if they hid in the men's toilet, they would rush in to grab them and ask for the manuscript they owed.
Of course, Eileen, as the person directly in charge, would naturally not be idle.
In the past few days, Bathilda Bagshot had received several "family letters" from her great-nephew Grindelwald, and with some of Grindelwald's memoir compilations, the corresponding manuscript reserves for "Exploration? Discovery" and "The Magical Age" were even enough for two or three months.
On the other hand, the "Walking into Magic" section, which Eileen originally didn't pay much attention to, was somehow heard by Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, unexpectedly arousing the attention of these two heavyweight professionals.
Although they did not directly participate in the writing of the manuscript, with the help and guidance of these two professors, the "magic academic" reports submitted by Percy Weasley and other outstanding senior students seemed quite insightful, at least much better than Eileen imagined.
As for the original sections of *The Quibbler*, there was nothing more surprising.
After all, it had only been less than a week, and it was slightly unrealistic to want to see any earth-shattering changes before the large-scale essay competition started. According to Eileen's estimation, the real outbreak would be after the next week's distribution throughout the magic world.
Time passed in the blink of an eye.
In the past two days, Eileen and the others had been in a tense atmosphere like a war for the publication of the new edition of *The Quibbler*. But in general, everything was completed according to the original plan by about 90%, and the rest was just some small details.
"Phew, it's really not an easy thing to run a magazine well."
Eileen breathed a long sigh of relief, smiled wryly, and turned to look at Luna, who was writing furiously at her desk.
"Now you know how hard your father has worked all these years, right? If you can't get the manuscript, you have to pick up the pen yourself to fill in the blank."
In the end, Hagrid failed to come up with a complete article.
Helplessly, Luna could only piece together a decent "Unicorn Science Guide" based on Hagrid's fragmented explanations and the scattered but exceptionally rich supplements provided by Hagrid.
"Why not let Harry and Ron come and help?" Hannah asked Eileen in confusion.
"They were also caught by Ravenclaw College, and they have been helping to restore the orchard on the Ravenclaw side all weekend. Where can they find the time to help? These boys are too impulsive – they didn't consider the consequences before doing things."
Hermione rolled her eyes angrily, her voice full of resentment.
Since the Gryffindor points were cleared again in one breath, she had become indifferent to the competition for the college cup. No matter how hard she worked to earn points, it was no match for the points deducted for attacking the Ravenclaw orchard.
"Okay, Hermione! Harry and the others are also for the Gryffindor people to eat fresh fruit."
Eileen pursed her lips, glanced at the pile of illustrated "Hogwarts Night Tour Guide" beside Hermione, compared it with the "Hogwarts Student Restricted Area Warning" provided by Filch before, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Look, George and Fred finally squeezed out the manuscript about the castle secret passage in this situation. As for the college points, it's normal to rise and fall sharply. No one knows what will happen until the last moment."
After the two college melee, the Hogwarts college points showed a very clear level.
Hufflepuff, who was the first to cause trouble, had no points to deduct at the time, but instead took the lead and firmly locked in the first place.
Immediately afterwards, it was Slytherin College, which was slightly at a disadvantage in terms of the number of people and led to low total points, and Ravenclaw College, which was indifferent to the world and only accidentally deducted one hundred points. They were working hard to compete for the second and third place.
As for the last place, Gryffindor College, which almost lost completely, not only had its college points cleared again, but even put in most of the Quidditch team, who needed to check in at Ravenclaw Tower every day to complete the daily farm work tasks.
In the past two days, most of the little wizards had heard about the melee that took place on Friday afternoon. Although from the final result, it seemed that both colleges were punished.
But just seeing those gold and red lion cubs appearing at the bottom of Ravenclaw Tower every day, everyone knew that Gryffindor College had suffered a big loss this time – of course, some children in Gryffindor College might not think so.
Thanks to the "daily sentence" relationship, the energetic lion cubs had more time to get along with the Ravenclaw little witches, which was even considered an unexpected benefit in the eyes of many single little wizards.
In just two days, people could occasionally see Gryffindor little wizards covered in dust and dirt, but with rosy faces and light steps, holding a large pile of fruits and vegetables back to the rest room.
Naturally, as the popularity of the vegetable theft incident passed, exciting gossip once again spread all over the sky.
Regarding this conflict between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, at least a dozen versions have been derived in the school, and at least half of the people think that this is actually a big move by Gryffindor College.
They would place themselves in a hopeless situation and then find a way out. Anyway, they just switched from planting potatoes to planting vegetables, and the environment had also become next to Ravenclaw Tower. Except for paying some points, no matter how you think about it, it feels like Ravenclaw is actively inviting wolves into the house.
You must know that compared to the weak and flamboyant Ravenclaw boys, the strong and sunny Gryffindor boys with a bit of ruffian temperament are undoubtedly the type that is most likely to capture the eyes of literary girls, especially when they have to listen to you.
In fact, including the Ravenclaw boys, the boys of the other colleges are vaguely envious of those "captives" – usually, there are at least two or three Ravenclaw ladies around each working Gryffindor boy.
The reasons are naturally various, such as supervising work, comforting the working people, and teaching the correct planting posture.
Except for a few poor people who were closely guarded by the Gryffindor girls, most of the captured Gryffindor little wizards even felt a sense of reluctance to leave their homes, and George Weasley, who was almost about to hold hands with Meryl, was the most typical positive example.
And in such an atmosphere of envy, jealousy and hatred, a message that was passed out from nowhere suddenly spread throughout the boys' groups of the colleges...
In the upcoming new edition of *The Quibbler*, there is a secret book on how to open the door to the Ravenclaw common room. It is said that as long as you master the skills on it, you can come and go freely in Ravenclaw College.
In addition to this, there are also learning experience sharing from the top students of the colleges, castle tour guides shared by Filch and the Weasley twins, the origin and background story of the Hogwarts calendar, the revelation of the beautiful unicorn groups in the Forbidden Forest, the first issue of *A Bite of Hogwarts* summary...
Whether it is a scumbag, a foodie, an explorer, a single dog, or a wizard who loves nature, you can always find something you are interested in in the new issue of *The Quibbler*, which is also one of Eileen's initial positioning strategies.
Only children make multiple-choice questions, as the third generation Demon King, she wants all of them!
Time flies, and it is soon Monday morning.
With the rise of the first ray of dawn in the morning, countless round-faced fat chickens carried the *New Quibbler* to various mainstream cooperative newspapers in the magic world, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and families who subscribed to the *New Quibbler*. And this is just the first batch of sending tasks today.
Not only within Hogwarts, this will be the first and possibly the last full-volume information flow bombardment plan in the entire magic world.
From today until the end of this week, driven by the joint efforts of the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore and others, and under Eileen's cost-effective gold Galleon offensive, as long as there are families and wizards who need to read text, they will definitely receive a copy of the *New Quibbler* attached to the issue – whether you subscribe to *The Daily Prophet*, *The Wizarding World*, or *Hair-Raising Charm New Trends*, *Today's Rumors*, it is the same.
At the same time, a group of enthusiastic elderly readers from Salzburg have also arrived near the Lovegood's house, directly waving their wands and starting to build houses not far from Luna's house, while skillfully arranging layers of magical protection and warning.
Compared to the slightly naive Eileen, Grindelwald is very clear about the peeping and trouble that this *New Quibbler* may bring... Huge gold Galleon rewards, rich content, novel section levels, far-reaching story core.
Perhaps the thick walls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry can block malicious black hands and public opinion pressure, but the lonely Mr. Lovegood will definitely not be able to cope with the endless tricks and the sudden increase in workload.
Not to mention that as the scale of the *New Quibbler* expands, Xenophilius Lovegood alone is obviously unable to complete all the distribution, proofreading, editing, and layout work. The rebound after *The Daily Prophet* reacts is not something that this middle-aged wizard can resist.
In Gellert Grindelwald's view, only with the help, protection, and supervision of a group of "saints" with good political background, excellent magical quality, and rich life experience can he ensure that the "position of public opinion" that Eileen expects will not be taken away or disturbed by others.
Since that little girl has not realized this for the time being, as her grandfather, he naturally wants to help consider some unstable factors and fill in the last possible loopholes in advance.
Therefore, without telling Eileen and Dumbledore, he secretly wrote a short letter to his old friends in Salzburg.
The content of the letter is very simple... [The new era has arrived, it's time to work]
And in such a situation, the *New Quibbler* officially began to be published.
Similarly, *A Bite of Hogwarts* also appeared in the eyes of all wizards in the magic world for the first time.
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