At the Staff Table, the Professors put down their newspapers with cold faces, and Professor McGonagall's lips were even trembling with rage.
"Shameless, shameless! This is absolutely shameless!"
"How dare she, how dare she slander Albus like this!"
Professor McGonagall turned to look at Headmaster Dumbledore, who remained "calm," showing not a single trace of anger on his face.
However, if one looked closely, there was clearly no warmth left in his eyes.
"It seems our Wizarding World's official newspaper isn't quite clear on what it's writing."
Headmaster Dumbledore shook his head and set The Daily Prophet aside.
Turning his head slowly, even across several seats, Professor Snape could still feel the chill radiating from Headmaster Dumbledore.
That bone-chilling coldness.
"I'm an old man now and don't care much for this kind of news, but Miss Lynn and Miss Granger cannot be slandered at will."
Headmaster Dumbledore slowly stroked his white beard. "I will have a good talk with Cornelius about this. It doesn't matter if he suspects me, but he cannot harm the reputation of my students."
"That is very necessary, Albus!"
Professor Flitwick's voice was high-pitched. "How about you leave talking to The Daily Prophet to me? Lynn is a student of my house, after all."
His hand was already in his robe pocket, clearly gripping his wand.
"I would also be very happy to make a trip; Miss Granger is my student," Professor McGonagall said fiercely.
Although Professor Lupin's face was also frosty, he couldn't help but feel amazed looking at these Professors who made no effort to hide their desire to take action.
The last time the Professors wanted to take action like this was probably against the arrogant Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters over a decade ago.
Congratulations to Rita Skeeter; through her own efforts, she had elevated The Daily Prophet to the same level as them.
But as fate would have it, The Daily Prophet wouldn't last long enough for the Professors to act.
Seeing the fierce way Hermione chewed her fried egg, Lynn's eyes blinked without any warmth.
In the next moment, the five small metal spheres surrounding The Daily Prophet building instantly fired red beams.
Boom!
A violent tremor surged through the building housing The Daily Prophet; Rita Skeeter, who had been leisurely drinking coffee, jerked her hand and spilled the cup all over herself.
At the same time, the area around The Daily Prophet building was being continuously destroyed by red beams.
The red beams circled The Daily Prophet building, blasting the ground around it into a churning mess, clearly intending to scare everyone inside out.
Lynn hadn't forgotten that there were upperclassmen from Ravenclaw House working inside The Daily Prophet.
Plus, Hermione had previously emphasized to her the importance of valuing life—both others' and her own.
So from the start, she had no intention of directly attacking The Daily Prophet building and causing a tragedy with no survivors.
"Quick, notify the Aurors! Fast! A Dark Wizard is attacking!"
The staff inside The Daily Prophet shouted as they ran outside.
Wizards on the same street came out one after another, staring dumbfounded at the wreckage of the street before them.
The attacks from the red beams paused temporarily; they were waiting for the people inside The Daily Prophet to reach a safe position.
Panting as they ran out, The Daily Prophet staff struggled to climb over the "trenches" blasted at the entrance by the red beams and did their best to get as far away as possible.
The spectating Wizards kept looking up at the sky and all around, but they couldn't find any sign of the Dark Wizard who should have been there.
No Dark Wizard? Then who exactly caused the attack just now?
It wasn't that no one looked toward where the red beams had just been fired from.
But the five small metal spheres Lynn had created were simply too small; flying in mid-air, they couldn't see them at all.
The red light flashed again, and five beams struck The Daily Prophet building simultaneously with unerring precision.
Rumble! Bang!
Under their continuous assault, The Daily Prophet building collapsed almost instantly; every brick and stone shattered, and every piece of debris turned to dust.
The red beams moved incessantly, "attending" to every part of The Daily Prophet building, ensuring that no matter how many people or who used Reparo, the place could never be restored.
The attack of the red beams lasted for a full half-minute; at first, the spectating Wizards could still see The Daily Prophet building collapsing and rapidly disappearing.
But with the passage of time, The Daily Prophet building completely vanished within the smoke and dust.
When the dust settled, what remained before their eyes was no longer The Daily Prophet building.
All that was left was a bottomless crater, along with countless surrounding pits gouged out by the red beams.
"Merlin's hairband..."
A Wizard murmured softly, "What kind of magic is this?"
"What magic could possibly do something like this?"
A disheveled Rita Skeeter clutched the news drafts in her hands; she had risked her life to bring them out of The Daily Prophet building.
These were what she intended to publish in The Daily Prophet tomorrow, but now, looking at The Daily Prophet building where not even ruins remained, she deeply doubted if tomorrow's Daily Prophet could even be printed or delivered.
Before she had time for further thought, a red beam, much thinner than before, struck the news drafts in her arms directly.
"Ah!!!"
Rita Skeeter screamed in terror, threw her drafts onto the ground, fell back, and scrambled away on all fours.
Boom!
The drafts she had thrown down exploded under the attack of the red beam, completely vanishing along with the ground beneath them.
In the distant Hogwarts Great Hall, Lynn stood up and followed Hermione, who had finished her breakfast; it was time for them to go to Potion Class.
Casting a cold glance back at the Little Snakes of Slytherin, who had their heads bowed and didn't dare look at anyone else in the Great Hall, Lynn walked straight out.
People always have to take responsibility for their actions, don't they? They indeed reported back to their families, and their families indeed did things like slandering Hermione, slandering the Ravenclaw family, and slandering Headmaster Dumbledore.
Then they must take responsibility for their own actions and those of their families; the current somber atmosphere was exactly what they deserved.
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