In the early morning, countless owls flapped their wings and poured into the Great Hall of the Hogwarts castle. After circling above the students enjoying breakfast, they descended beside their respective recipients to fulfill their duties as mail carriers.
Harry picked up the newspaper dropped by his owl and began to read it. Compared to the *Daily Prophet* under Fudge's thumb, Harry found that he much preferred the *Daily Prophet* under Scrimgeour's control; at least the content in the paper always brought people a good mood.
The news that the Ministry had once again crushed You-Know-Who's conspiracy a few days earlier, successfully eliminating several Death Eaters, had spread throughout Hogwarts. The only person unhappy about this was probably Harry's Slytherin arch-nemesis, Draco Malfoy.
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