blueteamnovel Chapter 9: New Office and Getting Famous
Chapter 9: New Office and Getting Famous
He went to the Daily Prophet's office. As soon as he entered the office, a woman ran towards him. She had glasses on and a mole near her lips. It was Rita Skeeter.
"Mr. Universe, hello, I am Rita Skeeter, do you have a minute." she started to annoy him.
He silently walked by but still saw the magic quill moving. He quickly looked at her Sin percentage.
||Rita Skeeter- Category 2
Indirect Murders - 2
theft - 300
Pathological liar - 1,897,430 times.
Sin percentage - 35%||
~I guess I'll give her a lesson later~ he made a mental note.
He entered the editor in chief, Barnabas Cuffe's office. Barnabas Cuffe was shocked by the sudden intrusion. But he recognized him at first glance.
"Oh, mister Universe. what can I do for you?"
"It's boss from now on," Alexander said and showed the ownership papers.
"I've bought the daily prophet. From now on you all will be working for me. Gather the whole staff in the hall" he ordered and returned to the hall.
Barnabas was shocked for a while but then got to work immediately. When everyone gathered he cleared his throat and announced.
"Hello, I am Alexander Maxim Universe, the new owner of Daily Prophet. You all will call me boss from now on. This building will also be made bigger because I am going to turn this into an international newspaper. Rita Skeeter, I need to talk to you so come to editor in chief's office in 30 minutes." he finished speaking and returned.
In the office, he gave Barnabas Cuffe a transparent glass orb, attached to a stand. he placed it on the table.
"Mr. Cuffe, this is an artifact that can detect if someone is lying. Only you can see it from this angle. I want you to conduct interviews and hire 500 news correspondents. They should be knowledgeable about various fields of magic and muggles. Hire people with origins from different magical communities. Then send them to their home countries to give you different news articles every day. From now on, the newspaper will have 32 pages and will have news from most countries. The first 10 pages of the newspaper will have news pertaining to the local magical community. So each magical community will have its own version of the paper. For now, we will start with European countries and the USA." he told him about the new plans.
He also gave him a paper with questions that needed to be asked to interviewed candidates. The most important questions were, Do you have affiliation with dark magic or any dark wizard in any way?, do you have affiliation with any ministry of magic in any way? Are you a spy?.
He was also going to make the 1 month free for all readers to create a user base.
[Knock Knock]
"It must be Rita, Mr. Cuffe, can you please give me a moment to talk to her alone. You can go and announce my plans to the staff. But, please keep the orb a secret." he politely asked Cuffe.
"Yes, we can make this but this will cost you a lot," he said.
"Haha... money is not the problem Mr. Johnson. I just want it finished within one month." he laughingly said.
"Okay sir, the estimated cost would be around 40-50 million galleons. We will make this job our top priority sir, so you can rest easy," Harold happily said. Of course, he would be happy. Nobody spends so much money on making a building these days in the magic world. All the pureblood families had their own old castles and half-bloods or muggle-borns were happy with small houses.
Alexander signed the contract and went back to Burrows. He was going to start working on a magic phone.
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Next morning,
Everyone was eating breakfast when suddenly an owl crashed in with a newspaper.
Ron picked it up and returned while looking at it. Then he ran to Alexander with an excited gaze.
"Grandpa, look. You are in the paper again." Ron exclaimed.
Molly hurriedly took the newspaper and read it aloud.
"It had just been one day since the legendary Alexander Maxim Universe announced his return and yet he has shocked the magical world once again. Mr. Universe has now bought the Daily Prophet. One of the most read newspapers in the world. But who is this new owner? Let me share with you the life of Mr. Universe.
He was born in..." She kept on reading with an excited voice while Alexander silently heard while eating.
The article was written by Rita Skeeter and he had to agree with her writing talent. She had glorified him and god knows from where she even snuffed out 3 pureblood witnesses. The witnesses said that they or their parents were saved by him in the Global wizarding war.
"These were just 3 accounts from an uncountable number of amazing deeds done by Mr. Universe. We all know that Headmaster Dumbledore was the one who defeated Grindelwald, but we forgot about the savior in the dark. Who worked from the shadow and served the light. Mr. Universe, the world may have forgotten you but, I want to apologize for our ignorance and thank you for your selfless kindness. You are the best owner the daily prophet could ever have" Molly stopped reading and looked at Alexander with eyes full of worship.
"Thank you for your hard work," She said and hugged his neck. Ron and Ginny also got up and hugged him.
"Thank you, Grandpa," they said.
"Haha... easy now. These old bones cannot handle so much weight now," he joked.
To be honest he didn't remember much about his fake past but he liked warm moments like these. They remind him of his good days back on earth, the group hugs from kids in orphanages.
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