"Oh my God," said Hermione sadly.
"Ron, you shouldn't have said that just now, I'm going to persuade her soon." Ivan looked at Ron angrily.
"Come on, buddy!" Ron blushed a little. "You don't really like Myrtle, do you, a whimpering ugly ghost."
"Ron!" Hermione raised her voice sharply.
"Of course I don't like it, but she is an important source of information." Ivan snorted, "I had something to ask her, but now you have messed it up."
"You should apologize to Myrtle, and while she's certainly not attractive, we shouldn't have said that about her, especially since Peeves heard those words," said Hermione.
"Apologize?!" Ron's face was as red as his red hair.
"That's right, Ron!" Harry poked him. "I think Ivan and Hermione are right. We did go too far in this matter."
"Okay, okay, since you all think so, I'm going to apologize to her now." Ron took a step back, panting heavily, his face flushed to the extreme.
After finishing speaking, he turned around and ran out of the basement classroom, and the three looked at him worriedly.
"Let's go too. I just checked. The food here is not suitable for living people." Ivan sighed, "And I do have something to ask Myrtle."
As soon as the three of them reached the door, Nick, who was almost headless, floated in from the crowd.
"My dear friend, are you enjoying yourself?"
"Oh, glad." They lied.
"A satisfactory number," said Nearly Headless Nick proudly. "Weeping widows have come all the way from Kent, and my speaking time is almost up."
Nick stops the band and strides to the podium, into a cold blue spotlight.
"My late Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I... "
Before he finished speaking, a hunting horn sounded, and the ghosts looked around excitedly, Nick's expression looked a little painful.
Suddenly, twelve ghost horses burst in from the walls of the underground classroom, each with a headless rider on it. All the people attending the party applauded enthusiastically, and Ivan and the others also clapped their hands, but when they saw Nick's face, they stopped quickly.
The twelve ghost horses ran to the center of the dance floor, stopped abruptly, stood upright on their hind legs, then kicked their hind hooves and rushed forward.
Immediately in front was a huge ghost, with his bearded head tucked under his arm, blowing a horn. He jumped off his horse and held his head high in the air so that he could watch the crowd from above, and they all laughed.
He strode up to Nearly Headless Nick, thrusting his head carelessly into his neck.
"Nick!" he yelled. "How are you, is your head still hanging there?"
He let out a savage laugh and patted Nearly Headless Nick on the shoulder.
"Welcome, Patrick," Nick said stiffly.
"Live!"
Mr. Patrick saw Ivan, Harry and Hermione at a glance, pretended to be surprised and jumped up high, but his head fell down again, and everyone laughed.
"Very interesting," Nearly Headless Nick said sternly.
"Never mind Nick!" cried Mr. Patrick's head from the floor. "He's still mad at us for keeping him out of the Hunters, but I say, look at this fellow!"
"I think..." Harry noticed Nick's meaningful gaze, remembered the agreement with him, and hurriedly said, "Nick is very scary!"
"Ha ha!"
Mr. Patrick's head yelled, "I guess he told you to say that."
Then, ignoring Harry, he started a sort of head hockey game with the rest of the Headless Hunters, and everyone turned to watch, no one paying attention to Nick standing on the podium.
Seeing Nick's pitiful look, Ivan sighed and felt the need to do something.
He walked up to the podium, stood next to Nick, and made a loud noise with his wand, drawing everyone's attention back.
"Good evening, everyone. As a special guest tonight, I would like to say a few words from the perspective of a living person."
The ghosts all looked at Aiwen curiously, wanting to know what the little wizard was going to say, a speech from a living person seemed much more interesting than the headless hunter game.
"As a ghost, Sir Nicholas's appearance may not be as scary as Mr. Patrick, but he is a very respectable nobleman, even in the living world."
There was a muffled discussion below, and many ghosts expressed doubts about what Ai Wen said.
"In order to let more people commemorate his death anniversary and thank him for his selfless help to me." Ai Wen continued, "I decided to invite Sir Nicholas to be a special correspondent of the "Hogwarts Witchcraft News", and his The life story was published in the newspaper."
The discussion became louder, and everyone was curious about the job of "special correspondent".
The life of ghosts is really boring. Although they have endless lives, they don't have any senses. The long years have consumed passion, and their memories have gradually declined. Many ghosts have nothing to do, so they stay in dark corners all day long. In the end, I forgot who I was.
It's really scary, everyone is desperately looking for something to do, but there are so few options, which is why The Headless Hunter is so popular.
But not everyone's head and body are separated, and the vast majority of ghosts still have nothing to do all day long.
The special reporter of the newspaper that Aiwen said provided a new direction of choice, but what is the "Hogwarts Magic News", I have never heard of it before.
""Hogwarts Wizarding News" is a newspaper dedicated to young wizards in school. Currently, the sales volume of each issue has reached 800 copies, and it is still increasing steadily." Seeming to see everyone's doubts, Ai Wen explained Said, "We have in-depth cooperative relations with mainstream media such as "Daily Prophet", "Wizard Weekly", "Quieker", for example, this article describing the life of Sir Nicholas will be published in "Daily Prophet" at the same time superior."
As soon as Ivan's voice fell, the pot below almost exploded.
Nearly Headless Nick's life will appear in the Daily Prophet, an unprecedented honor for a ghost who has been dead for centuries.
Everyone stared straight at Nick with envy and jealousy.
It took a full minute for Nick to react. He looked at Ivan excitedly and thanked him for everything he had done for him. He was so moved. I believe that if he could cry, he would have cried bitterly by now.
Ivan's words helped Nick win the respect of all the ghosts, the Deathday party was back on track, and no one paid attention to Patrick and his Headless Hunting Team.
The ghosts stepped forward to congratulate Nick one by one, and then floated over to surround Ivan, Harry, and Hermione, eagerly asking if there was any vacancy for the job of "Special Correspondent".
Aiwen naturally does not refuse anyone, the more press releases the better.
There are nearly a thousand ghosts here, and they are scattered all over the UK, and that's not all. If they and their friends can be persuaded to help them collect news, the source of manuscripts for "Hogwarts Wizardry" will soon surpass that of "Hogwarts Wizardry". Daily Prophet.
Looking at the enthusiasm of these ghosts, Aiwen is even considering finding someone to record their life stories and various magic research.
However, this task is too large and boring, and ordinary young wizards are simply not competent. Let's wait until we have money and can hire special staff.