You Call This the Black Man Behind the Scenes?

Chapter 74: Kevin Is Confused

The wizarding education newspaper, which had already been finalized, had to revise the page overnight due to the order of the Minister of Magic, to make way for a dark horse who “turned out”.

This kept many people busy for most of the night.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, who had discussed the manuscript with Fanny before, was even more surprised by this.

His name is Cornell Ardan, a tall middle-aged wizard with a Chinese character face.

After graduating, he joined the wizard education newspaper. He has been in the business for ten years and is known for his keen sense of news.

However, no matter how keen he was, he still couldn’t figure out why this manuscript got into the hands of the Minister of Magic.

He didn’t even understand why the minister attached so much importance to it, and even added that sentence to it.

But at this level, it’s not something he can handle as a small character.

While obeying orders honestly, he reminded his niece Fanny.

Then, ignoring the excited response of the other party, he leisurely prepared to watch the joke of the Minister of Magic.

Yes, look at the joke.

Because of that person’s identity, the Wizard Education News, which is affiliated to the Education Committee, certainly couldn’t disobey his orders.

Next, some other newspapers with official background will also reprint it, showing enough attention.

In the United Kingdom, however, official newspapers are in the minority.

Even if they do their best to report, they cannot compete with a large number of private newspapers.

Besides, newspapers are for the public, and magistrates are better off running them now, they don’t care what the Minister of Magic does.

At most, after seeing that comment, I will feel a little strange, and I will be more cautious when I see the half-blood wizard with the Minister of Magic as a backer in the future.

In this way, how widely the news can be disseminated depends entirely on the strength of propaganda and the degree of “powerful” news itself.

In terms of publicity, the resources available for this manuscript are limited.

Not to mention the explosiveness—

Although the manuscript is well written, the theme is a battle between apprentices.

Even if there is a comment from the Minister of Magic, it is not as eye-catching as Kevin’s incident.

Dingtian, that is, because of his relationship with Kevin, he became a little hot for a while.

However, if this is the case, how can it be possible to compete with the Felix family?

Yes, the competition.

Cornell believed that when the Felix family was fully promoting Kevin and had specially warned him, he suddenly brought up the incident because the Minister of Magic wanted to compare himself with Felix.

The targeting is too obvious!

“Unfortunately, although you are a senior government official, you don’t understand public opinion at all.”

Cornell was so emotional.

In fact, many insiders in the newspaper also think this way, and some people even have excited expectations that the Minister of Magic will be embarrassed.

After all, it’s easy to see a normal person making a fool of himself, but it’s too hard to see that kind of big man making a fool of himself.

However, what happened next was somewhat beyond their expectations.

…

In an ancient world without Internet data, of course, people can’t make detailed statistics about the popularity of a thing.

But because of the existence of the Book of Secret Words, the speed at which wizards communicate with each other is no different from that in modern society.

This has created a deformed status quo in the wizarding world, where the press and publishing industry is booming, far ahead of its time, but otherwise ancient.

But despite the lack of statistical tools, journalists like Cornell can actually feel the general situation of current public opinion during the continuation of some hot events.

Because whenever they encounter any special events, many of their relatives and friends, the first thing they ask is their well-informed people.

So with the publication of the newspaper the next day, the outside world asked the newspaper employees to inquire about Iger’s person, and the increase was visible to the naked eye.

This was not uncommon in the past, after all, in an era of relative lack of entertainment, gossip is one of the main ways people use to pass the time.

Compared with some of the previous breaking news, this scene can only be regarded as a small trouble now.

However, in contrast, Kevin of the Felix family is currently “on fire”, but few people ask him.

It’s not that no one asks about Kevin, but very few people ask about Kevin himself.

“Isn’t it normal for a young man from such a big family to do such a thing?”

Cornell got this response when he came home from get off work and talked to his wife about it.

“And this matter, maybe it’s the family behind Kevin who helped to make it, and then all the credit is attributed to him… Isn’t this the case with all big families?”

Sounds really reasonable.

Cornell thought to himself, but it was not enough to answer the doubts in his heart.

So he asked again, “What do you think of Kevin?”

“How can you see it?”

His wife is a slightly wealthy young woman. She is holding a magic wand by the sink to make cups and dishes and other tableware float in the air, so that water can be “washed” out of thin air.

After hearing this, she turned her head to look at her husband with a surprised tone.

“Aren’t young people from big families all like that?”

“Don’t have a specific impression?” Cornell was a little puzzled.

“The newspapers brag about him like the protagonist in a knight novel. He has also worked hard since he was a child, has a sense of justice, and his relatives and friends around him have praised him…”

The young woman sneered, “With such fake propaganda, what kind of reliable impression can you make of me?”

So, it’s not that I don’t have an impression, but I don’t believe the impression in the newspaper…

Cornell was thoughtful when he heard the words, so he asked again: “So, what do you think of that Iger? How is he?”

“Iger? A very good child, it feels very cute.”

When the young woman said this, she blinked, “I also talked with my good sister about the skin care method he proposed, and decided to try it later.”

“He was encouraged by the Minister of Magic, don’t you think that’s just as fake? I mean, he doesn’t look like a simple half-blood.”

“Is there anything strange about that?”

The young woman frowned, “The Minister of Magic admires the ideal and talented boy like Iger, is it normal?”

It’s normal!

Cornell was speechless.

His wife looked as if she was familiar with that Iger.

But didn’t she realize that she just knew the name from a newspaper?

In other words, it’s just a paper man!

However, the first appearance of a paper man can give people such a deep impression…

This is obviously unusual.

Cornell then came to the study, dug out the interview draft handed to him by his niece Fanny, and looked at it carefully.

Then, the more he looked, the more frightened he became.

When he read this interview draft before, he only felt that it was well written, and the image of the interviewee was very prominent.

If it can be published normally, with the background stories of the characters, it should be popular for a while.

But more, that’s it.

However, look at this manuscript now and compare it with Kevin’s “fake big empty” propaganda.

He suddenly discovered that this interview was not that simple at all!

In other words, it is not that the interview draft is not simple, but the words of the person being interviewed are not simple!

“Every word he said can make people feel cordial and true, which…”

Cornell was puzzled. “How is this done?”

The principle is actually very simple, but Cornell, who was hit by dimensionality reduction with skills far beyond this era, could not figure out this problem in a short period of time.

So he, who didn’t care about Iger’s mixed blood before, unconsciously raised the image of the other party in his heart.

Being able to attract the Minister of Magic to help prove that Iger cannot be just a simple mixed blood, and his background must be profound.

And being able to shape his own image so prominently in the length of a manuscript is enough to prove that Iger himself is not simple…

After thinking hard for a long time, Cornell suddenly left the study, put on his coat, and looked like he was going out.

“It’s so late, where are you going?”

Sitting on the sofa in the living room, the young woman who was sticking cucumber slices on her face was surprised by Cornell’s behavior.

“Go to Graham City.”

He replied, “I’m going to give that Iger an exclusive interview.”

“Interview.”

His wife was stunned, “You are the editor-in-chief and not a reporter? What are you doing for an exclusive interview?”

“Of course I’m not a journalist.”

“But I’m an investor,” Cornell said.

…

Not everyone is as sharp as Cornell.

In fact, even in the modern society with the explosion of information, most people will not be aware of any skills in this Western politician-style image building.

They also think that politicians themselves are the kind of people who are very friendly.

So let alone in this world where the publishing industry is developed, but the whole is still ancient.

However, some of Cornell’s previous judgments cannot be said to be wrong-

With the support of the Felix family and the hot spot of the event itself, the spread of Kevin’s name is much wider than that of Iger.

But in effect, the two are very different.

The former is advertised overwhelmingly, but the old-fashioned rhetoric has no appeal to the public at all.

What people care more about is actually the event itself, rather than the person who made it.

Even if I noticed it, I would only comment on the family behind Kevin, and I wouldn’t really think that Kevin was powerful.

And the latter, although the dissemination is not widespread, the dissemination theme is nothing special.

But every wizard who has read the report can at least have a preliminary impression of Iger Wilson.

The witches, in particular, were even more impressed.

So this has caused a phenomenon that although there is no Kevin fire, the name Iger is mentioned more than Kevin.

Comparing the two, it even gives the illusion that Kevin is a supporting role and Iger is the protagonist.

Many people were caught off guard by this.

Especially Kevin himself.

…

“Didn’t you say that as long as he doesn’t put the picture in the newspaper, he doesn’t need to care too much?”

At this time, five days have passed since the incident at Ernest Manor.

And since the Wizarding Education newspaper first published Iger Wilson’s duel interview three days ago, Kevin has grown more and more depressed.

Because as Iger’s name spread, some of his cousins actually turned to him and inquired about that Iger!

Although it was basically just a casual question without much curiosity, it was enough to make Kevin feel a blow.

What puzzled him even more was that Iger’s most important point – his appearance – was not shown in the interview.

Why is that report so influential?

It’s already like this without the photo. If any newspaper office goes to take a photo and publish it in the newspaper, won’t it completely suppress him?

You know, behind him, the family is fully supporting him!

“It’s really surprising.”

It was Kevin’s old grandfather who used the Book of Secret Words to talk to Kevin.

A few days ago, when the Minister of Magic released the interview transcript, he mentioned to Kevin that he didn’t need to care, that it was no big deal.

Although he was ‘slapped in the face”, he remained calm.

“But this can only prove that I asked you to befriend that Iger before, which was a very wise decision.”

Kevin was stunned for a while, “He’s pressing your grandson now, so you’re not angry at all?”

“You don’t live up to your expectations, why am I angry?”

The opposite said: “As long as you look a little bit like your mother, you won’t be reduced to this level now.”

“However, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is obviously not a matter of looks…”

“Of course, of course I know that this is actually because Iger is not simple, so you think that if you have this understanding, I will ask you to trouble him?”

“…I don’t think so. It’s all because of the intervention of the Minister of Magic.”

Kevin replied: “He is clearly against us, so you don’t plan to do anything?”

“In a few days, Cornelu will give us a face, so why should I do something?”

Kevin was a little confused by this.

“Wait, you’re saying that the minister did this not to trouble us?”

“Is there something wrong with his brain? He came to trouble us when he had nothing to do?”

The opposite said unceremoniously: “And even if he is looking for trouble, he won’t use such a trivial matter. Apart from making the family lose some face, what real use can it have?”

“But if it’s not for trouble, why would he help Iger?”

Kevin was a little confused, “They can’t possibly know each other.”

“You figure it out for yourself first.”

The old grandfather on the opposite side seemed to be too lazy to pay attention to this stupid grandson.

“If you can’t figure it out, just ask your mother.”

“My mother deleted me long ago.”

Kevin was very embarrassed to see this, “Because I always mention my father.”

“…What a fool.” The opposite side seemed helpless.

“But it doesn’t matter, no accident, she’s already in Graham City now, you can’t contact her, why don’t you just go find her?”

Mom is already in Graham?

Kevin was stunned by this.

What did she come to Graham for?

Why haven’t I heard anything at all?