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I was a bit disappointed about the Harry-Ginny fake marriage contract story (chapter 25-26). The global plot of Harry hiring the Weasley teens to make Rita Skeeter publish something ridiculous but wrong so Rita would be fired was nice and totally in-character for all of them, but the final story was a bit "due ?" to me. I don't see how the fake marriage contract was such a big deal, enough to get Rita fired, and the length they had to go to make it sounded totally disproportionate compared to the story they ended up with. I would have expected something much more shocking and deep in political consequences than an arranged marriage.
I didn't think the marriage contract was as big a deal as the implication that, if the story were taken as something other than a complete fabrication, someone had messed with Gringott's proceedings to cover it up. I can't imagine that Rita Skeeter could keep her job after courting that kind of scandal with the goblin nation.
Gringott's? I thought it was the security of the records of the Wizengamut that was thrown into question by what the twins did, not Gringott's?
They managed to compromise both. From chapter 26:
Ah, whoops.
To the sibling, I add:
Anything to do with Harry Potter is obviously going to be a big deal in this world. He's not just a celebrity, he's a household name
Imagine if a newspaper IRL claimed that... I dunno, Bill Gates? .... had, say, Japanese ancestry, and they had incontrovertible proof of it. Also, they'd found secret intelligence that he was planning to start a war against Bhutan with the support of the Phillipines. And all of that turned out to be false. Might not kick up a scandal, but it'd sure kick up a wtf-storm and damage the newspaper's credibility.