Hogwarts Raven

Chapter 5 5: Can this stump me?

Ding!
Congratulations, you have obtained the extraordinary characteristic [Butcher's Instinct].

In the kitchen, as Ian was about to kill the hen in front of him with a knife, a look of surprise flashed across his face, and then he began to check the effect of the characteristics.

Acquiring extraordinary characteristics means that a skill has reached a certain level and one has understood the true meaning of some skills.

Just like the characteristics of psychology, thinking and perception.

And I wonder what effect the characteristics of biological anatomy have?
Ian checked the characteristics and found that this butcher instinct could analyze the best anatomical structure of any creature at a glance.

How should I put it, this skill is better than nothing?

Look at the captured hen.

At this moment, Ian felt as if he could penetrate the chicken's feathers and find the most suitable place to cut.

Then, the blade moved and a "click" sound was heard.

A hen's life was completely ended.

Even the chefs nearby couldn't help but praise the decisive technique.

"Wow, Ian, your butchering skills are getting better and better!"

After Ian killed the chicken.

Then help cut the chicken that has been trimmed of its feathers by the chefs.

A few clicks and cuts.

The chicken was cut neatly.

Ian also smiled and replied: "Haha, I have become much more skilled."

After acquiring the extraordinary characteristics of the skill, it has indeed improved by leaps and bounds.

The extraordinary characteristics of this kind of ordinary skills are indeed magical enough, but they are just magical. Ian can't help but look forward to learning magic.

Will the extraordinary properties created by magic be even more powerful and miraculous?
Unfortunately, I have to wait another half a month before Owl can buy study books.

To this day, Ian still doesn't know why Dumbledore made the home visit first.

Is Wu's Orphanage really that attractive?

Sitting at his desk in the morning, he found that he could hardly concentrate on reading.

"You have to wait so long! I really want to learn magic!"

I waited for several days.

Ian felt that every day was like a year. This feeling could not be described by the waiting time for buying a mammogram online. It was like knowing that the goddess had already landed, but he still had to wait for the postal courier to deliver the condom to him.

"I am an adult soul after all."

Ian didn't know how to describe his feelings. Can't wait? Impatient? They seemed to mean the same thing.

In fact, this is an expectation of seeing a new world, and the surprise of entering a magical world full of magic from a real world.

Not to mention adult souls, any normal person would be unable to resist and want to explore the mysterious magic.

Just this day.

Ian chose to skip work.

Even though he was the boss of his own stall... since he was an adult, he had to make decisions as an adult. Wasn't it just a simple Diagon Alley?
Can this stump me?

Ian took the huge sum of money he had accumulated and began to rely on his meager memory of the original work to try to find the Leaky Cauldron in the vast London.

It was a bar that Muggles could not see at all, only wizards could see it. Through the bar, he could enter Diagon Alley, which was the territory of wizards.

In the original book, this is how Harry Potter entered Diagon Alley.

So, Ian wanted to try it too.

But he only knew the name of the bar and had no idea where the actual address was.

Crowds of people were surging on the streets.

Ian disappeared into the crowd. He had already run for many blocks, but looking at the shops on both sides of the street, he couldn't see the bar.

"The Bullhead Bar, Jenny's Restaurant, Tomorrow's Restaurant, KFC."

A wide range of shops.

None of them is what Ian is looking for, just like the Platform Nine and Three Quarters in the original book.

The Leaky Cauldron could only be seen by wizards - logically, Ian should be able to see it, and he knew he just hadn't found the right place.

"Ok?"

While searching, Ian suddenly discovered that he seemed to be followed by someone - he immediately became a little confused!

Traffickers?
Organ trading isn't popular these days, right?
Ian quickened his pace and walked around several corners, taking the opportunity to look behind him - there was a man in a black robe, with no face visible.

Ok.

It seems to make sense all of a sudden.

This outfit doesn't look like cosplay or anything.

The dark wizard kidnapped the little wizard, no one knows why, but in any case, it couldn't be that he couldn't have children and wanted to find a descendant to inherit the dark magic.

"I'm being watched!"

Ian's heart tightened.

He was a little panicked.

Fortunately, he saw the entrance to the subway station at this time, and he hurriedly trotted towards the subway station - the man in black robe stood outside and did not follow him in.

The other party might not dare to use magic in a crowded place.

after all.

Kidnap the little wizard.

and incurring the Ministry's regulations.

The intensity of pursuit they may face is definitely different.

Roughly equivalent to the difference between breaking the law and counter-terrorism?
Heart beating wildly.

Ian thankfully got on the subway, and an hour later, he returned to the Wu Orphanage.

"It's really dangerous today! The wizarding world is really chaotic!"

In front of the entrance of the strangely square orphanage building, Ian's thin figure slowly walked into the orphanage, but he did not notice that there were two figures watching him in the dark.

among them.

There was the man whom Ian regarded as a "dark wizard".

Dumbledore's steady voice sounded softly beside the man in black robes.

"Are you being a little too cautious in preventing him from getting in touch with the magical world early?"

The man in black robe remained silent.

Like a statue in the dark night. His thoughts drifted back to an hour ago, when he cast a mysterious spell on Ian, which made Ian unable to see the nearby [Leaky Cauldron]. Yes, it turned out that Ian did not fail to find the place, but was unable to see it due to the interference of magic.

"Diagon Alley is not a place for children to play house. There are many dark wizards active there. I don't want him to be like his stupid..."

The man in black robe suddenly stopped talking halfway, turned his head, and stared at Dumbledore with his deep eyes. After a long silence, a hoarse voice sounded.

"He belongs in Slytherin."

Without saying anything else, the man in black robe just left these words and then instantly Apparated, leaving behind only a breeze and gradually dissipating magical fluctuations.

"The Wu Orphan..."

Dumbledore remained alone.

He continued to look quietly at the mottled gate of the orphanage and stared at the shabby doorplate, as if he was lost in memories, with a somewhat complicated expression on his face.

“I hope I won’t make the same mistake again this time.”

Dumbledore let out a heavy sigh.

Turned around and merged into the night.

just.

His back looked a little hunched as he left.

(End of this chapter)