Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts

Professor Trelawney successfully piqued the curiosity of everyone at the table.

Harry was the worst.

Just as everyone at the table was about to lose their curiosity, Professor Trelawney finally revealed the remaining answer.

"You'll have a big hole in your butt..."

Chapter 169 Professor, I want to learn this!

Harry's curious gaze instantly darkened, followed by an even more extreme downward tilt.

Just like the strange people and events throughout history and across the world who are related to divination, they never tell the whole story of the divination predictions.

They love to keep things ambiguous and mysterious, because if they speak in ambiguity and it turns out to be true, it's because they've mastered the art of divination. For example, they might say that a friend of yours has betrayed you...

There are many friends whose names have two characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Yuda.

Of course, if we absolutely have to include surnames...

You have a friend whose name is four characters, and he has betrayed you.

.....

This is unplayable!

In Harry's eyes now, Professor Trelawney is an extremely abstract fortune-telling fraud. Dumbledore, perhaps due to his age, was fooled by this fraudster and even gave her a professorship.

But I've survived the harsh debates of the Dursleys, and I'm practically a beginner's village right outside the Dursleys' house. How could I possibly be fooled by a fortune teller?

Lupin, standing to the side, seemed a bit superstitious, perhaps due to his age, while Kane was simply young and inexperienced. So, in this regard, it was best to...

Before Harry could finish his thought, Dumbledore seemed to remember something: "Oh, right, Harry, weren't you curious about who gave you the broom? Perhaps Professor Trelawney could try to do some divination?"

Unlike Kane and Lupin, who were not familiar with Professor Trelawney at all, Hagrid was now forced to look at Dumbledore. Although he was not a professor, he was a faculty member and had been Professor Trelawney's colleague for a long time.

So, is it really reliable to have Professor Trelawney do a fortune telling?

However, Harry was clearly much more genuine than Hagrid. He actually wanted Professor Trelawney to do a divination for him, not because he wanted to get slapped in the face or anything, but simply because he wanted to go back to his dorm and brag to Kane.

Poor little Kane was completely fooled by a fortune teller, while he himself clearly saw through the fortune teller's true colors.

It's so refreshing.

Harry picked up the broom with a natural air and handed it to Professor Trelawney with both hands, looking frighteningly polite.

Professor Trelawney waved her hand, saying, "If you'd like to experience my divination, you can find me in the North Tower." She then walked around the dining tables in the Great Hall, suddenly stopping. "Darling, could you please bring my breakfast to my office?"

After Professor Trelawney finished speaking, her breakfast disappeared from the table.

"Is this professor... mysterious?" Lupin asked, looking at Dumbledore and Hagrid.

“After all, she’s a professor of divination. Perhaps this is part of their persona? And you should probably call her a colleague.” After Dumbledore finished speaking, Harry’s mind went blank for a moment, and he looked at Lupin again.

"You agreed?"

Lupin nodded: "How was it? Surprised?"

Harry recalled that last semester, because Kane was an acquaintance of Lockhart before he enrolled, he had a proper and enjoyable semester after Lockhart joined the faculty.

Now that Lupin was an acquaintance of mine before he joined the company, does that mean I can act like a bully and tyrannize Slytherin this semester?

Hmm...probably not. I don't think Lupin is that kind of person, and of course, I'm not that kind of person either.

On a moral level, Harry still felt he was a level above Kane.

After finishing his meal, as Kane let out a burp, Harry nudged him lightly with his elbow.

“Shall we go? To the North Tower to find Professor Trelawney?” Harry suggested.

Kane rolled his eyes. To be honest, he was now quite curious about just how powerful Professor Trelawney's divination was. She could tell from just one meeting that he had stolen a portion of the Shadow's authority and that Lupin had broken free from the werewolf's curse.

He certainly wouldn't believe it if you said he had absolutely no skills.

Soon, the two arrived at the North Tower. Guided by the portrait, they followed the ladder to the trapdoor. After knocking, they went one by one to Professor Trelawney's office and classroom.

It was like an attic that had been converted into a teahouse. The lighting was rather dim because the windows that would have allowed the attic to be well-lit had been completely blocked off by Professor Trelawney with oversized red curtains.

Kane really liked the decor and the classroom atmosphere, since there weren't even regular classroom desks here, but rather small round tea tables.

“I already know what one of the electives I should sign up for in my third year is,” Kane said quietly.

“I haven’t decided yet, but Hagrid will definitely have a Magical Creatures class.” After Harry finished speaking, he looked at Professor Trelawney walking over from a distance and waved gently. Professor Trelawney seemed to have heard what Harry had just said.

"Some magical creatures can amplify your spirituality, such as black cats, centaurs, and bats, while others can have the opposite effect."

Professor Trelawney paused here, as if realizing she had said too much and was losing her mystique, and quickly shut up and began again: "Mr. Potter wants to divine the owner of the broom?"

Harry nodded, and just as he was about to take out his broom, Professor Trelawney shook her head: "Fortune telling doesn't require you to take out your broom."

Professor Trelawney then led the two to a small table, where she laid out a crystal ball, tarot cards, a piece of paper with an unreadable meaning, and a book: "Choose one."

Harry pursed his lips. He knew about tarot cards; some Muggles used them for divination, but they weren't particularly mysterious. A crystal ball, on the other hand, was different. In fact, in all the time he'd been at Hogwarts, he'd only seen one crystal ball in Dumbledore's office. To put it simply... he had a bit of a fascination with it and was very curious.

Professor Trelawney nodded, took the crystal ball in her hand, and the next moment a silvery-white light shone from it. Kane was somewhat surprised, as he felt a strange pushing force emanating from the light emitted by the crystal ball.

And there's a very familiar feeling, like...

Before he could even articulate it in his mind, Professor Trelawney told him the answer: "The crystal ball is a divination tool made by ancient wizards in imitation of the moon, so the light you see is the light of the moon."

Having received a definitive answer, Kane's mind was no longer on the divination, but on the moonlight.

Why does Professor Trelawney's moonlight possess physical properties? And why does such faint moonlight possess that subtle pushing force?

What about his own Mooncaller's Wand? What if he also learned Professor Trelawney's technique, adding physical properties to moonlight, and even magical properties to it...?

Isn't this just a 360-degree wide-range spell damage skill?

After figuring everything out, Kane said something that Harry never expected: "Professor, I want to learn this!"

Chapter 170 What does it mean to "protect the little wizards' lives"? Next semester you'll be attending classes with Dementors!

The moment Kane uttered the words, "Professor, I want to learn this," Harry could clearly see that Professor Trelawney seemed to radiate a kind of light.

It's like a teacher of a low-level course suddenly having a student knock on their office door one day with a question.

Although it's still the students causing trouble for the teacher who's just slacking off, it makes the teacher genuinely feel, "Hey? I guess I'm still somewhat useful."

Not bad.

Like Harry, Kane also saw Professor Trelawney's expression and thought to himself, "She's really something!"

Sure enough, Professor Trelawney's expression was exactly as Kane had predicted.

At this moment, he forcibly suppressed the urge to laugh out loud. No, he couldn't laugh now. He had to wait a little longer, ten seconds.

Ten seconds later, after Professor Trelawney and I hit it off and she taught me the spell, I left the attic and started laughing!

Just as Kane was about to burst into a sinister smile, Professor Trelawney's words successfully made him suppress the smile that was about to appear.

"No."

Ok? ? ?

Kane looked at Professor Trelawney with a surprised expression, and even Harry was a little confused.

Other professors aren't like that, are they?

Just as Kane was about to shout that he didn't accept it, he realized that this wasn't a matter of whether he accepted it or not. It was like someone not being able to slice another person into pieces and put them in a hot pot just because the other person didn't accept their confession.

A student shouldn't have any unnecessary emotional fluctuations because the teacher doesn't teach anything outside the curriculum... As for whether Professor Trelawney's move was within or outside the curriculum...

I'd still have to ask Dumbledore... Well, I'm not that generous or understanding, and I shouldn't sound so righteous. I'm just going to beg Dumbledore... to get him to also ask Professor Trelawney, so I can learn from her...

Delicious.

But before Kane could even get up, Professor Trelawney spoke up, "This is the course content. If you really want to learn, then take my course, Divination. Remember, not numerology. Don't get them mixed up."

As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. It's not that long before school starts, so waiting a little longer won't be a problem.

Just as Professor Trelawney was about to divine for Harry who had sent his new broom, she suddenly stopped...

To be honest, she enjoys a little wine when she does divination, but the house-elves at Hogwarts don't seem to know how to brew wine, so the professors bring their own wine to drink in their spare time, such as the cabinet behind Dumbledore, Professor Snape's safe, and the huge barrel in the corner of Professor Trelawney's office.

Unfortunately, Professor Trelawney just returned today, quite travel-worn, and there were also some other unforeseen circumstances...

Her wine barrel ended up in Mauritius...

The situation is now quite clear: Harry is the subject of the divination and certainly cannot leave; house-elves cannot make wine, and they will not leave Hogwarts or dare to go to Dumbledore.

So now it's just Kane alone...

"Mr. Heath, would you mind helping me find a bottle of sherry?"

Kane shrugged. Knowing that Professor Trelawney's moon divination magic was part of the regular curriculum, he was no longer in a hurry and didn't plan to seek extra tutoring from Dumbledore.

All I have to do is wait for school to start, and in order to make a good first impression on Professor Trelawney...

"I'll raid Professor Dumbledore's wine cabinet and get you the sherry," Kane said, before leaving the attic.

Harry looked back at Kane's retreating figure and sighed inwardly. Kane was clear-headed about important matters, but when it came to trivial things, he could easily be fooled by the cryptic Divination professor.

For example, right now, poor Kane is being manipulated by Professor Trelawney. Sigh...

Unlike Harry, who was extremely distrustful of divination from the beginning and even had a particular opinion of Professor Trelawney, Kane was beaming as he walked toward Dumbledore's office.

A magic spell with an incredibly high potential in my hands, which I can learn for free without having to pay anything myself, simply by enrolling in Professor Trelawney's course when school starts.

Is it wrong to help the professor get a bottle of wine now? Shouldn't that be done?

However, just as Kane arrived at Dumbledore's office and was about to knock, he was embarrassed to find that... there was already another uninvited guest inside.

dong dong dong...

Sensing the argument inside, Kane had no intention of helping anyone, and instead knocked on the door and went inside.

"Hello, Dumbledore." Kane greeted Dumbledore and quickly began to ally with him, ignoring the other group of people arguing with Dumbledore in the office.

Kingsley, the black-faced Auror, was an acquaintance. The other was a portly, middle-aged man in a well-tailored pinstripe suit, a top hat, and carrying a cane...

The portly middle-aged man seemed to have been thoroughly refuted by Dumbledore. Upon seeing Kane enter, he changed the subject as if he had found a savior, looking at Kane and saying, "Ha, I've seen this young gentleman before. Heath, mentioned in the Daily Prophet? Mr. Kane Heath, who slew the basilisk."

Kane glanced at Dumbledore's incoherent expression and naturally adopted the most appropriate one: "Do I know you?"

“I…I am the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge,” Fudge said, extending his right hand somewhat awkwardly.