Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts

"Well, the Malfoy family is an old and established family, but I didn't expect Draco Malfoy to be so utterly shameless. He even dared to disregard the established rules of wizard duels." The two female students sitting nearby, listening to the gossip, frowned.

While the Malfoys may be known for their unseemly behavior, this level of unseemly behavior is too abstract; it's more like something that would make Draco's father pull out the Seven Wolves belt.

"By the way, where's Hermione? You all misunderstood her. Did she secretly drop her little pearl?" Kane asked next. After all, he had gone to so much trouble to explain so that innocent Hermione wouldn't be blamed. Now that things were clear, he naturally wanted to ask about her current situation.

“I don’t think it’s very likely that Hermione would lose her little pearl.” Finnigan shuddered. “We scolded Hermione, and then she knocked out Thomas Dean’s front tooth with a book and used magic to send Sophie Roba to the infirmary. Now you’re telling me Hermione would secretly lose her little pearl?”

Don't make your Hermione laugh.

"So? Where is she now?" Kane then asked.

“I don’t know.” Neville shook his head. “I went to the auditorium, the study room and the library, but I couldn’t find a trace of him.”

"They definitely don't want to see you because you misunderstood them. Just apologize to them at dinner. I'll stop here for now, I have to go out." After figuring out the situation, Kane was about to leave the lounge to see Dumbledore to see how things were going.

Just thinking about how he solved a case of stealing a mandrake in less than half an hour, and how he could be monitored by the Ministry of Magic every minute by using shadow magic in the Muggle world, it would be too abstract for Dumbledore to be unable to catch a small dark wizard in the Forbidden Forest.

"emmmm"

"So what do you mean you didn't make any preparations in the Forbidden Forest? Now, who knows how many dark creatures and black wizards have turned the Forbidden Forest into their lair? Can't you put a little more effort into your scare tactics?"

Kane sat on the sofa in Dumbledore's office, staring at him with his crescent-shaped eyes and speaking in a low voice.

“After all, any normal headmaster would try to exaggerate the horrors of the Forbidden Forest if he knew that a young wizard had taken two of his classmates to explore it late at night, in order to dissuade the young wizard from the worst possible perspective. Alternatively, you could seek help from Hagrid. With him around, your trip to the Forbidden Forest would be much safer,” Dumbledore explained.

"I was asking which dark wizard it was, not whether a minor wizard was dangerous venturing into the Forbidden Forest." Kane scratched his head, sensing that Dumbledore was changing the subject, but he had no proof.

"Hmm." Dumbledore glanced at Kane and decided to tell the truth. Although it was not good for the young wizard to know this, if he didn't tell the truth, Kane might really continue to venture deeper into the Forbidden Forest and get himself killed sooner or later.

"No, that dark wizard is still active, and will remain so for a long time."

"Ah, okay, let me guess, just for fun?" Kane asked, popping a piece of chocolate into his mouth.

"Although I really want to refute what you're saying about this behavior, if you ignore my original intentions and only look at what I'm doing, you could say that I am indeed preparing for a large-scale stage play."

Kane leaned back on the sofa, grunted twice, and summoned Maxwell.

"Look at this, Old Mike, there's a principal here who deliberately puts dangerous people in the school just to organize a stage play. Isn't that incredibly tasteless?"

Maxwell gave an awkward smile and nodded involuntarily: "Indeed."

Dumbledore was unaware that Kane was secretly dissing him with Maxwell, and continued to try to persuade Kane to genuinely abandon the idea of ​​going to the Forbidden Forest.

As for forcibly forbidding him from going to the Forbidden Forest, to be honest, I never even considered it. These young wizards are all incredibly stubborn, especially the talented ones. They wish they could kill Voldemort as their Christmas homework in their first year, so we can only coax them to do it.

The two eventually locked in a stalemate in the office for two or three more rounds, ending with Dumbledore losing the argument and being unable to prevail over Kane.

Dumbledore pinched the bridge of his nose with a hint of helplessness: "You can go, but you can choose to have Hagrid take you to the Forbidden Forest. I feel at ease with him there."

Kane nodded. Hagrid, as the Keeper of the Forbidden Forest, was familiar with its terrain, making him the perfect person to lead him to the giant spiders. So, humming a tune, he grabbed two handfuls of chocolate from Dumbledore's desk and left Dumbledore's office.

Only then did Dumbledore realize that he had forgotten something.

I forgot to ask Kane what he wanted from the Forbidden Forest... but that's not important. Whatever the problem, Hagrid can handle it well within the Forbidden Forest. As long as it's not an attack on the great treasures Hagrid left there, there shouldn't be any trouble...

Right.

Chapter 44 Snape? Should I avoid his sharp edge?

Soon, Kane arrived in front of Hagrid's hut and banged on Hagrid's door.

The door was opened.

"Kane, what's the matter?" Hagrid asked, pleasantly surprised to see Kane.

"Hello Hagrid, are you free now?"

"Uh, to be honest, no. Dumbledore somehow asked me to go to Diagon Alley to buy a large quantity of mandrake seeds. Originally, this was Professor Sprout's job, but Professor Sprout has been quite busy lately, so, uh, hehe..." Hagrid gave an awkward smile.

Kane nodded. After all, Hagrid wasn't his personal nanny and had his own things to do. Besides, he didn't need Hagrid to protect him. All Hagrid needed to do was tell him where the giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest lived.

And so, Kane asked directly without any hesitation: "I've heard there's a nest of spiders in the Forbidden Forest? Where is it?"

The moment Kane asked that question, it struck a chord with Hagrid. After all, Kane's appearance was indeed very deceptive; asking such a question with such a face made him look like he was going to the Forbidden Forest to befriend the spiders.

After all these years, someone has finally discovered their cuteness!

Hagrid swiftly returned to the room, found a ball of white spider silk that was rolled up in a ball, and handed it to Kane.

"This is a token shared by the spiders in the Forbidden Forest. As long as you have this, they will lead you to their nest."

Hagrid simply explained how to find the large spiders, and didn't go into more detail. After all, kids don't like being guided or disciplined when making friends, so let Kane discover the cuteness of the little spiders on his own.

Kane, however, had no idea what Hagrid was really thinking. All he knew was that he could find the spider's nest in the Forbidden Forest by holding the white ball of spider silk in his hand.

hiss......

Hagrid, you are absolutely the most authoritative person at Hogwarts!

Hagrid soon left Hogwarts in high spirits. Kane's willingness to befriend the Octopods was a very good start. As more and more people accepted his little darlings, the Octopods would one day live in peace with humans and even appear in the pet shops in Diagon Alley.

Kane had already entered the Forbidden Forest and wandered around for a long time before finally finding a small spider. He let the spider smell the ball of silk in his hand, and soon the little spider began to lead the way for him.

What a wonderful little spider! I'll definitely save you for last so you can continue to reproduce and multiply endlessly.

However, when Kane followed the little spider to the spider's nest and actually saw Aragog, he realized that it seemed unnecessary to spare the little spider's life, because he wouldn't be able to kill all these spiders anytime soon.

As Aragog, hanging in the very center of the giant spider web, emitted a sound barely audible to humans, the second largest spider, seemingly the second-in-command of the spider colony, slithered over, its enormous mouth only centimeters from Kane's face, as if observing whether the young wizard posed any threat.

Kane saw a huge spider head suddenly rush towards him. He had just been struggling with how to attack, but now the spider had delivered itself to him. Wasn't that perfect?

The next moment, the wand appeared in his hand, and he thrust it into the head of the giant spider in front of him. With the shadow encroaching, the spider changed its appearance almost instantly, and then a basic knockback spell was unleashed inside the giant spider's head.

With a bang, the giant spider turned into a slippery spider gland and two clumps of spider web, which he quickly picked up and stuffed into his pocket.

In that instant, Aragog thought of many things, and finally his little brain realized one thing: the person in front of him was an enemy.

It then looked at the little spider in the corner that had brought Kane there. Was that you?

Unfortunately, before he could finish speaking, the little spider's shadow suddenly twisted and turned into a grotesque maw, which bit off the little spider's head, along with two spider webs and a gland. It's worth mentioning that although the spider was small, it also lost a piece of monster flesh.

With the second spider also taken down, the other spiders finally came to their senses. They realized that the little wizard in front of them was an enemy, not a friend, and they all pounced on him in an instant.

Kane swung his wand sharply, and a massive swarm of killer bees was summoned as if they had been scattered into soldiers, instantly charging towards the densely packed spiders.

Kane picked up all the scattered spider webs on the ground and stuffed them into his pocket.

"Human, how did you get that spider silk ball?" Aragok suddenly spoke in human language and asked Kane.

"Wow, this big guy can talk?" Kane was a little surprised, but that was all. Although this big guy looked very intimidating, it was actually very old. The probability of it successfully attacking him was probably not as high as the probability of him being killed by a bucket of tartar sauce falling from the sky.

As the limited number of killer bees were eventually driven to the brink of extinction by the relatively unlimited number of spiders, Kane had already collected enough spider webs. With a flick of his wand, he unleashed a dark flame that drove back most of the spiders, and then left without looking back.

Those who knew understood that Kane did this to obtain the spider web and upgrade the Eternal Realm technology, but those who didn't... or perhaps the spiders themselves, only felt endless fear and bewilderment watching this scene.

A young wizard, carrying the token he had given to Hagrid, found his home. Upon arriving, he killed his second-in-command without saying a word, and then, as if possessed, used magic and the eerie shadows to kill his few remaining offspring.

Finally, as if he had had his fill of killing, he left without saying a word. This behavior of entering and leaving the spider swarm as if it were his own territory doesn't seem like that of a normal person at all.

"Hagrid... is it you who led this madman here to me?" Aragog finally let out a sigh, unsure whether it was because his good friend Hagrid outside the Forbidden Forest had been tricked by the evil Shadow Wizard into wielding a butcher's knife against his own offspring, or because...

Is Hagrid in trouble?

In short, a hint of melancholy could be seen on the spider's face, suggesting that it would have a good chat when it saw Hagrid again.

Kane, who had leisurely left the Forbidden Forest, first put Hagrid's spider silk ball back on the wooden stake in his yard. Now that he knew where the spider's nest was, he no longer needed the spider silk ball.

Back in the dorm, Harry and Ron were already up; if they weren't in the dorm, they were probably out looking for food.

Kane was happy to have some peace and quiet, so he plopped down in the corner of the alchemy engine, pulled out handfuls of spider silk, fiddled around for a bit, and made a top hat.

The top hat restores sanity much more efficiently than the wreath, and most importantly, it avoids the awkwardness of not having a wreath while wearing it; all you need is...

Kane placed the top hat on the ground, slammed it down twice to wrinkle it slightly, then violently folded it into a smooth curve, turning it into a cowboy hat, and put it on his head.

Feeling a wave of mental relief, he even felt sleepy. Speaking of sleep, he remembered something, spent two seconds making a tent out of his hand, stuffed his bed inside, and gained another way to restore his sanity.

With the immediate crisis resolved, only one last task remains: crafting the spirit particle decomposer requires four more rabbits...

Aragog and his spiders should still be hunting him down in the Forbidden Forest, so... rabbits... he remembered there were a few rabbits in the Potions classroom used for testing potions...

emmm....

Will Professor Snape welcome me?

Probably not.

Would I back down and not go?

Of course not, why would I avoid his sharp edge?

Just then, Harry and Ron had managed to pack a huge amount of food from the basement through some underhanded means and were about to leave when they saw Kane striding menacingly toward the Potions classroom from another direction.

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Chapter 45 Spirit Particle Decomposer

"Kane, where are you going?" Harry and Ron jogged a few steps to catch up with Kane, and then they saw the hat on his head.

"Wow, that's a cowboy hat? It looks so cool!" Ron said enviously, looking at the hat on Kane's head.

"How about I make one for you if you want?" Kane raised an eyebrow and looked at Ron, nodding without hesitation. He took out a spider web from his pocket and, with a few deft movements, made an exquisite top hat.

“My hat was like this from the beginning. If you want this kind of cowboy hat, you can press it to shape it.” Kane said, then looked at Harry, still holding a spider web in his hand.

Harry quickly shook his head; he actually quite liked his messy hair, and...

A figure that he didn't particularly want to see slowly appeared behind Kane.

"What is that white material in your hand?" Snape asked in a low voice, appearing abruptly like a ghost.

"Uh... spider web." Kane turned around somewhat awkwardly, and when he saw it was Snape, he remembered the mess he had made of him in Potions class, and felt a little guilty towards the professor.

Snape let out a knowing "Ah~" as if recalling Kane's special magical ability to alter the form of living beings, and then said, "Those eight-eyed giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest? I remember you and Hagrid were quite close, weren't you?"

Kane nodded. It was indeed true, but why did Snape bring it up? What was the connection between the spider and Hagrid?

"Emmm, so what?"

"So Hagrid didn't tell you that those spiders in the Forbidden Forest that can eat a person's brain like a nut were his pets?" Snape finished speaking, pushed open the door to the Potions classroom, and went inside. Kane, upon hearing that the giant spiders were Hagrid's pets, had an endless string of "???" above his head, aside from his hair and hat.

"No? Really? Those giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest are Hagrid's pets? What if Hagrid finds out what I've done? He'll break off all ties with me!"

“Hmm…it’s hard to say.” Harry scratched his head, not daring to make a guarantee, while Ron shook his head: “It’s probably impossible. After all, it’s a spider. How bizarre must Hagrid’s taste be to keep a spider as a pet? I still think Snape was just teasing you.”