Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts

"You know each other?" Jenkins looked at the three of them in surprise.

“Obviously,” Kane said, glancing at Lupin’s waistband hole, which was now empty, and realized that the wand Harry had found belonged to whom.

“So… I thought adult wizards would be more reliable.” Kane raised his wand, and Lupin subconsciously touched his waist, only then remembering that he had just been working with his hands in a circus full of Muggles, and hadn’t had a break. It was normal that he might have accidentally dropped his wand without noticing.

"I was indeed too careless, but I was also lucky to have met you all and to have the opportunity to teach you a little spell." Lupin chuckled and stretched out his hand, chanting, "Wand Returns."

The next moment, Lupin's wand in Kane's hand didn't fly away, but teleported back into Lupin's hand.

"That's it, a magical mark drawn on the wand beforehand. If you want to learn it, I can teach you. It's very useful for countering weapons that remove you."

As soon as Lupin finished speaking, Jenkins raised his eyebrows in surprise, looking at the wizard who had just joined a few hours earlier.

It seems this wizard isn't like most wizards who ended up in this circus to earn a living because their magic skills are too poor; on the contrary, Lupin's magic seems quite good...

Surprisingly good.

Jenkins gave Lupin a rather surprising assessment.

However, just as Lupin was about to give Kane and Harry, the two young wizards, some practical lessons as a way of repaying the kindness of the meal he had given them earlier that day, a circus worker suddenly pushed a huge cage into the room, which would have been perfectly normal for a circus.

The only minor issue is that the cage doesn't contain an animal, but a living woman who looks to be in her early twenties.

Lupin, who was about to begin the lesson, suddenly froze, his grip on his wand tightening. He looked at Jenkins in shock and said, "I remember we're supposed to be a circus, how come there's human trafficking involved?"

Jenkins glared at the wizard who pushed the cage in, then turned to Lupin somewhat awkwardly: "I was supposed to tell you this later, but since you saw it today... it's obvious that the animals in this circus are all blood-cursed orcs... well, it's that simple."

Jenkins made an apologetic face as he spoke, as if he were apologizing for keeping it from Lupin.

Lupin certainly knew what a Blood Curse Orc was. Back in Hogwarts, there were very few students who did well in school. It was an extremely rare curse that was passed down only through maternal bloodlines and manifested only in women. Those cursed would have an animal form like Animagus.

The difference is that Animagus is controllable; it really just gives you an extra form.

The Blood Curse Orcs are an irreversible curse. Those cursed will only watch helplessly as their time as beasts gradually increases and their time as humans gradually decreases, until they finally become beasts.

Although the number of people carrying this curse is pitifully small, if they traveled all over the world, selling or kidnapping them, they could easily fill a circus.

Lupin slowly stood in front of Kane and Harry, holding his wand upright in front of him: "Jenkins, I think you need to give me a reason."

Jenkins spread his hands: "Reasons? Of course there are. We were never really liked by the Aurors at the Ministry of Magic. It's just that we had the tricks of the circus and magicians as cover, which prevented them from legally throwing us into Azkaban."

"But what if we use the Imperius Curse? Even on animals, that's still displaying dark magic in front of Muggles. Aurors don't care if Muggles think it's an Imperius Curse or a beastmaster's trick."

"In comparison, those insects in the Ministry of Magic aren't as... concerned about the blood cursed beastmen."

Kane nodded; he understood now. This magical circus, in order to avoid being caught by the Aurors, had changed its targets of persecution from animals to humans... well... after all, animals really do require the Imperius Charm to control.

But the Blood Curse Orcs don't need that; after all, it's much easier to subdue a person than an animal.

"Kane, do you think this is right?" Harry whispered in Kane's ear.

"It depends on whether you consider the Blood Curse Orcs to be beasts or humans."

After Kane finished speaking, Harry asked again, "What do you think?"

The answer to Harry was not language, but the Shadow Codex that slowly emerged from Kane's hand.

Well, all in all, this Christmas holiday was quite interesting; I even got to fight with someone. It would have been even better if the person I fought with wasn't an adult wizard...

Harry slowly reached into his pocket and grasped his wand.

"Hmm..." Unlike Kane and Harry, who were already prepared to take action, Lupin was not so impulsive. Although he also strongly disapproved of the circus's behavior, he still had two young wizards behind him.

Moreover, the other members of the circus also sensed Lupin's eerie hostility and slowly surrounded him. He definitely needed to be more careful at this moment to avoid conflict. Otherwise, if something happened to the two young wizards behind him, he really wouldn't know how to explain to James and Dumbledore whether he lived or died.

Lupin slowly took a step back, and then he suddenly heard Harry let out a painful groan.

In an instant, without the slightest hesitation, Lupin combined his precise reflexes honed from years of experience outside Hogwarts with the vast knowledge he gained during his school years, and with a single, zero-frame Petrification Charm, he petrified the wizard closest to him.

Immediately afterwards, three iron armor spells precisely protected the three of them.

While most people backstage at the circus were still unaware of what had just happened, Kane and Harry, who had already followed the direction of Lupin's wand, were driven by muscle memory honed from the battles of the Eternal Realm and Harry's innate talent and bloodline to act entirely on instinct!

Instant response to the start of a group purchase...

Chapter 133 Have you ever seen a female walrus with such long tusks?

This should be considered Kane's first duel with a normal adult wizard since entering the magical world. As for the combat strength of such an ordinary adult wizard...

To be honest, it's just so-so.

As is well known, wizards who leave Hogwarts are automatically divided into different ranks by the wizarding world.

And coincidentally, the wizards in this circus were made up of the most cowardly and poorly skilled low-level wizards who didn't even dare to hang out in Knockturn Alley and only dared to point their wands at the blood cursed orcs who were weaker than themselves.

"But no matter how bad these wizards are, they are still adult wizards, not like us second-year students who can fool us with our weak magic."

Therefore, Kane decided not to use the magic of his second year, but instead to use the magic of the Eternal Realm.

He controlled his shadow claws to snatch a flying petrification spell and fling it back the way it came. Then, waving his wand, a giant sphere made of tentacles appeared in an open space not far from the circus backstage. Like an insatiable creature, it kept extending its tentacles to pull other wizards into the sphere.

What should have been a thrilling and exciting backstage brawl at the circus ended in less than five minutes.

After petrifying Jenkins, the most vehement rebel, Lupin petrified the others one by one, making sure that no one could suddenly cast a dark spell before turning to look at Harry.

"Harry, who just attacked you?"

"Um... does it count if you accidentally stepped on my foot when you backed up?" Harry raised an eyebrow and stated this fact, which sounded quite embarrassing.

The petrified Jenkins never imagined that his circus, which had dominated the European magical world for three years, had allowed him to perfectly evade every Auror's examination.

However, today they were defeated by a down-on-his-luck wizard who looked no better than a beggar and two second-year wizards.

Moreover, the conflict broke out because these old, incompetent wizards looked too scary!

Lupin was startled and took a step back, accidentally stepping on Harry's foot, and then...

Let's not talk about it!

"What about these people?" Harry asked, pointing to the various petrified wizards on the ground and the wizards who had been pulled into the tentacle balls.

"Leave them here and don't worry about them. The Aurors from the Ministry of Magic will come and deal with them soon. As for what we need to do now..."

Lupin looked at the woman locked in the cage with a hint of pity as he spoke...

"Perhaps we should rescue these poor people first. Although we may not be able to help much, and in fact Dumbledore may not be able to help either, we should at least give it a try."

As Lupin spoke, he tapped the huge cage on the ground with his wand, releasing the woman who was inside, who was terrified.

"Where are your friends?" Lupin asked as he helped the woman up.

The woman pointed hesitantly in a direction, and Lupin walked over.

"Ugh, this lousy circus probably made us come all for nothing." Kane sighed helplessly, pulled a bag of chocolates from his pocket, casually tossed it to the skinny woman, and chased after Lupin.

Soon, Kane, Harry, and Lupin left the circus tent with more than a dozen women of different skin colors. At the very back was a huge cage containing the walrus that Kane had been longing for.

Unfortunately, although this walrus has now completely lost the chance to turn back into a human, she was at least once human, so...

“It’s alright, maybe we really can take a trip to the North Pole this Christmas. Of course, we need to go back and see Dumbledore first,” Kane said, patting Harry on the shoulder.

Harry shrugged. After everything he'd been through, he wasn't too fixated on the new flying broomstick anymore, but the thought of what had just happened still made him a little scared.

Treating people as objects, as livestock, is something that can chill a person to the bone, including Dumbledore at this very moment.

In the headmaster's office, Dumbledore's usually calm brows furrowed unusually: "Fortunately, none of you were injured."

"Professor Dumbledore, do you have a way to deal with them?" Lupin said, pointing to the blood cursed orcs behind him and the walrus locked in a cage in the far corner.

"I'm sorry, Remus, the only thing I can do is entrust them to Newt. He's very good at taking care of magical creatures," Dumbledore said with a hint of apology, his mindset unclear.

Kane was simply sitting on the sofa, looking at the people standing in Dumbledore's office, his face expressionless for some reason.

Even after hearing that Dumbledore was powerless and that, barring unforeseen circumstances, he would inevitably become a beast for the rest of his life, he showed not the slightest surprise or sadness.

He didn't understand, nor was he particularly moved, perhaps because he had experienced too much in the circus.

Dumbledore looked at Harry, who was also sitting on the sofa: "Could you please take them to the infirmary for me?"

“No problem, sir.” Harry nodded and was about to lead them out when Dumbledore spoke up again: “Of course, the walrus lady might stay.”

Kane swallowed hard. He had really underestimated Dumbledore. Did he really intend to harvest the tusks of this walrus even though he knew it had been a human not long ago?

Dumbledore seemed to hear Kane's thoughts: "Have you ever seen a female walrus with such long tusks? In your spare time, you might read some extracurricular books, not Lockhart's novels, but something more useful, like Animal World."

Kane: ".........Well-reasoned and convincing."

So he slowly walked towards the walrus lady, looked at her tusks, tentatively grasped them with both hands, and then gently pulled them.

With a pop, Kane removed the two tusks like braces. He thought about it and realized he still wanted the striped beret on the walrus's head, but then he remembered that the walrus was already a walrus.

Moreover, she was a living, breathing person before. Perhaps in her mind, this beret was no different from clothes. So, it would be too beastly of me to take away the only clothes she had left.

However, things took an unexpected turn, quite differently from what Kane had anticipated. Not everyone was as pretentious as Kane had expected. The walrus lady tossed her head, tossed her beret into Kane's hand, and left the principal's office.

Kane looked at the two walrus tusks and the beret in his hand, then at Dumbledore and Lupin staring at him from a distance, and shrugged: "I guess it's a win-win situation."

Chapter 134 We're all trying our best to live~

"That would be perfect. By the way, Kane, what do you think of this Mr. Remus Lupin?"

Dumbledore pointed at Lupin and asked Kane with a smile.

"Lupin? Not bad, very professional, and a good person too. He single-handedly overpowered six people. By the way, how did you get to this level?" Kane said, then looked at Lupin.

He had wanted to ask this question for a while, but he was afraid of making things too intimate with someone he didn't know well. But things are different now. They had just been risking their lives together recently, so it's no problem for him to ask this kind of question.

Lupin gave a slightly embarrassed "Uh-huh: It's like this, because of some health reasons of my own, I haven't told you before... I'm a werewolf, which is why I've been avoiding Dumbledore's invitations. After all, as a junior wizard, would you want your professor to be a werewolf?"

"Werewolf!"

Hearing Kane's surprised exclamation, Lupin was just about to think to himself, "I knew it," when he heard Kane continue, "Actually, it's alright, but what are werewolves? We haven't learned that yet."

"It's a curse that's a bit luckier than the Blood Curse Orcs. On the night of the full moon, they transform into mindless beasts that only destroy and fight. This curse is also contagious, which is why werewolves are disliked in the magical world," Lupin said with some helplessness.

“Ah, you transform on the night of the full moon? You’re just like someone I know, Woody, similar to Lupin.” Kane raised an eyebrow.

"Is he a werewolf too?" Lupin asked.

"No, no, no, he is conscious when he transforms, and he has more than one transformation form. He has three forms: deer-man, beaver, and goose. Moreover, later he learned a skill that prevents him from transforming on his own during a full moon. He can also create things that allow him to actively control his transformation..." Kane explained.

"That sounds incredibly powerful. I'm talking about that person; he's actually able to tame his own curse," Lupin said, a hint of envy in his voice.

"Actually, he's not particularly strong. His fighting style is quite skillful. You have to follow up with a right punch after you throw a left punch, when the enemy is disoriented and can't find their way. In general... it requires a lot of skill."