Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts

Lupin shrugged: "Shouldn't we wait until you finish making the clothes before we start?"

Lady Malkin nodded. Lupin's words made sense, so she felt reassured and began making a robe for Hagrid.

Meanwhile, Kane, who had just left Madam Malkin's Robe Shop, saw Malfoy, who had finally come to his senses, striding towards him with two ice cream cones in a menacing manner.

Honestly, just by looking at Malfoy's aura, he could guess what this guy was planning to do even with a grain of salt.

It's nothing more than saying a few trashy things and then shoving an ice cream cone on your head – that kind of lousy job.

I definitely can't let him succeed.

The next moment, two shadowy claws grabbed Malfoy's ankles from the left and right, hanging him from the nearest streetlight.

"Swinging is not allowed here. Please have some consideration for others."

After Kane finished speaking, he leisurely walked past Malfoy, who was swinging on the swing, and headed towards Gringotts on his own.

Meanwhile, Malfoy, swinging on the swing, looked miserable as he held two enormous, gravity-defying ice cream cones. He didn't know what he had done wrong; he had simply thought Kane had praised him so highly and wanted to treat him to an ice cream cone.

What did he do wrong?

Poor Malfoy, three tears streamed from his eyes, down his forehead, and then dripped down his slicked-back hair onto the floor of Diagon Alley.

Meanwhile, Kane once again arrived at Gringotts, which he was loyal to. Thanks to Hermione's repeated reminders that the Galleons produced by Gringotts were not pure gold, it was a waste to melt them down into gold bars every time.

Kane also prioritized listening to advice. He took 300 Galleons, bought Hagrid a gift, used the rest as pocket money, and exchanged the rest for pure gold nuggets at the goblins in Gringotts.

Upon returning to Madam Malkin's Robes Shop, he was surprised to find Lupin, who should have been inside, sitting pitifully on the small steps outside, hugging his knees, looking utterly pathetic...

Pitiful.

What's going on here?

Kane looked puzzled. This shouldn't be the case. Madam Malkin seemed quite easy to talk to, so why did she kick Lupin out?

Lupin explained helplessly, "Mrs. Malkin was making clothes when she glanced at the time and thought it was a new idea for me to apply for a job. So she let me out without paying me. She said she would just send the money to Hogwarts to ask Hagrid or Dumbledore for it."

"Just how many outrageous job-hunting methods did you use back then?" Kane sighed helplessly.

“We were young then.” Lupin stood up awkwardly and walked back into Madam Malkin’s Robes Shop with Kane. This time, Lupin was determined to tell Madam Malkin…

I really didn't come here to look for a job!

Chapter 160 The Moon's Projection

Mrs. Malkin looked at Lupin with suspicion as he walked in, and only smiled again when she saw Kane behind him.

It seems that this wasn't some fancy job-seeking scheme that Lu Ping came up with.

Visiting the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley to boast is a must-do for most people, but Kane and Lupin didn't seem to care much about it.

The former was still a child, and Kane didn't like alcohol, while the latter was poor, and besides, no place has ever been better at gathering information than a bar.

Even MI5 and MI6 might not know as much as Tom, the bartender there.

So more or less, or at least some of them must know that Lupin is a werewolf.

So he didn't intend to go in and make a fool of himself.

And most importantly, Kane gave Hagrid a school robe as a gift, but he hadn't even decided what to give Hagrid yet.

Kane watched Lupin stop at each stall in Diagon Alley for a while, then start haggling and bargaining, eventually forcing the stall owner to pull out their wand before moving on to the next stall...

"How about I buy your gift for you? I won't tell anyone, and no one will know."

Lu Ping, who was trying to negotiate the price, waved his hand with his back turned and said, "After all, this is a gift to a friend, so it's more sincere to use my own money."

Kane didn't say anything when he saw this, he just casually sat on a bench in Diagon Alley, and then he saw a little wizard swaying in the wind at the corner.

It was Malfoy. Kane was a little puzzled. Was the magical world really so cold and indifferent? Why hadn't anyone come to rescue this poor kid after all this time?

Kane stood up somewhat helplessly and walked over. At this moment, Malfoy, due to gravity, had all the blood rushing to his brain, and was eating ice cream like a little red man.

Kane looked at Malfoy in this state and had a strange feeling.

How bad can this silly kid be?

And so, he slowly put Malfoy down.

Meanwhile, Malfoy, engrossed in eating ice cream and oblivious to the person behind him, suddenly felt himself falling. He thought the villain had finally discovered he was still alive and was about to finish him off.

For a moment, she couldn't even cry out; she could only subconsciously tremble with her two rows of big white teeth.

It wasn't until the two shadowy claws laid him flat on the stone pavement that he realized he was still alive.

After getting up, he saw Kane standing behind him. Between yelling at him for being a lunatic and running away like a coward, he chose to apologize cowardly.

"I'm sorry," Malfoy said, his head bowed low, his voice barely louder than a mosquito's buzz.

"Hmm, I forgive you." Kane said as he left, intending to check on Lupin's gift selection.

As Malfoy watched Kane's departing figure, tears of grievance welled up in his eyes once more...

This time there are two.

This is outrageous!

When they found Lupin, he had already chosen a gift: a huge box of chocolates.

After much thought, Lupin decided he should send something practical, like chocolate, which would be very useful...

Because this thing is edible.

After choosing their gifts, the two didn't linger in Diagon Alley any longer. They returned to Hogwarts at noon, not only handing the gifts to Hagrid but also making it in time for lunch.

The next few days were just a mundane and boring routine.

There were no classes, no homework, and not even a single peer to talk to...

Okay, there's still one and a half.

Dumbledore is one, Hagrid is half, and Lupin... well, he's too mature, too serious, and he always looks solemn no matter what he says. In short, he has the air of a class monitor.

Kane spent almost every day making hats in his dorm, idly strolling through the Forbidden Forest, and splashing his toes in the Black Lake.

Boring, mundane, yet joyful.

That evening, Dumbledore somehow managed to get Lupin a bottle of wolfsbane potion, a magical potion that allows werewolves to retain consciousness even when they are in beast form.

At the observatory, Lupin drank the wolfsbane potion in one gulp and then quietly waited for the moonlight.

Kane, wearing anti-demon goggles, stood far away, not out of fear of Lupin, but because he needed to be far enough away to observe the Moon Spirit beside Lupin.

And reality was pretty much as Kane had guessed: as night fell, more and more moon spirits gathered around Lupin.

Until the full moon's light shone through the thick clouds and fell on Lupin.

What ordinary people saw was Lupin suddenly becoming tormented after being exposed to the moonlight, then growing hair all over his body and transforming into a werewolf that was neither cute nor cool, but rather somewhat ugly.

In Kane's eyes, a very thin beam of light from the moon, unlike ordinary moonlight, shone directly on Lupin, turning him into a werewolf.

Then he looked up at the moon. The moon, which was originally bright and had unique patterns, now appeared as a hazy veil in the eyes of the anti-demon glasses. The pattern on the veil was a giant eyeball. Kane raised an eyebrow and understood. The moon in the real world was still the normal moon. As for the giant moon eyeball he was seeing now, it was just a projection of the moon in the Eternal Realm.

After all, the moon itself does not emit light; its light comes from the sun. And the moon I see now is not the moon of the real world, but the moon of the Eternal Realm. Perhaps it is because of the special celestial shape of the full moon that the moon of the Eternal Realm projects its power onto the moon of the real world.

Right now, the moon in the Eternal Realm is watching him with great interest through the lunar surface. Kane, of course, wouldn't want to embarrass the moon, so he waved to it as a greeting.

Then he took off his glasses and felt much more relaxed. The real world hadn't been invaded, and Lupin's werewolves might actually be able to be controlled.

Let's start with the good news...

"Lupin, you've got a chance this time! We've found the moon!" Kane's seemingly nonsensical words initially piqued Dumbledore's curiosity.

"Mind if I take a look?" Dumbledore said, stretching out his hands to take the anti-demon glasses and putting them on his face. He looked up at the moon, then shook his head. "I can't see."

Kane raised an eyebrow. That was normal. The anti-demon glasses shouldn't have the powerful function of directly observing the moon's true face. The reason he could see it was because he controlled the shadows.

So all you need to do is add some cute little things to Dumbledore...

Kane waved his hand, and a ball of black, transparent flame appeared in mid-air, slowly floating in front of Dumbledore. Through this flame, he finally saw the enormous eye.

Dumbledore looked at the giant eye in the sky, then turned to look at Kane...

He should say something at this point...

Chapter 161 Appear, my Star Summoner's Staff!

Kane, seeing Dumbledore's strange look, spoke first: "I think you should ask something."

“No.” Dumbledore shook his head. “Perhaps one day you will tell me, or perhaps you never will. It’s up to you. I won’t ask.”

After saying that, he took off his glasses and handed them back to Kane: "What's the plan next?"

Kane raised an eyebrow. The simplest way to communicate with the moon was to use the Starcaller's Wand, which would be placed on the platform to draw upon the moon's power and upgrade the Starcaller's Wand into the Mooncaller's Wand.

That was when most people were closest to the power of the moon, so the task now is twofold: to craft the Starcaller's Wand. The materials are already available; all I need to do is go to the Muggle world and use my brain to make a Mind Hat, and I can craft it.

The platform is a bit more complicated. As the name suggests, it is a platform, so it is reasonable to need a part of the moon.

“Hmm…” Kane looked at Dumbledore, who shrugged: “Just tell me what you need.”

"Could you help me shoot a piece off the moon? Just one fragment will do."

Dumbledore: "...The Moon Fragment...Perhaps I can look it up; maybe it can be found elsewhere."

“Uh… Headmaster Dumbledore?” Lupin suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse, like a wild beast mimicking a snake.

"What's wrong?" Dumbledore asked Lupin.

“Before, my friends and I went for a night walk in the Forbidden Forest and met a centaur child, about our age. He said that the sacred object used by the centaur tribe for large-scale divination seemed to be a fragment of the moon.”

After Lupin finished speaking, Dumbledore nodded and asked, "Then, will the centaurs be willing to help us?"

As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, Kane naturally donned the Shadow Armor, and his wand appeared in his hand without anyone noticing. The tip of the wand gleamed with a dangerous black light, and even the shadow beneath his feet began to churn uncontrollably.

Lupin hadn't realized what was happening when Dumbledore quickly patted Kane on the shoulder, as if coaxing a child: "Honestly Kane, things haven't gotten that serious yet. We can negotiate slowly and avoid taking extreme measures."

Kane also felt that constantly shouting for war wasn't a good idea, and was about to put away his wand when Lupin realized Kane's thoughts and advised, "Yes, the centaurs' fighting power shouldn't be underestimated."

Kane paused in his action of putting away his wand, and the shadows beneath his feet became even more abstract, reaching a point of chaotic frenzy.

After some coaxing, Dumbledore finally calmed him down and decided to try a strategy of diplomacy first, then force.

First, let's talk about etiquette.