Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 105 More Meaningful Things
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Toust turned around slowly, frowned slightly, and carefully looked at the nearly 1.9-meter-high man in front of him again, his eyes were full of the feeling of "you must have some intractable diseases".

"Stop talking nonsense..."

He obviously didn't want to continue to break up with Katie anymore.A hint of impatience gradually began to appear in his tone.

Then he took out his wand from his pocket and pointed it at Katie skillfully.

Immediately, the light from the tip of Toust's staff emerged, and a faint sound sounded.

Katie only felt that her body was entangled by an invisible force, and her hands and wrists were uncontrollably gathered and locked in front of her, unable to be pulled apart.

"If you have anything to say, wait until the Magic Congress."

Seeing that the other party was under control, Toust continued, and then put the wand back into the coat pocket without haste.

"Katie Grager, you are under arrest."

Katie was taken aback for a moment, then he lowered his head and looked at the handcuffed hands in front of him.His lips moved, but in the end no sound came out.

After a while, finally let out a faint sigh.

"Ugh……"

"You must not understand the tragedy of being a transgender person..."

Katie still lowered her head, speaking silently, her voice was very low, and she seemed to have no strength compared to the beginning.

"Yes...but we don't need to understand." Toust sneered, replied in a casual manner, and then reached out to grab Katie and go directly to the Magic Congress.

"At first, I thought this small shop could continue to operate steadily for a few years, but it's a pity..." Katie continued to speak, and when the words fell, he slowly raised his head, with an inexplicable light in his eyes, and looked at Tust was about to reach out to grab his clothes.

Toust's movements paused, he narrowed his eyes, and looked at the inexplicable Katie. For a while, the sixth sense developed by being an Auror for more than ten years made him unconsciously feel a sense of crisis feel.

However, before he had a chance to react, Katie suddenly trembled in the next second...

Under the originally thick arms, veins the size of earthworms burst into knots.The brown hair grew wildly for a moment, quickly covering every inch of the originally bare skin in the shortest possible time.

His hands turned into dark fleshy palms, and every nail on them turned into sharp claws like daggers.The ferocious teeth bared out uncontrollably, the face began to elongate, and finally lost all human features.

The originally strong body seemed to be inflated like a balloon at this moment, and it inflated by more than a circle, and the height reached [-] meters all of a sudden...

…………

When Toust came to his senses, the burly man with heavy makeup in front of him disappeared, and suddenly turned into a huge brown bear with a big, round head, strong body, bulging shoulders, and breathing heavily.

With a sound of "snap!", the magic that was originally applied to Katie's arm lost its effect immediately, and the two pillar-thin bear arms instantly rose up, tearing off the restraint with ease.

"Roar!!!!!!"

A deafening growl came from his mouth.Without any hesitation, almost as soon as the transformation was completed, the huge bear's paw waved, surrounded by the whistling wind, and struck towards Toust in an almost crushing posture from top to bottom.

Toust's pupils shrank to the size of a needle's eye. At the moment of life and death, he didn't dare to be lazy, and almost broke out at the fastest speed in his life, struggling to twist his body in an attempt to avoid the attack.

"Peng!!!"

The old counter was affected by the bear's paw, and half of it disappeared immediately, and the remaining half also fell down with the flying dust and turned into wreckage.

"Huh, huh..."

A wisp of sweat trickled down from Toust's forehead.After narrowly dodging the waving bear's paw, he lowered his head and glanced at the torn clothes on his chest, as well as the shallow scratches under the clothes that faintly tingled, and goose bumps immediately spread all over the place. his whole body.

"You're an Animagus!?"

As if he got to know Katie again, his eyes were no longer as calm as they were at the beginning, and filled with disbelief.

However, Katie, who has turned into a brown bear, obviously can no longer answer his question.Seeing that the blow was missed, fierceness appeared in the obviously humanized eyes, the huge body jumped up, and rushed towards him with his arms outstretched.

Not daring to hesitate any longer, Toust's wand was in his hand, and while stepping back abruptly, he uttered a spell.

"STUPEFY!"

Facing the spurting magic, Katie seemed to have already guessed his thoughts, and with a slight movement of her clumsy body, she flashed it impartially.

Looking at the disdain and contempt in the eyes of the other party, Toust also understood that he had underestimated this man named Katie from the very beginning... But there was no way, after all, no one would have thought of such a thing. Shit's black magic shop, the store manager will be a high-level Animagus.

"This is an extremely dangerous guy, damn it, if I knew it, I would have called for more support."

He gritted his teeth, his mind spinning rapidly.

"We can't let him run away..." At this point in his thoughts, the magic wand in his hand kept on, and it seemed that he was ready for a hard fight or even a death fight.

"Damn it... just dozens of Galleons a month, what kind of life is it?"

Toust subconsciously thought of what he had said to Sera not long ago, and couldn't help but smile bitterly for a while.

Perhaps... When choosing Auror as a profession, it was never for a salary of dozens of Galleons a month.

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I don't know how long it took, but the small shop returned to silence again.

The shelves were shattered, and there were not many products that were originally messy... The unknown potion was mixed with the contents of the glass jar, flowing down the cracks in the floor wantonly.

Katie stood among the ruins. At this moment, he had changed from the state of Animagus to human form again.

There were several deep or shallow scars on his body, and he was holding Toust, who had completely passed out, in his hand.

With a sound of "plop", Toust was thrown away at a random place. Katie looked around for a week, feeling as if her heart had been cut bloody, and after a long time, she finally let out a deep sigh.

"Ugh……"

"This business is a loser..."

He muttered to himself, the resentment between his brows was about to condense into substance.

"It seems that the American magic community can't stay any longer..."

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At night, in the performance hall of Magic Broadway.

All the candles floating in the sky above the venue were extinguished, and only the front stage was lit with light.

Actors and wizards dressed in sixteenth-century costumes performed today's repertoire with their unique eccentric singing.

This is a story adapted from the classic fairy tale of "The Tales of Beedle the Poet", called The Warlock's Hairy Heart...

The Warlock's Hairy Heart is not such a sweet story, but it is a rare story in "The Tales of Beedle the Poet" that is tinged with horror and has a tragic tone.

It tells the story of a wizard who used black magic on his heart in order to close his feelings, but in the end, it was precisely because of this magic that he and a kind, beautiful and generous witch both died, and their heart was cut out of their chest tragic end.

This is very famous in the British magic world, and even extended a slang term "There is a heart hair" (with a hairy heart) to describe those wizards who are hard-hearted and indifferent.

Even his old headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, once wrote a review for this story...

However, in the magic Broadway theater at this moment, the actors and playwrights seem to have made a series of adaptations to the story, giving a happy ending—the wizard finally resisted the black magic and successfully liberated His heart expresses his love for the witch, and the two fall in love...

Charlie sat on the red velvet seat, quietly admiring the superb acting skills of the actors, and couldn't help being amazed.

I have to say, this is a wonderful feeling that I have never had before.

Compared with Muggle plays, wizard plays are obviously more lively and interesting. In order to ensure that the audience of the whole theater is brought into the scene, they will not only rely on the performances on the stage, but also use them in conjunction with the plot. The magic of effects, creating more realistic effects...

"Mr. Black, have you ever seen a performance like this before?"

Suddenly, Mueller's voice came from Charlie's side.

Charlie subconsciously turned his head and looked aside. Muller was sitting beside him, his eyes were shining, and he was looking at the stage without blinking, looking fascinated.

"Uh..." Charlie thought for a while and answered seriously

"I've seen Ms. Celestina Warbeck's concert, but that's all... I've never seen a show like Magic Broadway..."

"It's amazing, right?"

Mueller lowered his voice, but still couldn't hide his excitement at the moment.

"Yes...it's amazing." Charlie nodded naturally without retorting.

"...I come here almost every Friday for a show..."

Muller paused for a while, and then continued, but his eyes still did not leave the actors who were struggling to perform, as if even if he missed a second, it would be a great loss to him.

"I've watched every Magical Broadway show hundreds of times...but I still can't get enough of it."

He sighed, and there seemed to be some kind of melancholy in his voice.

Charlie raised his eyebrows in surprise, looked at the ruddy face with a smile all the time, and didn't speak.Because he knew that Mueller hadn't finished speaking.

"You may not know that I'm not actually a wizard... According to the wizarding world, I'm a squib."

Mueller said so, but the smile on his face didn't decrease, as if he was describing a small matter calmly, without even the slightest emotion.

"My parents are both wizards... They are both great wizards, scholars who study fire dragons. But as their only child, I failed to inherit their genes and become a wizard..."

He paused at this point and smacked his lips.

"I have lived in the magic world for 67 years, and I have been a squib for 67 years. To be honest, when I was young, I also hated myself and everything, as if my misfortune was cast by the world. I live in this magical world full of magic, but in the body of a No-Maj."

Charlie froze for a moment, then remembered that he had never seen Muller's wand before...

Looking at the old man in front of him, he couldn't help but recall another Squib he was familiar with, that is, the gatekeeper at Hogwarts, Filch.

However, compared to Muller, Filch gives people a completely different feeling. Anyway, in my impression, he always seems to be bitter and hostile, and even his smile is ferocious. of.

"But my parents treated me very well. They didn't dislike me because I was a squib. Instead, they were more concerned about my feelings. They never even cast magic in front of me, for fear of irritating me..."

There was a look of reminiscence in Muller's eyes. Although he was still watching the performance in front of him, his heart seemed to have sunk into a deeper level.

"Eleventh or twelve... probably the most painful period of time, because my friends are all normal little wizards, and they all went to school in Ilvermorny, but I was the only one who entered No-Maj's school."

"At that time, I felt like the sky was going to fall. Every day was a nightmare. I was angry, screaming, and then weeping in a quiet corner..."

"and then?"

Charlie listened to Mueller's words, and was a little fascinated for a while, so he couldn't help but continued to ask
"Then...my parents brought me here to see a show. Until now, I still remember what the play was - The Wizard and the Jumping Pot. It was also the story of Beedle the Poet... ..."

"That was the first time I watched a performance. I sat in my seat and watched the actors on the stage struggling to perform. For a while, I had an experience that I had never had before... I put all my energy into it, as if I really became the protagonist above, having the same emotions and experiencing the same things as him, and even when he used magic, it was like I was casting it myself."

Mueller raised his fat palm, and slowly reached forward, as if something he had never had in his life became within reach...

"Since then, I've been hooked on drama, and I'm not as miserable as I was before."

After all, his hand didn't touch anything, just dropped it, the light in his eyes also eased a lot, but his smile remained unchanged.

"I started to accept that I was a Squib and gladly went to No-Maj schools, learning something very different from my friends..."

Finally, Mueller turned his head and looked at Charlie.

"Facts have proved that Squibs are not only able to do the most useless work in the magic world... At least I have proved that even if I am not a wizard in the magic world, I can still do more meaningful things."

(End of this chapter)