Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts.

Chapter 186 Psychological Counseling... Midway Through His Life, He Died

Dumbledore nodded and began to offer his chillingly nuanced understanding as a third party: "How should I draw an analogy to you? It's like you've finally escaped a terrifying mental hospital, though you might be more familiar with the Azkaban version, of course?"

Dumbledore thought that using a different example would be a good idea, since he had never asked Kane what his life had been like before...

For example, does he really know what a mental hospital is?

Seeing Dumbledore's strange pause, Kane quickly understood what he was thinking and waved his hand: "I understand."

Dumbledore nodded knowingly and began to fully utilize his linguistic talents, drawing upon his understanding gained throughout his long life...

"You went through a lot of hardship to escape from a terrible mental hospital, but a prerequisite for your escape was that you had to become the director of that mental hospital."

"And one day, after you escape, you look in the mirror and see the mental hospital director's badge still hanging around your neck."

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Kane nodded; Dumbledore had indeed captured the essence of his eerie feeling.

As Dumbledore watched Kane nod, he secretly gave himself a pat on the back, knowing that his deduction was correct.

This is easy to see, after all, from the day his hands were bound by Kane's black hat, since...

I only read books and never read anything else.

Basically, every day I was looking at those lost ancient magics, and the final result was obviously not particularly good.

There has never been any magic of Kane's kind before, so if nothing unexpected happens, Kane's magic really did come from that terrible place.

That's why he felt it was very necessary to give Kane some psychological treatment.

However, that was just my thought at the time, or rather, my thought before this Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

However, as some things happened, he gradually realized that this psychotherapy was not particularly necessary.

After all, theoretically speaking, someone who grew up and lived in such a place and eventually escaped would only end up with a quirky mindset and strange fashion sense...

This shows that Kane has a very strong mental fortitude and a very kind nature... When did I start to think that Kane was a good kid?

Ah... Back then, when Kane ran away from the Dursleys' house, penniless and starving, he chose to... use cruel and terrifying dark magic... to please the rich woman.

To be honest, how bad could a little wizard be, capable of doing something like this...?

Anyway, if anyone says that this is a naturally evil dark magic brat, I'll definitely argue with them.

So when he chose to give Kane psychotherapy, he felt that Kane's problems were not serious, and that he could treat him; this kid was a good one.

But after the Defense Against the Dark Arts class ended, he felt relieved.

He underestimated Kane's mental resilience, but overestimated Kane's mental health.

Throughout history, almost all messes have originated from the botched work of some genius—in other words, a piece of code was running perfectly fine, but some fussy person insisted on messing with it.

Instead, Kane is like a piece of code that is extremely abstract and relies on its own superior foundation. Although there are some strange, laggy, or even minor errors, it can actually run.

However, if you suddenly lose your temper and accidentally interfere, things could get very bad.

With such an enormous scale, relying on its own foundation and bugs to run a mountain of crap code, who knows what will happen if it's accidentally touched? Let alone a sudden shutdown, that would be a good thing.

It's like code evolving from two-dimensional to three-dimensional into a giant nuclear bomb, potentially blowing everyone into the sky.

So nowadays, Dumbledore's goal is no longer to interfere with Kane's mental health. As long as he remains as kind as he is now, it doesn't matter if he's a little abstract. Isn't he quite adorable?

All I have to do is patch up Kane's code, like... letting Kane experience the beauty and goodness.

Dumbledore silently set the tone for his future therapy sessions.

The main idea is to gradually envelop Kane in truth, goodness, and beauty.

As for how to wrap it...

Dumbledore knew this all too well; he had some old friends who knew about his past.

According to his old friends, he was someone who had never experienced love, but he did not agree with that. Of course he had experienced it, but in the context of his long life, love was only a small part of his life.

Even so, he can say with absolute certainty that no one understands how to spread love better than him... Of course, this is something he considers himself to understand very well.

And so, Dumbledore, who considered himself a master of love, decided to start with the first step, such as giving Kane a small gift he desperately needed...

Then he figured out his first problem...

He didn't know what Kane needed.

People with low demand are the most annoying.

After all, Kane's mentality of being able to live well even if he stays in a motel, performs magic tricks for rich women, and eats street food is something he really doesn't know how to do.

If it's Ron, it's simple; just give him a high-performance broom. For Hermione, perhaps a notebook from her youth would suffice. Harry is a bit more difficult, but telling him stories about his parents' youth would make him happy for a long time.

Of course, whether Snape would be happy or not was not something I should worry about.

The most difficult type of person is Kane. He wants money and knowledge. People who seem like beggars at first glance are the most troublesome because they treat those things as external things and that's why they don't care.

So sending this kind of thing is definitely useless.

After a long silence, Dumbledore had a bold idea: why not find Kane a father?

He slowly glanced at the mirror in the corner of the table...

Actually, it's not impossible for Grandpa, if he doesn't mind.

Kane was still sitting on the sofa. If he weren't incapable of Legilimency and unable to see Dumbledore's thoughts, he would have already slapped Dumbledore across the face...

He truly couldn't understand how Dumbledore, with his brilliant mind, came up with such a presumptuous idea.

It's only because Dumbledore was talented and strong enough that he lived to be over a hundred years old.

He was beaten to death at the age of eighteen!

And so, the two sat facing each other in the office for ten minutes. Apart from their initial heart-to-heart talk, they didn't say much until Kane left Dumbledore's office.

Clearly, this tutoring session failed halfway through.

"So? What does Dumbledore want with you?"

Harry, holding a ring of fire, and Ron, holding a fire crossbow, who were waiting outside the office, asked Kane.

"Perhaps it's just Dumbledore being a little sentimental, who knows?" Kane shrugged and pulled a mantis shrimp out of his hat.

Diagon Alley is great, I have to go to Diagon Alley.

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