Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts.

Chapter 187 The Daily Prophet...Overseas Edition

Diagon Alley...

Kane and his two companions found a secluded alleyway and settled down, something they hadn't done before.

Because Kane and Harry's brooms were both handmade, most people don't know their actual value.

However, the Firebolt Ron is currently riding is the cover of Flying Broomstick Magazine. If he were to ride that thing and land openly in Diagon Alley, who knows how many people would be staring at him.

Even the Weasleys' redheads might not be able to protect him, since if he steals a broom and runs away abroad, the Weasleys might not actually come out of the country to hunt him down.

After all, it was just a broom.

Kane took off his hat and stuffed all three brooms inside, and the three of them headed toward Ollivander's wand shop.

Then came the same old story...

They were recognized.

Kane now suspects that the old man Ollivander has hyperthymesia. It's understandable that he remembers him, after all, he made a deep impression on him back then, and it's only been less than three years, so the memory is still fresh.

Horror!

Soon, Ron stuffed a fourteen-inch willow wand made of unicorn hair into his pocket. The three were about to head back when Kay...

En then saw a group of Daily Prophet reporters not far away, ridiculously grabbing innocent passersby and interviewing them about something.

It was only then that he discovered that the Daily Prophet, which he had completely ignored in the previous two years, actually had an interview segment.

Ron shrugged at Kane's surprised look: "Otherwise, where do you think that photo from the Egypt trip came from? Didn't you read that issue of the Daily Prophet?"

Kane was silent for a moment. He had no habit of reading the Daily Prophet. Didn't Ron know that?

So when he replied to the letter, he naturally assumed that Ron would understand the implied meaning and quietly let the embarrassing matter pass.

But who could have imagined that Ron actually believed that after reading that report, there could be someone in the world with lower emotional intelligence than himself?

Just as Kane was struggling with what excuse to use, the Daily Prophet, who was not far away, called out to them in broken English and jogged over to Kane and his companions.

After all, seeing young wizards at this time of year is quite rare, and we can even use these three young wizards to report on Dumbledore.

After all, a great man once said a famous quote...

Don't take things out of context!

Although this passage originally had six characters, omitting just one character would not cause any problem!

Soon a reporter stood in front of Kane and his companions with a notebook and a quill pen, followed by a photographer holding a magic camera.

The machine's people.

The two men stopped them, and while fumbling through a small notebook, they asked in a slightly sauerkraut-sausage accent, "Are you little wizards?"

Kane glanced at the man, paused for a moment, and finally let out a pathetic "Ha~".

Clearly, the reporter's initial question wasn't particularly clever, but soon the mysterious cameraman behind him kicked the man's butt three times.

The man quickly turned three pages into the book, and this time it clicked; these were the questions they should be asking.

"You're young wizards from Hogwarts, right?"

Kane looked at the question, which was still not particularly insightful, and instinctively wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he nodded and said something about caring for special groups.

The reporter on the other side got excited as soon as he heard that and immediately asked the next question.

"It's said that the headmaster of Hogwarts has a favorite student in each class. Who do you think it is?"

Very good, that's a very clever question, at least the kind of question a normal person could come up with.

In an instant, all three of Kane's companions pointed to their answer.

When Kane stretched his finger toward Harry, their fingertips touched, clearly indicating that Harry's answer was different from his.

Oh, and Ron too. Ron's answer was different from Kane's.

The reporter, whose mind wasn't particularly sharp, looked at the two completely different answers from Kane and Ron. Kane believed that Dumbledore's favorite was Harry, while Harry and Ron believed that Dumbledore's most valued young wizard was Kane's...

The reporter's mind conjured up a four-character phrase: "Truly a pair of star-crossed lovers..." Oh... not mandarin ducks, because this time there are three people... no... three people appear... that's right!

"What are your names...?" The reporter naturally ignored Ron, who had no role in this touching story of teacher and student, and asked Kane and Harry.

Ron felt that being ignored was not a good feeling. He shouldn't have pointed at Kane, he should have pointed at himself.

Unlike Ron's slight frustration at being ignored, Kane and Harry genuinely disliked this feeling.

And my answer to the reporter's question has absolutely nothing to do with me?

The former thought about his relationship with Dumbledore...tsk tsk tsk, wasn't that just a poor little wizard, a rootless orphan in the wizarding world, being oppressed by a headmaster?

As for the Philosopher's Stone and the Book of Shadows obtained from Dumbledore...

That was a reasonable reward, after all, Dumbledore was just a lamppost ornament, and compared to slave owners, he was still very advanced.

In contrast, Harry and Dumbledore's relationship was definitely much better. Harry's parents were Dumbledore's favorite children, and Harry was also Dumbledore's favorite child. If conditions allowed, Dumbledore would even play games with Harry, showing how deeply he loved him.

I can't compare to them.

Harry's thinking was even simpler: Kane could go to Dumbledore's office more easily than to a public restroom, and during holidays he could stay at Hogwarts instead of wandering around, while he and Dumbledore...

We're not even that close, are we?

I haven't spoken to him much since I enrolled in school.

And so, after both of them had expressed their opinions, the reporter once again abandoned Harry, even though the name Harry Potter sounded somewhat familiar to him, as if he had seen it in a book... something like The History of Magic?

But who cares? He had met a little wizard named Merlin before.

If Kane knew what was going on in this reporter's head, he would definitely shout that cultural workers must be cultured. This sounds like nonsense, but it's actually quite true.

After all, Harry Potter's name is written on the first page of the English History of Magic and in the catalog of the European History of Magic. How could he not see it on such a big birthday in 1991?

There is absolutely no associative power in the word "groove".

The very next day, Kane received a copy of the German Daily Prophet from a classmate he was somewhat acquainted with...

Tsk!

Forgive him... he couldn't control himself!