Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

"?????"

Tust slowly turned around, frowned slightly, and took a closer look at the nearly 1.9 meter strong man in front of him. His eyes were filled with the feeling of "you must have some incurable disease."

"Stop talking nonsense..."

He obviously didn't want to mess with Katie anymore. His tone gradually began to sound a little impatient.

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

Suddenly, light emerged from the tip of Tust's staff, and a faint chirping sounded.

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

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

Seeing that the other party was under control, Tust continued, and then slowly put the wand back into his coat pocket.

"Katie Grainger, you are under arrest."

Katie was stunned for a moment. He lowered his head and looked at the cuffed hands in front of him. His lips moved, but in the end no sound came out.

After a while, he finally let out a faint sigh.

"well……"

"You must not understand the misery in a transgender person's heart..."

Katie still lowered her head and spoke 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." Tust sneered and replied in a nonchalant manner, then reached out to grab Katie and went directly to the Magic Congress.

"Originally, I thought this small shop could still be open stably for a few years, but unfortunately..." Katie continued, and when the words fell, he slowly raised his head, with a somewhat inexplicable light in his eyes, and looked towards

Tust was about to reach out and grab his clothes.

Tust's movements paused. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Katie, who was looking at him incomprehensibly. For a moment, the sixth sense he had developed after 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, the next second, Katie in front of him suddenly started to tremble...

Under the originally thick arms, green veins as thick as earthworms sprouted out. The brown hair suddenly grew wildly, and in the shortest possible time, it quickly covered every inch of the originally exposed skin.

His hands turned into dark fleshy palms, and every fingernail on them turned into a dagger-like claw. The ferocious teeth replaced the original teeth uncontrollably, and the face began to elongate, and finally it lost all human features.

The originally strong body seemed to be an inflated balloon at this moment, swelling to nearly a full circle, and the height suddenly reached more than two meters and three meters...

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When Tust reacted, the strong man with heavy makeup in front of him had disappeared and suddenly turned into a huge brown bear with a big round head, a strong body, bulging shoulders and back, and was breathing heavily.

With a sound of "Pop!", the magic originally applied to Katie's arm suddenly lost its effect, and two bear arms as thick as pillars suddenly burst out, tearing off the ban easily.

"roar!!!!!!"

A deafening roar came from his mouth. Without any hesitation, almost as soon as he completed the transformation, the huge bear paws waved, carrying the whistling wind, almost a crushing force from top to bottom.

The posture came towards Tust.

Tust's pupils shrank to the size of a needle's eye. At the moment of life and death, he did not dare to be lazy at all. He almost broke out at the fastest speed in his life, twisting his body vigorously in an attempt to avoid this attack.

"Peng!!!"

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

"Hoo, ho..."

A wisp of sweat flowed down from Tust's forehead. After narrowly dodging the waving bear's paw, he lowered his head and glanced at the clothes that had been torn on his chest, and there were some faint thorns under the clothes.

Painful shallow scratches and goosebumps immediately spread all over his body.

"You're an Agmanis!?"

It was as if he had gotten to know Katie again, his eyes were no longer as calm as they were at the beginning, and were filled with disbelief.

However, Katie, who had turned into a brown bear, obviously could no longer answer his question. Seeing that the blow missed, her eyes that were still obviously humane showed ferocity, and her huge body jumped up, her arms

He opened his arms and rushed forward.

Not daring to hesitate any longer, he took the Tust wand, stepped back sharply, and recited a spell.

"stupefy (passed out)!"

Facing the magic that shot out, Katie seemed to have already guessed his thoughts. Her clumsy body moved slightly and she dodged it impartially.

Seeing the disdain and contempt in the other person's eyes, Tust also understood that he had underestimated this man named Katie from the beginning... But there was no way, after all, no one would think of such a thing.

What a shitty little black magic shop, and the manager is actually a high-class Agmanis.

"This is an extremely dangerous guy. Damn it, if I had known, I would have called in more backup."

He gritted his teeth and his mind raced rapidly.

"We can't let him escape..." At this point in his thoughts, he kept holding the wand in his hand. He seemed to be ready for a hard fight or even a deadly fight.

"Damn...it's only ten galleons a month. What a waste of your life."

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

Perhaps... when I chose Auror as a career, it was never for the salary of more than ten galleons a month.

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I don’t know how much time passed before the shop became quiet again.

The shelves were shattered, and not many of the originally messy products were left... The unknown potions were mixed with the contents of the glass jars, gurgling freely down the cracks in the floor.

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

He had several deep or shallow wounds on his body, and he was holding Tust, who had completely passed out, in his hands.

With a "pop", Tust was casually found somewhere and dropped. Katie looked around, feeling as if her heart had been cut with a bloody knife. After a long time, she finally let out a deep sigh.

"well……"

"This business is a total loss..."

He murmured to himself, and the resentment between his brows was about to solidify.

"It seems that the American wizarding world can no longer stay..."

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At night, inside the performance hall of Magic Broadway.

All the candles originally floating over the venue were extinguished, leaving only the stage at the front with light.

Wizard actors dressed in sixteenth-century costumes performed today's play with unique and weird singing tunes.

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

The Wizard's Hairy Heart is not a sweet story, but one of the few stories in "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" that is full of horror and has a tragic tone.

It tells the story of a wizard who cast black magic on his heart in order to seal off his feelings. In the end, it was precisely because of this magic that he and a kind, beautiful and generous witch both died, and their hearts were dug out of their chests.

's tragic ending.

This is so famous in the British wizarding world that it has even led to the slang term "there is a heart hair" (having a hairy heart) to describe those wizards who are hard-hearted and indifferent.

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

However, in the Magic Broadway Theater at this moment, the actors and playwrights seemed to have made a series of adaptations of the story and gave a good ending-in the end, the wizard resisted the black magic and successfully liberated

His heart expressed his love for the witch, and the two fell in love...

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

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

Compared with Muggle plays, wizard plays are obviously much more lively and interesting. In order to ensure that the entire theater audience is brought into the scene, they not only rely on the performances on the stage, but also use greetings to match the plot.

The magic of effects creates more realistic effects...

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

Suddenly, Mueller's voice came from beside Charlie.

Charlie subconsciously turned his head and looked to the side. Mueller was sitting next to him, his eyes shining, looking at the stage without blinking, looking like he was intoxicated.

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

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

"Amazing, right?"

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

"Yes...it's amazing." Charlie didn't refute, and nodded naturally.

"...I come here almost every Friday to watch a show..."

Muller paused for a while, and then continued, his eyes still not leaving the actors who were struggling to perform, as if missing even a second would be a great loss to him.

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

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

Charlie raised his eyebrows in surprise, looking at the rosy and always smiling face, but said nothing because he knew that Mueller had not finished speaking.

"You may not know that I am not actually a wizard...According to the magic world, I am a squib."

Muller said this, but the smile on his face did not diminish, as if he was calmly narrating a small incident, without even the slightest emotion.

"My parents are both wizards... They are both great wizards and scholars who study fire dragons. But as their only child, I was not able to inherit their genes and become a wizard..."

Here he paused and smacked his lips.

"I have lived in the magical world for sixty-seven years, and I have been a squib for sixty-seven years. To be honest, when I was young, I resented myself and everything, as if my misfortune was cast by the world.

Yes, they let me live in this magical world full of magic, but in the body of a No-Maj."

Charlie was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he seemed to have never seen Mueller's wand...

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

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

of.

"But my parents are very good to me. They don't dislike me because I am a Squib. Instead, they are more concerned about my feelings. They will never release 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 fallen into a deeper state.

"The age of eleven or twelve... was probably the most painful period, because all my friends were normal little wizards. They all went to school in Ilvermorny, but I entered a No-Maj school."

"At that time, I felt like the sky was about to collapse. Every day was a nightmare. Every day I was angry, roaring, and then hiding in a deserted corner and crying..."

"Then what?"

Charlie was fascinated for a moment after listening to Mueller's words, and couldn't help but continue to ask.

"Then... my parents brought me here and watched a show. To this day, I still remember what the show was - The Wizard and the Hopping Pot. It was also the story of the poet Beedle...

…”

"That was my first time watching a performance. I sat in my seat and watched the actors on the stage performing hard. For a moment, I had an experience I had never had before... I devoted all my energy, as if

I really became the protagonist above, having the same emotions and anger as him, going through the same things, and even when he used magic, it felt like I was using it myself."

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

"Since then, I have been obsessed with drama and I no longer suffer as much as before."

After all, his hand didn't touch anything and just fell down. The light in his eyes softened a lot, but his smile remained unchanged.

"I began to accept the fact that I was a Squib, and happily entered the school of No-Majs, learning things that were completely different from those of my friends..."

Finally, Mueller turned his head and looked at Charlie.

"It turns out that Squibs are not limited to the most useless jobs in the magical world... At least I have proven that even if I am not a wizard in the magical world, I can still do more meaningful things."