Chapter 119: Short-Legged Allen

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On the evening of August 31, 1992, Allen, as usual, used the Cleaning Charm to tidy up the small shop, then closed the door...

He turned his head but found Mr. Ollivander smiling at him...

"Mr. Ollivander..." Allen opened his mouth to say.

Mr. Ollivander waved his hand to interrupt him, "Time really flies; in the blink of an eye, two months have passed!"

Allen bowed deeply to Mr. Ollivander, "Thank you for taking care of me..."

Mr. Ollivander gently patted Allen's shoulder and said, "No need to thank me; in fact, I should thank you. The days you've been here have brought a lot of joy to my life. I even hope you'll come to me again next summer vacation..."

Allen doubted his own ears; he looked at Mr. Ollivander in surprise, "You said you hope I'll come again next year?"

"Yes! Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer children like you who are willing to get along with the elderly, and you are the kind of down-to-earth and hardworking person I particularly admire." Mr. Ollivander said with deep emotion.

Allen didn't expect Mr. Ollivander's evaluation of him to be so high; thinking of his days dozing off at the counter every day and causing trouble outside at night, he couldn't help but feel ashamed...

Mr. Ollivander didn't notice the change in Allen's expression and continued, "You know that every summer vacation is the busiest time for the wand shop, so next summer vacation I want to hire you to work at the wand shop with a salary of seven Jin Jin Jialong per month. What do you think?"

Allen was stunned by Mr. Ollivander's words; he didn't expect Mr. Ollivander to actually extend an invitation to him...

"Mr. Ollivander, the wand shop isn't busy at all! Why do you want to hire me?" Allen honestly raised his question.

"You know that making wands is work that requires time and patience; it is most afraid of being disturbed halfway, so I need your assistance." Mr. Ollivander said softly.

Allen felt convinced; he thought Mr. Ollivander's conditions were very good. Besides, he had nowhere to go next summer vacation, and most importantly, he was very interested in wand making, but this year he hadn't found a chance to learn about it.

So he happily extended his hand, grasping Mr. Ollivander's large, calloused hand, and the two thus reached an agreement.

Back in his room, Allen immediately started packing his things; actually, he had very few things, and one leather suitcase was enough to hold everything, so he finished this task very quickly.

Allen decided not to do any research tonight and prepared to go to bed early.

Before sleeping, he took out his wand again, gripping it tightly in his hand; this had become a habit. Allen no longer resisted the random transformations of his body; he vaguely felt that undergoing transformation this way would be of great benefit to him in the future, so recently he had developed this habit...

Allen quickly fell asleep; a faint smile hung on the corner of his mouth, perhaps happy about being able to see his friends tomorrow...

"Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!" Allen's alarm clock rang. He slowly opened his eyes but didn't turn off the alarm immediately because once before he had randomly transformed into a pair of Xiong Zhang, and with one slap he had knocked the alarm clock into pieces. To avoid making his already terrible financial situation even worse, he had developed the good habit of figuring out what he had randomly transformed into every morning first.

Allen quickly checked his hands and found no changes, so he thought to get up and turn off the alarm clock. Just this motion of getting up made him feel something was wrong with his body—he found that the action of "sitting up" had suddenly become very difficult...

He quickly realized the cause of the problem; he suddenly threw off the thin blanket covering him and found his legs were gone...

Actually, they weren't gone, but had become very short...

Allen sighed sadly. Although he had randomly transformed into many strange things over such a long time and was no longer surprised, seeing legs this short was the first time...

Allen's legs today had been transformed into the legs of a bird,

very short, with only three toes on the foot, and webbing between the toes...

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Allen immediately thought he had randomly transformed into goose or duck legs today because the feet looked very similar, but he instantly rejected this idea because, proportionally, goose and duck legs should be longer than the current ones, and goose and duck feet are very thin, while the current feet are very thick...

Allen struggled to prop up his body, reached out to touch his feet, found them ice cold, and gradually realized what he had randomly transformed into today...

It was penguin legs...

Because penguins walk on ice, to prevent heat loss their feet are very thick; the feet use counter-current heat exchange, so they are very cold...

Even though Allen had endured all kinds of strange transformations, seeing these short legs still made him break down a bit...

You have to know that today is the first day of school!

Should he go with these little short legs that are only twenty-something centimeters long?

Allen took a long time to pull himself together; he gradually adapted to these little short legs...

He stood up from the bed and found his height had become very low...

A normal person's leg length is generally 50% of their total height—Allen's current height is about 1.5 meters, meaning his leg length should be around 75 centimeters, but now his penguin legs are only 20 centimeters, which caused Allen's current height to be less than 1 meter...

Many people don't know what kind of concept this is; in his previous life, it would be the height that gets free admission everywhere. You have to know that a five or six-year-old child's height can already reach 1.2 meters...

But these hadn't defeated the strong Allen; he tried walking two steps and indeed walked with the feeling of a penguin's gait...

He also discovered another serious problem, but for this problem he had no good solution, only deciding to change into tighter underwear in a while...

However, with this leg length, he could only wear shorts; thinking about wearing robes was out of the question; wearing them would be equivalent to constantly sweeping the road clean...

After getting dressed, Allen went to wash up and found he couldn't reach the washbasin; fortunately, he cleverly used the Levitation Charm to float himself up...

After everything was tidied up, Allen realized another very serious problem: how could he go to school looking like this? Allen wasn't afraid of mockery; he had long been used to mockery, but getting to King's Cross Station requires taking the subway, and in this state, he simply couldn't take the subway...

Even if he could take the subway, with these little short legs, even if he ran with them spread out, he wouldn't be very fast; not running fast means he would need to spend more time on the way to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, and now time was already running out; he would miss the Hogwarts Express...

However, Allen wasn't too worried about this; he wrote a letter, then borrowed Mr. Ollivander's owl to send it to Professor McGonagall, detailing his situation in the letter...