[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

"This attack has seriously affected the lives of Hogwarts students. It not only caused a professor to fall into a coma for unknown reasons, but also caused the death of a student. If the murderer continues to be found, Hogwarts will be closed."

A piece of paper from the Ministry of Magic was like drawing out the fire from the bottom of the pot, filling the already panicked Hogwarts with fear and chaos.

What made them even more disturbed was that Professor Shen was also affected.Professor Shen, who was extremely powerful in their minds, failed to escape the murderer's persecution and fell into a coma.And their student, Myrtle Warren, was even brutally murdered.

If Riddle, the prefect of Slytherin, hadn't arrived in time and bravely rescued the professor, I'm afraid the professor would have been in trouble.

"What kind of monster is that!"

"Why is there such a dangerous thing in Hogwarts!"

"What the hell is going on with this school!"

The pressure of public opinion is all on Hogwarts, an ancient school, and the storm is about to come.

……

Shen Yanzhou felt like he had a very long dream.

He dreamed that he fell from the bookshelf and was smashed by the falling inkstone, his blood-spattered body, and the girl beside him was kneeling on the ground with tears all over his face.

He dreamed that he fell from the cliff and fell into the lava without leaving a body. Frodo cried out at the top of the cliff.

He dreamed of the pale and stiff corpse of Myrtle Warren, pulling his collar with a ferocious face, and questioning him: "You said you would protect me!"

He dreamed of those fluorescent yellow animal pupils, cold and cruel eyes.He dreamed of what he saw last, the figure running towards him.

He wanted to reach out and grab that person, but that person stopped in the distance, raised his head, revealing a pale, thin but still extremely handsome face.

"Tom?" he asked.

"Don't call me by that name." The boy with the same face as Tom said, his voice was indifferent and unfamiliar, with a hissing sound in his voice, like a snake language.

Before Shen Yanzhou had time to say anything, he saw the young man raise the magic wand in his hand, and a green light flashed. Before Shen Yanzhou could react, his chest was pierced by a sharp knife, and there was a sharp pain.

This blow killed him in the dream, and at the same time awakened him in his deep sleep.

Shen Yanzhou suddenly opened his eyes.His heart was still pounding, he felt a little out of breath, and he didn't have any strength in his body.

"Wow, you finally woke up!" Tian Yanbi's voice came to mind in his mind. "It really scared me to death, I almost thought you were going to die again, then I would stay in this world and couldn't get out!"

Shen Yanzhou didn't pay attention to Tianyan's thoughts, he got up slightly and looked around.

Judging from the surrounding furnishings, this is a ward.

"Where is this?" Shen Yanzhou asked.

"The hospital, what is it called Amongo Hospital?" Tian Yanbi said.

"Amongo? Amongo Dippet?" Shen Yanzhou was taken aback for a moment, then laughed: "St. Mungo's Hospital."

"Never mind St. Mungo-Amongo, as long as you're fine, you know you almost died at the time, but luckily I pulled your soul back with quick eyesight. But at that time someone saw you were attacked and put You were sent to the hospital. Hey, speaking of this, the one who sent you to the hospital was your student, the one named Tom." Tian Yanbi said. "You don't know his expression at that time, tsk tsk tsk, just like a dead father."

Shen Yanzhou who "likes to be a father" looked indifferent: "Can you say something nice?"

Tianyan pen: "I can't."

Shen Yanzhou laughed: "However, thank you for saving me."

Tian Yanbi disdained: "Which one of us is with whom."

The door opened with a click, and it was St. Mungo's nurse. They knew it the moment Shen Yanzhou woke up, and rushed over immediately.

After a physical examination, the nurse was surprised to find that there was nothing wrong with Shen Yanzhou's body: "It's amazing, you fell into a coma for two days, and you couldn't find out why, but you woke up naturally..."

Shen Yanzhou smiled, then suddenly remembered something, and asked, "What's the situation at Hogwarts now?"

The nurse replied: "At present, the whole school is suspended. If the murderer cannot be found, Hogwarts may be closed. But I heard that they may have found the suspect."

Shen Yanzhou asked: "The murderer? Miss Myrtle Warren..."

Before confirming, Shen Yanzhou still had a glimmer of hope.That is a young life after all.

"That child...couldn't be saved." The nurse shook her head regretfully. "Death on the spot."

Shen Yanzhou was silent for a while, his heart was quite heavy, and he even had a trace of anger towards himself for his incompetence: "I was negligent in my duty."

The nurse shook her head: "It can only be said that the murderer is too vicious."

Speaking of the murderer, Shen Yanzhou suddenly remembered the pair of animal pupils he saw before the attack.He asked Tian Yanbi: "Did you see who attacked me?"

"I don't know, the environment was too dark at that time, and you passed out suddenly, so you didn't notice who was around you." Tian Yanbi said. "Maybe, as the rumors say, a monster hurt people."

Seeing that Shen Yanzhou seemed to be fine, the nurse said, "You still need to stay in St. Mungo's for two days, and you can be discharged after your condition is completely stable. But you are the only one who woke up after being attacked. Someone will come to ask you for relevant clues soon."

Shen Yanzhou nodded.Hogwarts is basically closed now, which is like a vacation for him. He doesn't have to worry about work, and it doesn't matter where he lives.As for the clues, apart from those eyes, there were really no other important clues.

……

The news that Shen Yanzhou woke up quickly spread throughout Hogwarts.

The first person to visit was Dumbledore, the Transfiguration professor who had the best personal relationship with Shen Yanzhou. He brought a lot of fruits that Shen Yanzhou liked and a lot of sweets. will not bring.

"We almost thought that Hogwarts was going to lose a good professor," said Dumbledore.He pretended to be relaxed, but Shen Yanzhou still saw the heaviness between his brows.After all, Hogwarts is now in such a big crisis, any professor must be under great pressure.

"Sorry for worrying you." Shen Yanzhou smiled apologetically.

"Did you see what your attacker ... or the monster looked like?" Dumbledore asked.

"Maybe my memory is a little fuzzy, but I think I was attacked by surprise." Shen Yanzhou said. "Unprepared, I saw a pair of bright yellow eyes, and then I lost consciousness. But I always feel that this incident may be man-made. How can there be monsters in Hogwarts? ?”

"Yellow eyes?" Dumbledore frowned, lost in thought. "I also think that someone is manipulating all this behind the scenes. As far as I know, there has never been such a... nasty thing in the history of Hogwarts."

"...Sorry, I didn't see any more relevant clues." Shen Yanzhou said, his eyes were full of sadness and self-blame. "And Miss Warren... I failed to protect her well."

"Don't blame yourself too much, Yan Zhou." Dumbledore said, and he pronounced Shen Yanzhou's name very accurately. "Enemies from the dark are hard to defend against."

"I must find out the murderer." Shen Yanzhou felt a rare anger in his self-blame. Although he was usually indifferent to the people around him, he would give them enough respect.He has no tolerance for murder that takes the life of another at will. "What separates us from the beasts is reason and morality, and murderers are not worthy of being human."

……

After the visiting time was over, Dumbledore bid farewell to Shen Yanzhou, walked towards the door, and saw someone outside the door that he didn't really want to see——Tom Marvolo Riddle.I don't know how long he stood here, and I don't know if he heard the conversation between himself and Shen Yanzhou.

When Tom saw him, he just politely called a professor, and showed a look that he didn't want to have excessive communication.

Dumbledore thought he had other things to do and ignored Tom, so he hurriedly said hello and left.

When Tom walked in, he immediately saw Shen Yanzhou who was lying on the hospital bed peeling apples one by one.

The moment he saw this person, he suddenly remembered two days ago, when he noticed the basilisk unintentionally attacking Shen Yanzhou from a distance, the kind of despair he felt when he fell down but couldn't be stopped.

At that moment, he felt that he was in the ice cellar, and his mind went blank. For the first time, he felt regret, regretting that the basilisk came out to kill people.He didn't have time to think about anything, his instinct drove him to rush forward and save the person who might have witnessed the basilisk.

Fortunately, he did not die.Even after seeing the basilisk's eyes, he didn't die.He has always been like this, unique, powerful and unreasonable.

It's just that if he survived, the basilisk might be exposed.

At the same time, he also remembered what Shen Yanzhou said when he just came to the door of the ward:

"What separates us from the beasts is reason and morality, and murderers are not worthy of being human."

His eyes dimmed, and there was a faint red light in his pitch-black eyes.

Reason told him that this person should be killed or forgotten. He had witnessed the basilisk, and it was impossible for him to agree with himself. As long as his memory existed, he could testify in court and confirm that the basilisk was If he is a murderer, then he who can speak snake language will definitely be suspected.Dumbledore knew he was a Parseltongue, old Bee always knew everything.

But another voice told him he couldn't do it.

He was too powerful, what if he didn't succeed in one blow if he wanted to kill him?What if you want to cast the Forgetting Curse on him, but it doesn't work?What if the wrong memory is deleted?He is still only a fifth-grade student, what should he do if his magic power is not enough and he is countered?

A rational voice told him that the man in front of him was a huge threat.

But another voice was trying to stop him.

Seeing that Shen Yanzhou was obsessed with peeling apples and didn't notice him coming, he raised his wand and cast a spell. The apple skin in Shen Yanzhou's hand fell off by itself, without wasting a single bit of apple flesh.

Only then did Shen Yanzhou notice that Tom had entered the ward, and he said with a smile, "It's a beautiful separation spell!"

Tom didn't say anything, and he didn't know what to say, so he just sat down beside Shen Yanzhou.

"I heard that you saved me." Shen Yanzhou said. "Thank you, but next time you encounter this situation, call the professor first, because the murderer may still be at the scene, and you will be in danger if you rush forward rashly."

Tom didn't speak, and asked after a while, "Did the professor see the murderer?"

His hand clenched the wand hidden under his sleeve, resisting the urge to take insanity.

The author has something to say: Shen Yanzhou: I am clearly wearing a hospital gown, and I don’t see you around me. Where did you talk to me?

Tianyanbi: You finally discovered this, I am in the closet on your right, and I was folded into your clothes pile!

Tianyanbi: I have been in this airtight place for two days!You chatted with Dumbledore there and ignored me for most of the day, so hurry up and take me out!