[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

Shen Yanzhou bit the apple and looked up at Tom, Tom's eyes were shining red.Shen Yanzhou was slightly taken aback, he had seen such eyes in his dreams before.The strange Tom in the dream killed him with a death curse, and this strange Tom had a pair of red eyes like blood.

The look in Shen Yanzhou's eyes made Tom's heart shudder. It didn't look like a professor looking at a student he liked, but rather--doubt and confusion, just like Dumbledore's looking at himself.

He didn't like the look in his eyes.

He hated such a look even more in the eyes of the person in front of him.

The short waiting time was so long for Tom, the moment he was about to draw out his wand, Shen Yanzhou said, "Sorry, Tom, I didn't see the murderer."

His voice was full of apology, and the confusion and doubt in his eyes disappeared, as if it was his own hallucination just now.

Hearing this, Tom slowly let go of the wand hidden under his sleeve, and showed a smile he was used to showing in front of people—polite and elegant: "It's okay, professor, I'm just asking casually."

"Did you see it?" Shen Yanzhou asked after taking a bite of the apple.

"..." Tom was silent for a while, showing a hesitant expression. "I'm not so sure..."

Shen Yanzhou was taken aback when he poured out a snack, he didn't expect that Tom might really see it.

"Why are you not sure?" Shen Yanzhou asked.

Tom was still silent, looking at Shen Yanzhou with his dark eyes, filled with complex emotions: hesitation, confusion, sadness, and anger seemed to be perfectly intertwined, telling a false story in his eyes.

"Do you have any difficulties that you can't say?" Shen Yanzhou asked.

"I just think... maybe I was wrong." Tom spoke slowly, expressing his hesitation just right. "I shouldn't accuse my classmates casually."

"You mean Hogwarts students did all of this?" Shen Yanzhou frowned.

"Sorry, Professor." Tom answered quickly. "I don't know, I shouldn't talk nonsense."

"It's okay, Tom, tell me what you saw." Shen Yanzhou said.

"..." Tom paused. "I saw a Gryffindor student... and a spider, the eight-eyed spider."

Shen Yanzhou stopped chewing apples, and he looked at Tom, who still had a faint red light in his eyes.

"Really?" Shen Yanzhou said the word slowly.

"Yes." Tom nodded affirmatively. "I think it's very likely that the eight-eyed spider was responsible for this murder. You know, the eight-eyed spider is an extremely ferocious magical animal with a very high level of danger. And that eight-eyed spider seems to have been killed by the student. reared."

"The eight-eyed spider cannot be tamed." Shen Yanzhou said.

"That's why you don't listen to that classmate and come out to hurt people." Tom said.

"It makes sense..." Shen Yanzhou said subconsciously, and after he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong. When he said this sentence, he didn't think at all, as if he was induced.It can't be an eight-eyed spider at all, where did the eight-eyed spider get its yellow eyes!

He looked at the young man in front of him. The young man still had a polite and elegant appearance, and he didn't seem to use words and black magic to induce other people's thinking at all.

Was it just my own illusion?

"Impossible." Shen Yanzhou said. "Although I didn't see the murderer's specific appearance, I saw a pair of bright yellow eyes. The eight-eyed spider's eyes are not yellow, you and I should know that."

There was an aggrieved expression on Tom's handsome face: "Yes, Professor."

Seeing his student's expression like this, Shen Yanzhou couldn't bear it anymore, he sighed and said, "Let's discuss about the murderer again, Tom, do you want some fruit?"

Tom nodded: "Okay, thank you Professor."

……

Walking out of Shen Yanzhou's room, Tom stood at the door of the room and paused for a while.

There was a calculating light in his eyes. Hagrid, that stupid big half-giant, was the scapegoat he had prepared. As long as he was thrown out to take the blame, not only could he get away with the crime, and even be rewarded, Hogwarts could also be spared closure.

In any case, he must make this move.

……

Under the watchful eye of the professors and young wizards, Shen Yanzhou quickly spent a short period of recuperation.Two days after he woke up, St. Mungo's Hospital announced he was fine and ready to be released.

Shen Yanzhou, who was so bored in the hospital that he could only eat every day, was quickly discharged and returned to his office smoothly.

But at this time Hogwarts has regained a little bit of life. Shen Yanzhou did not see the panic before he was hospitalized on the faces of the little wizards. He grabbed a little wizard and asked what was going on. The little wizard replied Said: "Because the murderer seems to have been found!"

Shen Yanzhou was taken aback: "Have you found the murderer?"

The little wizard nodded: "Professor Shen, I found it when you were discharged from the hospital today. I heard that it was a Gryffindor student named Rubeus Hagrid who kept an eight-eyed spider in his own cupboard. , it was the spider that killed the man."

Shen Yanzhou suddenly felt cold all over.

"Finally I can avenge you, Professor Shen!" the little wizard said angrily. "This student has already been expelled. In fact, I think he should be locked up in Azkaban. He actually did such a dangerous thing!"

"Who discovered it?" Shen Yanzhou heard himself ask.

"It's Senior Riddle!" said the little wizard, his eyes were about to turn into stars. "The school is still discussing to give a special contribution award to senior Riddle! Eh, Professor Shen?"

Shen Yanzhou didn't finish listening to what the little wizard said, he turned around and ran towards the principal's office.

Seeing the door of the principal's office, Shen Yanzhou said the password "quick dance", entered the door of the principal's office smoothly, and saw the principal Armando Dippet who was talking to Dumbledore.

When the two saw Shen Yanzhou suddenly barging in, they were both startled.

"Professor Shen, have you recovered?" Dippet stood up first. "Come, come, sit."

Dumbledore also stood up and said to the principal: "Mr. Principal, I really don't think Hagrid is a murderer. He is my student. I believe in his kind nature."

Shen Yanzhou immediately understood that Dumbledore also came for this matter.

"Principal." Shen Yanzhou was a little out of breath from running violently. "The murderer is not that Gryffindor child, what I saw is definitely not an eight-eyed spider!"

Principal Dippet looked at Shen Yanzhou seriously with brown eyes, and Dumbledore looked at Dippet. The air in the principal's room was extremely silent for a while.

"Professor Shen, you know that Hogwarts is on the cusp right now," said Headmaster Dippet. "An untamable, highly poisonous and extremely dangerous eight-eyed spider appeared in the school, and it was raised by a student. You should know what kind of scandal it is."

"It's one thing to raise dangerous animals, but it's another thing to kill a murderer." Shen Yanzhou argued vigorously.

He remembered the kid named Rubeus Hagrid, who was his student. Although his grades were always messed up, he never missed a class.Every class, Shen Yanzhou can see that hill-like figure huddled in the corner. He always has no friends around him, but under the thick hair, those sparkling eyes always follow Shen Yanzhou, which is full of innocence , kindness, and a thirst for knowledge.

How could such a child be a murderer!

"Hagrid is not a murderer," said Armando Dippet. "It was the eight-eyed spider that killed the man. Hagrid just raised the eight-eyed spider."

"Even so, they can't imprison an underage child in Azkaban!" Dumbledore said, his eyes, which were always invisible behind the glasses, were rarely filled with anger.

"We're also fighting for it," Dippet said. "The school manager has made up his mind that the murderer of this incident has been determined to be the eight-eyed spider. This cannot be changed, but we will try our best to keep that child."

"But the murderous monster is not the eight-eyed spider! I can testify in the Wizengamot court!" Shen Yanzhou said. "It doesn't matter even if I use Veritaserum, I can use the Dementor Curse!" How could the real murderer get away with it so easily!

Principal Dippet shook his head helplessly: "It's not that I don't want to let you go to the Wizengamot. Even if it proves that the eight-eyed spider is not a murderous monster, so what? We still can't find the real murderer. Hogwarts will still be closed, is that what the trustees want?"

Shen Yanzhou suddenly understood everything, he just felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, with no warmth in his body.

He couldn't remember how he got out of the Headmaster's office, or what Dumbledore had said to him afterwards.

For the first time, he discovered how naive he was who only worked behind closed doors and devoted himself to painting and calligraphy.

Back in the office, he slumped down on the recliner by the fireplace and sighed deeply.

"At least, we can still try to save that child." Tian Yanbi comforted him.

"I've never felt so powerless before." Shen Yanzhou said.

Tian Yanbi was silent for a while, then said: "Your strength is still not strong enough."

Shen Yanzhou was also silent, and nodded after a long time: "You're right, I'm not strong enough. Even my students understand this better than me, but I haven't been able to see it through."

"I've always told you not to underestimate Tom." Tian Yanbi said. "Dumbledore also thinks that he is not someone to be taken lightly, so you treat him like a treasure and give him everything you have every day."

Shen Yanzhou stretched out his hand to cover his face, took a long time to withdraw his hand, sat up straight, and said softly: "I think it's time to find a super energy body. After so many years of not doing business properly, it's time to calm down."

The author has something to say: Tianyanbi: Some readers are curious about who CP is, and I am also curious about your criteria for choosing a mate?Is it enough to look good?

Shen Yanzhou: Why are you curious?Do you treat me...

Tianyan Pen: Stop!I regret asking this question!

Shen Yanzhou: I just like you.Surprised or not?Is it surprising?

Tian Yanbi: ... a pedophile.

Shen Yanzhou: ...You can't be considered a child, right?

Tianyanbi: Oh, fetishism.