[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

Shen Yanzhou watched Voldemort kneel down on the ground, and watched him clutch his chest in pain.

He looked at this arrogant Dark Lord indifferently, at his fingers turning white from pain, and the bright red blood that kept falling on the carpet.

At this moment, Shen Yanzhou felt as if he had been cut in half.

Half of them are a man with no heart.

He felt nothing, he was blind to the pain of the children who had been his pupils.

The other half was at a loss, wondering why the Dark Lord suddenly became like this.

Is he really hurt?Or sudden illness?

However, he still let the ruthless half occupy all of him after all.

He turned and left, leaving an indifferent back.

Voldemort watched his back disappearing at the end of the steps as he walked farther and farther, and he couldn't say a word to hold back, and he didn't need to say any more, because he knew that this person would never look back.He is already the same as those people, looking at him with the same eyes, it is a kind of eyes looking at monsters.

He turned his head to look at the broken picture scroll. After a long time, he couldn't hold it anymore and fell to the ground. The blood couldn't stop spreading on the carpet.

He only has two horcruxes, and in order to ensure the quality, he firmly connects the horcruxes with his soul.Originally, it was impossible for this painting to be torn so easily, but the person who destroyed it was the real owner of this painting.After all, his soul was irreversibly traumatized.

This trauma may never recover.

Last night, he pretended to be injured but got his worry and concern.

But today, he was really seriously injured, but that person didn't even look at it.

Ruthless to the extreme, that's all.

Tian Yanbi was also frightened by the sudden anger of Shen Yanzhou. He watched him turn and leave Voldemort's manor without even having time to say a word. Knowing that they had entered the Albanian forest again, he asked weakly: "You... …Aren’t you going to take the resurrection stone?”

Shen Yanzhou walked without saying a word, as if he didn't hear what Tian Yanbi said at all.

Tian Yanbi also stopped talking, and he has been with Shen Yanzhou for more than 20 years, and he has never seen him so angry.Even when he knew that his student was the Dark Lord, he was never so angry and sad.

But Tom really doesn't look too good, is it okay to leave it alone?

At this time, Tian Yanbi started to worry about the Dark Lord instead.

After a long time, Shen Yanzhou stopped, as if his quick walk had finally calmed down his mind: "I'm afraid I won't be able to get the resurrection stone this time."

Tian Yanbi sighed and did not speak.

"I really didn't expect it." Shen Yanzhou said.His tone was very flat, but Tian Yanbi could still feel that he was very depressed. "I suspected that he was involved in this incident, but I just thought that I had given false testimony and lied, but I didn't expect him to be the murderer."

"It's been so many years..." Tian Yanbi wanted to comfort Shen Yanzhou, but he didn't know how.He knew how much this incident had affected Shen Yanzhou. He went to find Myrtle a few times later. Although Myrtle always avoided him for some reason, it could be seen that the dead child still remained in his heart. There are not shallow traces.

"It's true that I was impulsive." Shen Yanzhou said, and he sighed: "To be honest, I don't know what's wrong with me. I've already decided not to bother with these nosy things and just get the resurrection stone. I still can't ignore the crime he committed."

Tian Yanbi stopped talking, he had been with Shen Yanzhou for so many years, and he still had a certain understanding of his character.

This guy obviously doesn't care about many things, but sometimes he is stubborn as hell.And his stubbornness is likely to be the biggest obstacle on their journey home.

"This matter is irreversible." Shen Yanzhou said. "Walk around and relax."

……

It was evening when he returned to Hogwarts.

Hogwarts at night is a bit more mysterious than during the day, and the windows of the medieval castle shrouded in darkness shimmer with light.The moonlight shone on the Black Lake, showing a gentleness completely different from the depth of the Black Lake during the day.

It was already late at night, Shen Yanzhou was lying in the easy chair, listening to the crackling sound of burning wood in the fireplace, in a daze.

There were two things in front of him, one was the Dark Lord's diary, and the other was a quill.

"I should have returned this diary to him earlier." Shen Yanzhou said with a bit of annoyance in his tone.

"I don't think we'll see him in the future, so let's just burn it." Tian Yanbi said from the side.

Shen Yanzhou thought for a while and felt that it made sense. He reached out and was about to throw the diary into the fireplace, but hesitated at the last moment, and then slowly withdrew his hand.

Tianyan Pen: "..."

"However, it is also a memory." Shen Yanzhou said. "Keep it."

"What about the quill? Are you going to give it to Lao Deng?" Tian Yanbi asked.

Handing the quill to Lao Deng meant an absolute betrayal of the Dark Lord.Once the Dark Lord's manor is exposed, with the abilities of the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic and the mages of Molson Garway, they will lay a net without Voldemort's knowledge, and it is very likely that Voldemort will be completely killed.

"It's not good to do it directly." Shen Yanzhou hesitated. "If he dies... the resurrection stone will probably be taken away by the Ministry of Magic, and it will be even more difficult to get it by then."

Tian Yanbi asked indifferently: "Is it really because of this that you didn't give it to Lao Deng?"

Shen Yanzhou was silent for a while, then sighed: "Let's talk again, I'll think about it again."

He thought of Voldemort falling to the ground in agony the last time he looked at him.At that moment, he really wavered a little, wondering if he had gone too far—of course, only a little.

That night, both Albanian Forest and Hogwarts lost sleep.

……

After the sun rose the next day, Shen Yanzhou put away his quill with a pair of panda eyes on his face: "It's better to be a teacher and a student, let's do our last bit of affection."

Tian Yanbi saw it in his eyes and didn't say anything, but had a vague premonition that something was not going well.

"From today onwards, let's put the resurrection stone away first." Shen Yanzhou said. "Start looking for the invisibility cloak."

He used the Tianyan pen to find out the location of the invisibility cloak, and preliminarily judged on the map that the specific location might be in Godric's Hollow, which is very famous in the magic world as a gathering place for half-wizards.

In terms of collecting super energy, Shen Yanzhou's mobility is still quite high. He immediately set off for the principal's office, planning to ask Dumbledore for a few days off in preparation for a round trip to Godric's Hollow.

Since he didn't know the password of the principal's office, he spent less than a minute trying all the names of desserts in the magic world that he knew, successfully fooled one of them, and entered the principal's office.

Then he realized that the timing of his arrival in the principal's office seemed not so coincidental.

"Yan Zhou? What's the matter?" Old Deng greeted Shen Yanzhou when he saw Shen Yanzhou enter.

Shen Yanzhou looked at another strange guest sitting on the sofa, a little embarrassed: "Did I bother you?"

Sitting on the sofa was a male wizard who looked to be about 40 years old. His golden hair was particularly eye-catching. He was a little surprised to see Shen Yanzhou coming in suddenly.

Lao Deng shook his head: "No, not at all. Do you need me to introduce you? This is a wizard from France—Mr. Jon Baxter. Although he is not very old, he is one of the best in the entire European magic world. A top chef with a remarkable record of domestic magic—especially cooking. Jon, this is—”

"Professor Shen, I've heard you famous for a long time." Although he was French.But with a perfect British accent, Baxter asked Shen Yanzhou politely.

"Oh, it seems that I don't need to introduce one more person." Lao Deng said with a smile.

"Hi, Mr. Baxter, nice to meet you." Shen Yanzhou also returned a salute. "I think, if you guys had a private conversation..."

"It's okay, Yan Zhou." Old Deng said. "We're not talking about anything important, but I don't know what you want from me?"

"I need to take a week off." Shen Yanzhou said.

"Well... no problem." Old Deng quickly nodded. "But you have to make up all the missing lessons when you come back."

"Of course it's no problem, it's my responsibility." Shen Yanzhou likes this about Lao Deng, he seldom intervenes in other people's private affairs, even if he asks for leave, it doesn't matter if he doesn't say the reason, as long as the time off is not too long.However, with Lao Deng's wisdom, it is not too difficult to see through everything with his pair of blue eyes.

"Then I'll take my leave first." Shen Yanzhou said.He saluted the two people in the office again, then turned and walked out of the office.

The two people who stayed in the office were silent for a while, and continued the topic they were talking about just now.

"Are you sure?" The expression on Lao Deng's face gradually became serious, not as relaxed as before.

"I've always wondered who my employer was during this time," Baxter said. "Great power to oppress and enough benefits, and all I have to pay is to make some food... I thought I had no reason to refuse these conditions, so I worked for him for a while, even though I didn't know who he was .”

"Well...it is indeed a condition that no one can refuse. Then what happened?" Old Deng asked.

"He fired me," Baxter said. "It was just yesterday. Usually when he saw me, he would cast a disguise spell so that I couldn't see his face clearly, but yesterday he was in a bad state of mind and seemed to have suffered a serious injury, so there was no disguise. Make sure he is the mysterious man."

"..." Lao Deng was silent for a moment, and his blue eyes behind the lenses were shining with thoughtful light. "If it was really him, with all due respect, Mr. Baxter, you are really thanks to Merlin for your survival."

"Yeah, I feel like I'm doomed now, too," Baxter said. "I don't know why he didn't kill me, but I feel that it has a lot to do with his mental state. He seems...depressed and in a trance."

Lao Deng was silent, as if he was thinking about something, and asked after a while: "Then... do you know the exact location of your workplace?"

"Albanian Forest." Baxter said with certainty.

The author has something to say: Regarding why Horcruxes are destroyed so easily:

Well, this is actually a private setting - the creator of the Horcrux itself can destroy the Horcrux, that is to say, the painting was drawn by the protagonist, so he can tear it off, of course it can also be understood that this is the author created for the protagonist Goldfinger, that is to say, he cannot destroy the diary (a little angel actually guessed it! You are too powerful)

And there is more than one private setting added here, for example, the Horcrux is connected to Lao Fu himself, and the damage is so serious, which is not the case in the original book.

(The author expresses his apologies if the private settings here that do not match the original affect your reading experience QAQ)