[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

"Oh? It's hard to imagine that a child of this age would be interested in art." Shen Yanzhou said with a smile, looking at Lucius with interest.

When James heard this, his face turned red. He is five years younger than Lucius, and he is only six years old now, but he has never known anything about art. Every time Shen Yanzhou wants to teach him something related to art, he gets a headache. Ru Dou can't wait to go out and play with the broom immediately.

But now, his lack of interest in art actually put him in danger of falling out of favor!

"Oh, yes. That's one thing that makes Lucius different. He grew up loving everything about art—painting, music, sculpture," Abraxas said.

"When I heard that Hogwarts has an art appreciation class, I thought, I don't have to think about going to Durmstrang or Beauxbatons. Hogwarts will be my only choice." Lucius continued.

"Oh, that's great, Mr. Malfoy." Old Deng, who had been silent all this time, said with a smile. "Gentlemen, stop talking standing up, let's sit down and talk slowly."

Abraxas glanced at Dumbledore, pursed his pale lips, and finally sat down graciously.

James also ran to Shen Yanzhou's side, sat next to him, still holding on to Shen Yanzhou's clothes, and looked at Lucius with a provocative face, making Mr. Malfoy feel baffled, when did he offend this messy-haired man? Is there a child?

"Mr. Malfoy, you didn't seem to be very interested in art appreciation when you were a student." Shen Yanzhou thought for a while, and dug out the history of more than 20 years ago from his brain.

"..." Abraxas paused the hand that refused the beer brought by the attendant, and then let it go naturally. "Probably because of my lack of sensitivity to art, so I hope Lucius can make up for his father's shortcomings in this regard."

"I believe this child will become an excellent person like you." Shen Yanzhou said.

Abraxas showed a fake smile: "I hope he can be better than his father. This kid will go to Hogwarts this year, oh, of course he will choose Shen to teach your class, I hope you will take care of him .”

Shen Yanzhou nodded: "I will take care of every one of my students, Mr. Malfoy."

"..." Abraxas took a deep look at Shen Yanzhou, and then said, "Lucius and I still have some things to buy, so excuse me."

The two left the bar with pale blonde hair, and the light seemed to be dimmed a lot.

Old Potter took a sip of butter beer: "What do they mean? They came here just to say hello to Professor Shen?"

This bias is a bit too obvious and too strange. It stands to reason that if you want to go to Hogwarts to go to school, the most important person to take care of and greet is Lao Deng who is sitting on the sidelines watching the play?

As the person involved, Shen Yanzhou didn't have any specific thoughts. He just remembered about Voldemort because of this episode, and he felt a little depressed.

James on the side saw that Shen Yanzhou seemed to be in a bad mood, and started to take out candies for Shen Yanzhou again, and put eye drops on the two people who had just left while taking out candies: "That Malfoy just now is so annoying, he looked at it with his nostrils. people!"

Shen Yanzhou took the milk candy that James gave him, and unceremoniously stuffed it into his mouth, which still smelled of potion: "James doesn't like him?"

James wrinkled his little nose: "He must be a Slytherin."

"The Malfoys are all Slytherins, without exception," Old Potter said. "Just like our Potters must all be Gryffindors."

"Hmph, Slytherin doesn't have a good wizard!" James pouted.

Shen Yanzhou poked James on the head: "Nonsense, Merlin graduated from Slytherin."

James was taken aback, and shook his head: "Impossible!" He looked at the other three, trying to get their support.

"..." Old Deng and the Potter couple were silent, and then Old Deng nodded: "Oh, it seems to be the case, but every house is very good, and Merlin entered Slytherin because, in his body , the advantages of Slytherin are more obvious."

"Oh, Merlin's socks." James said frustratedly, which obviously dampened his perception of Slytherin.

Shen Yanzhou looked at James with his head down like a defeated lion cub, he couldn't laugh or cry, so he took out his best trick to coax children, dipped his hands in some beer and drew a stick figure on the table with his head lowered and wiping his tears The little lion said to James, "Look, does this look like you?"

James' face turned red when he saw it: "I... I won't do this!" He also dipped some beer from a glass of butterbeer with his finger, and painted the little lion in a mess, especially the face wiping tears and The paws were almost invisible as a lion, and a broom was added under the lion's body—although Shen Yanzhou felt that this broom looked more like a chicken paw.

"That's me!" James said with a grin.

"Okay, okay, this is you." Shen Yanzhou smiled helplessly, and rubbed James' messy hair even more.

"Professor Shen is going to spoil James." Mrs. Potter said with a smile.

"Yeah." Old Potter echoed, glanced at Mrs. Potter, and slandered in his heart, if you want to say spoiled, you are also the number one soldier.

Of course, he will not admit that he is also a stupid father who loves his children to the limit.

……

It was already night when Old Deng and Shen Yanzhou, who had a good chat with James and the Potters, returned to Hogwarts.

But because school hasn't started yet, the two don't care about time.Because Lao Deng had other things to do, he left in a hurry as soon as he returned to Hogwarts, while Shen Yanzhou returned to his own office, ready to start his night life.

He slumped in his easy chair, and originally wanted to practice calligraphy at night, but today's small activities have obviously exhausted his energy.Since being Awada, his body has been getting worse day by day, and Shen Yanzhou has to count the days to find a way to get the Elder Wand and the Invisibility Cloak.

The problem of the invisibility cloak should not be a big deal anymore. Judging from how much James likes him, as long as James can inherit the invisibility cloak, it is only a matter of Shen Yanzhou wanting to borrow it. He even feels that he is now asking the old Potter It is not difficult to get the invisibility cloak, but it is not convenient to explain why I know about the invisibility cloak, so I have not opened my mouth.

As for the Elder Wand, this is actually Shen Yanzhou's biggest headache right now.

Don't look at Lao Deng smiling all day long, but in fact Shen Yanzhou couldn't figure out what he was thinking at all.As for asking Lao Deng for the Elder Wand, Shen Yanzhou felt that it was better to save himself, as there was no reason enough to convince Lao Deng, it would definitely not work.Robbery is even more unrealistic. Shen Yanzhou can't even beat Voldemort, let alone Old Deng who can beat Voldemort.

In fact, Shen Yanzhou felt that Lao Deng did not ask him why he appeared in the Albanian forest, which was already a great trust and connivance for him.

Thinking of this, his eyes turned to the painting stuffed in the innermost part of the cabinet.

It was a painting that had been torn in two, only to be repaired later and glued back together to form a complete painting.But no matter how I repair it, the tear in the middle is always there.

Shen Yanzhou got this painting from Lao Deng later, and only then did he know that this painting is actually a Horcrux of Voldemort.

He still remembered the perplexed expression on Dumbledore's face at that time: "I don't understand why he destroyed his Horcrux. I'm afraid it was because of this incident that he was always injured when he fought us." Dumbledore apparently did not consider that someone would be able to enter Voldemort's manor and destroy the Horcruxes under Voldemort's protection. "But I don't know if he has any other Horcruxes. I hope there are none."

And Shen Yanzhou, who always thought that Voldemort had Horcruxes, so he would not die, turned pale at that time.

He remembered very well that Voldemort had told him that he had only one Horcrux.And this Horcrux was destroyed by himself.

He seemed to understand why Voldemort hated him so much that he wanted to kill him to be buried with him.Because he personally ruined his hope of escape, even though he didn't know it.

Next to the picture lay a book with a black cover, which looked rather old, and on the cover was written "Tom Riddle" in gilt letters.Just after Shen Yanzhou's gaze passed over it, its pages trembled almost invisibly.However, that tremor was so subtle that Shen Yanzhou didn't notice it.

……

The summer vacation ended soon, and the new school year began. Shen Yanzhou saw Lucius at the entrance ceremony, and he entered Slytherin as everyone expected.

And this child is just like what his father said, very interested in Shen Yanzhou's class, and occasionally visits him in Shen Yanzhou's office, and even brings some small gifts.

Although Shen Yanzhou always felt that something was weird, he didn't take it too seriously.

Time passed by in such a peaceful life, and sometimes Shen Yanzhou would forget what his ultimate goal was, and what was the difference between life in the secondary world and the main world?Unconsciously, he has spent more than 30 years here, and everyone here has flesh and blood, not just characters in a story.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters will also befall them.Sometimes a lot of things happen so unexpectedly and as a matter of course, like the death of the Potters.They were all very old, and after leaving this world one after the other, James was alone, almost treating him as his only relative.He sometimes thought, what would happen to James if he left too?

The only thing that urged him to act quickly was his worsening physical condition.If he can't leave this world before this body is completely scrapped, maybe this is the end of his journey.