[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

After the new sorting ceremony, when James, who was wearing a Gryffindor uniform, stood in front of Shen Yanzhou with a smile, Shen Yanzhou was drawing a sketch with a quill pen.

"Godfather, what are you painting?" Seeing that Shen Yanzhou didn't seem to notice his existence at all, James leaned over to look at Shen Yanzhou's painting.

"Well, new students." Shen Yanzhou said, when he was bored, he could find any material to draw.When he looked up, he realized that it was James who barged in without knocking. "Oh, your school uniform is pretty good, and you look pretty handsome in it."

"Hogwarts is even better than I imagined!" James wanted to turn around happily when Shen Yanzhou praised him for being handsome.

"Have you made new friends?" Seeing how happy he was, Shen Yanzhou asked with a smile.

"Of course! Godfather, do you know Sirius Black?" James said excitedly.

"Well, I know, you seem to be Gryffindors of the same class." Shen Yanzhou said, this child still left some impression on him, as the eldest son of the oldest and noblest Black family, his appearance is very outstanding, the most impressive It was inconceivable that he had actually gone to Gryffindor.

"I talked to him, and we hit it off so well!" James nodded. "However, Godfather, do you think there are particularly good girls in this freshman class?"

Shen Yanzhou thought about it, and it seemed that there were no girls who could impress him particularly deeply.

"Godfather, what do you think of Lily Evans?" James said.

"...Lily Evans?" Shen Yanzhou quickly searched for the name in his brain, and found that the search result was zero.But looking at James' expectantly sparkling eyes, he nodded: "Oh, I have the impression that she is a very nice girl."

"Right? I feel like I'm in love with her," James said, his eyes full of little stars.

Shen Yanzhou smiled knowingly: "If you like it, go after it."

Speaking of this, James immediately flinched: "Oh, don't mention this... She always walks with the snot."

Shen Yanzhou keenly caught the insulting word in James' mouth: "Wait, snot-nosed?"

James immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, but he had already said it, and he simply admitted it as soon as he raised his head: "It's that Severus Snape from Slytherin House! Godfather, don't you think his name Does that sound a lot like a snot?"

Shen Yanzhou looked at James with disapproval: "It's not good to randomly call your classmates nicknames."

"Oh, I see." James said indifferently.

Knowing that James didn't listen to his words, Shen Yanzhou shook his head: "Then what are you going to do?"

"I want to snatch Lily!" James said full of fighting spirit.

"..." Shen Yanzhou thought about James' character and temper, and felt that it was useless to persuade him, and the 11-year-old child probably couldn't do anything too much, so he nodded: "Don't go too far good."

"Hey, godfather, can you teach me some more useful prank magic!" James immediately came up and asked with a playful smile. "Like making people drool when they talk? I want to make a fool of myself in front of Lily."

Shen Yanzhou gave him a disgusted look, and shook his head: "No. I don't like using magic very much, and it's not like you don't know it. Also, don't give your classmates such ugly nicknames."

"Oh, it's obvious that your magic is so powerful." James said regretfully.

"If you don't go back to the Gryffindor common room, there will be a curfew." Shen Yanzhou glanced at James who didn't seem to be going to leave, and had to remind him.

"Fine." James shrugged. "Actually, curfew is nothing to be afraid of."

Shen Yanzhou smiled, knowing that James was so unscrupulous because of the invisibility cloak, but he also saw through it without revealing it.

After seeing off James, Shen Yanzhou also prepared to rest.

But apparently it's not over yet.

Within a few weeks, James was starting to get busy.

Shen Yanzhou's class is an elective class, and the start time of the class is set by himself. Generally speaking, he will start the class one month late, so after so long, he is just about to go to his first class for the first grade.

Before Shen Yanzhou entered the classroom, he heard James mocking others:

"Hey, snot, you also come to the art appreciation class? You know art too? Could it be that you are planning to use your snot as paint?"

"Don't say that, James, it's not only his snot that can be used to make paint, but also the oil on his hair." Another strange boy's voice said, a different voice, the same arrogant and malicious .

"Shut your mouths, Potter, Black!" said a girl's voice, obviously angry.

"Lily, don't stay with this Slytherin all the time, be careful that you become as gloomy as him." James' voice came, and he probably felt that his tone was very sincere.

"If you don't get out now, I swear I will tell the professor about your behavior later!" the girl continued, her tone getting more bored.

Sirius Black burst into laughter almost immediately: "Oh, tell the professor? You probably don't know James..."

"Stop it, Sirius." James immediately interrupted Sirius' speech. He was also a little guilty, and he still had a clue as to whether his godfather would favor him in this matter.

"Anyway." James quickly regained his form and said aggressively. "Slytherin and Gryffindor can't get so close! Snotlite, don't think about toads eating swan meat!"

"Thank you for your concern, can you get out now?" Another strange boy's voice said, probably the "snot man" in their mouths.

"No." James said.

Sirius continued, "We're going to sit here today."

Hearing this, Shen Yanzhou had already walked into the door of the classroom, and at a glance he saw James, Sirius, Lily and Snape sitting side by side.James and Sirius saw Shen Yanzhou coming in, and immediately looked at Shen Yanzhou with a look of thirst for knowledge; while Lily and Snape sitting next to them looked at them with disgust, and then moved away .

Shen Yanzhou felt a little speechless, this was the first class, and the swords were already so tense.It can be seen that these people are fighting openly and secretly during the time after class.

He also took a special look at Lily Evans, and then secretly sighed that James likes this type, but it is really cute.

"First of all, welcome to the art appreciation class. I am your professor, and my surname is Shen." Shen Yanzhou said to a group of first-year freshmen with his opening remarks that have remained unchanged for thousands of years. "I think you are willing to come to this class because of your love for art, so in the first class, I hope you can talk about your favorite artistic expression, painting, music, sculpture...anything is fine... Um, classmate Severus Snape, can you chat?"

This was intentional. Compared with Lily Evans, Shen Yanzhou was actually more interested in this boy called "Snotty Man", so he asked him to answer questions as soon as he came up.

Snape was obviously taken aback by the sudden roll call, then he stood up awkwardly and glanced at Lily Evans.The latter gave him an affirming look, while James and Sirius made him a very well-timed grimace.

"..." Snape paused for a moment, then replied, "Literature, Professor."

James burst out laughing immediately, and then whispered to Sirius, "I'm dying of laughter. Literature and art are two completely different things. I'm afraid there may be something wrong with the snot-nosed man." He pointed to his head.

The two laughed softly together.

Snape gave them a disgusted look, while Lily glared at them both.

"Very good." Shen Yanzhou said with a smile. "Literature uses language to create images, which is a linguistic art, so can you talk about it in detail?"

The smiles of James and Sirius froze on their faces. When Snape heard that his answer was affirmed, he obviously became more confident, and his subsequent answers became more fluent.Lily showed a victorious smile, glanced at Snape very happily, and then glared at James and Sirius, especially James, who was slashed by the knife-like eyes.

James felt aggrieved, his pitiful little eyes met Shen Yanzhou, and then he suddenly mouthed to Shen Yanzhou: "Point me, godfather, point me!"

Although he didn't know what kind of moth James was planning, Shen Yanzhou still clicked Snape to answer the question after he finished answering the question:

"James Potter, would you like to talk?"

James jumped up immediately, glanced at Severus with a very disdainful look, then cleared his throat, and said, "My favorite form of artistic expression is painting, Professor."

Then he started his tirade, and Shen Yanzhou had black lines all over his head. It was all the basic things he had said in class to James.James has learned a lot, so of course he can come at his fingertips, but for the first-year freshmen, this knowledge can be regarded as very high-end and high-grade.

This method of competition was too cheating, Shen Yanzhou couldn't laugh or cry.

After James finished his long speech, the little lions of Gryffindor immediately burst into applause: "As expected of James, he can understand such obscure and difficult things!"

The little snakes of Slytherin were unconvinced and had nothing to do with them. They gritted their teeth and thought about borrowing some art-related books from the library, so that they could avenge their shame in the next class.

James looked at Lily showing off, but Lily didn't even give him a look.

James didn't get the memories of the person he wanted the most, and sat down a little dejected.

Sirius gave him a hammer: "Yes, brother, you know all about this!"

After all, James was still an 11-year-old child, and when he heard Sirius praise him so much, he immediately felt overjoyed: "Of course, don't look at who I am."

Shen Yanzhou heard them whispering, and shook his head angrily and amusedly: This year's first-year little wizards should have a lot of stories.

However, James needs to be educated, he's too skinny.