[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

"Did James get warned by the seniors in Slytherin? Someone covered the snotling?" Sirius slapped his thigh again, thinking of a possibility.

"..." Remus and Peter Pettigrew looked at Sirius with mentally retarded eyes, please, Snape is notorious for being a loner, how could there be seniors covering him?His only friend is Lily.

After thinking about it for a while, Sirius felt that the possibility was unlikely, so he pondered again: "Could it be that the snotling gave him some strange potion?"

Remus thought for a while: "It seems that this symptom appeared half a month ago."

Peter Pettigrew said weakly: "I remember that the last time James found... the trouble with the snot-nosed man was in the art appreciation class."

"How can it be called finding fault!" Sirius said righteously. "We can't get used to the evil, gloomy and dirty Slytherin bat monster!"

Peter Pettigrew nodded quickly: "Yes, Slytherin Batmonger."

"I remembered, Professor Shen called James to the office for tea after that class!" Sirius slapped his forehead suddenly, remembering an important clue. "So that's how it is... despicable snotling! Cowardly Slytherin! If you can't beat him head-on, just use the vile trick of making a small report!"

As expected of a pair of good brothers, their brain circuits are exactly the same.

Remus originally wanted to say that Snape shouldn't be the kind of person who would snitch, but seeing Sirius' angry face, he was very sensible and didn't offend the furious Mr. Black.

"No, we have to let Professor Shen know what a snot-nosed man is, and we have to bring back that free and daring James!" Sirius said like a brave warrior. "From now on, the topic of discussion is officially changed to: let Professor Shen recognize the true face of the snot-nosed ghost and plan a big battle!"

……

Shen Yanzhou recently felt that he was being followed.

His life is still very simple and regular, classrooms, offices, libraries, and occasionally visit other professors or Lao Deng.But recently he discovered that there seemed to be three little tails behind him.

Sirius hid in the corner and quietly looked at Shen Yanzhou's back, then turned around and drew a route on the map.

"Remember the time, it's 04:30 in the afternoon!" Sirius said to Remus, and Remus took the quill to write down the time.

Sirius poked his head out again, just in time to bump into Shen Yanzhou turning his head, and quickly shrank back in fright.

Shen Yanzhou looked at the corner of the wall where Sirius and the others were hiding, feeling a bit dumbfounded.Although he didn't know why these children followed him, but there seemed to be no malice, so he let them go.

"Alright, I think I've figured out Professor Shen's daily routine!" Sirius flipped through a pile of road maps and timetables. "Having said that, it's really troublesome to memorize it slowly. Let's make a Marauder's Map when we have time."

"Let's try to pass every test first." Remus said helplessly looking at the whimsical Sirius.

"The next step is to set up a trap to let that idiot Snotty Gone get in!" Sirius said through gritted teeth.

……

Snape, who was about to return to the cellar after class as usual, was walking in the corridor when he suddenly met someone he didn't want to see - Sirius Black.

He immediately looked around vigilantly, looking for a node to escape, and at the same time looking for the location of another accomplice.

But they couldn't find it. The pig's head of Potter didn't seem to be here.Reminiscent of Potter's strange attitude towards him recently, Snape was not quite sure what the visitor's intention was.

Sirius didn't say anything, and passed Snape in the corridor without looking sideways, and suddenly snatched the Transfiguration textbook from his hand, and then ran away.

Snape, who was already vigilant, was thinner after all. He couldn't stop Sirius who suddenly attacked him, so he could only follow Sirius to chase him. He took out his wand and cast a few petrification spells at Sirius. But they were all nimbly dodged by Sirius.

Sirius ran wildly all the way, and took out the map from time to time to look at it, confirming the planned location, and before Snape had time to run over, he put the Transfiguration textbook at the corner of a corridor, and then headed in another direction Run away.

Although Snape didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the Sirius Gourd, he still ran over to confirm that there was no curse on the book, and then he knelt down and picked up the textbook, lamenting that the dog-headed prank was more and more serious. As I became more and more low-level, I felt that something fell down in front of my eyes and made a loud noise.

Snape looked at the shattered sculpture that fell at his feet: "..."

He swore to Merlin that he had never touched the statue!

But he immediately realized that it must be Black's fault!And it's definitely not just as simple as smashing the statue, there must be follow-up dirty tricks!

Sure enough, before Snape had time to clean up the wreckage of the statue, footsteps came from around the corner. He raised his head and saw a thin figure turning the corner and standing in front of him.

Shen Yanzhou was slightly taken aback when he saw the mess in front of him, and then looked at Snape who was looking at him with a bewildered expression.

The Sirius trio, who were hiding not far away, clapped their hands and celebrated: a big victory in the battle!

They lay in the corner watching the development with great interest, imagining how Professor Shen, who loves art, would criticize Snape who smashed the statue.

"What's the matter?" Shen Yanzhou looked at the fragments of the statue on the ground and asked.

"..." Snape gritted his teeth, and cursed Black in his heart for being vicious. Knowing that he would only appear to be shirking responsibility if he blamed Black on him now, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and admit it. "I'm sorry, Professor. I'll make up for my mistake, though!"

Shen Yanzhou was about to say it's okay, when Snape took out his wand and pointed at the fragments and said, "It's back to normal."

Fragments of the statue were lifted from the ground, restored to their original shape, and returned to their original positions.

"..." Shen Yanzhou exclaimed in amazement: "That's not bad... You're only in the first grade, right? I don't remember that this spell was taught in the first grade."

"Because it's very useful, I previewed it in advance." Snape's little face flushed a little after being praised.

Shen Yanzhou smiled and nodded, then walked past Snape and went back to his office.

Sirius, who was hiding in the corner, was about to have a heart attack in anger - stealing chickens won't cost you a lot of money, not only didn't Professor Shen hate Snape, maybe it made him like that snot-nosed man even more!

Remus and Pettigrew silently looked at Sirius who was almost fainting in the toilet, not wanting to touch him at this moment.

"No, we can't just admit defeat so easily!" Sirius cheered up quickly. "Start plan B!"

"Are you really going to use Plan B?" Remus asked hesitantly.

"What are you afraid of?" Sirius said through gritted teeth. "For my brother, I am willing to go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire!"

"..." Although the brotherhood is very touching, I always feel that Sirius is quite clueless in dealing with James - Remus and Pettigrew thought.

……

After the incident with the statue, Snape became even more vigilant—as expected, that guy Potter didn't provoke him to make him relax his vigilance, and Black even became more serious!

So when he saw a note in his book, he only glanced at the crooked signature of Sirius Black, and threw it into the trash can without thinking.

So the next day, the third day...he received exactly the same note.

In the end, Snape couldn't bear it anymore and opened the six slips of No.30, and recognized the English font on the slips that was missing arms and legs as if chewed by a dog:

"Snotling, if you are still a man, come to the duel outside the reading room at ten o'clock tonight! If I lose, then I won't deliberately pick on you!"

Snape threw the note into the trash can again with a cold face.

What are you kidding?Private fight or night tour?This dog head wants to be deducted points, but he doesn't want to!

However, Sirius is not so easy to compromise. Seeing that Snape refused to duel with him, he started to use all kinds of dirty tricks - such as secretly burning his robes, deliberately throwing his textbooks out of the window , Stretch out your leg to trip him while he's walking...

These behaviors even caught James' attention. He pulled Sirius and said, "Okay, forget about the snot."

Sirius looked at his brother, and suddenly remembered the unscrupulous James who dared to love and hate. When he thought that the man who restrained his good brother's nature was still at large, he felt angry——

"Good brother, don't worry about it! I'll help you solve your difficulties!" Sirius said, he felt that he was simply a brave and fearless warrior.

James: "???"

In the end, Snape, who was so annoyed by Sirius that he couldn't even continue his normal life, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and made a decision that he would regret later—he agreed to Sirius' request for a duel .They agreed to meet at the entrance of the library at ten o'clock. It was already very late at ten o'clock. At that time, there should be no one else staying there.

But is this really the case?

Sirius Black kindly reminded that this is not the case—according to his observation, Professor Shen would stay in the reading room every Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights until around ten o'clock before returning to the office. same disease.

So his plan is - pretend to be reading in the reading room before ten o'clock, it is best to let Professor Shen see that he is reading, leave a good impression that he is eager to learn, and then go outside the reading room at ten o'clock to drink his nose Fine duel.It was said to be a duel, but Sirius himself did not cast the spell, and only let the snotlings attack, so that when Professor Shen came out of the reading room, he could see the snotlings attacking him, and then he would bite him to death and deny the duel This kind of thing, so the snot man can't argue with it!

Sirius can't wait to give himself a hundred likes, it's a perfect plan!

Remus and Peter Pettigrew looked at each other in dismay: Is it really not fun to mess around like this?

……

Sitting in the reading room, Shen Yanzhou always felt that something was weird today.

He put down the book and looked around.It's late now, it's almost curfew time, and there are very few students who are still here.But Sirius Black was sitting not far from him, reading a book while looking at himself furtively.

Shen Yanzhou suddenly realized, this is probably the reason why he felt a little strange.

But he didn't bother to care about these, he lowered his head and continued to read the book.

Sirius, who found that Shen Yanzhou had noticed him, nodded secretly in satisfaction.

Time passed slowly, and it seemed like years to Sirius. Finally, he got up to ten o'clock, stood up, looked around, confirmed that everyone except Shen Yanzhou and Mrs. Pingsi had finished walking, and then hurried out After entering the reading room, Mrs. Pince shook her head again and again: What a reckless student.

"Mrs. Pingsi, are you leaving get off work soon?" Shen Yanzhou greeted Mrs. Pingsi with a smile when he saw Mrs. Pingsi approaching.

"Yes, it's curfew time, Professor Shen, you should go back earlier." Mrs. Pince also said with a smile.

"Oh, I'll go back after finishing this chapter." Shen Yanzhou waved the book in his hand.

……

Sirius walked outside the reading room, and was not surprised to see Snape standing at the door.

"Hey, Snotluck, did you come alone?" Sirius raised his head arrogantly and said.

Snape didn't want to answer this guy's trash talk at all, but he still spat back viciously: "Come on, Black, to deal with a fool like you who can do nothing but bark, one person is enough."

"That would be troublesome." Sirius shrugged, completely ignoring Snape's sarcasm, which is also one of his strengths - his heart is wide enough, otherwise he wouldn't be able to be a "pure-blood traitor." ". "Then no one will drag you to the medical wing. I'm afraid you'll have to lie here all night."

"Don't worry about it!" Snape said. "In order to prevent your troll's head from suddenly striking, let me make sure—are you sure no one will pass by here?"

"Do you think I'd do something stupid that puts myself in danger, Snivel?" Sirius asked back.

"..." Snape felt uncertain.This guy looks reckless, but in fact he has a bad stomach. In a way, he is more Slytherin than Slytherin.

"Then let's get started." Sirius directly took out his wand, while keeping an eye on Snape, he secretly glanced in the direction of the door of the reading room.

Professor Shen should be coming out soon!

"Petrify everything!" Snape preemptively struck with a curse.

Sirius hurried away.

Snape cast two petrification spells in the past - freshmen in the first year really don't know many spells.

Relying on his agility to evade his parents chasing after he often caused troubles at home, Sirius avoided N petrification curses in a row, but he was still a little out of breath.

Although Snape wondered why the other party didn't have any countermeasures, he still didn't stop, and hit one spell after another.Sirius was also very anxious. He had been waiting for Professor Shen to appear, but he didn't dare to make a move, for fear of being hit right.

Finally, Sirius' physical strength was almost exhausted, so he decided not to hide, and waited for Snape's spell to hit him.In this way, you have evidence of your own guilt!

As a result, he didn't wait for the spell to hit himself.A pair of hands stretched out from behind him and lifted him up from behind.

"You are doing..."

An angry voice sounded behind Sirius, and then stopped abruptly——

Snape and Sirius looked at Filch who had been hit by the Petrification Curse in shock, and felt that all the future of life was reduced to ashes by this Petrification Curse.

The worst thing was that the room leaked and it rained all night——Shen Yanzhou pushed open the door of the reading room and walked out, looking at the two little wizards and Filch who had fallen to the ground after being petrified in surprise.

"...What happened?" Shen Yanzhou took a second to react, then glanced at Snape, and turned his head decisively to ask the biggest suspect in his mind, Sirius Black.

"..." Sirius glanced at Snape and pointed at him decisively: "He did it!"

Snape glared at Sirius; he knew he shouldn't trust this stupid Gryffindor.

Shen Yanzhou glanced at Sirius in disbelief, walked up to the petrified Filch, and wrote the word "jie" on his sleeve with his finger, and Filch slowed down in a jerk—

"Night tour! Private fights in the corridor! You even attacked the faculty members! You two—oh, Professor Shan?" Filch was in the middle of speaking furiously, and suddenly realized Shen Yanzhou standing beside him. "There are two students here who didn't sleep after the curfew and attacked me! I'm going to take them both to confinement..."

Both the little lion and the little snake knew that this test might be hard to pass, so they kept their heads down and said nothing.Snape simply hated the pig-brained Black standing beside him. He couldn't believe a word of this kind of person!

"...Leave these two students to me, Mr. Filch, you should also go to rest earlier." Shen Yanzhou said with a smile. "By the way, my last name is Shen, not Shan."

"Professor Shem, don't worry about it, I can take care of these two students who don't obey the discipline!" Filch gave Snape and Sirius another look.

"Well...it just so happens that I still lack two students to help organize the props needed for class. Don't worry, Mr. Filch, I will educate them well." Shen Yanzhou said, and he wrote another word "confusion" on his sleeve.

Under the influence of the spell, Filch nodded obediently, and left. Before he left, he didn't forget to take another look at the two young wizards who attacked him for being undisciplined: "At least fifty points will be deducted from each of them!"

"Okay, okay." Shen Yanzhou nodded helplessly.

After Filch left, he turned his head to look at the two trembling little wizards, and said calmly: "Gentlemen, go back to the lounge of your own college now, and come to my office tomorrow night to explain what happened today. .”

Sirius and Snape, who knew they were in bad luck, were about to leave dejectedly. Shen Yanzhou hesitated for a moment, and suddenly stopped them again:

"It may not be safe at night, I'll take you back, follow me closely."

……

The next night, Snape and Sirius walked to Shen Yanzhou's office together after dinner in a tacit understanding.

But what is surprising is that both of them were depressed because their college was about to deduct a lot of points because of themselves, and there was no communication along the way, let alone verbal and verbal confrontation.

But Sirius was obviously a little more relaxed, after all, it wasn't him who attacked Filch, but the sullen Slytherin snot next to him.If it comes to punishment, the snotling will be the first to bear the brunt.

The two walked slowly, finally reached the door of Shen Yanzhou's office, and knocked on the door tremblingly.

Shen Yanzhou was sitting in front of the desk, and when he looked up, he saw two little wizards standing nervously at the door. He waved his hand to let them in, and motioned them to sit on the sofa.

"Night walks, fighting in the corridor, attacking faculty members." Shen Yanzhou softly described their crimes one by one. "It stands to reason that I'm going to deduct at least fifty points from each of you, and then put you in confinement."

The little lion and the little snake became more nervous, and Sirius immediately stood up and said, "I didn't fight in the corridor! It was the snot... It was Snape who attacked me unilaterally! And the one who attacked Filch was also he!"

Snape couldn't help it when he heard this, and he also stood up: "Professor, it was Black who threatened me to fight him after the curfew! And Filch just accidentally injured him, it was definitely not intentional! "

"Snotlite, what you say is unfounded! Show evidence!" Sirius said.

"I have a note from Black!" Snape took out the note from the book, but found that there was no writing on it.

A smug look flashed across Sirius' eyes: the ink will disappear automatically after a day, and once it disappears, there will be no traces of it anymore.

Snape knew that he had fallen into a huge trap when he saw the empty note, and was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Shen Yanzhou saw the two arguing and didn't say a word. He only waited for them to calm down before looking at Sirius and saying, "Before dealing with this matter, I want to ask Mr. Black why you have been following me for the last week?"

"..." Sirius was startled, and racked his brains to find a reason, but he felt that he couldn't find any good reason for being found so embarrassing after being followed.

Snape also didn't realize that Black was still following Professor Shen?What is the intention of this?

"Actually, I just want to tell you..." Shen Yanzhou laughed seeing their nervousness. "There's no need to hide anything from me. Especially you, Mr. Black."

When Sirius heard this, he immediately became deflated, knowing that all the battle plans he had planned during this period had all failed.Not only that, but also hurt his own academy. The only thing that can comfort him is that the snot-nosed man will be punished just like him.

Injure the enemy eight hundred and self-injure one thousand, that's probably what it means.

Snape was overjoyed at first, but soon realized that even so, he still had to bear the blame for attacking Filch, so he collapsed again.

"Actually, you don't need to be so nervous." Shen Yanzhou felt miserable seeing the two people's ashen hearts, so he comforted them: "I don't like deducting points from others, so I will give you a choice, or deduct five points from each of you." Ten, or do as I say."

"Do...what?" Sirius asked softly.

Shen Yanzhou handed each of them a piece of paper and a quill pen, and said with a smile: "You can draw portraits of each other, and try to highlight the advantages of each other's appearance. I will deduct less points for a good painting. No, you are not allowed to target each other in the future, especially you—Mr. Black. What do you think of this way?"

Snape and Sirius looked at each other's disgusting face: "..."

What should I do if I suddenly want to choose to deduct [-] points?