[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

"Godfather, I heard that you are not feeling well in class today?" James sat comfortably on the sofa, staring at Voldemort with a pair of big round eyes.

"...Hmm." Voldemort looked at James' sitting posture, and the corners of his eyes twitched.

When he came to Shen Yanzhou's office back then, he always sat and stood up, how could he be so haphazard!

"Is it better now?" James asked worriedly.

Voldemort nodded with a reassuring smile.Well, at least know how to care about people.He thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "How is your study life recently?"

James thought he was asking about Lily, Sirius, and Snape, so he hesitated: "That's...that's it, I haven't bullied Snot...Snape again. Sirius has always been good Yes, we do not violate the water of the river...Godfather, what are you doing?"

James was taken aback by his own godfather approaching him suddenly.

Voldemort walked up to James, looked down at him sitting on the sofa, and narrowed his eyes: "It's okay, relax, you continue talking."

Shen Yanzhou was almost roaring in his own brain: "Don't use Dementor on him!"

But it was already too late. The unsuspecting James stared at Voldemort's slowly rotating vortex-like eyes, and involuntarily sank into them, easily captured by someone's memory.

All the memories were presented in front of Voldemort without any concealment. From James' childhood to the present 12-year-old boyhood, all the memories about Shen Yanzhou were completely seen by Voldemort.

Shen Yanzhou sighed, if he had a body now, he would probably have quite a headache.For the Dark Lord, any moral constraints do not exist, and he can do whatever he wants, even if it is something like snooping on other people's memories at will.

"It seems that his life is really smooth sailing." Voldemort said in his mind. "A child who lacks tempering cannot become a talent."

"I'd rather he be a flower in a greenhouse, than let him become a person like you after going through tempering." Shen Yanzhou mocked mercilessly.

Voldemort's eyes darkened slightly.

Given the choice... who wouldn't want to live under your protection?

It's just too late to say that now.

"Godfather?" James said halfway, and found that the listener's expression was actually a little gloomy.He had never seen his godfather with such an expression before, he couldn't help but stopped again, and shouted timidly.

"..." Voldemort reached out and rubbed James' hair, rumpled it into a chicken coop, and then showed a very fake smile: "Get along well with your classmates. If there is nothing else, you Go back first."

After sitting in the office for less than 5 minutes, he received an eviction order from the godfather-this was the first time for James.But Shen Yanzhou seemed to be in a bad mood today, and he didn't dare to say anything more, but gave his godfather another big hug, and then ran out of the office.

Voldemort stood stiffly in the office, and it took a long time before he patted himself where James had hugged him in disgust.

"It's really ill-bred," said Voldemort.

Shen Yanzhou: Can you keep your voice down?His godfather is still here.

……

Voldemort walked quickly through the corridors with a cold face. He was familiar with every secret passage in Hogwarts, and he didn't even meet a single student when he drilled around.

Soon, he was walking out of Hogwarts, disappearing into the shadows the moment he left the range of the spell that prohibited Apparition.

The end point of the movement was the entrance of a gorgeous manor, with the words Malfoy written on the golden door plate in beautiful and exaggerated fonts, Voldemort glanced at the door plate, and then walked in without saying a word.

Pushing open the exquisitely carved and complicated embossed gate, he easily destroyed the manor's alarm magic, scaring the current head of the Malfoy family, Lucius, to run down the stairs directly with his wand. For a moment, he froze for a moment:

"Professor Shen?"

Voldemort looked up at Lucius coldly: "It's me."

Lucius immediately realized what was going on, and he knelt down almost without hesitation: "Master."

Shen Yanzhou was surprised: "Lucius is a Death Eater?" How many people have you poisoned?

Voldemort chuckled: "Not yet. But this boy is very sensible and has helped me a lot. He will be a very useful servant in the future."

He walked to the beautifully decorated living room of Malfoy's house, sat on the soft sofa, and said to Lucius, "Where's my wand?"

Lucius immediately ran to the storage room and gave Voldemort the yew wand that the Malfoy family had been keeping carefully.

Voldemort took the wand, and the familiar feeling of being connected to the soul made him squint his eyes comfortably.With the wand, he more than doubled his strength, which was one of the main reasons he came to Malfoy Manor.

He held the yew wood wand in his hand, stood up suddenly, walked outside the Malfoy Manor, and pointed the wand at the sky.

"The corpse reappears."

A mass of green light flashed from the tip of the wand, shining psychedelic and weird colors in the night sky, rising higher and higher, and finally taking shape in the sky——

Dark Mark.

The Dark Mark, which brought countless deaths and panic to the magic world ten years ago, appeared in the night sky again on this ordinary night.The skeleton opened its mouth and smiled strangely, and the snake slowly crawled out of its mouth, like a new constellation shining brightly in the sky.

This is the sign of the summoning of the Death Eaters, and it is also a herald——

The Dark Lord returns.

……

Shen Yanzhou could almost imagine the headlines of the Daily Prophet the next day.

The Dark Mark Returns!Is it the resurrection of the mysterious man, or the panic deliberately created by the Death Eaters! "

And he also saw many familiar faces among the Death Eaters who responded to the summons.

Most of them were his students, and although he couldn't remember their names, he could remember their faces.

And these Death Eaters were obviously taken aback when they saw Voldemort, but soon realized that the handsome young man in front of them was not their professor, but the Dark Lord.Such a dark, deep, evil and cold temperament belonged only to the Dark Lord.

But they were not surprised by the sudden resurrection of the Dark Lord, obviously they had been prepared for a long time.

Voldemort looked at the Death Eaters who had been summoned, and said in an unclear tone, "Is that all there are?"

The Death Eaters dared not speak.In ten years, apart from those who were captured and killed, only the most loyal Death Eaters remained.

However, Voldemort didn't linger on this issue for a long time. For him, recruiting people couldn't be easier. On the contrary, those who survived the test of time are more valuable.

After briefly listening to the Death Eaters introduce the current situation in the wizarding world, Voldemort made some arrangements for the staff and told them their recent goals.

"Master, are you now..." one of the Death Eaters asked hesitantly after hearing all of Voldemort's arrangements.

The other Death Eaters immediately looked up at Voldemort, obviously wondering what the hell was going on.How on earth did the Dark Lord come back to life, and even changed into such a high-profile body.

Voldemort didn't want to explain this question, so Lucius on the side said: "Professor Shen is on our side, and he will help us open the entrance to Hogwarts. The master is only borrowing this body temporarily."

Shen Yanzhou was silent. He knew that Voldemort would definitely use him to let the Death Eaters enter Hogwarts, but he didn't expect him to say it so cleanly.

"If there is nothing else, I will return this body," said Voldemort. "The venue for future meetings will be Malfoy Manor."

Under the adoring eyes of a group of Death Eaters, Voldemort walked to the fireplace in Malfoy Manor. Although he didn't really want to use the Floo network as a means of transportation, it was indeed the fastest and least difficult way to reach Shen Yanzhou's office. way to be discovered.

Of course, he took all the Floo powder from the Malfoys before he left.

This directly led to the fact that when Lucius was in a hurry to go out the next day, he found that the bowl of Floo powder was missing, and he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.As a result, he was late for the meeting and almost caused a big business deal of the Malfoy family to collapse.

……

Voldemort used Shen Yanzhou's body to summon Death Eaters several times in Malfoy Manor, and the outside world also began to have anxiety about the return of the Dark Lord, and the entire wizarding world began to panic.

Some people think that the Dark Lord has really returned, while others think that this is simply a deliberate panic created by someone with a heart.The mysterious man died ten years ago, and there has never been a resurrection in this world.

But Dumbledore fell into deep thought after hearing these things.

He was one of the very few who knew that Voldemort had Horcruxes, and one of the few who doubted that Voldemort was indeed resurrected. .As for discussing about Voldemort, the most suitable person in the school is of course Shen Yanzhou who had an inexplicable relationship with Voldemort back then.

So Shen Yanzhou soon received a small note from Fox, with the password of the principal's office written on it, inviting him to come to the principal's office to have a talk when he was free, and the words were still old Deng's witty and humorous.

Of course, this kind of wit and wit is not the same thing in another person's eyes.

Voldemort took the note with a look of disgust, then crumpled it up and threw it into the trash can: "It smells like honey from a long distance away."

Shen Yanzhou ignored him, opened the door and wanted to leave the office, but Voldemort grabbed his wrist.

Shen Yanzhou turned his head and looked at Voldemort impatiently. Voldemort squinted his eyes and looked at him, the red light in his eyes looming: "Bring the diary."

"Why?" Shen Yanzhou frowned.

"You and Dumbledore are alone, I'm not sure if you will betray me again." Voldemort's eyes suddenly turned cold.

Shen Yanzhou sighed, walked to the bookshelf, took down the diary, and put it in his coat: "Is it alright?"

Voldemort watched him finish all this, snorted coldly, turned into a black mist and got into the notebook in Shen Yanzhou's coat.

Shen Yanzhou opened the door of the office and walked out.

Voldemort's worry was not wrong. Shen Yanzhou originally thought that being obedient during this period of time would make him relax a little bit, and then find an opportunity to tell Lao Deng that Voldemort used him as an opening to launch an attack plan from within Hogwarts.

But obviously, a betrayal made Voldemort's trust in Shen Yanzhou fall to the bottom.

But Shen Yanzhou didn't want to give up just like that. He was under Voldemort's surveillance now, and the chances of seeing Lao Deng were very few. Basically, he could only wait for Lao Deng to take the initiative to call him to the principal's office.Now that the Dark Lord's resurrection happened again, Dumbledore has long been annoyed by the pressure from the outside world, and the possibility of coming to him on his own initiative is even lower.In any case, this matter must be disclosed to Dumbledore.

"Pumpkin Pie."

After the password was passed, the door of the principal's office opened in front of Shen Yanzhou.

The quarrels of the portraits of previous principals came, making the entire principal's office extremely noisy:

"Stop arguing! Stop arguing! If you want me to say, it's all alarmist talk from outsiders!"

"What if it's true!"

"So many people have seen the Dark Mark, why must you turn a blind eye!"

"Come on, how can there be a way to resurrect the dead in this world? Hasn't the resurrection stone been in the hands of the professor at Hogwarts for ten years?"

"How do you know there is no other way of resurrection? Like a Horcrux!"

"God, you actually said the name of such an evil black magic!"

"The resurrection stone has no ability to resurrect at all, it can only visualize the dead in people's memory!"

"Everything is just a legend, who can produce evidence!"

"..."

Dumbledore sat behind the desk, propped his chin with one hand, and looked at Shen Yanzhou helplessly: "I just wanted to discuss the latest news with them, and they turned out to be more excited than anyone else."

Shen Yanzhou looked at the portrait and said with a smile: "They are also very independent people."

"You have also seen that even the previous principals are so quarrelsome, you can imagine how chaotic the outside world has become." Old Deng sighed. "Maybe that's what Tom wants to see."

"..." Shen Yanzhou just wanted to nod his head desperately. As one of the people who knew Voldemort best, Lao Deng could guess that Voldemort's next plan was to start from within Hogwarts?

Lao Deng is not a god, so of course he couldn't guess it.

"What do you think?" Dumbledore asked Shen Yanzhou, "You should know him well."

"..." Shen Yanzhou recalled what happened when Voldemort was still a student at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore's incomparably accurate judgment of him at that time, and sighed: "Actually, Albus, you knew that you He's the one who knows him best."

"Don't underestimate yourself, in comparison, your relationship is much closer." Dumbledore said. "Though that incident ten years ago... Tom seems to hate you very much."

"Yes." Shen Yanzhou smiled wryly. "It's no wonder he hates me."

"So, do you think he's resurrected?" asked Dumbledore.

Shen Yanzhou was about to say something when the Dark Mark on his left arm suddenly felt like it was burning.Shen Yanzhou pressed the Dark Mark on his left arm with his right hand indiscriminately, trying to relieve the pain.

"I think..." he said, trying to keep his tone steady. "He didn't come back to life."

Dumbledore looked up at Shen Yanzhou's eyes, a little doubt flashed in the sky blue eyes behind the lenses.

"Really?" Dumbledore asked again.

"Yes." Shen Yanzhou nodded affirmatively, he could feel the burning sensation on his arm subside.

"I thought you would believe he was resurrected." Dumbledore showed some unexpected expressions.

Shen Yanzhou forced a smile: "He has no Horcruxes anymore. He once told me that he only has one Horcrux, and that Horcrux has been destroyed."

"..." Dumbledore's eyes flashed with thought, and he looked at Shen Yanzhou with some inquiry. "He only made one?"

"He told me so." Shen Yanzhou said.

"But he hates you." Dumbledore said suspiciously. "Maybe he's not telling you the truth."

Shen Yanzhou smiled wryly: "When he told me this sentence, he still didn't hate me."

Dumbledore nodded thoughtfully.

……

Lao Deng had passed this level, but Shen Yanzhou didn't think of a way to bypass Voldemort's warning to Dumbledore.

Voldemort cast an Unbreakable Curse on him, and he couldn't tell anyone anything about Voldemort.If there is any violation, the unbreakable spell will kill him immediately.

But he couldn't just do nothing and watch all of this.

He must act.

Shen Yanzhou took a box of cockroach piles that was said to be the newest taste given to him by Lao Deng, and returned to the office. After opening it and looking at it, he lost his appetite. place.

Voldemort watched Shen Yanzhou stuff things into the locker, and his eyes touched those potions that had not been touched since his soul was almost restored. He reached out and took a bottle, and handed it to Shen Yanzhou: "Drink it."

"..." Shen Yanzhou glanced at Voldemort like a madman.

"Are you doing it yourself or shall I help you?" Voldemort's expression darkened.

Shen Yanzhou wanted to say that this potion was really useless to him, but seeing Voldemort's face, he still took the potion bottle and swallowed the potion against the discomfort in his stomach. The strange taste made him I almost spit it out, and after swallowing it, I was still coughing non-stop, and my tears were almost coughed up.

Voldemort frowned at him, then reached out and took out the pile of cockroaches that had just been stuffed in from the locker: "Need something sweet?"

Shen Yanzhou watched as Voldemort grabbed a cockroach's leg with a disgusted expression and lifted it into the air. He suddenly felt his stomach tumbling more violently, and was so uncomfortable that he couldn't speak.If he could talk, he would let him roll as far as he could with the cockroach.

……

It is another Christmas Eve, which comes quietly under the expectation of countless little wizards.

Hogwarts began to snow early in the morning, and white soft snowflakes fluttered down from the sky, falling on the cold stone floor and dead tree branches, dyeing Hogwarts with pure colors.

Just like in previous years, Shen Yanzhou's office was about to be overwhelmed by owls, one gift after another was thrown by the owls at Shen Yanzhou's feet, and soon piled up into a hill.

Voldemort watched Shen Yanzhou put away the packages one by one with cold eyes, and recorded the names on the packages, without any intention of coming to help.

"You are very welcome," said Voldemort.

Shen Yanzhou ignored him, bowed his head and continued to arrange his presents.He hasn't had time to prepare a Christmas return this year, and I'm afraid it will be very busy today.

James sent a statue of a moving dragon. After taking it out of the package, it kept breathing fire, but Shen Yanzhou directly gagged it and put it in the storage cabinet.

Sirius gave a quill, which looked like it was plated with gold, but it was not very useful to Shen Yanzhou, and it looked very pompous, so he also stuffed it into the storage cabinet.

Lily sent a Muggle artist's album, Shen Yanzhou looked at it for a while, and found that the style of painting was very suitable for him, so he happily put it on the bookshelf.

Snape sent a bottle of potion that looked very beautiful, with a note next to it - drinking the potion can make your hearing more than three times that of ordinary people in a short period of time - it doesn't seem very useful, because Shen Yanzhou can Use spells to easily reach more than ten times the hearing.

Shen Yanzhou checked all the gifts, wrote down the names of the people who needed to return gifts one by one, and then began to prepare the gifts for them.Voldemort watched him prepare gifts, and suddenly remembered his student days. This person never gave himself a holiday gift. The only gift was the ink bamboo picture after he became a prefect—which had been hand-painted by him. torn up.

Thinking of this, Voldemort felt a fire burning in his chest, and the blood-red light in his pupils suddenly flickered. At that moment, he had almost no time to think, and the magic burst out, and he packed what Shen Yanzhou had finally finished and gave it to James. The gift was smashed to pieces.

Shen Yanzhou looked down at the destroyed gift box in his hand, and it took a long time before he looked at Voldemort with disbelief: "What are you crazy about!"

Only then did Voldemort realize what he had done. He pressed his forehead, not understanding why he was so impulsive all of a sudden, but he still said: "I want to check everything you send out, so that you don't let me know. secret."

Shen Yanzhou was silent for a while, then stood up abruptly, his tone full of impatience: "You are too suspicious, right? It's just a Christmas gift in return, not to mention you have cast an indestructible curse on me? There is something stronger than death Potent threat?"

Voldemort was caught off guard by Shen Yanzhou's words and pushed back, feeling a little angry in his heart: "Pay attention to your manner of speaking, don't forget that you are a Death Eater now! Find out who your master is!"

With the experience of being betrayed once, he wanted to ask the person in front of him, I am not so suspicious, am I waiting to be betrayed by you a second time?

He didn't continue to say anything, but took out another bottle of potion from the locker, handed it to Shen Yanzhou, and said, "Drink the potion."

Shen Yanzhou took the potion and kept his eyes on Voldemort's face. He smiled mockingly: "It's true that I can't resist you now, but that doesn't mean you can manipulate me casually. If you can use me like a servant with the same mark, I advise you to kill me as soon as possible."

After saying this, Shen Yanzhou threw the potion in his hand into the trash can.Without looking back, he entered his room and slammed the door.

Voldemort looked at the closed door and suddenly felt a little funny.

No matter how clear he is about this person's nature, knowing how much he hates himself and how much he wants to die, but he can't control himself in front of him, and he can't help showing his relatively gentle side to him. In front of him, even if he knew that this person who betrayed him did not deserve to be treated like this.

He looked at the potion thrown into the trash can, sighed, and took out a small hidden box from the locker.

Open the box, inside is the latest product of Honeydukes, the flower fairy candy that Dumbledore solemnly recommended.He saw Shen Yanzhou's pain when he drank the medicine last time, so he asked Lucius to buy this kind of candy.He originally intended for Shen Yanzhou to eat it after drinking the potion, as a little Christmas surprise, but he didn't expect Shen Yanzhou to say such a thing.

"If you think you can treat me like a servant by marking me with that animal mark, I advise you to kill me as soon as possible."

As soon as these words were uttered, Voldemort fully understood that the two of them had drifted farther and farther apart, and what was left between them was nothing but hatred.

Voldemort's eyes darkened. He was obviously the one who was betrayed, and he was the one who suffered the most. Why does he feel that he is the perpetrator at this moment, and he has no pleasure in revenge?

Voldemort walked to the fireplace and threw the candy into the burning fire.He stood by the fireplace, so close to the source of warmth, but it was like being in the cold night.