Dressed as a Hogwarts portrait

Halfway through the summer vacation, Dumbledore finally emerged from the fireplace in the principal's office. He looked very happy, and after greeting the portraits in the principal's office one by one, he wrote a line with a quill pen that will The parchment was folded and handed to Fox.Fenghuang, who had just finished a trip, stared at his master with a bit of sad eyes, picked up the parchment and disappeared in place.

Not long after, Fox reappeared, stopped on the sycamore wood shelf and closed his eyes to rest.

Just when Dumbledore started to eat the third lemon cake, the door of the headmaster's office was slammed open, and the Hogwarts Potions professor strode in as if carrying a gust of wind, and the momentum on the wall made All the portraits couldn't help but look sideways.

A crystal ball was dropped on the desk in the principal's office.

"Great job you've given me, Headmaster..."

The cold and dry tone obviously contained great anger, and he was trying his best to suppress it.

Dumbledore blinked.

He expected that Severus would be very annoyed, but obviously the anger value exceeded his expectations, and what is this crystal ball?

The old man curiously put down the cake, reached out and picked up the small crystal ball, the sharp light in the blue eyes behind the half-moon glasses flashed away, Mimi still smiled and raised her head and asked: "Dear Severus, what is the mirrored crystal ball?" Items that are forbidden by the Ministry of Magic, what do you want to show me? The life habits of the basilisk? I heard from the house elf that it is very cute and stays on its stomach all day. Of course, I would like to thank you, Severus, for your magic. medicine, otherwise it would not be able to recover so quickly..."

"Assuming you haven't forgotten that basilisk whose brains have been eaten by slugs, you should remember that you are the headmaster, Dumbledore!"

"Severus, I know you don't agree with keeping the basilisk in the school, but it's clear that it has nowhere else to go but this castle."

"Dumbledore, may I assume that you think that I used the mirrored crystal ball, which is expressly prohibited by the Ministry of Magic, just to discuss with you the basilisk that should have been dead until now?"

Dumbledore blinked his eyes, stuffed another piece of lemon sherbet into his mouth, and then said in a pleasant tone: "Severus, you will know at my age, really, being angry often is not good for your health. ..."

"Dumbledore!!"

The potions professor's intolerance only resulted in low laughter from several portraits on the wall, which made Head Slytherin's face even paler, and the pressure around him became stronger and colder. He took a deep breath, and then resumed his low and cold tone : "There have been people watching from the sidelines in the head of Slytherin's office these days. It's a very bad feeling. With a pair of eyes hiding in the dark, I almost ruined the potion I was making!"

Dumbledore raised his eyes in surprise, stroking the crystal ball in his hand.

"Spells, defensive circles, alchemy items... none of them were touched, and I was in that room many times but couldn't find those eyes..." Snape's voice became lower and lower, and his expression became more rigid .

"So I put this funny and honest little thing in the head of Slytherin's office, ah, it is really wonderful, and since you brought it to me, Severus, so the eyes have Was it recorded by this little thing?"

Not knowing if it was an illusion, Snape's expression became even more rigid, and he only squeezed out a word from his lips: "Portrait."

"Huh?" The old man blinked suspiciously.

"Dumbledore, can I assume you've never been in the office of the head of Slytherin? If your brains haven't been rotted by the sour lemon sherbet you've eaten, you'd remember that I'm in my office now, the only, that One pair, draw!!"

"A very beautiful painting, the work of the great Salazar Slytherin, the afternoon sunlight intertwined with the reflections of the shiny trees on the changing surface of the black lake, it is very charming." It was a person on the wall who spoke. The headmaster is also the only Slytherin-born headmaster in the history of Hogwarts, Phineas Black.

"Now that damned landscape is said to be drawn by Salazar Slytherin, there is an extra person! If my memory is not wrong, and the heads of Slytherin in the past have not been blinded by sleepy beans, That painting has never—almost 1000 years have never shown anyone, Albus Dumbledore!"

"Yes, yes, Severus, this is really incredible." The old man continued to eat lemon sherbet while thinking, but he didn't have any intention of checking the mirrored crystal ball.

"Just after the secret room was discovered, the extra people in that painting... Hmph, think for yourself!"

The potions professor came in aggressively, and a gust of wind slammed the door of the principal's office.

"Oh, this is not good..."

The greatest white wizard in the world murmured, glanced at the crystal ball on the table, and picked it up.

"Albus-"

Dumbledore stood up slowly, and glanced solemnly at the portraits on the wall. The previous headmasters had different expressions in their picture frames. Some looked surprised, some were deep in thought, and more were Anxiety and hesitation.

"Yes, I know, we both know, he'll come back one day, don't we?"

Then he laughed happily:

"It's just that I didn't expect that I would be able to catch up with this after being a principal for so many years at such an old age."

"Albus." A female headmistress hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Godric Gryffindor's last diary, every headmaster of Hogwarts has read it, but Albus, you are completely Do you believe it?"

"I think, no matter what it is, we need to observe with our eyes..." Dumbledore squinted his eyes and looked at the small crystal ball carefully. After a long while, he nodded and said, "Go ask the Hogwarts corridors and All the portraits in the Great Hall, I guess it's easy, Hogwarts is small for them, and as for the ghosts, don't be alarmed just yet, especially the Gray Lady in Ravenclaw and the Bloody Baron in Slytherin."

Putting down the crystal ball, and pondering for a while, his wise blue eyes flickered: "I've always had a guess after reading Godric Gryffindor's diary."

"Albus?"

"Salazar Slytherin was the most brilliant painting wizard at that time, but unfortunately, he never painted portraits. Maybe some ancient noble families still have one or two landscape paintings of England, right, Fei Nias?"

The portraits on the wall all laughed.

"But why did Slytherin suddenly draw the only portrait in his life when he was old? Although he drew himself..."

"Albus, what do you mean?"

Dumbledore looked down at the crystal ball:

"Very likely. Well, it's best not to alarm him, we can't be sure what Voldemort was thinking when it was possible that he might return. Nobody knew about Salazar Slytherin while he was alive, Including his three best friends, our founders."