Connor's Hogwarts

Chapter 63 Connor's First Work

"Connor, you're here."

"Well, here I am."

"Are you ready?"

"Yes."

"Then let's start."

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office, Connor took out a semi-finished background painting. After seeing it, Professor Nott nodded with complicated eyes and said, "I'm interested, thank you Connor."

Apparently Professor Knott also knew that drawing this background was not easy.

"It's nothing, this is what I should do." Connor shook his head.

Professor Nott didn't talk nonsense, he took out the Pensieve and asked, "Which picture do you need?"

"Let's go there at the end. Miss Mandy came out to interview the Aurors."

Professor Nott nodded, took out his wand and pointed, a black shadow rose from the meditation plate, like a puff of thick smoke hovering in the air, dancing and deforming, and finally turned into the appearance of Miss Mandy. As a background, the memory that could only be seen in the meditation disk was presented by Professor Nott with his superb magic power.

"A little trick, I hope it can help you." Professor Nott smiled modestly.

Connor silently memorized this 13-installation technique, then set up the painting equipment, and said with a smile: "No, it's a great help, and it will be much easier to draw in this way."

"Then I won't bother you, please start." Professor Nott walked aside silently, found a place where he could watch Connor draw and stood quietly, with a little excitement in anticipation.

Connor took a deep breath and started painting
Connor is no stranger to making magic paintings, but this is the first time to make advanced magic paintings. The difference between advanced magic paintings and ordinary magic paintings is that when drawing advanced magic paintings, the "action" and "speech" magic patterns are cast at the same time. , it is necessary to leave a "remaining mark" on the position of the magic pattern.

Magic painting is different from ordinary oil painting. Ordinary oil painting does not have a complete background picture, and then draws characters on the background without blank space. It is very troublesome to mix multiple colors.

But the magic painting is different. In the magic painting, the background and characters can be separated. When the oil paint fused with magic power falls on the drawing paper, the drawing paper is no longer flat.

There is a real layered space in Magic Painting, just like the layers of CAD, the background and characters belong to two different layers.

That's why Connor can draw characters on the drawing paper with the background painted, and there is a third layer of "memory" in the advanced magic painting, which is built in the character layer. You need to leave room for this layer, just like you need to leave room for the character layer when you draw the background layer.

This is an advanced magic pattern control skill. It may be difficult for Connor to achieve this step when he started school. Now he can do it with ease, but it is not an easy task. Connor quickly devoted himself to the world of painting .

For a moment, the only sound left in the room was the swishing sound of the brush smearing the paper, so quiet that a needle could be heard.

Behind him, Professor Nott was also watching seriously, watching the longing figure slowly emerge on the drawing paper, with mixed expressions on his face, which alternated between sadness and joy.

Time passed slowly until it was lunch time, and the silence in the room was finally broken.
"Phew~ It's done!" Connor took a deep breath and put down his brush.

Professor Nott walked forward quickly, looking at the familiar figure in the painting, trembling with excitement: "Okay! Very good! Great!"

Miss Mandy in the painting blinked her eyes and said with a smile: "How are you!" Mandy's eyes were a little confused, but she smiled brightly, like a wise cough cough
Connor quickly took out his wand and said, "Professor Nott, there is one last step, let's draw out your memory fragments."

"Good! Good!" Professor Nott took out a small bottle from his pocket, and there was a blue filament hovering in the bottle. It was a embodied memory, which could be copied or extracted from the consciousness space through special magic.

Connor also waved his wand, and Miss Mandy in the painting was suddenly stunned. This was Connor controlling the "remaining marks" magic pattern, which was connected to Miss Mandy in the painting. Connor hadn't mastered it when the school started. Magic is now available.

Connor took the small bottle in Nott's hand, "poured" out the contents, and then the blue filament floated into the painting under the traction of Connor's magic power, and merged into Miss Mandy's body.

Miss Mandy in the painting closed her eyes.

Connor waved his wand again, closing the magic pattern, and his first work was considered complete.

"Huh, luckily." Connor said, "Miss Mandy is digesting your memory, and she will wake up soon, and my mission will be completed immediately."

"Okay! Great! Thank you very much, Connor, really, you don't know how happy I am now. Thank you! Thank you!" Professor Nott took the portrait tremblingly, wanted to reach out and touch it, but hesitated to put it down , a little incoherent with excitement, Connor saw the sparkle in the corner of Professor Nott's eyes.

"It's nothing, this is what I promised, I just did what I should do." Connor smiled, seeing Professor Nott so happy, Connor was also very happy.

At this time, Miss Mandy in the painting opened her eyes. She frowned first, then looked at Connor, then at Professor Nott, and then she said to Professor Nott, "Are you Sack?"

"Yes! Yes! Mandy, long time no see." Professor Nott's tone trembled.

"So, have I turned into a painting? Is this the magic of the Lake family? It's amazing..."

"Yes, this"

"So I'm dead."

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"Mandy, you."

"Hahaha! It's nothing, isn't it just dead? Who wouldn't die?" Mandy waved her hands and smiled brightly, but her eyes became hollow again when she smiled, and she said, "But Sac, I feel It’s so strange, it’s turned into a painting.”

"Professor Nott," Connor frowned as he looked at Mandy, who was acting erratically and strangely, and couldn't help asking, "Excuse me, how many memories do you have left in the magic of leaving marks?"

"." Professor Nott opened his mouth, closed it again, and said after a long silence, "I'm sorry, Connor, I only have the memory of her from those eight years."

"What!? Professor Nott! You clearly know." Connor looked at the silent Professor Nott, swallowed back the words he wanted to question, and said with a sigh: "Forget it, I don't care, my mission has already been completed." Finished, I'll go first, Professor."

After speaking, Connor turned and left, but just as he opened the door of the room, Professor Nott's voice came from behind him.

"Wait, Connor." Professor Nott stepped forward and said, "Sorry, Connor, this is indeed my selfish request, and I have concealed it from you."

"It's nothing, professor. After all, I haven't asked you in detail before. But you have to be clear, just eight years of incomplete memory is not enough to restore a person. This is no longer Miss Mandy in your memory."

"I know, I know, but it's enough, enough." Professor Nott said in a low voice, "I know you put a lot into this painting. It's my fault for making it incomplete, I'm sorry, and I ask you to forgive an old man's somewhat selfish request."

Looking at Professor Nott with his head bowed in front of him, Connor really didn't know how to deal with it.

Indeed, as Professor Knott said, Connor is a little unhappy. After all, this is the first work that Connor has put a lot of energy into. Of course, Connor hopes that it will be perfect.

If you want to restore a person with a magic painting, even using his own eight-year memory is far from enough, let alone the eight-year memory extracted from the perspective of a bystander.

Connor thought that Professor Nott would put all the memories of Miss Mandy into the painting.

Professor Nott once said that Miss Mandy died in 1969. At that time, Miss Mandy was 36 years old. Connor thought that the memory of more than [-] years could barely restore a character.But I didn't expect that Professor Nott would play such a tricky game, and only invested in the memory from Miss Mandy's enrollment to her appointment as an Auror.

At this time, Miss Mandy in the painting is only a "defective product". She has the "way of thinking" and a few pitiful "memory" endowed by Connor from Professor Nott's memory. This magic painting is undoubtedly If it fails, even if the painting will become more humanized with the accumulation of new memories in the future, the Miss Mandy at that time may be far from the real Miss Mandy.

So no matter from which angle you look at it, Connor's first magic painting was a failure.

Connor sighed and said, "Up to now, I have nothing to say. When this magic painting is completed, it will have nothing to do with me. Please treat it kindly."

Connor didn't say anything more, turned and left.

Behind him, Professor Nott raised and lowered his hand, and finally closed the office door.

(End of this chapter)