Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 102 Paying Gade's Painting
"What's so strange, Professor?" Maureen asked.

Professor Charles said thoughtfully: "No, maybe I was wrong."

He carefully removed the painting and gently brushed the dust off the frame.

Maureen noticed that there was also a strange symbol in the lower right corner of the painting. It was a brush with an eye under the tip of the brush, and the eye was half-closed.

Mo Lin said, "Professor, this painting doesn't need to be restored. I just identified it, and there is no writing left."

Professor Charles replied: "It's okay, I just want to study Payngade's painting style. Hurry up and continue to appraise the painting over there."

Mo Lin pointed to the house in the painting and said, "Professor, I just saw a strange person peeping from behind this window. Is this normal?"

Professor Charles said with a smile: "Of course it's normal, how can you ask the people in the painting not to go into the house?"

He took out his wand, floated the painting, and placed it in the corner of the corridor on the seventh floor, where there were also many paintings that needed restoration. After finishing this, he continued to turn around to deal with other portraits.

Maureen looked suspiciously at the back of Professor Charles. He was sure that Professor Charles was not telling the truth. Maybe he noticed something wrong with the painting, but he didn't want Maureen to know.

This couldn't help but make Mo Lin more suspicious. Mo Lin set his eyes on the painting in the corner of the corridor again, but he no longer felt the feeling of being peeped from that painting.

Maureen was busy all morning with doubts. What Hugo was worried about that Professor Charles would attack him did not happen, and in fact nothing happened.Because they were already in the castle, and it was the weekend, and students were coming and going on the stairs, Maureen and Professor Charles, who were riding a flying broom in the castle, were naturally very eye-catching.

Many students knew Maureen, and some people would greet Professor Charles and ask what they were doing. In addition, many portraits were protesting. It would be very unwise for Professor Charles to attack Maureen in front of so many people.

It took about three hours to finally screen out all the paintings that need to be restored, and there are more than 50 paintings in total.Hugo and Sweet also ran into trouble. They were caught by the old Filch, thinking that their two first-year freshmen had scribbled on the school's portrait with a paintbrush and threatened to be locked up. It was Filch who was relieved when Professor Charles saw them on the way to the headmaster's office.

"That old fellow! What a bad temper!"

On the way to lunch, Hugo was very annoyed, and then remembered something, quickly pulled Molin, looked at it carefully for a while, and asked: "Molin, are you okay? There are no missing parts in your body? Do you remember this hour?" What happened? Is there a cool feeling in the back? Has there been a trip back in time? Professor Charles—”

Hugo lowered his voice: "Didn't you cast the Forgetting Curse on you?"

"No, you think too much."

"Is it all right?"

"It's okay, you're in good health, everything goes well, don't worry."

Maureen replied absent-mindedly, he was still thinking about the painting by Payngade in his mind, why was there someone peeping at him in that painting?Most importantly, what strangeness did Professor Charles see in the painting, and why did he keep it secret?
He then told Hugo about these things. After listening to Hugo, he swore: "Professor Charles must have a problem!"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? We have been suspecting him these days?" Mo Lin said.

"At first we were just skeptical, but now we are basically sure! Maybe the painting by Payngade is invaluable, and he wants to steal it and sell it!" Hugo guessed.

"Do you think that Professor Charles modified your memory and put a mark on your back just to steal the school's paintings and sell them?" Mo Lin couldn't laugh or cry, "You may have forgotten one thing, the wizard's paintings can talk, It's not easy to sell, it's easy to know who stole the painting and where it came from, you can't stop the mouth of the person in the painting, Professor Charles won't do such a ridiculous thing."

"Then why do you think he did it?"

Hugo and Maureen found a seat in the hall and sat down. Flying around to appraise paintings in the morning exhausted them, so he grabbed a chicken leg and gnawed on it.Sweet was not with them, as if he didn't know where he was going in the blink of an eye.

Maureen sat down, Doyi got out of his pocket, jumped onto the dining table, and began to eat like no one else was around.Doi usually stays in his pocket and follows him wherever he goes. Others can't see it, and it doesn't care about others. Mo Lin is used to it.

"The whole thing seems to be related to the painting, didn't you notice?"

Molin held his chin, he had no appetite, and kept thinking about this matter in his mind: "You have amnesia, when I saw your memories, the paintings in the corridor on the seventh floor are always different. Cadogan, who is usually despised The portrait of Jazz was murdered by Professor Charles, and Sir Cadogan didn't know what he saw. During the Quidditch match, I met Professor Charles in the corridor on the seventh floor. He didn't watch the game, but admired it. The paintings in the hallway..."

Maureen slowly sorted things out: "Some of the paintings in the castle need to be repaired due to loss of magic, and there are especially many paintings in the corridor on the seventh floor that need to be repaired. This is too abnormal. I was also given by someone in the painting today." Peeping, the person in the painting was peeping at me all the way, and I finally found out, and Professor Charles seemed to be hiding something, the painting didn’t need to be restored, but he still took it away.”

Hugo took a bite of the Hungarian goulash and said, "The whole thing you said pointed to Professor Charles! Which thing do you think has nothing to do with Professor Charles?"

Mo Lin stroked Duoyi's head, and Duoyi took a sip of the soup, and let out two yells comfortably.Mo Lin suddenly had an idea in his mind, he exclaimed: "What if the person in the painting is not peeping at me today, but beware of Professor Charles?"

Hugo put down the goulash, frowned and said, "What do you want to say?"

Mo Lin's heart beat faster, and he said: "I mean, the person in the painting of Payngade may know some secrets, peeping me all the way to find an opportunity to tell me something, but Professor Charles noticed it in advance .Like Sir Cadogan, the only difference is that Sir Cadogan didn't know what he saw, and was ruined in a daze. Whereas the one in Payingade's painting actually saw something, but had no chance speak out!"

Mo Lin and Hugo looked at each other in blank dismay. If this was the reason, the situation would be very bad, because Professor Charles had already taken away the painting that knew the truth!

(End of this chapter)