Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 37 Isn’t this bullying an honest person?

"What are you looking at?"

George and Fred replied in unison: "Peeves, he is following Professor Quirrell, and he is still invisible!"

With that said, they pointed it out to Bourne.

Sure enough, on the Marauder's Map, there was another name not far behind Professor Quirrell. Moreover, there was a parentheses next to the name, with the words "invisible status" written in small letters.

George: "In a sense, Peeves is the ancestor of all our pranks and night walks."

“It gave us a lot of inspiration,” Fred said.

George continued: "As early as the first grade, when we met him on night outing, as long as we would call him 'Uncle Peeves', he would probably let us go and run to inform Filch without making any noise.

But in the second grade, this probability dropped sharply. We still fawned over him, but eight times out of ten he would tip Filch off. Maybe this trick won’t work at all this year. "

The twins looked at each other and shrugged at the same time, with helpless expressions on their faces.

"That's it..."

Just when his thoughts almost went astray, Bourne, who had already realized something was wrong, forced it to straighten again.

"...Speaking of which, isn't the more important thing now to follow Professor Quirrell and find out the secret of his repeated visits to this abandoned girls' bathroom?"

A word to wake up the dreamer.

The Weasley twins immediately realized the problem and hurriedly looked at the Marauder's Map. At this time, Professor Quirrell and Peeves had already walked into the abandoned girls' bathroom.

"We chase-"

George just wanted to catch up and take a look, but he hadn't finished his words yet. Including Bourne, the three little wizards heard a scream of "ouch" coming from the bathroom, and the scream even had a long sound.

Bourne secretly opened a crack in the closed curtains and looked out, only to see a black figure flash past his eyes in a "whoosh".

It is worth mentioning that this black figure is not completely black: black robe, black pants, black shoes - but there is a thick purple scarf wrapped around his head.

It's Professor Quirrell, that's right.

And the reason why he turned into lightning happened to be that purple scarf.

At this time, it was burning like a torch with blazing flames and billowing smoke.

Bourne's eyes were very sharp, and even through the flickering firelight, he still saw something hanging on the purple turban.

"My mark of purity!"

He recognized it at a glance as the practice work he had done in the Transfiguration class not long ago.

At this time, it is also burning.

Bourne was stunned.

However, he immediately realized what he had to do, and he didn't care about the "child's games" such as sneaking or not. He jumped down from the window sill and clenched his hands into fists in front of his chest.

"The emperor's will will be burned, and the cave will destroy the monsters."

"Even if I have nothing, I still have to give my life."

"Striving for excellence will last until death..."

But while he was reciting Proverbs, Peeves suddenly appeared in the corridor, pointing at him and laughing non-stop.

"There was a little wizard who was frightened," Peeves said happily: "He actually imitated the Fat Monk and started chanting, hahaha."

Frustrated by Bourne's unknown behavior, the twins had no choice but to jump off the window sill, lift the curtains and walk out.

Seeing Peeves, the two brothers immediately looked like they were seeing an acquaintance: "Isn't this Mr. Peeves? What are you doing here?"

Perhaps because the prank was successful, he was in a good mood at this time, and he received "genuine" flattery from the Weasley twins, so Peeves answered their questions quite generously.

It turned out that after being burned by the purity mark in the Transfiguration classroom, the first person he thought of as the prankster was Professor Quirrell.

He thinks this year's Quirrell is strange.

Just like the "Holy Roman Empire" - neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Quirrell, who returned to teach at Hogwarts, not only became stammering when speaking, but was also always careful to avoid anyone appearing behind him. When people spoke to him, he would always startle and look like a cornered prairie dog.

Quirrell was not like this when he was a Muggle Studies lecturer. Although he explained that this was due to the stress reaction caused by a vampire attack while traveling in Romania.

But Peeves didn't believe it.

"I guess someone must have put a vicious curse on him, and the medium might be the scarf he just started wearing this year."

"You set a professor's head on fire just because of suspicion!"

Fred said in surprise. After saying that, he glanced at George, as if to say: Did you hear, you can still play like this!
"What's the point? Besides, if I guess right, then I'm doing this professor a big favor. If I guess wrong, I'm also helping Quirrell face his own fears - how ridiculous, he actually said that stuff The garlic scarf can protect him - didn't you hear, he didn't stutter when he screamed, maybe my prank will cure all his diseases!"

After saying that, Peeves laughed unscrupulously again, hahahaha~

"You are right..."

After concluding the simplified prayer ceremony, Bourne agreed with what Peeves had just said.

"Hey, you rude brat, you should call me Mr. Peeves!"

"...The only thing that people should be afraid of is actually the emotion of fear itself. So——

Are you ready to face your fears?
Bastard! "

Bourne suddenly raised his wand.

"All petrified!"

"All petrified!"

"All petrified!"

Because Bourne has only been exposed to one offensive spell so far, he can only use it. And because Peeves was beeping blindly on the side, interrupting his prayer ceremony to the great emperor, he resented it and fired three "Petrified" shots in a row.

As for whether this curse would mutate like it did on the Hogwarts Express, the angry Bourne could no longer care. Three gray magic rays blocked Peeves' escape route from three angles. And when they hit this strange spirit, as expected, they all turned into blazing plasma again.

Although the form of "all petrified" has changed, the effect is not bad, and it has even become much stronger.

After being hit by the first curse, Peeves's body immediately stiffened and remained suspended in the air with an exaggerated body movement.

After being hit by the second spell, it was like putting on an invisible straitjacket, and Peeves' short, fat body seemed to have shrunk by several sizes.

And when the third curse hit the target, Peeves actually showed a phenomenon that would only occur if he was subject to a real "petrification curse": like a stone being crushed under a hydraulic press, large areas of cracks appeared on his body. road.

Not only that, there were actually golden snakes dancing wildly between those cracked lines, and the electric snakes kept "cracking" and exploding.

Although so much has been said, in fact, all these changes happen in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, either because of the second use of "Petrify All", the proficiency has increased; or because Bourne concentrated his attention this time and only targeted Peeves, so although the curse also occurred Mutation, but after all, it is not like the last time it turned into a series of lightning bolts like a wild horse.

Of course, correspondingly, the power of Bourne's "all petrified" this time has also increased a lot - not to mention it is three consecutive shots.

Therefore, within a few seconds after being petrified, Peeves' body exploded into a ball of sparkling dust with a "bang".

At the same time, a transparent shadow emerged from the dust and rushed towards the end of the corridor like Li Xuan's arrow. Moreover, while escaping quickly, he did not forget to say a harsh word: "I will come back~~"

Bourne: "Then hurry up! Once I see you, I will teach you a lesson until you can truly realize your mistake!"

George, who had his mouth wide open because of the scene just now, closed his chin again with his hand: "Are you kidding me? I'll teach Peeves a lesson once I see him?"

"Of course not." Bourne said sternly: "Let him realize his mistake and atone for it, which is only the lightest punishment."

Fred: "You are the real devil..."

At this moment, a slight cough came from the picture frame on the wall, interrupting the nonsense between the little wizards... ah, no, it was a conversation.

"Have you forgotten something?" Sherlock reminded: "That Professor Quirrell has run away. I just saw him running back to his office in other portraits. Shouldn't you go and watch for a while?" , just wait and see?"

"Yes!"

"That's right!"

The Weasley twins nodded.

But Bourne said: "We are divided into two groups. You go and wait, and I will go and see where he has been. A male professor always runs to the abandoned girls' bathroom. He can't drink because he is thirsty. Water?"

The twins suddenly realized again. And this also became the source and origin of Professor Quirrell's reputation and his repeated murders in the future.

……

Like a gust of wind, he ran back to his office as fast as he could. After entering, Quirrell slammed the door shut.

“Aguamenti (clear water like a spring)!”

He took out his wand, summoned a stream of water, and poured it on his still burning head.

However, when clean water meets a flame, even if it makes a "hissing" sound, the flame is still not extinguished.

"Idiot, this is magic flame!"

A sharp scolding sound suddenly came from behind his head, and Voldemort, who was attached to Quirrell, couldn't stand it anymore.

"Use the curse to stop immediately!" he said viciously.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes." So Quirrell shook his wrist again and recited the incantation of this universal counter-spell.

The spell took effect, but it was not fully effective: the flames above his head were suppressed, but a few clusters of flames were still burning tenaciously on the tattered purple turban.

Quirrell felt as if his wand was resisting him.

"Isn't this fucking bullying an honest person?" Quirrell thought angrily, feeling resentful in his heart.

During these days, whether it’s some wizards I’ve known before, colleagues at Hogwarts I’ve worked with, or those young wizards who are still in school… Oh, and that damn Peeves!

Some of them pity him, some laugh at him, and some make fun of him, as if the whole world is full of malice towards him.

And now, even this wand with an alder body and a unicorn hair core has begun to obey his master.

Uncle can bear it, but Quirrell can't!
"I'll go to Diagon Alley tomorrow and buy a new one..."

"Idiot, concentrate, the curse is a continuous curse! Forget it, give your body to me!"

After saying this, without considering his feelings at all, Voldemort forcibly took over Quirrell's body in the next second - as if the sentence just now was just a routine notice - but that was exactly the case.

Taking over control of the body, the Dark Lord instantly subdued the alder wand and cast a silent spell directly above his head.

It seems that they are two different spells from the "Stop Curse" released by Quirrell. When Voldemort's universal counter-spell is used, it not only takes effect faster, but is also several times more powerful. The flames on the purple headscarf were finally extinguished.

"What did Peeves do?" Voldemort said to himself as he controlled his body and walked towards a full-length mirror in the office. "Or is it that Peeves was just used by the old man to test me?" Little pawn?"

With his back to the mirror and no regard for Quirrell's own pain, Voldemort twisted his joints in an extremely awkward posture and reached out to touch the spot where the purple turban caught fire.

But just as his fingertips were about to touch the lump of metal - baptized by "clear water like a spring" and "stop the curse", the mark of purity created by Bourne's transformation technique also returned to its original form of steel. The needle turned into what it should be after melting and solidifying - when, unexpectedly, a current suddenly shot out from the mass of metal.

"not good!"

Voldemort suddenly gave Quirrell control of his body, and he hid firmly inside his body. Even his noseless face on the back of his head disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Electricity flowed down Quirrell's fingertips and surged into his body. The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts became stiff, and with a "pop" the back of his head hit the floor. ——This may be his last stubbornness.

After the continuous blast of static electricity, Quirrell's body finally stopped being stiff, and he lay on the floor and took a deep breath.

The moment his body went stiff and fell to the ground until he regained consciousness actually only lasted a minute or two, but it felt as long as a century to Quirrell. Moreover, during this period of time, he felt as if he was being hung up, and then he was whipped hard from left to right.

His face was still stinging now.

Quirrell just wanted to cry, but his dry tear glands couldn't secrete a single tear.

"I'm so stupid, really." Lying on the ground, even though he had regained his mobility, Quirrell still refused to stand up.

Until a familiar scolding voice woke him up: "Idiot! Get up, you're so heavy that I can't breathe!"

(End of this chapter)