Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

"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.