Chapter 71 Peeves' Expulsion Talisman
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Liu Yue Zhi Yuan Fei
The fat monk's voice was not loud, but many ghosts still heard his words.
Sadness appeared in the eyes of some ghosts.
Douglas sighed, he didn't know how to comfort the other party in this kind of thing, people and ghosts have different ways,
He couldn't even give the other party a basic hug.
Douglas turned his head and said to Peeves who was still howling after being bundled into a ball:
"Peves, I remember I said that you are not allowed to touch my personal things in the kitchen!"
Pippi said stiffly:
"I do not have!
That's something you don't want!
Smelly stuff!
According to the agreement, I can..."
Douglas snorted coldly:
"Huh! That thing is the stinky tofu marinade that I have worked so hard to brew, and it is used to make a delicacy...
All the elves in the kitchen know that I take time out every day to use magic to catalyze...
It was about to be done, but I was tossed by you, and my hard work was in vain...
And now deliberately splashing it on my office door...
Don't forget, everyone, I am a professor at Hogwarts!
Not a student! "
Douglas' last sentence was to the ghosts around him.
Peeves bullying students and provoking professors are completely different concepts.
Peeves quipped:
"I did not do it on purpose!
I'm targeting those two little brats...
You violated the agreement and attacked me...
I'm going to ask the head professor to sue you..."
Filch shouted in a growling voice:
"Professor Holmes, don't believe his nonsense!
Hurry up and use the Peeves expulsion charm..."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone (the ghost) looked at Filch.
The ghosts glared at Filch, and the whole castle suddenly became noisy, all the roars of the ghosts:
"Shut up! You bastard!"
Then those ghosts looked at Douglas carefully again, and many ghosts even had a bit of pleading in their eyes, for fear that Douglas would agree to the other party.
Faced with the howls and anger of hundreds of ghosts, Filch felt the temperature around him drop.
The dripping stinky water on his body seemed to be showing signs of freezing.
The Weasley twins, who had been peeking at the play while hiding under the sheets, couldn't help but shudder.
They didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of attracting the professor's attention and driving them away.
After all, it is rare to hear such a big melon.
They were curious about the story of the professor and Peeves before.
Now it is even more remarkable, it seems that the Hogwarts ghosts are also hostile to the professor.
No wonder some students asked the ghosts about Professor Holmes at school.
The ghosts always subtly change the topic, or take the opportunity to leave, and everyone thinks that the ghosts don't want to talk about the in-service professors behind their backs.
At this moment, the Weasley twins felt that confinement in Professor Holmes' office was much more interesting than a night excursion.
Look what we've all heard:
A non-provocative agreement between Peeves and the professor...
The Immortal Rope Curse... This is simply amazing, it can bind Peeves into a peach...
And Peeves' expulsion talisman... Tsk tsk, although it's the first time I've heard of it, I think it's so powerful!
Douglas looked at Filch speechlessly, you did it on purpose!I'm really afraid that the ghosts will forget that.
He looked at Peeves again:
"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that Peeves could use his brains and learned to exploit the loopholes in the agreement!
Not intentionally, proactively provoking...
That is, as long as you don't do it on purpose, it's not considered provocative!
Look, what a great explanation you have! "
Peeves said with a slightly proud tone:
"Anyway, I didn't violate the agreement. You can see that the contract didn't bite me..."
Douglas said with disdain in his eyes:
"Peeves, I'm afraid you didn't read the agreement carefully,
It says '...during the time you are a student at school, don't take the initiative to conflict with Peeves, and you are not allowed to give away or sell Peeves expulsion charms and other products or spells with similar functions.... ..'
I regret to inform you that the agreement has expired at the moment of my graduation. "
As for Peeves' cleverness, which took him who knows how long to come up with it, he had already thought of it when he first wrote the contract.
At that time, even Dumbledore, who was the contract maker and guarantor, didn't feel that there was anything wrong with that content.
Peeves froze for a moment, then wailed in pain:
"The devil...the liar..."
The Weasley twins were stunned when they heard the news. They suddenly felt that they were so bad. They were also students. Why were you so handsome!
Compared to Peeves' anger, the ghosts were the most panicked.
The failure of the agreement means that the Peeves Exorcist is likely to appear in Hogwarts again.
To Peeves, that talisman was just trapped.
But for the ghosts, there is real damage.
Why do the ghosts hate Douglas so much.
It is because he invented something that can directly harm ghosts without the need for powerful black magic.
At the beginning, Douglas made a lot of Peeves expulsion charms and sold them on campus.
At first, the students bought it just to resist Peeves' bullying.
But one day, a person with a genius idea threw the Peeves expulsion charm on Myrtle.
As a result, Myrtle was trapped in mid-air in the corridor outside the toilet, whining and crying all the time.
On that day, the students of Hogwarts seemed to have discovered a new world, which resulted in just one day.
Many ghosts at Hogwarts have been injured to varying degrees.
What finally led to the headmaster personally banning the spell was that,
I don't know who was so clever, and released the spell on the professor of the history of magic.
This caused the old ghost Professor Binns who had served Hogwarts for thousands of years to directly reduce the transparency of his body by a small half.
For this reason, the History of Magic course was suspended for a month for the first time in history due to Professor Binns' personal reasons.
The headmaster Dumbledore personally came forward and found Douglas to strictly prohibit him from selling this kind of thing that could harm ghosts.
Douglas immediately agreed, and proposed that he would sign a treaty of peace with Peeves.
Since then, the school ghosts have developed a fear of Douglas who can hurt them, and this fear has gradually turned into hatred.
In the words of Sir Nicholas, ghosts are a group of people who are afraid of death and have no courage to go on. They turn into imprints of the real world and choose this poorest way to continue their existence...
(Not all ghosts become ghosts because they are afraid of death. Those who can become ghosts are wizards in life. They can choose whether to become ghosts. There are also some who stay for other reasons.)
Suddenly one day, when ordinary wizards can hurt ghosts, they naturally feel panic and fear...
Douglas' time at school was one of the most uncomfortable for the ghosts.
It's hard to wait until he graduates...
But unexpectedly, after three years, Douglas came back again.
They could only pretend that they didn't know each other, didn't see each other, and planned to survive this year in silence.
Until today, they found that the other party used the power that could hurt them again at school,
And tell them that the previous agreement has expired.
While not directed at them, it still makes them feel uneasy and panicked.
There are quite a few ghosts who have begun to feel that Hogwarts is not safe anymore, thinking about whether to leave Hogwarts to hide for a year and then come back.
But they were at a loss, where else could they go but Hogwarts.
The twins looked at each other from under the sheets.
"Talent!"
"Senior!"
"Peves made him limp!"
"Our failure is nothing!"
Suddenly George asked in a low voice:
"Fred, do you think the school rule against throwing spells at ghosts has something to do with the professor!"
"George, look at those ghosts, they almost have this school rule written on their faces, and the professor reads it word by word!"
Douglas clearly felt that the entire temperature in Hogwarts had dropped a lot under the influence of the ghost.
He said helplessly to the fat monk, and also to all the ghosts:
"Friar, I am a professor at Hogwarts, a member of Hogwarts.
I assure you as a Hogwarts professor,
Among the students, there will never be any spells made by me, including professors of course.
And I promise you that during my tenure I will not cast this spell on any ghost other than Peeves.
You know, it was an accident at the beginning..."
The fat monk nodded and muttered:
"I know, I know, that's why I keep telling them that you never targeted ghosts!"
Only Peeves cried and howled, "Why!"
What else can other ghosts do after hearing what Douglas said, the initiative is in the hands of the other party.
Since the other party can guarantee it as a professor, he can only choose to believe it.
You can't force the other party to make a magic oath, so that the other party is not allowed to teach this spell to the students!
Although they would love to do it...
Huh, but that's no saint!
It's all Peeves' fault, he deserves it for provoking him even though he knows he can't beat him!
At this time, a cold voice sounded from the stairs at the end of the corridor:
"Lock the tongue and seal the throat!"
A spell hit Peeves, and Peeves' wailing stopped abruptly.
The visitor sneered at Douglas with disdain:
"Professor Holmes, is this the effect of your night patrols?
Gathering of hundreds of ghosts?
It's even more lively than the night tour when you were in school! "
ps: Peeves Expulsion Talisman: When Professor Holmes was in school, according to the principle of ancient oriental talismans, using ancient runes and other positive spells, he created a rune that can target spirits. The effect can last for three days.
The way to use it is to throw the talisman paper at Peeves, and Peeves will be temporarily trapped in an invisible space for half an hour.
Because there is an image of Peeves being bound on the front of the talisman paper, and after Peeves was attacked, he repeatedly declared that he would leave Hogwarts, a sad place, so he was affectionately called the Peeves Expulsion Charm by the students.
On May 1986, 5, because some students used this talisman on the school ghost, the ghost professor Professor Binns had to suspend class.Later, under the opposition of all the ghosts, a secret contract was passed, and the talisman became famous in Hogwarts.
Only Mr. Filch kept three expired talismans, hoping to use them to scare Peeves away one day.
Conjectures about why ordinary spells don't work on ghosts:
Because wizards have always regarded ghosts as a part of human beings, and they can't interfere too much with the characteristics of the real world.
So the wizards never thought about studying the effect of ordinary spells on ghosts.
But some advanced black magic can cause harm to ghosts.
Reference: 1. Newt Scamander once pointed out in his book that ghosts object to classifying themselves as people, thinking that this has a prejudice that they are already "tomorrow's flowers", so the Ministry of Magic regards them as a single Classes were divided and a ghost office was set up.
2. Professor Snape once recorded in his textbook "Advanced Potion Making" a number of black magic that can affect spirit bodies.
Sadness appeared in the eyes of some ghosts.
Douglas sighed, he didn't know how to comfort the other party in this kind of thing, people and ghosts have different ways,
He couldn't even give the other party a basic hug.
Douglas turned his head and said to Peeves who was still howling after being bundled into a ball:
"Peves, I remember I said that you are not allowed to touch my personal things in the kitchen!"
Pippi said stiffly:
"I do not have!
That's something you don't want!
Smelly stuff!
According to the agreement, I can..."
Douglas snorted coldly:
"Huh! That thing is the stinky tofu marinade that I have worked so hard to brew, and it is used to make a delicacy...
All the elves in the kitchen know that I take time out every day to use magic to catalyze...
It was about to be done, but I was tossed by you, and my hard work was in vain...
And now deliberately splashing it on my office door...
Don't forget, everyone, I am a professor at Hogwarts!
Not a student! "
Douglas' last sentence was to the ghosts around him.
Peeves bullying students and provoking professors are completely different concepts.
Peeves quipped:
"I did not do it on purpose!
I'm targeting those two little brats...
You violated the agreement and attacked me...
I'm going to ask the head professor to sue you..."
Filch shouted in a growling voice:
"Professor Holmes, don't believe his nonsense!
Hurry up and use the Peeves expulsion charm..."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone (the ghost) looked at Filch.
The ghosts glared at Filch, and the whole castle suddenly became noisy, all the roars of the ghosts:
"Shut up! You bastard!"
Then those ghosts looked at Douglas carefully again, and many ghosts even had a bit of pleading in their eyes, for fear that Douglas would agree to the other party.
Faced with the howls and anger of hundreds of ghosts, Filch felt the temperature around him drop.
The dripping stinky water on his body seemed to be showing signs of freezing.
The Weasley twins, who had been peeking at the play while hiding under the sheets, couldn't help but shudder.
They didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of attracting the professor's attention and driving them away.
After all, it is rare to hear such a big melon.
They were curious about the story of the professor and Peeves before.
Now it is even more remarkable, it seems that the Hogwarts ghosts are also hostile to the professor.
No wonder some students asked the ghosts about Professor Holmes at school.
The ghosts always subtly change the topic, or take the opportunity to leave, and everyone thinks that the ghosts don't want to talk about the in-service professors behind their backs.
At this moment, the Weasley twins felt that confinement in Professor Holmes' office was much more interesting than a night excursion.
Look what we've all heard:
A non-provocative agreement between Peeves and the professor...
The Immortal Rope Curse... This is simply amazing, it can bind Peeves into a peach...
And Peeves' expulsion talisman... Tsk tsk, although it's the first time I've heard of it, I think it's so powerful!
Douglas looked at Filch speechlessly, you did it on purpose!I'm really afraid that the ghosts will forget that.
He looked at Peeves again:
"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that Peeves could use his brains and learned to exploit the loopholes in the agreement!
Not intentionally, proactively provoking...
That is, as long as you don't do it on purpose, it's not considered provocative!
Look, what a great explanation you have! "
Peeves said with a slightly proud tone:
"Anyway, I didn't violate the agreement. You can see that the contract didn't bite me..."
Douglas said with disdain in his eyes:
"Peeves, I'm afraid you didn't read the agreement carefully,
It says '...during the time you are a student at school, don't take the initiative to conflict with Peeves, and you are not allowed to give away or sell Peeves expulsion charms and other products or spells with similar functions.... ..'
I regret to inform you that the agreement has expired at the moment of my graduation. "
As for Peeves' cleverness, which took him who knows how long to come up with it, he had already thought of it when he first wrote the contract.
At that time, even Dumbledore, who was the contract maker and guarantor, didn't feel that there was anything wrong with that content.
Peeves froze for a moment, then wailed in pain:
"The devil...the liar..."
The Weasley twins were stunned when they heard the news. They suddenly felt that they were so bad. They were also students. Why were you so handsome!
Compared to Peeves' anger, the ghosts were the most panicked.
The failure of the agreement means that the Peeves Exorcist is likely to appear in Hogwarts again.
To Peeves, that talisman was just trapped.
But for the ghosts, there is real damage.
Why do the ghosts hate Douglas so much.
It is because he invented something that can directly harm ghosts without the need for powerful black magic.
At the beginning, Douglas made a lot of Peeves expulsion charms and sold them on campus.
At first, the students bought it just to resist Peeves' bullying.
But one day, a person with a genius idea threw the Peeves expulsion charm on Myrtle.
As a result, Myrtle was trapped in mid-air in the corridor outside the toilet, whining and crying all the time.
On that day, the students of Hogwarts seemed to have discovered a new world, which resulted in just one day.
Many ghosts at Hogwarts have been injured to varying degrees.
What finally led to the headmaster personally banning the spell was that,
I don't know who was so clever, and released the spell on the professor of the history of magic.
This caused the old ghost Professor Binns who had served Hogwarts for thousands of years to directly reduce the transparency of his body by a small half.
For this reason, the History of Magic course was suspended for a month for the first time in history due to Professor Binns' personal reasons.
The headmaster Dumbledore personally came forward and found Douglas to strictly prohibit him from selling this kind of thing that could harm ghosts.
Douglas immediately agreed, and proposed that he would sign a treaty of peace with Peeves.
Since then, the school ghosts have developed a fear of Douglas who can hurt them, and this fear has gradually turned into hatred.
In the words of Sir Nicholas, ghosts are a group of people who are afraid of death and have no courage to go on. They turn into imprints of the real world and choose this poorest way to continue their existence...
(Not all ghosts become ghosts because they are afraid of death. Those who can become ghosts are wizards in life. They can choose whether to become ghosts. There are also some who stay for other reasons.)
Suddenly one day, when ordinary wizards can hurt ghosts, they naturally feel panic and fear...
Douglas' time at school was one of the most uncomfortable for the ghosts.
It's hard to wait until he graduates...
But unexpectedly, after three years, Douglas came back again.
They could only pretend that they didn't know each other, didn't see each other, and planned to survive this year in silence.
Until today, they found that the other party used the power that could hurt them again at school,
And tell them that the previous agreement has expired.
While not directed at them, it still makes them feel uneasy and panicked.
There are quite a few ghosts who have begun to feel that Hogwarts is not safe anymore, thinking about whether to leave Hogwarts to hide for a year and then come back.
But they were at a loss, where else could they go but Hogwarts.
The twins looked at each other from under the sheets.
"Talent!"
"Senior!"
"Peves made him limp!"
"Our failure is nothing!"
Suddenly George asked in a low voice:
"Fred, do you think the school rule against throwing spells at ghosts has something to do with the professor!"
"George, look at those ghosts, they almost have this school rule written on their faces, and the professor reads it word by word!"
Douglas clearly felt that the entire temperature in Hogwarts had dropped a lot under the influence of the ghost.
He said helplessly to the fat monk, and also to all the ghosts:
"Friar, I am a professor at Hogwarts, a member of Hogwarts.
I assure you as a Hogwarts professor,
Among the students, there will never be any spells made by me, including professors of course.
And I promise you that during my tenure I will not cast this spell on any ghost other than Peeves.
You know, it was an accident at the beginning..."
The fat monk nodded and muttered:
"I know, I know, that's why I keep telling them that you never targeted ghosts!"
Only Peeves cried and howled, "Why!"
What else can other ghosts do after hearing what Douglas said, the initiative is in the hands of the other party.
Since the other party can guarantee it as a professor, he can only choose to believe it.
You can't force the other party to make a magic oath, so that the other party is not allowed to teach this spell to the students!
Although they would love to do it...
Huh, but that's no saint!
It's all Peeves' fault, he deserves it for provoking him even though he knows he can't beat him!
At this time, a cold voice sounded from the stairs at the end of the corridor:
"Lock the tongue and seal the throat!"
A spell hit Peeves, and Peeves' wailing stopped abruptly.
The visitor sneered at Douglas with disdain:
"Professor Holmes, is this the effect of your night patrols?
Gathering of hundreds of ghosts?
It's even more lively than the night tour when you were in school! "
ps: Peeves Expulsion Talisman: When Professor Holmes was in school, according to the principle of ancient oriental talismans, using ancient runes and other positive spells, he created a rune that can target spirits. The effect can last for three days.
The way to use it is to throw the talisman paper at Peeves, and Peeves will be temporarily trapped in an invisible space for half an hour.
Because there is an image of Peeves being bound on the front of the talisman paper, and after Peeves was attacked, he repeatedly declared that he would leave Hogwarts, a sad place, so he was affectionately called the Peeves Expulsion Charm by the students.
On May 1986, 5, because some students used this talisman on the school ghost, the ghost professor Professor Binns had to suspend class.Later, under the opposition of all the ghosts, a secret contract was passed, and the talisman became famous in Hogwarts.
Only Mr. Filch kept three expired talismans, hoping to use them to scare Peeves away one day.
Conjectures about why ordinary spells don't work on ghosts:
Because wizards have always regarded ghosts as a part of human beings, and they can't interfere too much with the characteristics of the real world.
So the wizards never thought about studying the effect of ordinary spells on ghosts.
But some advanced black magic can cause harm to ghosts.
Reference: 1. Newt Scamander once pointed out in his book that ghosts object to classifying themselves as people, thinking that this has a prejudice that they are already "tomorrow's flowers", so the Ministry of Magic regards them as a single Classes were divided and a ghost office was set up.
2. Professor Snape once recorded in his textbook "Advanced Potion Making" a number of black magic that can affect spirit bodies.
