A day at Hogwarts

There are quite a few fan associations in Hogwarts, with as many as 20 or 30 members, and as few as three or five.

The Oil Painting Association has a small number of people due to the threshold problem, and it is not enough to make up a Quidditch team.

On Saturday morning, after some inquiries, Charles came to the classroom where the Oil Painting Association was active and received a warm welcome.

The president of the association, Wilheit, enthusiastically took Charles to meet the other five members, and then came to the lesson preparation room behind the classroom to talk to him.

The lesson preparation room was set up as a tea room. Apart from the tea set and some snacks, there were also a lot of paints and painting utensils. There were a few oil paintings on the wall, and the students in the paintings greeted Charles.

Wilheit, a Ravenclaw student in seventh grade this year, poured Charles tea and asked him: "Smith, are you interested in joining us?"

Charles replied: "I am very curious and interested in moving pictures, and I would like to learn how to draw them."

When he returned to the common room with Neville and Seamus last night, he had a sudden inspiration. Since the portrait of the fat lady can control the door of the common room, can the portrait control the keyboard to type codes?

In other fields, if the portrait can control the rocket, then intelligent guidance can be realized. Even if you can't pick the one with no nostrils, you can pick the biggest one.

Going a step further, can you try a robot controlled by a portrait?

He couldn't stop thinking about it all of a sudden, thinking that with the technology of the automatic quill in this aspect, he might be able to create an omnic crisis.

Wilheit didn't expect him to think so far, just thought that he was the same as other freshmen, and said with a smile: "Magical oil painting is certainly amazing, but how to paint requires a long time of training. There are both magic training and painting skills. skill training."

"This process is very boring. If you want to embark on this path, you must be mentally prepared."

"Several freshmen came here last semester, but they couldn't bear the boredom and left before Halloween came."

Charles understands what he is worried about. There are many people who are hot for three minutes, and he is definitely not that kind of person.

"I won't do that." He said with certainty, "I have the basis of painting. Although I can't say that I can become a painter, I still qualify as a hobby."

Charles showed some talent in painting in the art class of elementary school. For example, the drawn Hermione is more beautiful than the real person.

However, he felt that it would be more suitable to be a code farmer in the future, so he did not further study in depth, but just drew whatever was taught in class.

After hearing him say that he has a foundation in painting, Wilheit said happily: "That would be great. On behalf of the Oil Painting Association, I welcome you to join."

"We usually practice by ourselves. Professor Flitwick will come to teach us the relevant knowledge of spells on a regular basis, and Ms. Knight will also come to Hogwarts to instruct us on drawing skills on a regular basis."

After Charles inquired, he found out that Ms. Knight is a famous painter in the British wizarding world, and she comes here every month to guide students.

Next, Wilhelm explained some basic knowledge of magic oil painting to Charles, which broadened his horizons.

According to Charles' understanding, learning magic oil painting can be divided into three stages: GIF oil painting, artificial retarded oil painting and artificial intelligence oil painting.

GIF oil painting is to make two-dimensional objects move. Whether it is a person or an object, it is limited to two-dimensional movement, just like a shadow play, but it can only perform mechanical and cyclic movements, and cannot interact.

This stage is easy to learn but difficult to master. Many people get stuck here and can only let the people they draw wave, kick, and smile at most.

The second stage of artificial mentally handicapped oil painting requires 3D modeling. It does not mean that you draw the front of the character, turn around and come out from the back, but you need to draw the details while turning people and objects on the canvas.

This stage is very tedious and boring, and it is very discouraging.

At this time, the drawn people can only perform mechanical and cyclical movements like GIF oil paintings, and cannot interact. Newcomers often appear mentally retarded due to incorrect action settings in this step.

In the final stage of artificial intelligence oil painting, it is necessary to inject "intelligence" into the portrait. This step is so simple that Charles did not expect it.

At this time, it is like copying a piece of memory and putting it in a pensieve, inputting the memory into the portrait, and then the portrait will act according to the memory as if it is alive.

And being able to open the door like the portrait of the Fat Lady belongs to the category of Charms, and Wilhelm didn't understand it very well.

Charles put that aside as well, the GIF oil painting stage was more than enough to finish what Snape had arranged.

Then Wilhelm began to explain a little deeper content, such as the portrait moving between different canvases.

According to Charles, the portrait at this time has wave-particle duality like Peeves. The process of moving from one canvas to another is to convert the portrait into some kind of wave and then transmit it wirelessly.

A canvas can receive and send signals with a specific canvas through a dedicated line, and can also form a public network, so portraits can be guests on other canvases.

This step is more difficult for Charles, and it will not be possible to do it in a while.

It seems that the recruitment of newcomers by the Oil Painting Association this year is relatively difficult, and Wilheit only tested his painting level after he brought Charles in.

Charles drew a portrait of the president with a pencil. Wilhelm was silent for a moment after seeing it, and said, "Well... this is an unimaginable path."

They painted realistic oil paintings, and suddenly a cartoon artist appeared, and the style of painting changed a bit.

No matter, it's better than no newcomers, otherwise there will be only 4 people left after my graduation next year.

A morning passed quickly. After lunch, Charles returned to the Oil Painting Association, and Wilhelm arranged for the vice president to teach him how to make the patterns move easily.

Thiel, the vice president of the Oil Painting Association, is a big sister of Japanese descent, with the same surname as Shizuka, who is from Hufflepuff College and is in fifth grade this year.

The first thing Thiel asked Charles to do was draw some stick figures.

Charles finished the drawing quickly, and Thiel took out a beech wand and tapped it on a stick figure: "Move quickly!"

The stickman, who was originally just drawn on paper, moved his right hand, waving non-stop.

Curiously, Charles put his eyes almost to the paper to observe, and found that there was no ink stain left on the paper.

Thiel explained the spell to him: "When reciting the spell and casting the spell, you must concentrate very much, and at the same time think about how to move the portrait. Try it."

For newcomers, the moment the portrait animates is very exciting, and learning simple spells from the start keeps them motivated.

Charles also became excited, and took out his own wand, but it was too long and inconvenient.

Concentrating, he imagined the stickman's hands flapping like bird wings, and cast a spell: "Move!"

Till leaned forward and said with a look of surprise: "It's moving! You're such a genius, you succeeded the first time!"

Charles thought she was encouraging him, because the stick figure went into convulsions like an electric shock.

Thiel asked him to practice more, then returned to his canvas to continue 3D modeling.

Everyone in the studio was very quiet. Charles was afraid that the sound of his casting would disturb everyone, so he went back to the dormitory to practice.

Seamus watched curiously for a while, then pulled out his wand and said, "Let me try it too!"

Charles just told the onlookers how to use this spell, and Seamus thought he could do it.

So Charles ran out of the door, Neville got under the bed, and then kicked Dean out who followed him.

Two minutes later, Dean slightly opened the door of the closet and saw Seamus standing there triumphantly, with no signs of explosions around him, so he came out cautiously.

Soon everyone gathered around the table, and after seeing Seamus' masterpiece, Charles sighed from the bottom of his heart: "You are really talented!"

Seamus replied triumphantly: "Yes, I think so too."

On the parchment, the stickman cursed by Seamus exploded, and then the torn lines automatically recovered, and then exploded again, and the cycle continued.

In the evening, after finishing today's Quidditch training, Harry dragged his exhausted body back to the dormitory. When he was about to enter the door, he heard cheers and laughter from the next door.

After he passed by, he found that there were many people around the table, and the boys were the only ones who missed him.

Harry squeezed curiously to Ron, who was already laughing so hard that his stomach was cramping.

He stretched his head over and laughed after seeing what was drawn on the parchment.

It was a Q version of Snape with three heads and a body. Standing behind a table, the whole person could only move his right hand. With his Parkinsonian right hand, he put a handful of herbs on the table into the cauldron in front of him.

At this time the cauldron exploded, the tabletop was empty, the pieces of the crucible flew around, and the Q version of Snape's face became as black as the bottom of the cauldron.