There are many fan associations in Hogwarts, with as many as twenty or thirty people and as few as three or five.
Due to the threshold problem, the Oil Painting Association does not have enough members to form a Quidditch team.
On Saturday morning, after some inquiries, Charles came to the classroom where the Oil Painting Association held events and received a warm welcome.
Wilhite, the president of the association, enthusiastically led Charles to meet the other five members, and then went to the preparation room behind the classroom to talk with him.
The lesson preparation room was decorated as a tea room. In addition to tea sets and some snacks, there were also a lot of paints and painting tools. There were several oil paintings hanging on the walls, in which the students greeted Charles.
Wilhite, who is in seventh grade this year and is a Ravenclaw student, poured tea for Charles and asked him: "Smith, are you interested in joining us?"
Charles replied: "I am very curious and interested in moving paintings, and I really want to learn how to draw them."
When he returned to the common room with Neville and Seamus last night, he suddenly had an 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 portraits can control rockets, then intelligent guidance can be achieved. Even if you can't pick the one with no nostrils, you can pick the biggest one.
Going one step further, can we try a portrait-controlled robot?
His imagination couldn't stop all of a sudden, and he thought that by combining this with the technology of automatic quills, he might be able to create an omnic crisis.
Wilhite didn't expect him to think so far ahead. He just thought that he was like other freshmen. He smiled and said: "Magic oil painting is indeed magical, but how to draw it requires a long period of practice. This includes both magic and painting."
The training of skills."
"This process is very boring. If you want to embark on this road, you must be mentally prepared."
"Several freshmen came here last semester, but before Halloween came, they couldn't bear the boredom and left."
Charles understood what he was worried about. There were many people who were popular in three minutes, and he was definitely not that kind of person.
"I won't do that." He said with certainty, "I have the foundation of painting. Although I can't say that I can become a painter, I am still qualified as a hobby."
Charles showed some talents in painting in art class in elementary school. For example, the Hermione he painted was more beautiful than the real person.
However, he felt that it would be more suitable to be a coder in the future, so he did not study further and just drew whatever he was taught in class.
After hearing him say that he had a foundation in painting, Wilhite said happily: "That's great. On behalf of the Oil Painting Association, I welcome you to join."
"We usually practice by ourselves. Professor Flitwick will regularly come to teach us the relevant knowledge of spells, and Ms. Knight will also come to Hogwarts regularly to teach us painting skills."
After asking, Charles found out that Ms. Knight was a famous painter in the British wizarding world and would come here every month to instruct students.
Next, Wilhite explained some basic knowledge of magic oil painting to Charles, which opened his eyes.
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 makes flat objects move. Both people and objects are limited to two-dimensional movement, just like shadow puppets, but they can only perform mechanical and cyclic movements and cannot interact.
This stage is easy to learn but difficult to master, and many people get stuck here. They can only let the person they draw wave, kick their legs, or at most have a smile on their face.
The second stage of artificial retardation oil painting requires 3D modeling. It does not mean that you draw the front of the character, turn around and the back comes out by itself, but that people and objects need to be rotated on the canvas while drawing details. This stage is very tedious and boring, and it can discourage people.
At this time, the people drawn can only perform mechanical and cyclical movements like GIF oil paintings, and cannot interact. Newcomers often look like a retard at this step due to errors in movement settings.
The final stage of artificial intelligence oil painting requires injecting "wisdom" into the portrait. This step is simple and beyond Charles' expectation.
At this time, just like copying a memory and putting it into a pensieve, input the memory into the portrait, and then the portrait will act according to the memory as if it were alive.
Being able to open doors like the Fat Lady's portrait belongs to the field of charms, and Wilhite didn't understand it very well.
Charles put this matter aside for a while. The GIF oil painting stage was enough to complete the work arranged by Snape.
Then Wilhite began to explain more in-depth content, such as moving the portrait between different canvases.
Charles' understanding is that the portrait at this time has wave-particle duality like Peeves. The process 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 through a dedicated line with a specific canvas, or it can form a public network, so the portrait can be a guest on other canvases.
This step is more difficult for Charles and cannot be accomplished in a short time.
The Oil Painting Association's recruitment this year seems to be difficult, and Wilhite only tested Charles' painting skills after he brought him in.
Charles drew a portrait of the president with a pencil. After looking at it, Wilhite was silent for a moment and said, "Well... this is an unimagined path."
They were painting realistic oil paintings, and suddenly a cartoonist appeared, and the style of painting changed a bit.
No matter what, it's better than having no newcomers, otherwise there will be only four people left in my class when I graduate next year.
The morning passed quickly. After lunch, Charles returned to the Oil Painting Association. Wilhite arranged for the vice president to teach him how to simply make the pattern move.
Till, the vice-president of the Oil Painting Association, is an older sister with Japanese ancestry and the same surname as Shizuka. She comes from Hufflepuff College and is in fifth grade this year.
The first thing Till asked Charles to do was to draw a few stick figures.
Charles quickly finished the drawing, and Thiel took out a wand made of beech wood and lit a stick figure: "Move quickly!"
The stickman who was originally just drawn on paper moved his right hand and kept waving.
Charles curiously put his eyes almost to the paper to observe, and found that there was no ink mark left on the paper.
Teal explained the spell to him: "When you are chanting the spell and casting the spell, you need to be very focused and think about how to move the portrait. Give it a try."
For newcomers, the moment the portrait starts moving is very exciting, and learning simple spells from the beginning can keep them motivated.
Charles also became excited and took out his wand, but it was too long and a bit inconvenient.
He concentrated, imagining the stickman's hands flapping like bird wings, and then cast a spell: "Move quickly!"
Till leaned forward, looked surprised and said: "It's moving! You are really a genius, you succeeded the first time!"
Charles felt that she was encouraging him, because the stick figure's whole body convulsed like an electric shock.
Thiel asked him to practice more and then returned to his canvas to continue 3D modeling.
Everyone was quiet in the studio. Charles was afraid that the sound of his spell would disturb everyone, so he went back to the dormitory to practice.
Seamus looked at it curiously for a while, then pulled out his wand and said, "Let me try it too!"
Charles just told the crowd how to use this spell, and Seamus thought he could do it.
So Charles ran out the door, and Neville got under the bed and kicked Dean out.
Two minutes later, Dean opened the closet door slightly and saw Seamus standing there triumphantly, with no trace of explosions around him, so he cautiously came out.
Soon everyone gathered around the table. After seeing Seamus' masterpiece, Charles sighed from the bottom of his heart: "You are such a talent!"
Seamus replied proudly: "Yes, I think so too."
On the parchment, the stick figure cursed by Seamus exploded, and then the torn lines automatically recovered, then exploded again, and the cycle continued.
In the evening, Harry finished today's Quidditch training and dragged his tired body back to the dormitory. When he was about to enter the door, he heard a burst of cheers and laughter from next door.
After he passed by, he found that there were many people around the table, except for the boys.
Harry curiously squeezed next to Ron, who was already laughing so hard that his stomach cramped.
He stretched his head over and smiled after seeing clearly what was drawn on the parchment.
It was a simple sketch of a Q version of Snape with three heads and a body. He was standing behind a table. Only his right hand could move. He used his Parkinson's-like right hand to put a handful of herbs on the table into the crucible in front of him. At this time, the crucible exploded, leaving nothing on the table. The pieces of the crucible flew around with the fragments, and Q version Snape's face became as black as the bottom of the crucible.