The Ancient Black Family

The scream came from that portrait. In the painting was an old woman wearing a pointed black hat.

She looked as though she had sallow skin full of folds, and only the skin around her screaming mouth was pulled taut because it was open, without the slightest trace of wrinkles.

"How is she here?" Sirius Black's eyes widened. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the drapes on either side of the portrait and hurriedly reached out to grab them, wanting to cover the portrait and muffle the sound.

The scream was like a lit fuse, swiftly setting off all of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place. The other portraits started screaming with it, and the deafening noise echoed through the entrance hall as dust and smoke billowed up.

"Protego!" Vizet immediately cast Protective Magic, and a Magical Energy Field rapidly took shape.

He kept waving his wand, gathering the dust and smoke together and turning it into three pairs of earmuffs, protecting Luna's ears first.

"Thanks!" Sirius Black took the earmuffs handed to him, hurriedly pulled them over his head, and continued trying to draw the drapes on either side of the portrait.

The old woman in the portrait had probably just been startled awake. She noticed that it was Sirius Black pulling the drapes, seemed to realize something, and her eyes grew wider and wider.

The next second, the old woman pointed at Sirius Black's nose, her mouth opening and closing in an exaggerated way. She was probably cursing Sirius Black.

"A very lively Magical Portrait..." Vizet frowned as he observed it. Though this portrait was extremely unpleasant, it was also extremely valuable.

To complete a painting with such "volume," the potions required were far more complicated than just Brain-Boosting Potion and Developing Potion. Which materials had been