Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting

Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour painting
Francois Boucher Adoration of the Shepherds painting
singular sight were looking at it except for a pale young man sitting almost directly below it. He seemed unable to prevent himself from glancing upward every minute or so.

　　　"Yaxley. Snape," said a high, clear voice from the head of the table. "You are very nearly late."

　　　The speaker was seated directly in front of the fireplace, so that it was difficult, at first, for the new arrivals to make out more than his silhouette. As they drew nearer, however, his face shone through the gloom, hairless, snakelike, with slits for nostrils and gleaming red eyes whose pupils were vertical. He was so pale that he seemed to emit a pearly glow.

　　　"Severus, here," said Voldemort, indicating the seat on his immediate right. "Yaxley – beside Dolohov."