Chapter 385 Occlumency Tutorial

The next afternoon, Mike was waiting for Harry's arrival in the dormitory.

Hermione was going to come with him, and they were going to persuade Ron to come to Mike to learn Occlumency, but Ron's condition was still not optimistic.

Although Ron fell asleep after dinner yesterday because he couldn't bear it, the excessive fatigue and intense emotional fluctuations still made Ron seriously ill. Now he is lying in Madam Pomfrey's ward for treatment.

Mike, Harry and others are all very worried about this.

After all, Ron has encountered too many things recently. First, his father was seriously injured, and then he caused Dumbledore to leave the school.

It is easy for people to have extreme behaviors after experiencing so many things in a short period of time. Fortunately, Madam Pomfrey also attaches great importance to Ron and released a monitoring spell in his room to keep an eye on Ron's changes.

But in a sense, it was a good thing that Ron was lying in the infirmary at this moment, because after the cause and effect of this incident was thoroughly spread, many people thought that Ron was the culprit who made Dumbledore leave Hogwarts, and thus hated Ron. Now that Ron was in the infirmary, a lot of trouble could be avoided.

Neville's situation was exactly the opposite of Ron. After the news that he would rather die than obey spread, he instantly became a hero of Hogwarts.

Almost all the students in Gryffindor were fanatically pursuing him, and some even wanted to take off his clothes to see the scars on his body.

Unfortunately, those scars had long disappeared without a trace under the power of magic.

"Bang! Bang!"

Just as Mike was thinking, the door of the dormitory suddenly rang.

Mike hurried forward and opened the door, and saw Harry and Hermione standing outside the door.

It was not until Mike let the two in and closed the door that the two breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh! Mike, I was so embarrassed just now!" Harry shook his head, "As soon as we approached your dormitory, all the Ravenclaws in the lounge started staring at us!"

Hermione patted her chest and said:

"Yeah, it was not a good experience. Those Ravenclaws, their eyes... uh... how to say it? Very... hostile!"

"Don't worry too much, they are just overly nervous. As you know, yesterday's incident was a bit of a big deal." Mike said with a smile, "By the way, would you like some tea?"

"No, are you the only one living here?"

Harry said as he looked around Mike's dormitory, and his eyes lit up when he found that there was only one bed in the entire dormitory.

"That's right, there are too few boys in Ravenclaw, so there are a lot of empty rooms."

"That's great! Oh! I'm certainly not saying that Gryffindor's dormitory is bad, but you know what? I have to listen to Ron's snoring and Seamus's farting every night to fall asleep, which is really not a good experience. But to be honest, although they have so many shortcomings, it is generally pleasant to live together. At least I like it very much, after all, living alone is too lonely. Oh! I'm not saying that you can't live alone! What I mean is..."

"Okay, Harry!" Seeing that Harry wanted to say more, he quickly stopped him, "I know what you want to say, dormitory and single dormitory each have their own advantages, right?"

Hearing this, Harry nodded quickly, and Mike turned his head to look at Hermione next to him.

In Hogwarts, girls can enter the boys' dormitory at will, but not vice versa.

But even so, Hermione looked very uneasy as if she was entering the boys' dormitory for the first time.

Her feet were shaking restlessly, and her eyes kept wandering around the furnishings in the room. When her eyes fell on the photo of Mike and Penelope on the desk, Hermione's pupils shrank sharply, and then she quickly lowered her head.

"Are you okay, Hermione?"

Mike's voice startled Hermione, and her body shook violently for a while, and then she said without raising her head:

"It's okay!"

Nodding, Mike did not expose the girl's thoughts, but said:

"Then let's get started."

"Okay."*2

"Since Hermione is new to Occlumency, I'll start from the beginning.

Occlumency is an extremely advanced spell that closes your brain so that others can't know your thoughts.

But in fact, Occlumency should be divided into two spells - emptying your mind and Occlumency.

This is because the most basic and important form of Occlumency is to empty your mind, that is, to think nothing and feel nothing. This feeling is very similar to being in a daze, and many people do confuse the two and have been unable to learn Occlumency, but it is fundamentally different from being in a daze. Because even when humans are in a daze, they are still thinking, but you are not aware of it.

This is the traditional method of practicing Occlumency, but after combining it with Muggle psychology, I created a more efficient method of practice - self-hypnosis.

You may not know that self-hypnosis is actually It is actually a very simple thing. For example, before a running competition, you just need to close your eyes and repeatedly say to yourself "I run super fast!" Then after the competition starts, your speed will often be faster than usual. Of course, the speed increase will not be too high. After all, self-hypnosis is not magic, and it cannot turn you into a superman directly.

But there is no doubt that self-hypnosis is effective. And my self-hypnosis method is added to the original brain-blocking training method. While you empty your mind in an absolutely quiet environment, I hope you can repeatedly say to yourself "I am a stone" and believe that you have really become a stone without thoughts. This will make it easier for you to enter the brain-blocking state, understand? "

Harry looked at Mike in amazement. He had already learned most of what Mike said from Snape, but he never expected that Mike actually created a more effective training method!

This is really amazing!

And Hermione beside him also got rid of her previous shy state and entered the learning state.

At this moment, she was looking at Mike with shining eyes, and she was also writing notes quickly in the notebook she carried with her.

Mike waited until Hermione finished writing her notes before continuing,

"Harry, since you have already studied with Professor Snape for some time, in order to determine your learning progress, I will cast a Legilimency spell on you in a while. Are you willing to accept this?"

As soon as these words came out, Harry's expression instantly turned ugly.

Snape had used Legilimency on him several times before. To be honest, it was not pleasant to have your brain forcibly invaded.

But thinking of Dumbledore's expectant eyes, Harry still gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Very good, then I will give you half an hour to prepare. In order to be able to test more accurately, I will not wake you up in half an hour, but will directly use Legilimency on you. Oh, by the way, Hermione, you don't have to be so nervous. I will not use Legilimency on you without your consent, so you don't have to worry."

The worried expression on Hermione's face eased a lot. She had been hiding a lot of shameful thoughts in her heart. If Mike really invaded her brain and saw those thoughts, she would probably not live.

"Then, let's start now, Harry."

Mike turned his wrist, and a completely transparent translucent soundproof shield enveloped Harry.

Watching Harry slowly lying down in the shield, Mike came to Hermione and began to explain to her other knowledge about brain occlusion.

Hermione, who had entered the learning state, completely became a learning machine. She wrote down almost every word Mike said in her notebook, even those useless nonsense.

It was not until Mike said that half an hour was up that Hermione closed the notebook with reluctance.

"Hermione, the Legilimency spell, which is opposite to the brain block, is also what you will learn next. Now I will personally demonstrate it to you. Please pay attention."

As he spoke, Mike took out the blackthorn wand under Hermione's expectant eyes.

Because it was for teaching, Mike did not use those fancy spell casting techniques, but honestly used the wand to draw complex lines in the air, and finally pointed at Harry who was lying on the ground and breathing steadily:

"Legitimate!"

As Mike's voice slowly uttered, a hazy glimmer flashed, and then all kinds of memories that did not belong to him appeared in front of Mike's eyes.

These memories were all from Harry's first-person perspective, mostly some trivial details of daily life, such as playing wizard chess with Ron, eating and attending classes together, etc.

But among these useless memory fragments, there are also some valuable memories, such as some words Dumbledore said to Harry, some memory fragments that he took Harry to watch in the Pensieve, etc.

Mike originally wanted to read all these memories, but long-term Legilimency will cause mental damage to the person who is under the spell, and there will be many similar opportunities in the future, so Mike just took a rough look and pulled his consciousness out of Harry's brain.

As soon as he finished casting the spell, Mike saw Hermione looking at him intently, and when he opened his eyes, the two of them happened to look at each other.

Hermione was startled by Mike's sudden awakening and jumped away as if she had been electrocuted.

Mike coughed awkwardly twice.

"Uh, what's the result? Did Harry master the brain block technique?"

Hermione said to change the subject, and Mike smiled bitterly and shook his head, but didn't say anything.

To be honest, Mike really didn't understand what Harry was doing with Snape during this time.

Mike's Legilimency was quite crude because he had to teach Hermione, but this simple Legilimency easily invaded Harry's brain.

And after checking, Mike found that Harry's brain was not empty at all, and the bizarre scene in it was more like a dream!

In other words, Harry didn't empty his mind at all in the past half an hour, but fell asleep!

Seeing that Mike didn't speak and his expression was a little ugly, Hermione immediately understood that Harry's performance was not ideal.

So she immediately shut up and stopped asking questions. She still had some emotional intelligence.

"Harry, wake up, wake up..."

With Mike's call, Harry slowly opened his eyes. His pupils were slowly condensing, and when he found that Mike and Hermione were looking at him, he immediately jumped up from the ground.

"I... I fell asleep!"

Mike slapped his forehead and looked at Harry helplessly.

He was really convinced by Harry now!

Hermione beside him was also quite speechless. It was not a glorious thing to fall asleep during training. Fortunately, Harry could say it so loudly.

"Sorry! Mike!" Harry looked frustrated. "I don't want to, but I always do this."

"It's okay. To be honest, your situation is very common. Many people fall asleep when practicing brain occlumency. After all, emptying the mind is a good activity before going to bed."

"Really?"

"Yes," Mike said firmly, "but if you want to learn brain occlumency, it is definitely not okay to always sleep. So, you two should continue training quickly."

Hearing this, Hermione nodded solemnly, and then used Transfiguration to turn a book into a recliner and sat on it (Mike originally wanted Hermione to practice on his bed, but Hermione refused because she couldn't practice lying on it).

This move made Harry open his mouth in surprise. He was lying on the floor just now!

As Harry and Hermione closed their eyes one after another, Mike returned to the desk and began to study the email sent by Penelope.

That's right, Penelope has found the answer to the question of whether the pendant in Chris's hand is real or fake.

After he provided Penelope with his detailed memory of observing the pendant at that time, Penelope and Uncle Mario immediately summoned several goblins with rich experience in treasure appraisal to identify the authenticity of the pendant.

After a whole day of careful observation, the goblin treasure appraisers also made the final judgment-the pendant is real!

Nodding with satisfaction, Mike threw the email into the fireplace.

For Mike, destroying the Horcrux is definitely his most important job now. As for

the Horcrux-Slytherin's pendant, it doesn't matter whether it is in Umbridge's hands or Chris's hands.

Because he has plenty of money, enough to meet most of the other party's economic requirements.

Of course, if the other party is too greedy and the requirements put forward exceed Mike's psychological bottom line.

Then Mike doesn't mind using force to take it away.

Anyway, the power of the Freemasons has grown to an astonishing level. Mike thinks it is not difficult to destroy a small pure-blood family without anyone noticing.

Thinking of this, Mike's mouth corners can't help but rise.

But at this moment, the door of Mike's dormitory was knocked again...