Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

The next afternoon, Mike waited in the bedroom for Harry's arrival.

Also coming with him is Hermione. Originally, the two of them were going to convince Ron to come to Mike to learn Occlumency, but Ron's situation was still not optimistic.

Although Ron fell asleep after dinner last night because he couldn't bear it, the overwork and violent mood swings still made Ron seriously ill. Now he is lying in Madam Pomfrey's ward for treatment. .

Mike and Harry and others were very worried about this.

After all, Ron has encountered too many things recently. First, his father was seriously injured, and then Dumbledore, who he killed, left the school.

People who have experienced so many things in a short period of time are prone to extreme behavior. Fortunately, Mrs. Pomfrey also attached great importance to Ron, and released a monitoring spell in her room to keep an eye on Ron's changes.

But in a sense, it is also a good thing that Ron is lying in the infirmary at the moment, because after the cause and effect of this incident was completely spread, many people thought that Ron was the culprit who let Dumbledore leave Hogwarts. , thus hating Ron, and now that Ron enters the infirmary, he can avoid a lot of trouble.

Neville, on the other hand, was the exact opposite of Ron, who instantly became a Hogwarts hero as soon as word spread that he would rather die.

Almost the entire Gryffindor students were chasing after him feverishly, and some even wanted to peel off his clothes to see the scars on his body.

It's a pity that those scars have long since disappeared under the power of magic.

"Boom! Boom!"

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

Mike hurriedly stepped forward and opened the door, only to see Harry and Hermione standing cramped outside the door.

It wasn't until Mike let them in and closed the door that they exhaled heavily.

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

Hermione patted her chest and said:

"Yes, that's not really a good experience. Those Ravenclaw, their eyes... er... how do you say it? Very... hostile!"

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

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

Harry looked at Mike's bedroom as he spoke, and his eyes lit up when he realized that there was only one bed in the entire bedroom.

"Yes, there are too few boys in Ravenclaw, so many rooms are vacated."

"This is awesome! Oh! Of course I'm not saying Gryffindor dorms are bad, just you know what? I fall asleep listening to Ron snoring and Seamus farting every night, It's really not a good experience. But to be fair, despite their shortcomings, it's generally pleasant to live together. At least I like it, after all, it's too lonely to live alone. Oh! I It's not that you can't live alone! I mean..."

"Okay, Harry!" Seeing that Harry wanted to say more, he quickly stopped, "I know what you want to say, multi-person dormitories and single-person dormitories have their own advantages, right?"

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

At Hogwarts, girls are free to enter the boys' dormitory, but not vice versa.

Even so, Hermione looked as uneasy as she was entering the boys' dormitory for the first time.

I saw her feet shaking uneasy,

Her eyes were constantly wandering on the furnishings of the room, and when her eyes fell on the photo of Mike and Penello on the desk, Hermione's pupils shrank suddenly, and then she quickly lowered her head.

"Are you all right? Hermione?"

Mike's voice startled Hermione, her body shook violently, and then said without looking up:

"nothing!"

Nodding his head, Mike did not break through the girl's mind, but said:

"Then let's get started."

"Okay."*2

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

Occlumency is an extremely profound spell that closes your brain so that no one else can know what you're thinking.

But in fact, Occlumency should be subdivided into two types of spells—Breakout 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 kind of feeling is very much like being in a daze, and there are indeed many people who confuse the two and learn Occlumency later, but it is essentially different from being in a daze. Because human beings are still thinking even when they are in a daze, it's just that you don't realize it.

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

You may not know that self-hypnosis is actually a very simple thing. For example, before a running race you just close your eyes and say to yourself, 'I'm running super fast! ’ Then when the race starts you tend to be faster than usual. Of course, the speed of improvement is not too high, after all, self-hypnosis is not magic, and it can't make you directly into a superman.

But there is no doubt that self-hypnosis works. And my self-hypnosis method was added to the original Occlumency method. While you are emptying your minds in absolute silence, I want you to be able to say to yourselves, 'I am a stone' over and over again, while believing that you have truly become a thoughtless stone. This will make it easier for you to get into a closed-brain state, understand? "

Harry stared at Mike in astonishment. He knew most of what Mike had said before from Snape, but what he never expected was that Mike had created a more effective cultivation method!

This is really amazing!

And Hermione on the side also got out of her previous state of shyness and entered a state of learning.

At this moment, she was looking at Mike with bright eyes, and at the same time she was quickly writing notes on the notebook she carried with her.

Mike waited until Hermione finished writing the notes, and then continued:

"Harry, since you have been studying with Professor Snape for a while, in order to determine your progress, I will release the Legilimency Charm on you later, will you accept this?"

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

Snape had released Legilimency against him several times before, and to be honest, it was a bad feeling to be forcibly invaded into the brain.

But remembering Dumbledore's expectant look, Harry 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, after half an hour, I will not wake you up, but will directly use Legilimency on you. Oh, yes, Don't be so nervous, Hermione. I won't use Legilimency on you without your consent, so don't worry."

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

"Then let's start now, Harry."

Mike flipped his wrist, and a completely transparent translucent soundproof shield enveloped Harry in it.

Watching Harry lay down slowly under the shield, Mike came to Hermione and began to explain other knowledge about Occlumency to her.

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

It wasn't until after Mike said that half an hour had come, Hermione closed the notebook in a hurry.

"Hermione, Legilimency Mantra, which is the opposite of Occlumency, is also what you will learn next. Now I will demonstrate it for you in person, please pay attention."

As he spoke, Mike took out the sloe wand under Hermione's expectant gaze.

Because it was for teaching, Mike didn't use those fancy spellcasting skills, but honestly used his wand to draw complicated lines in mid-air, and finally pointed to Harry who was lying on the ground breathing steadily:

"Legislasia!"

As Mike's voice slowly spit out, a hazy shimmer flashed away, and then all kinds of memories that didn't belong to him appeared in front of Mike's eyes.

These memories are all from Harry's first point of view, and most of them are trivial details of ordinary life, such as playing wizard chess with Ron, eating and attending classes together.

But among these useless memory fragments, there are also some more valuable memories, such as some words Dumbledore said to Harry, some memory fragments that Harry used to watch with Pensieve, and so on.

Mike originally wanted to read all these memories, but Legilimency for a long time will cause mental damage to the practitioner, and there will be more opportunities for the same in the future, so Mike just browsed it roughly. Pulled consciousness out of Harry's brain.

Just as soon as he finished casting the spell, Mike saw Hermione looking at him intently, and when he opened his eyes, the two just looked at each other.

Hermione was taken aback by Mike's sudden awakening, and bounced off as if electrocuted.

Mike coughed twice in embarrassment.

"Um, what's the result? Has Harry done Occlumency?"

Hermione changed the subject and said, while Mike shook his head with a wry smile and didn't speak.

To be honest, Mike really didn't understand what Harry was doing with Snape these days.

The Legilimency just now had to be taught to Hermione, so Mike used it quite crudely, but such a 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 inside was more like a dream!

In other words, Harry actually didn't let his brain empty for half an hour, but fell asleep!

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

So she immediately closed her mouth and stopped asking. She still had this emotional intelligence.

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

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

"I... I fell asleep!"

Mike slapped his forehead and looked at Harry helplessly.

He is really convinced of Harry now!

Hermione on the side was also quite speechless. Sleeping during the practice was not a glorious thing, and it was thanks to Harry that he could say it so loudly.

"Sorry! Mike!" Harry said in frustration, "I don't want to, but I always do."

"It doesn't matter. To be honest, your situation is very common. Many people sleep when they practice Occlumency. After all, emptying the brain is too much of a time to be active before going to bed."

"Really?"

"Yes," Mike said firmly, "but if you want to learn Occlumency, you can't always sleep. So, you two should hurry up and continue training."

Hearing this, Hermione nodded solemnly, and then used Transfiguration to turn a book into a reclining chair and sat on it (Mike originally wanted Hermione to practice on his bed, but Hermione used to lie on it. unable to cultivate and refused).

This move made Harry's mouth grow in surprise, he was lying on the floor just now!

And as Harry and Hermione closed their eyes one after another, Mike also returned to the desk and began to study the emails sent by Penello.

That's right, Penello has already found the answer to the question of the authenticity of the pendant box in Chris's hand.

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

And after a whole day of careful observation, the fairy treasure appraisers also made a final judgment - that pendant box is real!

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

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

As for the Horcruxes - it didn't matter whether the Slytherin's pendant was in Umbridge's or Chris's.

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

Of course, if the other party is too greedy, the request exceeds Mike's psychological bottom line.

Then Mike didn't mind taking it away by force.

Anyway, the power of the subordinates of the Freemasonry has developed to an alarming level, and a small pure-blood family was wiped out without anyone knowing it. Mike thinks that this is not difficult.

Thinking of this, the corners of Mike's mouth rose uncontrollably.

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