Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

"Only Muggles talk about 'reading people's hearts'. The human heart is not a book and cannot be read at will."

"Thoughts are not engraved in the skull and cannot be drilled into and read. The human heart is a complex and multi-layered thing, Harry - at least most minds are."

"However, people who are capable of Legilimency can study other people's minds under certain circumstances and make correct interpretations. For example, Voldemort can almost always tell when others are lying to him, and only people who are good at Occlumency can seal it Feelings and memories that contradict the lie, lying to him without being caught.”

Harry's mind was radiating, and Sherlock's words described it, making him think that Legilimency magic was unprecedentedly powerful.

"Can Voldemort see what we are thinking now? Professor."

"Space and time are the biggest obstacles to magic, and the same is true for Legilimency. The best way to activate this magic is to look directly into the eyes of the person being Legilimency. Moreover, Hogwarts Castle has an ancient and powerful Magic is always protecting him, and he doesn't have that much power," Sherlock said.

"But the spell that failed to kill you seems to have established some kind of connection between you and Voldemort. There are indications that sometimes, when your mind is at its most relaxed and vulnerable - such as in your sleep, you can sense him. Thoughts and emotions, that's quite dangerous, Harry."

"If things like this continue, it's impossible for him not to discover the problem, and once this happens, your mind will be completely open to him. By then, he can even make you dream whatever he wants you to dream. matter."

Harry had obviously realized the seriousness of this matter after being emphasized many times by Dumbledore and Sherlock.

"Then what should I do first, Professor?"

Sherlock opened the notebook and said helplessly.

"I haven't studied Occlumency in depth myself, so I asked Severus to help write these teaching notes. It's just that the teaching method he envisioned is a bit too rough, but it is also the fastest and easiest to achieve quick results. method."

He looked at Harry seriously.

"So before formal teaching, I want to ask for your opinion, Harry. Are you willing to open your memory in front of me? If you have any changes in your heart, then we will use another method, but This kind of teaching will be very slow.”

Harry shrugged nonchalantly.

"That's totally fine with me, Professor, there's nothing I can't see in my mind."

Of course there is no problem if it is Sherlock, but if it is Snape, then Harry will naturally be 10,000 reluctant.

With Harry saying this, Sherlock's next teaching job will be easier to handle. Snape has already planned it for him, so he only needs to follow the steps.

Sherlock first took out a stone basin from the cabinet on the side. Harry recognized that it was Dumbledore's Pensieve.

Then he took out his wand from his robes, raised the tip to his temple, and inserted it into the roots of his smooth hair.

When he took away the wand, there was a strand of silver attached to the tip of the wand, like a thick spider silk. Sherlock tore it off and let it fall gently into the pensieve, where it spun silvery white. , neither a gas nor a liquid.

Sherlock raised his wand to his temple twice more and added the silvery substance into the stone basin.

"When snooping into other people's memories, I needed to take out part of my own memory to prevent some important parts of it from being affected, so I borrowed a pensieve from Professor Dumbledore."

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While he explained, he also put the pensieve containing the memory back into the cabinet, and then asked Harry to stand up from the chair.

"Next, I'm going to start trying to get into your brain, Harry." Sherlock said seriously, "You can use all the methods you can think of to resist. I need to test some of your willpower. This is very important. ”

Harry took a deep breath and nodded, indicating that he was ready.

"Legilimency."

Sherlock suddenly took action, and before Harry could prepare to resist, the office swayed and disappeared in front of his eyes. Pictures flashed through his mind like a movie, and he could no longer see what was around him.

When he was five years old, he watched Dudley ride on his new red bicycle, and his heart was filled with envy; when he was nine years old, he was chased into a tree by the guard dog Lippi, and the Dursleys laughed on the lawn; Hat, heard it say that he could go to Slytherin; during the summer vacation of the second grade, Sherlock came to him and said that he could take him to travel to France; hundreds of dementors surrounded Sirius, and he rushed forward to use the Patronus Charm; At the ball of the Triwizard Tournament, he watched with jealousy as Cedric danced with his arms around Qiu Zhang's slender waist...

The previous memories were okay, but when it came to the part about Qiu Chang, Harry instinctively felt resistant because of his shyness.

He began to struggle, and Sherlock's office returned to his sight.

Harry gasped for breath. He didn't know when he held the wand in his hand, and there was a spell scorch mark with white smoke on the wall next to Sherlock.

Seeing this scene, he could obviously guess what he had just done.

"Hug, sorry, Professor, I, I don't know when I used the spell..."

Sherlock interrupted Harry's apology.

"You don't have to apologize. The fact that you fought back is exactly what I wanted. It shows that you are not defenseless about your memory, which is a good thing."

He didn't mention the last scene he saw. Harry didn't expect it at first, but in fact, he still had some psychology that he didn't want others to find out.

Adolescent children are always restless inside.

"You have actually mastered some tricks. The key to Occlumency is that you must be able to completely and completely control your thoughts."

"When others use magic to influence your thoughts and memories in certain aspects, you must ensure that you still have absolute control over your own."

"The key to achieving this is that you must be able to control your emotions, do not have other unnecessary emotions, try your best to empty your mind, and don't think about anything, even if you have magic like Legilimency. If you can pull you and you are perfectly unaffected, it means that you have basically mastered the magic of Occlumency. "

After letting Harry experience that feeling once, Sherlock showed him the ropes.

Harry took a deep breath, nodded and said.

"I'll try my best. Do we have to do it again?"

Sherlock raised his wand again.

"Of course, remember what I said, and now, clear your mind."