A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 20 Questions About Occlumency
Owen left the corridor very calmly, and put away the wand that was held in his hand again.

If the twins chose to attack him just now, Owen didn't mind practicing his newly mastered spell on them.As for the friendliness represented by that bouquet of fake flowers?That's fine, but it could also be plastic.

After turning around the last few places on the eighth floor of the castle, Owen paused in front of a huge ugly stone monster statue, and made a note on the map.

"What's wrong?" the stone monster asked in a low voice.

"It's okay, passing by." Owen said casually.Although he could guess the password of the principal's office, it was nothing more than sizzling bee candies, cockroach piles, or lemon ice cream, but he didn't have the idea of ​​sneaking in to have a look.

After leaving this area, Owen carefully looked at the map in his hand, and then started to walk downstairs.

Peeves came back halfway, and was quiet for a while under the influence of the spell.When the time limit for the spell passed, he became louder and louder, and if Owen hadn't threatened the spell, he would have almost sang a song that tormented his ears.

When passing by the fourth floor, Peeves looked towards the corridor on the right hand side, and winked at Owen: "Peves knows that there must be a treasure hidden in that corridor! Peeves saw them sending a big dog with three heads. Go in!"

"Then why don't you grab the baby?" Owen said casually.

"It's enchanted there, and Peeves can't get through it." Peeves rolled around in mid-air, obviously unable to go in and check it out, which made him scratch his head.

While talking, Owen suddenly smelled a faint smell of garlic.He continued to walk down the stairs for a few steps, and as expected, he saw Professor Quirrell who was going upstairs, and the huge purple scarf on his head was particularly conspicuous.

"Good afternoon, Professor Quirrell." Owen greeted him very naturally, with a perfect smile on his face, and his every move was elegant and self-confident.

"Next... good afternoon, Sha... Shafik." Professor Quirrell also nodded, glanced at Peeves quickly, and continued: "You can't go... close to that... corridor, it's very dangerous ...dangerous." Apparently he heard what Owen and Peeves said.

Peeves' eyeballs rolled around, and he didn't know what bad thoughts were in his mind.Apparently, he had no awe of this stuttering professor who had no majesty at all.

"Of course, professor. I don't want to be a big dog's dessert." Owen said in a humorous tone, and his clear and calm eyes touched the other side.

Quirrell nodded, and the two passed peacefully by.

Owen went down the stairs silently, and when he got back to the first floor, he glared at Peeves.He always felt that this guy was sparing no effort to deceive himself.

"Well, do you want to study Occlumency?"

Owen did not learn Occlumency in advance because he had no memory of the plot before enrolling.Of course, even if he wanted to learn it in advance, he might not be able to. This kind of forbidden technique, which is closely related to the brain and thoughts, without the precise control of magic power and the care of a skilled wizard, may turn himself into an idiot if he practiced rashly!
"However, now that I have the space for thinking, I have the conditions for self-cultivation." Owen pondered.

Owen is not in a hurry to learn Occlumency these days, because he has learned about the magic of Legilimency in some books, and understands that it is not something that can be flipped through a person's memory at will.

The human brain is not a book that can be opened at will for people to read in their free time, but a complex, vague and multi-layered thing.Legilimency cannot read other people's thoughts like reading a newspaper, but must walk through the other's complex thoughts, sort out and analyze what they find, and interpret the meaning from some meaningless pictures.

Legilimency practitioners can determine whether others are lying, and analyze the other person's true inner thoughts. They can also use words and emotional guidance to allow them to interpret what they need from other people's changing thoughts.

Of course, a clever Legilimency master can also invade other people's brains and find some memory fragments they need.But this is the violent use of Legilimency, which requires a high degree of concentration and is easier to be noticed by the other party.This is already the domain of interrogation.

Among the few people in Hogwarts who know Legilimency, Dumbledore usually doesn't use it easily on students, although with his wisdom, he can easily see through most people even without using Legilimency heart.As for Snape, although his bottom line is more flexible, he will only use it on students when he is full, to interpret those childish and snickering little thoughts.

As for Voldemort, it is still unknown whether he can use Legilimency in his current state of dying.Even if he can use it, the target will not be a little wizard who is not a threat to him, unless this little wizard has attracted his attention or been targeted by him, but at most it is just to perceive the other party's thoughts at the moment.

For him to use the interrogation method of Legilimency at the risk of increasing his physical burden, to forcibly invade other people's brains and peep at other people's memory fragments, it would only work if someone aroused his strong suspicion or vigilance.What's more, his current weak state may not be able to do it at all.

If he could really achieve this step, he might have already found a way to pass the big dog from Hagrid's mind. After all, Hagrid is definitely not a person who can hide his thoughts.Although Hagrid was a half-blood giant, which would increase the difficulty of Legilimency to a certain extent, it would definitely not be able to stop Voldemort's prying eyes.

Moreover, if Voldemort could really use Legilimency in this way, he should have found Snape by now, instead of relying on the mediocre Chino. After all, Snape, the master of Occlumency, was absolutely "loyal" to him. "of.

Owen is actually not too afraid of others finding out his inner thoughts at this moment, after all, he will not think over and over again of the plots he is familiar with.As long as no one sees his memory of the original novel, there is always room for maneuver.

"So don't worry too much, because it's useless to worry."

Owen knew that even if he started to practice Occlumency from now on, it might be difficult to achieve something in a short period of time. It would take an unpredictable amount of time to practice enough to be useful.He also doesn't want to find a Legilimency master to help him crash, because that means he has to open his memory to others.

"However, just in case, let's find a textbook on Occlumency and study it, and see if we can find a way to hide the memory of the original book in a targeted manner." Owen glanced at the face beside him. Peeves smirked, "I seem to have a few related books at home, it seems that I'm going to write a letter to my family."

"So, don't tell me what crooked thoughts you are thinking again." Owen temporarily put the problem of Occlumency behind him, tilted his head and looked at Peeves, with a slightly playful smile on his face, "Or Say, you want to tear the scarf off Professor Quirrell's head in public, so everyone can see if it's stuffed with garlic?"

"Peves has principles!" Peeves yelled, but his malicious black eyes betrayed his restlessness.

"Okay, how long are you going to follow me?" Owen took out his pocket watch to check the time, planning to go for a walk outside the castle and bask in the sun.It's too unpleasant to be surrounded by a noisy guy at a time like this.

"As long as you tell poor Peeves that trivial little secret..." Peeves turned somersaults in the air, holding his nose.

"As I said, that's impossible." Owen's smile was full of resoluteness, and then he showed a playful look, "However, I can think about it and teach you what I did in front of the twin brothers of the Weasley family. Show magic."

(End of this chapter)