Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

The three young wizards exchanged glances, none of them wanting to test Snape's Legilimency, for who knows if he might have added something else to the spell.

Seeing that none of the three of them wanted to try, Snape looked directly at Harry and said, "Let's start with you."

Harry's heart raced with nervousness. He swallowed hard, took a deep breath, and felt a sense of impending doom.

When performing the act of mind control, the practitioner needs to make direct eye contact with the target, which involves highly concentrating the mind to invade the target's brain.

However, mind-capturing is not about directly reading thoughts, but rather about sorting through the target's complex thought processes and memory fragments to extract their true intentions.

Master wizards like Voldemort and Dumbledore can create false memories and implant them into the target's mind, causing memory confusion.

He met Snape's cold gaze, and suddenly remembered Snape's earlier hints about Occlumency.

Driven by an instinct to avoid danger, Harry subconsciously activated Occlumency to defend himself.

At that moment, all the key points of the Occlusive Therapy flashed through his mind.

"Keep your mind blank and quiet, calm your mind, don't think about anything, and be in a state of absolute peace."

"Control your emotions and don't become a slave to them. No matter what you think or see, stay calm."

Logically speaking, for a simple test, Snape didn't need to use his wand; a weaker, silent, and spellless spellcasting method would have been safer.

But when facing Harry, he actually raised his wand!
Ron and Mikel didn't hear him recite the spell; they only saw Snape's wand point at Harry's temple.

There seemed to be an extremely strong gravitational pull coming from the tip of the spell, and Harry's face instantly tensed up, a look of pain appearing on his face.

Ron and Mikel stared wide-eyed, their emotions rising and falling with Harry's expressions.

Ron blinked several times, muttering in the deathly silence, "Did I see that right? Harry seems to have held off the attack! He actually held off the attack!"

Mikel was also a little confused at this point, because Snape's entourage looked very large, and Harry's expression was somewhat pained.

But just as Ron said, the wand was almost poking Harry's temple, yet nothing came out.

At that moment, the descriptions from the original work he had read before suddenly came to mind, and he finally understood why he felt that the recent events were somewhat abrupt.

According to the original story, Harry only learned Occlumency in his fifth year because he frequently dreamed of Voldemort's thoughts and actions. Dumbledore realized that his mind might be invaded by Voldemort, so he sent Snape to teach Harry Occlumency.

During his first training session, Harry briefly resisted Legilimency. He was gifted in Occlumency, but his inability to control his emotions led to his failure to resist.

Mikel frowned, feeling as if he had forgotten something.

Why couldn't Harry control his emotions? What did he see?
Thinking this, Harry suddenly let out a series of painful roars, his upright body bent over, his face turned red, and he was sweating profusely.

He cried!
Ron quickly helped the agitated Harry up and kept calling his name, trying to wake him up.

Because Harry never opened his eyes while he was in pain.

Mikel looked at Snape and found him in a daze, a rare sight of astonishment on his usually emotionless face.

Snape frowned, hastily uttered a sentence, and left.

"You guys practice on your own first. I have other things to do. We'll do the tests when I have time later."

"Harry?"

"Harry!"

"Harry!!"

Harry suddenly opened his eyes, his forehead covered in cold sweat, his gaze unfocused, as if he were still immersed in the nightmare he had just had.

"Harry, are you alright? You've been unconscious for hours."

Ron's anxious face appeared before him, and Harry also saw Mikey standing next to Ron.

He forced a smile: "I'm fine."

He reached up and touched his face, finding it covered in sweat.

He got out of bed, and his body did not feel any soreness.

Harry said, "How did I fall asleep? Wasn't I practicing Occlumency?"

Ron said with a strange expression, "You don't remember anything? You suddenly became very painful while practicing with Snape, and then you fainted, and our training was forced to stop."

We took you to the infirmary, but Ms. Pomfrey said you were just asleep, so we took you back to your dormitory.

When we got back to the dorm, we noticed you were still in a lot of pain, so we tried to wake you up.

“Harry, are you really alright?” Mikel asked.

Harry nodded. "I think there's nothing wrong with my body. Do I look very tired?"

Ron looked him over carefully and nodded, saying, "You look alright, but you looked like you were in pain while you were sleeping. Did you have another nightmare?"

Harry: "It was a nightmare, but it was different from my usual nightmares. This time I dreamed about things I experienced as a child."

Ron was about to ask him what he had dreamed about when Mikel tugged at his sleeve. He turned to look at Mikel.

Mikel said, "It's getting late. Let's light the radiance candles. Calm yourself down and get some rest. We have a lot of things to do tomorrow."

Harry breathed a slight sigh of relief and replied quickly, "Okay."

Mikel went to the restroom to wash up, and Ron followed her in, asking in a low voice, "Why didn't you let me continue?"

Mikel's expression turned serious. "You saw the pain on Harry's face. It means that what he dreamed about wasn't good for him. Let's not keep asking him and digging deeper, lest we reopen his wounds."

Ron said with some guilt, "It's my fault for not thinking it through."

Mikel shook his head slightly and said nothing more.

Based on his experience with Ron, at least Ron is much more emotionally intelligent than the Ron in the original story.

Late at night.

Harry tried to calm himself down.

But every time he closed his eyes, he would recall the abuse he suffered while living in the Westersleys' house.

He is now strong-willed and no longer afraid of the Dursleys; they are just paper tigers.

The Dursleys were actually afraid of him and dreaded him, which is why they tormented and abused him.

But knowing something is one thing, and controlling your thoughts is another.

Harry felt anxious and tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.

In contrast, Ron could be heard snoring from his bed.

Harry was a little envious of him; Ron always slept very well. Suddenly, a very soft voice came from behind him. Mikel asked, "Harry, are you having trouble sleeping?"

Harry paused for a moment, then replied, "Yeah, I can't sleep."

Mikel asked, "When you close your eyes, do you recall the nightmares you had before?"

Harry hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes."

Mikel said, "You know meditation? Snape once told us we could practice meditation to stabilize our minds. Why don't you try meditation? It can help stabilize your emotions."

Harry recalled the meditation that Lin Xia had taught him: to sit up from the bed and stare intently at the candlelight in the distance for 10-15 minutes. During this time, his thoughts changed from agitation to calm.

At the same time, it is also necessary to use appropriate breathing techniques, such as inhaling for 4 seconds and exhaling for 4 seconds, inhaling and exhaling in a stable rhythm.

After a short while, Harry felt himself become quiet.

Mikel also had trouble sleeping, not because of Harry's strange behavior today, but because of Harry.

The plot is getting more and more outrageous, and Mikel doesn't know what advantages the original work can still give him.

Even with the system's help and knowing the original plot, all he could gain was the favor of the Hogwarts professors.

However, goodwill can only provide opportunities, but it will not directly enhance his strength.

Even so, Mikel was still somewhat smug. The professors' favorability was still favorability; after all, those professors were not ordinary wizards.

If even the original work cannot be referenced, then his cheat ability is half wasted.

He sighed heavily, feeling somewhat troubled, closed his eyes, and fell asleep without realizing it.

Wake up the next day.

Ron went to see Harry immediately and found him in high spirits, seemingly unaffected by yesterday's events.

Ron asked cautiously, "Harry, can you still take the test today? Or do you want to rest some more?"

Harry shook his head: "No, I feel great today."

Harry is fine, but Snape, who is in charge of teaching them, had an emergency and left Hogwarts last night, with no return date set.

So Harry and the others had to figure out Occlumency on their own.

Ron said, "None of us have ever experienced Legilimency. Should we find a professor to help us first?"

Mikel reluctantly rejected the idea: "I suggest we don't ask other professors for help. Legilimency can see into a wizard's thoughts and even into the depths of their heart, revealing the wizard's hidden secrets."

It's like walking naked down the street; would you want your secret to be revealed by the spellcaster?

Ron and Harry looked somewhat bewildered. Harry asked, "Can the Legilimency know our secrets?"

Mikel asked, somewhat puzzled, "Of course, otherwise why would so many wizards resist Legilimency and then specifically research Occlumency to counter it?"

Harry asked again, "Then, during the casting, the caster also knows those memories that surface in my mind?"

Mikel: "Not only can he know, he can also know more of your hidden memories, some of which you may have forgotten yourself, but the caster can discover them."

“This…” Harry’s expression turned somewhat grim.

He wondered if Snape had also seen the scenes of him being abused by the Dursleys while living with them, which was why he left in such a hurry.

He disliked Snape, but also disliked others prying into his tragic past.

Especially someone like Snape, if he knew he had a tragic childhood, who knows how he would mock him in the future.

Harry didn't want his past to be known to everyone.

Furthermore, if Snape also discovered his secret...

Harry was even more troubled.

How could he explain that he hadn't intentionally placed the illusory conch in Professor McGonagall's office?

He had no intention of spying on Professor McGonagall; he simply wanted to use the illusory conch to find out Sirius Black's whereabouts.

Ron glanced at Mikel, who had a serious expression, and then at Harry, who had an unpleasant look on his face, and said, "Am I the only one who doesn't care? Let them see. I don't have any memories that can't be seen by others."

Mikel quipped, "If Snape knew how you lived at home and learned about the Weasleys' lifestyle, who knows what he'd say to you."

Ron's expression darkened as he thought of Snape's mouth.

He quickly said, "Let's not have anyone perform mind control. Let's see if we can practice mind control on our own first. I don't want them to see my memories of when I was naked or when I wet the bed."

The Weasleys were not well-off when he was a child. Several people had to share a piece of clothing. If the older children couldn't fit into it, the younger ones would wear it, and if the younger ones couldn't fit into it, the even younger ones would wear it.

But Ron did not blame his parents for it.

Because that's how his brothers all got by.

Things only got a little better after Ginny was born.
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Harry is still busy battling Occlumency.

Hermione has been repeating this cycle of Thursdays for over three thousand days.

Every day I wake up in my bed at home, then run to the Royal Library and head to Diagon Alley to start my day of studying.

The repetitive rhetoric, the constant testing of magical abilities, the repetitive routines... all of these had already made Hermes feel exhausted.

Fortunately, she will soon learn the last spell, [Heart Key Resonance], from Isaac.

Compared to the Heart Key Resonance Charm and the Vision Veil, Isaac was not very skilled at the Heart Key Resonance.

The only certainty is that he had learned the spell, but because he hadn't used it for a long time, the speed and effectiveness of his magic had become very poor, making him seem like a half-baked practitioner.

When Hermione found out, she wanted to find a different teacher, but she searched all over Diagon Alley and even Gringotts, founded by fairies, and found that the secret magic of "Mind Key Resonance" was only known to Isaac.

The fairy could find someone to teach her, but that person was far away overseas and would need three days to get to England.

three days?

Upon hearing this, Hermione turned and left Gringotts without looking back.

Even if he could come over in a day, let alone three days, she wouldn't have many hours left to study, so she had no choice but to continue seeking out Isaac.

Being taught by someone with only a half-baked understanding, Hermione was somewhat worried about whether she had fully mastered the spell.

Another night passed, and Hermione woke up to her mother's calls.

This time, however, she acted differently than usual. (End of Chapter)