Chapter 16: The Room of Request and Occlumency

"I didn't fool you. Dudley spread his hands, and he said, "What I told you is indeed true, and it is advice for you to appear in women's clothes before Snape." ”

"It's still not right, you're just fooling me, how do you know about such a distant thing. ”

Dudley felt that Harry was being fooled by him, but not too much, he didn't feel like he had fooled Harry many times.

Dudley said that he had thought of being asked such a question, and he had already figured out what to say, and he said, "If you still don't believe me, you can send a letter to my mother, who knew Professor Snape in the early years." However, I advise you not to write to ask, otherwise you will be careful of being scolded, which is a bad memory for your mother. ”

"Okay, okay, but I'm not going to wear women's clothes for anything. Harry said firmly.

"I'm going to pour a cup of tea and drink it, and I'm shocked. ”

After a while, Harry walked back with a glass of water in one hand and a small piece of paper in the other.

Harry asked, "Hagrid, did you see this report too?"

"What?"

Gringotts break-in incident reported. The stolen vault is the vault we went to, and what was in it? If you hadn't gone to the vault that day and taken it out, it would have been stolen by an intruder. ”

Hagrid took the little piece of paper and threw it into the burning fire, and said, "Harry, this is not your concern. ”

Harry was a little reluctant, or rather too curious, and kept asking Hagrid these questions. Hagrid didn't want to answer Harry's question, and finally kicked them out of the hut.

Even after being kicked out, Hagrid gave the four of them a lot of rock skin cakes, which they were embarrassed to refuse out of politeness. As soon as he walked out of the hut, Dudley put the rock skin cake directly into Harry's hand, and Hermione and Ron also gave it to Harry when they saw this.

For two days over the weekend, Dudley walked from downstairs to upstairs and from upstairs to downstairs in the castle. Hell-bent on finding a responsive house.

The Room of Requirement, also known as the House of Arrivals, comes and goes, and only when one really needs it, one can enter it. It was a very good place for Dudley to practice spells.

Dudley was lucky, and it took only two days to find the location of the Room of Requirement, which turned out to be on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle, opposite the tapestry of the troll stick beating the silly Barnabas. When Dudley passed through that section of the wall for the third time, a very smooth door appeared on the wall.

Dudley grabbed the brass handle and pulled the door open, and he entered, a large room with torches lit. The room was empty, except for a dummy with a wand, and because Dudley was so focused on practicing spells, the Room of Requirement would also become a suitable place to practice spells.

Dudley stood in the room, thinking about what he needed, and there was a toilet and a bathroom at one point, but when he wanted food, there was no food in the room.

Dudley's main thing now is to practice Occlumency, and he tentatively thinks he needs a book on Occlumency.

A bookshelf appeared inside the room, and on it was a book - "Occlumency".

It seems that this room can't conjure up what you want out of thin air.

The inventor of Occlumency, who is really not very good at naming names, if you just listen to the name, what you will think of is probably literal, to seal the memory in your head, plus a dementor to resist the other party.

If Voldemort used a dementor on Snape, if he was resisted, or if he couldn't see any memory, then as long as Voldemort was not a fool, he would know that Snape used Occlumency, and if so, Snape wouldn't have to be a spy at all, and he would have died.

In fact, if this book "Detailed Explanation of Occlumency" does not include the magic in it, it can be regarded as a very good psychology book.

There are only two magical effects in the entire book, one is to stay awake under the dementor's mind, giving memories that you want to provide, and the other is to hide or tamper with the memories in your mind. The two functions complement each other, and one cannot be missing. If you are not awake, you can't actively hide or tamper with your memory, if you don't hide or tamper with your memory, you can't just stay awake, and another point is that the memory provided has loopholes and it's useless.

Occlumency, a spell, double protection, you can't buy a loss, you can't be fooled, you deserve it, you can use it for life. It doesn't need to be actively cast like other magic, it's an active plus passive skill, and the operation of hiding and modifying memories can be prepared in advance, and the memories after tampering with them are equivalent to your original memories. Of course, this does not mean that your original memory is forgotten, or directly replaced, for example, copy and paste, and then modify the new memory, hide the old memory, unless you show it yourself, otherwise it is a fake memory.

When Dudley thought that he needed a room to practice Occlumency, the room instantly shrank to about three cubic meters, and now the room was pitch black, and there was only a mirror in front of Dudley that shone a little light.

Dudley was a little unsure how to practice Occlumency with such a dark room and an unknown mirror. Everything was clear when he stood in front of the mirror, which played his memories and, of course, of his past lives. Even the first word that the original owner learned as a child was 'never', which was played, and he saw his life as a spectator, which made him feel amazing and awkward.

Dudley began to practice occlusion, first of all, to control emotions, and it was necessary to let the brain control the emotions, not the emotions to control the brain. For example, when a person scolds you, you need to laugh out loud with genuine affection, which is to let your brain control your emotions and vice versa.

At this point, Dudley did a very good job, which is mainly due to a MOBA competitive online game in his previous life, he was in a very famous area, if he couldn't control his emotions, he would have been angry to death I don't know how many times.

The second step was to keep his mind blank, and this step made it difficult for Dudley, he couldn't empty his mind while staring at the mirror, he always unconsciously followed the picture in the mirror to recall the past.

Dudley tried for a long time before he could finally empty his head, and at this moment he felt empty and stupid.

The latter is the most important part, but also the most dangerous part, you need to enter the memory to hide and modify, hiding is simple and difficult to modify, a careless will have very serious consequences. For example, becoming a fool, or a madman, or dementia. This is also the reason why there are very few wizards who can use Occlumency, and even more are proficient.

Dudley held his wand to his brain, he originally thought that the memories of the two lives had been mixed together and it was difficult to deal with, but it turned out that this was not the case, the memories of the two lives were separated into separate individuals, which was completely open to the dual-core processor, and he only needed to hide the memories of his past lives.

Dudley didn't expect his Occlumency to be able to get out of the mountain in this way, and thankfully, if the memories were mixed together, they needed to be extracted and hidden, and then a new one would be created and put in. This requires a lot of work to operate.

At first, Dudley thought that Occlumency would be difficult to learn, after all, it was difficult for Harry to learn in the movie, and finally let Voldemort enter Harry and provide Harry with false memories.

Harry had difficulty learning Occlumency because of two things, one was that he couldn't use his brain to control his emotions and would always be provoked by Snape, and the other was that Professor Snape was too careless to teach him, just telling Harry that he was not calm and couldn't empty his mind, and then he just used Soul Conferencing.

Dudley was satisfied and went out of the Responsive House.

Soon it was Thursday, and the young wizards of Gryffindor were excited and nervous, because there was a flying lesson with Slytherin at half past three this afternoon.

in the auditorium.

Malfoy complained loudly to Crabbe and Goyle, "Have you ever ridden a broomstick to the skies? I did, and my broomstick was the newest, and I could fly very quickly and steadily on my first flight, and if it weren't for the fact that the first-year students wouldn't have been eligible for the House Quidditch team, I would have been chosen." I've flown hundreds of times, and one of them I almost crashed into a Muggle plane while I was flying, and it was so thrilling that I wouldn't have crashed into it if I hadn't reacted quickly. ”

"It's bad luck that I'm going to make a fool of myself in front of Malfoy in today's flying lesson. Harry grumbled.

Dudley had just drunk the cereal in his mouth, and squirted it out.

"I'm sorry. Dudley wiped his mouth, and he said, "You believe all his nonsense, bragging, you don't even make drafts, who are you in love with, and your IQ has become so low!"

Ron affirmed, "I know Malfoy always brags that he played Quidditch really well, but I bet he's just talking big." ”

"I've never ridden a broomstick in my life, my grandma never let me get close to it, and I don't know what flying lessons would have like, if only my grandma had let me ride a broomstick. Neville said nervously.

"Poor baby. Dudley patted Neville and said, "Your grandmother is right, you can cause endless accidents with both feet on the ground, not to mention the heavens, do you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun?"

Neville had a sad look on his face.

"Why do you say that Neville, Neville, I have a copy of The Magic Quidditch Ball here, and I'll read it to you. You can learn a lot about flying. Hermione said, holding the book in her hand.

Hermione was also nervous about flying, and even if she kept chanting the flight instructions from her book, it wouldn't ease her nerves. Neville listened intently to every word she said, eager to hear something useful that would help him sit firmly on his broomstick in the afternoon.

"Hermione, open your mouth. Dudley shouted.

Hermione stopped chattering, looking at Dudley with some confusion.

"Open your mouth. ”