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Chapter 164 Remember to Smile More

Seeing the last sentence on the note, Sherlock was a little silent.

It was apparently a note left by the original owner's mother, Sally Forrest, and it should have been written on the eve of her death.

At this time, her thinking should still be normal. After completing the things mentioned in the notes, she will become a lunatic.

Sherlock silently picked up the notebook on the desk, and started to read it from the first page.

"Looking at Sherlock at this time, I feel that he is the continuation of the soul of me and Victor. Having a child is enough to make all women crazy. I think I have always been the most rational among wizards." That one still feels like being filled with happiness."

"After taking care of the newborn Sherlock these days, I thought about the time when I was tortured by the Cruciatus Curse, which caused a crack in my soul."

"In order to create the soul-repairing magic, I studied a lot of magic materials about the soul, although in the end I failed to achieve the final success because of the lack of "thread" materials. But regarding the knowledge of the soul, I feel that I have already advanced At the forefront of the wizarding world."

"The more you know, the more you will feel insignificant in front of the endless knowledge. The soul is an extremely complicated subject. Few magics have conducted in-depth research on the soul, but each magic has It's all about the soul."

"The birth of Sherlock made me want to pick up this research again. The soul is undoubtedly a powerful force. I think I can use this power to give Sherlock a gift, even if something happens to me in the future. Now, this thing can still replace me and stay by his side all the time."

The first few pages were like Sally's essays, and then she built this underground study in the basement of her home, put all the books related to the soul collected over the years here, and started the research on soul magic .

As long as it is a magic experiment, there must be an experiment subject, and the experiment subject chosen by Sally is none other than herself.

Sherlock's mother is obviously a ruthless person, her own soul is split, but she still does not hesitate to conduct various unstable magic experiments on her soul.

She wants to use the power of the soul to create a magic that can protect another soul from harm.

Because all spells in the magic world can be related to emotions.

To use the petrification spell, one must first have a strong desire to petrify the opponent.

To use Apparition, you must firmly believe that you will reach your destination.

To use the Killing Curse, you must have extreme darkness and the most decisive killing intent in your heart.

These are all emotions that the wizard needs to think from the bottom of his heart and express.

This is why wizards rarely have rational, logical thinking skills.

Most of the time, they cast spells when they were emotionally violent, and their sensibility had become their habit, and they were often in a rational state, which would actually damage their magic level.

And since the flesh is the foundation of life, where do all human emotions and desires come from?

The answer can only be the soul.

If a person loses all desires and emotions, even if his body is still alive, his essence is no different from death.

Just like a dementor's kiss, in essence, it sucks away all the positive emotions of the wizard, making the kissed wizard an empty body, even if the heart is still beating and the blood is still flowing, it is still a ghost. dead.

That's why it is said that there is very little magic related to the soul in the magic world, but basically all magic is related to the soul.

Since all magic is formed by the soul, and finally affects the reality of the outside world, then the soul must also have the ability to block all these effects and avoid the effect.

The other spells are fine, but the most important one is the killing spell that directly targets the soul.

The reason there are only three of the three unforgivable curses is because in the entire magic world, only these three most vicious curses have not been solved.

The other two Cruciatus and Imperius spells aren't completely deadly by themselves, but Kedra is a living nightmare.

The function of this spell is to directly reflect on the human soul, and the creature hit will die directly from the level of the soul, without any damage to the body surface.

And apart from entities, at the level of magic, there is no spell that can be resisted or broken.

If Sally's idea can work, then the soul protection magic she imagined can even resist the death curse!
To this end she conducted many experiments.

In the experiment of the Killing Curse, she naturally did not continue to use her own soul as an experimental product, but instead found a lot of rabbits and mice, and used these creatures whose souls were not too powerful as the experimental materials in the early stage.

Sally's talent in magic is exceptionally brilliant. After a long period of research, she actually found out a way to protect the magic of the soul.

".The rabbit numbered A132 survived in the end. This is a surprising discovery, which proves that the direction of my research is correct and feasible."

"However, the bunny number B132 who was carrying out soul protection for number A341 died, so in essence, the power of the soul was not actually used to exempt the killing curse, and it can only be counted as one life for one life."

"The number A132 of the Killing Curse in the state of being protected by the soul shows signs of rebounding. This is a bit similar to the Iron Armor Curse. It may be my thinking when designing this magic, and it is also somewhat biased. The reason for the Iron Armor Curse."

"And the surviving number A132 also showed some magical resistance."

"Well, these are important experimental data. After they are collected, they can be kept in the Hogwarts library, just like the soul repair magic last time."

After that, Sally continued to improve the soul protection magic, and finally entered the experimental stage of the human body.

This time she also didn't find anyone else, but continued to use her own soul as the experimental subject.

In the end, soul magic can avoid or reverse the effect of the Killing Curse, which has been confirmed in animal experiments, so the next experiment will not be so fatal.

Sally discovered that if humans want to use the powerful soul protection magic here, the caster needs to have extremely strong emotions for the protected person.

And this emotion must be positive, simply put, it is love.

Whether it is father's love, mother's love, or love, if you want your soul to protect the object of protection, you must have strong love.

If there is no such emotion, then this magic will not be effective.

If the magic is successfully cast, the souls of the protector and the protected will be connected together. Even if the protector dies, this soul protection magic will still have an effect on the protected.

After all, this is the protection of the soul level, and there are ghosts and dead people in this world.

Even the death caused by the death curse will not directly destroy the soul of the deceased, but will be imprisoned in the murderer himself.

So as long as the soul protection magic is successfully released, even the death of the protector will not cancel the magic spell.

Finally, after completing the magic completely late, Sally connected her soul with Sherlock's soul, forming a covenant of soul protection.

This was also her last gift to the original owner.

After studying this magic, she left Sherlock's side, and when she reappeared, she should have become as crazy as before.

After Sherlock finished reading the experiment notes, his mood was extremely complicated.

The original owner's mother is absolutely great. She said that she is not a qualified mother, but she has made all her efforts to protect the original owner.

But in the end, the original owner still died. He didn't die under anyone's magic, but fell from upstairs in a self-destructive magic experiment, hit his head on the ground and fell to his death.

This kind of damage does not involve the soul, it is just a simple physical damage, and the soul protection magic will naturally not be effective.

Then Sherlock came and took over the body, causing the protection magic to think that it was the original owner's soul that was damaged and split.

Then he took him to find the "Soul Repair" magic hidden in the restricted section of the Hogwarts library.

Later, the soul of Sherlock who passed through was sewed together with the unconscious soul of the original owner through the thread made by Riddle. Now the original owner and Sherlock are actually inseparable from each other.

Sally's soul protection magic is not only protecting the original owner, but also protecting Sherlock.

Sherlock stood where he was, looked at the experiment log in silence for a long time, and finally sighed.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something.

In the only complete Harry Potter book he had seen in his previous life, the magic that Harry's mother Lily protected Harry when facing Voldemort's killing curse, and the soul that Sally researched Protection magic is very similar!

And Sherlock still remembers that when Harry asked Dumbledore what the scar on his head was at the end, Dumbledore told him that it was your mother's love.

Isn't this the prerequisite for soul protection magic to be used?
The protector needs to have a strong love for the protected!

Sherlock stood there in a daze. Since Sally invented and researched this magic, how did Lily learn it?

There is no mention of the name Lily Evans in the experiment log.

When magic was invented, Lily should have just attended Hogwarts, and it was impossible for her to come into contact with such profound knowledge of magic.

After Sherlock discovered this problem, he read the diary again from the beginning to the end, and finally fixed his eyes on this passage that he had seen before but didn't pay attention to.

"Well, these are important experimental data. After they are collected, they can be kept in the Hogwarts library, just like the soul repair magic last time."

At this point in the experiment, Sally went to the Hogwarts library and backed up the research materials there!
A dazed expression appeared on Sherlock's face.

Then Lily probably found this magic from the Hogwarts library, then learned it, and finally bound herself and his soul together when Harry was born!
After that, Lily fell under the Killing Curse first, but Harry relied on the power of protective magic to rebound Voldemort's spell, and finally survived and became the boy who lived!
Everything is coming together!

No wonder when he asked Dumbledore, Dumbledore said that the crescent mark was her mother's love for him.

Soul protection magic is indeed a magic that can only be used with love. Once it forms a protection, it can even rebound the death curse!

Sherlock finally put the experiment log back on the desk silently, and he didn't take anything from this underground library.

Everything in this study room is devoted to a mother's love.

In the end, perhaps for other things, for someone else, she became a lunatic, abused and spurned her son, and failed to fulfill the responsibility of a mother later.

But she is still a great mother!

When Sherlock was looking at the experiment log and meditating, Amy seemed to see that his heart was heavy, and she didn't make a sound on the side, just blinking her eyes like this, waiting quietly.

The sky was getting darker. At this time, little Sherlock had already returned home from school, and the nanny invited by his father Victor also came here to prepare dinner for him.

But none of them noticed that there were two more uninvited guests underground in this yard.

Before Sherlock came to the basement study, he locked all the doors again, and there was no trace of anyone coming into the house.

The entrance to the study is also very hidden in the garden, covered by weeds, as long as you don't go directly here, no one will find it.

After reading all the experiment logs, Sherlock took Amy out of the basement study.

He glanced at the warm yellow lights in the house, and didn't intend to take a look at the little Sherlock now. When he was holding Amy, he used apparition to return to London from here.

In a remote alley, the figures of the two appeared instantly.

Standing here, Sherlock calmed down a little, and then took Amy to fulfill the promise he had made before, and went to have a big meal.

They went to a Muggle restaurant that Kingsley took Sherlock to before. Originally, Sherlock just had the idea of ​​trying, but he didn't expect that this restaurant had opened as early as 14 years ago.

Amy has a small appetite, but being able to eat outside, especially seeing the night view of London, is a very novel thing for her.

After dinner, they didn't go back immediately. Sherlock bought Amy a colorful windmill and walked with her on London Bridge.

Amy was lying on the guardrail, holding the windmill with one hand, and the wind blew the windmill, and also the blond hair on her forehead.

Looking at the Thames under the bridge, Sherlock was filled with emotion. It seemed that he had gained nothing from this trip, but in fact he gained a lot.

He turned his head to look at Amy, and the flashing neon lights reflected on her face. It could be seen that she was very happy now, but the corners of her mouth still did not bend, as if she didn't know how to smile.

Sherlock reached out and squeezed her face, helping her to show a smile, and said softly at the same time.

"It's a beautiful world, Amy, with people we love and people who love us, so remember to smile a lot."

(End of this chapter)