Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

When Snape's cold face appeared in front of her again, Nydia felt inexplicably as if she hadn't seen him for a long time, but in fact it had only been about a week.

One day ago, Nydia had written a letter and asked the owl to bring it to Michelle. The content of the letter was very simple, asking her to convey to everyone that she would definitely return to Hogwarts. So in the next two months, no matter how difficult it is, I must learn the basic Occlumency technique.

"I will come here three days a week and stay here for half a day every day. I hope you can take it seriously. It will be a relief for both of us to complete it as soon as possible." Snape said expressionlessly. ,"do you understand"

Nydia nodded nervously. She kept recalling in her mind which memories she didn't want Snape to see. The first thing that came to mind was the content where she and Michelle spoke ill of Snape behind his back. But when she just started to recall what she said at that time, those memories appeared in front of her eyes, and the familiar feeling of swelling and pain came from her brain again.

"Is this how you defend against Legilimency attacks?" Snape said disdainfully. "Afraid of others thinking whatever they see. This is simply putting the knife in the opponent's hand and asking him to take action."

Nidia gasped for air, and the scene in front of her eyes returned to the study room again, "I'm not ready yet."

"The Dark Lord will ask you in advance if you are ready before attacking you."

Nitya was speechless.

"Basic Occlumency is mainly to clean up the thoughts and emotions in your brain, allowing you to hide what others are trying to find out about you. So your first step is to learn to stabilize your emotions." Snape told Ni Tia briefly introduced the basic contents of Occlumency. "Now you try to focus your attention and stabilize your emotions. I will still check what was just said. You have to find a way to hide them."

Nydia took a few deep breaths to calm down, and then tried to clear her mind. When she felt she was ready, she raised her head and looked into Snape's eyes, but what appeared in front of her was The picture is still the same as before.

When the scene in her memory came out again, Nydia saw Snape's cold face. She felt a little embarrassed, and she didn't know what Snape was feeling when he repeatedly saw her saying bad things about him.

"Next, concentrate your thoughts and eliminate distracting thoughts."

After repeating this several times, there was still no result. Snape's search for content in Nydia's mind was as simple as flipping through a book. Nydia's head was sore and painful, but she didn't dare to mention it to Snape.

"This is a waste of time. Maybe you should tell your father that dropping out of school would be more suitable for you," Snape said sternly.

"No, I will try my best." Nidia felt very frustrated after the continuous failures.

"Yeah"

Snape once again used Legilimency on Nydia, and he still easily found the images that Nydia wanted to hide. Nydia felt very discouraged, and she tried hard to resist Snape's continued efforts in her mind. Snooping, she wanted to drive Snape out just like she drove Voldemort out of her mind that day in the Chamber of Secrets. Snape seemed to be aware of Nydia's intention and disconnected Legilimency on his own.

Nidia fell to her knees with a headache and could not recover for a long time.

"Is this how you resisted the Dark Lord's Legilimency in the Chamber of Secrets?" Snape was slightly angry. "If you do this a few more times, your brain will be completely destroyed. Although it exists now, it will not do anything. effect."

Nitya couldn't answer. Her head still hurt terribly, as if it was about to split.

"Letting you learn basic Occlumency does not mean that you will resist prying eyes, but it will only prevent snoopers from finding what they are looking for." Snape said angrily, "Let's end it here today. I hope I can do it next time." When you come, you can truly understand what it means to concentrate your thoughts and eliminate distracting thoughts.”

After Snape left, Nydia sat on the ground tiredly. She had expected that Occlumency would be difficult to learn, but she didn't expect it to be so difficult. There was no progress in the entire afternoon, and she couldn't even find it. In the direction of his efforts, the more Snape tried to eliminate distracting thoughts, the more he thought in a panic.

In the next few weeks, Nydia's Occlumency still hasn't made very effective progress. The most that can be done now is to delay some time for Snape to find the content he wants to hide. If it is found, it will only It's just a matter of time.

"Miss Field, I think you should know that I am not here to watch your life record." Snape shook his head with a headache.

A month has passed now. In this month, Nydia felt that Snape had seen everything that could and could not be seen in her memory. She even felt that if Snape was willing , he will definitely become the person who understands himself best in his life.

"If you don't really want to go back to Hogwarts, you can just say so. This will save us both time and energy." Snape left disappointed again.

Nydia collapsed on her bed and threw her pillow out as if to vent her anger. Time was getting increasingly urgent, and her Occlumency had not even touched the threshold. She was extremely anxious. At the beginning, What was promised has now become a distant dream.

The fatigue caused by training gradually turned into sleepiness, and Nidia lay on the bed and fell asleep unconsciously. While she was half asleep, a familiar female voice rang in Nidia's ears, "Try Think of your memories as rows of bookshelves. Arrange all your memories in categories. Hide the important ones in the depths and put the unimportant ones on the surface. You will know where each of your memories is more clearly than a snoop. Location."

Nitya wanted to ask her who she was, but her body seemed to be completely out of control, and she could not fully wake up. When she woke up the next day, those words still echoed in her mind. Although she didn't know who it was, Nidia still tried to do what she said. In the next few days, , whenever she had free time, Nidia was concentrating on sorting out her memories. Mr. Field said that her state was particularly like the meditation described by wizards from the East.

When Snape came again, Nydia felt that her mind was particularly clear like never before. When Snape used Legilimency, she could easily push some irrelevant pictures to the In front of Snape, in order to entangle Snape's prying eyes.

"I'm curious as to what made you suddenly enlightened." Snape was surprised by Nydia's sudden progress.

"Oh, isn't this just about concentrating and eliminating distracting thoughts?" Nitya smiled proudly.

"Don't be too happy too early. What you did is still too obvious. You can't let snoopers find out that you are deliberately letting them see these useless pictures." Snape couldn't help seeing Nydia's proud look. Hit her hard. "Let's try it a few more times, just remember to act natural."

After several more attempts, Nydia gradually found the essentials and became more and more comfortable in doing it. When she saw Snape nodding with satisfaction, Nydia's long-term worries were finally relieved.

She didn't know who the person was who told her the trick, but now she really thanked this person from the bottom of her heart.

One day while eating breakfast in the restaurant, Nydia idly picked up a copy of the Daily Prophet and read it. During this period of time, she was busy practicing Occlumency and had no intention of paying attention to what was happening in the outside world. Now she saw that she was about to succeed. , it’s also a relaxing time to see what’s new.

"Who is Sirius Black and someone can escape from Azkaban?" Nydia asked her father curiously.

"A prisoner captured as a Death Eater." Mr. Field simply replied. During this period, various reports were talking about this matter, and Mr. Field was a little tired of reading it.

"Death Eater, but I didn't see his name on the list" Nydia continued to ask.

"What list are you talking about?" Mr. Field suddenly realized something and looked at Nitya with a frown.

"Oh," he said, "it was a list I accidentally saw in the basement warehouse, recording the list of all Death Eaters."

"Nitya, I remember I told you that there are many dangerous black magic props in there, and you should not go in there without permission." Mr. Field said sternly.

"I'm sorry, father, there won't be a next time." Nitya promised not sincerely.

Mr. Field sighed, "Speaking of which, this Sirius has some connections with the Malfoy family. Draco should call him uncle."

"He was unjust, right? Because his name was not on the list." Nidia was still more concerned about this point.

"The list may not all be correct." Mr. Field said angrily, hoping that Nidia would forget the list.

"Okay, but if he was really wronged, it would be really pitiful. He was innocently imprisoned in a place like Azkaban." Nydia thought of Hagrid. Dumbledore should have rescued him by now. Is he out? I don’t know if he is okay now.

"You'd better worry about your Occlumency. I have to remind you that there are less than two weeks left before the start of school. Although the letter from Hogwarts has been sent, I still don't know if you can go. It's up to you," Mr. Field reminded.

"I think it's okay." Nitya smiled proudly.

While waiting for Snape to arrive, Nydia picked up Sirius's report again and read it. It seemed that magic took Sirius' escape very seriously this time, and actually issued a warning to the Muggle world. I guess so, too. There has never been a record of anyone escaping from Azkaban, and if he was indeed a follower of Voldemort, that would be a huge problem.

"What are you looking at?" Snape's cold voice sounded.

"Sirius, professor, you must have heard of him. He was able to escape from Azkaban. I don't know what method he used." Nidia raised the side of the newspaper with Sirius's photo printed on it and presented it to In front of Snape.

"A filthy, shameful betrayer who should have had a kiss from the Dementors the moment he was sent to Azkaban."

Snape looked at the picture of Sirius and said through gritted teeth. Nydia saw hatred in his eyes. Although Snape usually had a cold face and disliked everyone, he never Who has ever shown such hatred towards anyone.

"Professor, do you know him?" Nidia asked curiously.

"Stop meddling in other people's business," Snape glared at Nydia fiercely. Nydia didn't dare to ask anymore, "Let's start practicing."

As usual, Snape used Legilimency to enter Nydia's brain. Nydia was becoming more and more proficient now and was very comfortable with Snape's prying eyes, but today Snape asked her to It was strange that he seemed less irritable and impatient than usual.

The memory scenes passed one by one, and they were all trivial things. Nidia also watched like an audience. Suddenly, several scenes that were not Nidia's memories appeared in front of her eyes. Although they quickly disappeared, It flashed by, but Nidia still noticed it. She carefully identified the pictures that occasionally popped up. It was a little girl with dark red hair. Her appearance was unclear. The picture flashed too fast, and she could only vaguely see it. She seemed to be holding a small white flower in her hand.

When Nydia wanted to continue watching, Snape stopped Legilimency.

"I think you can tell your father that you are ready to go to Hogwarts." Snape's expression did not look happy when he said these words. He seemed to be troubled by something disturbing.

Nydia thought about the scene she just saw. Could it be Snape's memory? But she didn't dare to ask Snape. Why is there a little girl in his memory? Who could this girl be? Nidia was full of curiosity about this.