Hogwarts: Atypical Slytherin

"Albert."

After Clooney's first Potions lesson when she woke up, she continued to help Snape with various preparation materials. As she finished cutting the last narcissus root in the dark professor's office, Snape spoke.

"Explain, what is Legilimency?"

Clooney sealed the narcissus roots, labeled them, and placed them in the corresponding positions on the shelf. Then he found a stool and sat down, with his hands resting naturally on his thighs. But because there was no table in front of her, sitting alone like this made her feel like she was being scrutinized.

"Legilimency is a kind of magic that directly affects the thoughts of the object of Legilimency through magic circuits. Some people are born with this ability. The activation of this spell requires the caster and recipient of Legilimency. The person's eye contact is usually used to tell whether the person being legilimens is lying, but a master of Legilimency can even study the thoughts, feelings and memories of the person being legilimens, and those with advanced skills may even invade The recipient’s thoughts change the other person’s memory.”

"This kind of magic even directly affects people's thoughts. It has something in common with the Forgetting Curse. However, the Forgetting Curse is good at making the brain forget, while Legilimency requires the person concerned to recall something."

Snape sat at his desk, relaxed back in his chair, and even unbuttoned a few of the top buttons of his clothes. After hearing her answer, he raised his eyebrows and said: "It seems that you did use your loan slip well, Miss Albert. So, what is Occlumency?"

"Occlumency is a magical technique that seals the brain against magical intrusions and influences. Basic Occlumency involves clearing the mind of thoughts and emotions so that the Legilimens cannot find anything related to the being. Emotional connections associated with memories that polygraphers intend to obscure.”

"Do you know what's wrong with this?" Snape's deep voice sounded slowly, "Your idea is indeed remarkable, Albert, Legilimency is more related to feeling than to 'memory' Much bigger. For example, when a person lies, if he knows in his heart that he is lying and clearly understands the dangers that his lying may bring, his 'feeling' will be different from usual."

Crowney nodded.

"And when you make up a new lie, you need to use memories related to the past and the present. People's memories are not clearly defined. They are related to each other and affect the whole body. How do you ensure that you tell the lie without thinking about it? What about the truth of the matter?"

"Make up a lie in advance? You have to believe the lie you make up first?" Claudine thought, "But how does a person deceive himself?"

As if he knew what she was thinking, the young professor laughed lowly: "Of course, people can't deceive themselves. Thinking about unexpected words in advance is the best choice - but there is another way. Deal with temporary countermeasures, such as - being a fool."

"Let's try it, Albert."

"look at me."

"What are you doing this Wednesday afternoon?"

The man with a relaxed posture just waved lazily when Clooney looked at him, and Clooney fell into his own memories.

"If you want a long-lasting iron armor spell, what kind of magic circuit needs to be designed?" Clooney heard her voice, and the big faces of Cedric and Weasley appeared in front of her. At this time, they were They sat together and stretched their heads to form an airtight circle around the table.

"If he wants to continue, there is no source of magic power that can continue to provide it, so he can only activate it temporarily when he feels the magic power turbulence around him or exceeds a certain threshold. This will save more alchemy. The magic in the object?”

"Of course!" said George, "but can the arrival of this magic be felt?"

"We can carve a formation that activates when it senses the magic power." Cedric turned the "Practical Alchemy" in his hand to page 265, "For example, this one."

"The magic power can be stored using less expensive gemstones that have their own characteristics." Fred said, "This way the cost is not high, there will be no other surprises, but the performance will be very stable."

……

This feeling was so strange, Clooney felt like these memories flew out of thin air, but some of them were familiar to her. Snape quickly withdrew.

"It seems that your after-school research is still very in-depth and your memory is still fresh." Snape said, "Try to resist me, Albert, use your noble brain. Let others walk inside your head. It’s not what you want, is it?”

"Try it again. Get rid of distracting thoughts, throw away your feelings, don't think about anything, and try again."

"Be a fool," he added.

"Be a fool," Clowney thought. "A fool can't remember anything and don't have to think about anything. A fool may be very happy every day, or he may not feel anything."

Snape waved his wand again: "What are you doing this Wednesday afternoon?"

Snape saw Albert lying on the bed holding a dark object and twisting wildly. There was nothing around him, it was just an ordinary wooden bed, and even the sheets and sheets were white. You can feel that this girl is in a very good mood.

"Hug! Sorry! Sir!!" Clooney nervously broke away from the feeling of being read, "I only thought of this."

"Not bad." Snape seemed to be in a good mood. "As your first attempt to resist Legilimency, you did a pretty good job."

"The case of inducing myself was also very successful, Albert."

"But, you'd better lose your emotions. If you're afraid that what you expected will happen, and it has to happen, you can no longer think of things that make you happy like this. I allow you to be a fool at this time. ,Miss."

Okay, wooden man. Crowney thought. A wooden person is the ultimate fool who has an empty brain, knows nothing, and can't do anything.

After saying this, Snape didn't give Crowney any time to react, and waved his wand again while Crowney was staring at him seriously and thinking.

"What are you doing this Wednesday afternoon?"

This time Snape saw nothing and felt nothing. There is nothing in Albert's head now. Dark mixed with white thoughts are stirring in his mind, but there is nothing. Those occasional bright lights are like jumping brain nerves - but they are of no use.

"Very good." Snape sounded delighted.

Snape was indeed in a good mood. The positive feedback he received from teaching an obedient and obedient student with considerable talent made him feel particularly satisfied. "It seems that Miss Albert is particularly good at becoming a piece of wood, doesn't it?"

"Hehe." Clooney also laughed softly. It was not common to hear straightforward compliments from Snape's mouth. She liked Slytherin more and more - at least as a Slytherin. , to have a chance to get possible praise from this young professor.

"Thank you sir!"

"Don't be complacent, Albert. I hope you can continue to maintain this progress next week." The words Snape originally blurted out circled in his mouth, and he stared at Clooney's excited red face, Switching to one word, "You're going to show me something new next week."

"I won't say hello before the next test."

"Thank you very much, sir!"

"You can go now." Snape raised his head slightly towards the door, "Go ahead."

Snape watched Clooney bow and then walked out of his office, closing the door behind him.

The creaking sound of the old door did not stop the young professor from deep in thought: the rising star of Slytherin wanted more than Snape expected, and he even saw his original self in her. ——The same ambition for power, the same curiosity about magic, the same talent beyond ordinary people.

What should he do? No sculptor would refuse a piece of jade - just as no teacher would refuse a gifted student. But students are much more interesting than raw jade. Smart students only need a little hint to reveal more unexpected possibilities.