Chapter 27 27. Occlumency
"You should know that this is a special period!"
Filch's shrill voice echoed in the corridor, and he glared fiercely at every student present.
"The person who did this had better come to me and surrender immediately. I might be able to forgive him and punish him according to normal school rules! But if no one admits it and I get caught in the end, I will Let him regret not coming to me to admit his mistake at this time!"
The students looked at each other, and it seemed that no one wanted to admit that they were wrong. Filch's threat was more like a stern one. In fact, he didn't have any clues to pursue it. In the end, when it was lunch time, he could only let it go.
During lunch, Jon looked at Ron suspiciously.
"You guys didn't do this, did you?"
Ron immediately shook his head like a rattle.
"How is it possible? I haven't opened the door indiscriminately since I was fined last time. If you don't believe me, ask Neville. He has been with us all morning. He will definitely stop us if he is around."
Neville nodded.
"We did all stay in the common room this morning, but you, what did you do in the morning?"
Jon didn't hide it too much. From now on, he will go to Slughorn's office every night, and Neville, who shares a dorm with him, will know about it sooner or later.
"Professor Slughorn wants to teach me something alone, and asked me to go to his office every night for a few days."
Hearing his words, both Ron and Justin showed sympathetic expressions on their faces.
"Then you will have much less spare time in the future."
Lavender rolled his eyes at them both.
"You think everyone is like you."
Neville patted Jon on the shoulder happily.
"This is a good thing for you. Professor Slughorn is very respected in the wizarding world both before and now. He is the only person in this carriage who is not wanted by the Ministry of Magic. You and him Definitely something to learn."
Jon was a little curious about this.
"Why is Professor Slughorn the only one who is not wanted?"
Before Neville could speak, Ron rushed to lower his voice.
Jon thought about Ron's words.
Of course, he didn't think that Voldemort treated Slughorn in this way because he was thinking about old feelings. For a man who is more suitable for the title of Dark Lord than the Dark Lord, feelings and so on are as complete as **** as the so-called ideals. The only things he really cares about are power and dictatorship.
Jon felt that the main reason why Slughorn could be on Dumbledore's side, but Voldemort didn't push him too hard, was because he had the secret about Voldemort's immortality.
Has Slughorn told Dumbledore this secret? Jon doesn't know, and Voldemort certainly doesn't know either. He is telling his former dean that he has left room and hopes that the fat walrus will be the best. Good and smart, some things can be done, but some things can't be said.
Of course, the premise of these guesses is that Voldemort's arrangement of Horcruxes is still the same as the original, without any changes.
The situation in the entire magic world is in a mess now, who knows what happened to those Horcruxes.
He didn't think too much about these things that Jon couldn't touch for the time being. All he can do now is to strengthen his self-protection strength in a down-to-earth manner.
This attack made the students in the carriage frightened for a day, and there was no follow-up after that.
It seems that, as Dumbledore really said, the Auror who launched the attack on Hogwarts only accidentally discovered the whereabouts of the carriage during a patrol. Solved the trouble.
Except for the tense atmosphere in the carriage a week after the attack, the tense atmosphere gradually dissipated as time passed, and the school returned to normal teaching life.
And in the spell class in the third week of school, Jon finally learned the first spell in his life—the levitation spell.
This is also the first spell that almost every wizard comes into contact with after learning magic. Its casting is not very difficult, and its effect is only to make light objects fly and heavy objects to lighten. It is a simple but very practical spell. spell.
Just like what Slughorn said, Jon's magical talent is indeed very good. In the class of Charms, he was the first student among the five freshmen who successfully used the levitation spell. Neville, who had experience in casting spells, also failed to levitate the feathers on the desk.
For this reason, Flitwick, whose leg injury had completely healed, excitedly skipped Jon's homework for the Charms class.
And on the same day, the day when Slughorn officially started teaching Jon also began.
"The learning of Occlumency has nothing to do with what I'm going to teach you later."
There is a stone basin on Slughorn's desk. The stone basin looks very old and can be called an antique.
"The main function of learning this magic is for you to protect what I will teach you later, as well as the existence of this ring. There are many methods in the magic world that can restore people's memories, potions, spells, and even someone Naturally capable of reading minds, Occlumency is undoubtedly the best protection against these methods."
Jon naturally knows the effect of Occlumency. Even if Slughorn doesn't take the initiative to teach him now, he will find other ways to learn this magic in the future.
The memories of his previous life in his mind are very important. If they are not protected, in this dangerous magic world, it is tantamount to nakedly opening the memories in his mind to others.
But now Jon was concerned with how Slughorn would teach him.
If Snape taught Harry Occlumency directly and forcibly invaded his memory to speed up his Occlumency training, as Snape taught Harry in the original book, then Jon would have no way to accept it.
(end of this chapter)