days at Hogwarts

Chapter 118 The Ritual of the Sorcerer's Stone

Chapter 118 The Ritual of the Sorcerer's Stone
"Although I am very curious about the people you can't say."

Dumbledore turned his eyes between Loren's eyes and the red mole between his brows, "But my intuition tells me that some secrets should not be explored to the end."

Loren grinned, "Maybe you can try Legilimency, maybe you can see it."

Dumbledore withdrew his gaze, took out a box of biscuits from the drawer, opened the lid and ate a piece first, some tiny crumbs fell into his beard, "No professor at Hogwarts will take the initiative to use Legilimency to peek into the hearts of the students."

Loren complained silently in his heart, Dumbledore may be like this, but Snape may not be.

He took a bite of half of the biscuit, and the aroma of butter instantly filled his mouth. He took another sip of tea, and the aroma of tea and butter filled his mouth. not come down.

He said while eating: "Speaking of Legilimency, I need to explain something to you. Harry keeps dreaming about strange scenes, about the death of his parents, about wandering in the forest, and before that, in the castle wandering scene."

After Harry met Quirrell in the Forbidden Forest, he dreamed very frequently, but he usually only complained to Ron, thinking that he didn't sleep well.Loren sat by and listened to it several times.

It wasn't until Quirrell's matter was resolved that his dream subsided.

Regarding Harry's collusion with Voldemort, it is always good for Dumbledore to prepare in advance.

Dumbledore slowed down as he ate the biscuits, "I dreamed of a strange scene, um..."

The white-bearded old wizard fell into some kind of contemplation, holding the biscuit in his hand, neither eating nor putting it down.Fiery sunlight came in from the window, illuminating the entire office brightly.

It took him a long time to come back to his senses, "Oh, when you get old, you don't always have enough energy."

"You know what, I think Harry might like this summer vacation."

"If you think about it with your toes, it must be what his godfather did." Loren picked up a biscuit and fed it to Nagini.

The little snake "hissed" and stuck out its tongue, but didn't even touch it.

Loren thought he must be dazzled, why the snake could roll its eyes.

Dumbledore smiled, "I think during the long summer vacation, Black can spend a little time teaching Harry some useful magic."

"Occlumency? Are you sure Sirius will?" Loren made a reasonable guess.

Who are the people who know Occlumency in the original plot? Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Snape, Barty Crouch Jr., Horace Slughorn, all top old silver coins .

Sirius is a pure reckless man, can it be compared, it is not comparable at all.No matter how you look at him, he doesn't look like someone who knows this kind of magic.

"Compared to this," Dumbledore looked a little surprised, "I'm very curious about what kind of knowledge Nicole is teaching you. You are even familiar with Legilimency and Occlumency."

He even doubted whether Loren already knew the truth about Horcruxes. After all, Horcruxes seemed to be attributed to the scope of alchemy.

Loren didn't want to confess to Dumbledore what he knew about the plot, he couldn't explain the source of the news, and he couldn't get it out of Nicole, it would be too suspicious to tell them all.

He made an excuse, "It is reasonable to speculate that Harry's dream was too clear, and he remembered it very clearly after waking up. The content is more like a memory. Since he can put the memory into his Get something else."

"Legiliency and Occlumency are very necessary."

After finishing his conclusion, Loren stuffed the biscuit into his mouth, "If possible, I want to learn too."

Legilimency and the Forgetting Curse, these are rare magics that involve memory.

In the next school year, he might face off with that Lockhart and Tom in the Notebook, one is proficient in the Oblivion Curse, and the other is the Dark Lord who controls desire and manipulates people's hearts.He must master these magics, the most important of which is Occlumency.

These spells are different from binding spells and repelling spells. They cannot be mastered with a stack of proficiency, and need to be practiced with others.

Hearing Loren's words, Dumbledore was in a dilemma. "Loren, your situation is a bit special. You can only master these magics by yourself."

"Because of the cursed knowledge in that book, other people will practice with you, if you accidentally pry into the contents..."

Dumbledore didn't finish his sentence, leaving Loren to think about the rest.

The title page of the Book of Abraham states that anyone who reads the contents of the book will be cursed.

Seeing that Loren had realized something, Dumbledore continued: "Although I don't know the specific content of the curse, since Nicole has solemnly instructed you, it means that he has not found a way to break it for 600 years."

Loren called him a good guy in his heart.

The memory is poisoned, and you will die if you read it. What kind of knowledge is this? This is meme pollution.

When he learns Legilimency, pulls out his own memory, and makes it into a big movie, wouldn't it be a nuclear bomb in the magic world.

Thinking about it is very punishing.

"So, if you want to learn Legilimency and Occlumency, you have to practice it yourself," said Dumbledore.

There is no way, Loren can't find someone to practice against at all, otherwise he is doing harm to others.

"Hey!" Loren sighed heavily, "Back to the point, so how do we change Nagini back?"

"This is about your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor next school year, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart." Dumbledore seemed a little proud.

"Professor Lockhart is an adventurer, best-selling author, who once..."

The rest of the introductions sounded like nonsense to Loren. He didn't believe that Dumbledore, a top old wizard, didn't see Lockhart's true face.

Loren ate the biscuits expressionlessly, showing that he didn't want to hear his nonsense.

Dumbledore clenched his fists and pretended to cough, "Although some sources of content are difficult to verify, we can also discover something from them..."

Dumbledore happened to know the two wizards who had been robbed by Gilderoy Lockhart, and he knew Lockhart's true colors early on, and he was sure that Lockhart only needed to return to a normal school environment to expose It turns out that he is a counterfeit and a liar.

Students can also learn a lot from it: what not to do, what not to be.

In addition, Lockhart's grades were not bad when he was a student, and Dumbledore believed that he was at least capable of teaching according to the script.

If Loren heard Dumbledore's thoughts, he would probably complain, no wonder Hogwarts is not as good as one generation after another.

An old Armenian wizard came to Wagga Wagga, Australia, and successfully helped the local residents subdue a terrible and ferocious werewolf.In the process of fighting the werewolves, he used a very complicated restore human form spell.But the story did not spread widely.

Lockhart found the old wizard and listened to him describe the whole incident in detail.After learning the details of how he defeated the Wagga Wagga werewolves, Lockhart cast an Oblivion Charm on the old wizard, making him forget that he was the one who actually defeated the werewolves.After that, Lockhart stole the credit of the old wizard, told the story of defeating the werewolf as his own personal experience, and wrote it into his book "Wandering with Werewolves"
"... After Lockhart wrote "Wandering with Werewolves", he accepted many interviews related to werewolves. In an interview with the Daily Prophet, he mentioned the "Humanization Charm". Back to human..." Dumbledore's voice echoed in the brightly lit office.

Most werewolf experts thought it was a joke, but Dumbledore took a closer look at the spell, considering that Lockhart's way of weaving lies was to steal someone else's work, not create something out of nothing.

Following the clues, in a file in the 80s, the Werewolf Capture Division of the Ministry of Magic, or the Department of Management and Control of Magical Beasts, one of the agents named Cecil Lee left precious records.

Cecil Lee once used the Restoration Charm on a full moon night to forcefully transform a werewolf back into a human.

In the record, Cecil Lee wrote: [The restoration spell only temporarily forces the werewolf to return to human beings, not a permanent cure, which may be due to my inability to cast the spell perfectly...]

Relevant records accounted for only a small part of this file, Cecil Lee and the Restoration Charm were ignored, and this file was also sealed in the file bag until Dumbledore let him see the light of day.

Dumbledore took great pains to find this spell, and refined its principles based on his profound Transfiguration attainments.

"A good news and a bad news. The good news is that the effect of the humanoid spell is not limited to werewolves, any creature transformed from a human can work. The bad news is that even I can't cast this spell perfectly. .”

"Why?" Loren asked in surprise.

"Transfiguration is a very rigorous discipline. The caster needs to understand the specific characteristics of the target of the transformation, rather than the general idea - to restore the human form."

"Obviously, no one can fully know a person but the people themselves, and such incomplete deviations can render the spell ineffective."

"Theoretically, perfect spellcasting can only be achieved if the person concerned casts a spell on himself. This is impossible."

In a similar way, Flamel also mentioned that the deformation imposed by outsiders will cause the body and soul to fail to match due to deviation, and the result of the incompatibility is the collapse of the body.Voldemort and Quirrell are an example.

And it is even more impossible to cast spells on yourself. When the wizard changes into another form, he no longer has magical abilities.This is true for the sober Animagus, and even more so for the irrational blood curse orcs and werewolves.

After Dumbledore finished speaking, he looked at Loren, "Now, you need to find an answer, a correct path."

"Me?" Loren was a little confused, asking me even if you can't do it.

Dumbledore nodded, "From the moment you found Nagini, you already had the qualification to use the Philosopher's Stone."

He had communicated with Nico on this issue, and the qualifications did not refer to the magic power of the Philosopher's Stone.

The magic is there and anyone can use it the right way.And Loren is different from others, he can inspire the Philosopher's Stone beyond all possible miracles.

Magic is a very wonderful existence. It breaks objective laws and obeys certain higher-order laws.And the Philosopher's Stone has the miracle of breaking higher-order laws.

The effect of the Sorcerer's Stone is determined by the refiner's will, and Nicol's will determines that the function of the Sorcerer's Stone is to turn stones into gold and refine elixir of life.

After Loren is qualified, it is possible to use Niko's Philosopher's Stone to achieve another function.

"I don't know, principal." Loren was a little confused, he didn't know what to do.

Dumbledore looked thoughtfully at the red mole between his brows, "Think carefully, Loren, the answer may be in your heart."

Loren took out the Philosopher's Stone dumbly, held it next to Nagini, and looked at it carefully.

The image of the red amber Philosopher's Stone gradually occupied his right eye, and the figure of Nagini occupied his left eye.The red mole between the eyebrows melted away like a liquid.

Loren watched the furnishings in the office in front of him keep flashing, the colors switching between color and black, white and gray. Dumbledore remained motionless, and time seemed to have stopped.

The smooth surface of the metal candlesticks, the glass in the portrait frame, the windows on the outer wall, and all the reflective objects in the office all vaguely reveal Mary's face, with pale skin and blood red lips.

"Hehehe!" The girl's shrill laughter echoed in his ears, "The contract is completed."

A large amount of completely unfamiliar knowledge poured into his mind.

"Loren, Loren?" Dumbledore's voice sounded.

A cool feeling poured in from between the brows, Loren's mind became clear for a while, and all illusions gradually disappeared.

Opening his eyes, Dumbledore's wand was touching his brow, and a steady stream of coolness was transmitted from the tip of the wand to his mind.

Loren slowed down, took a deep breath, "Principal Dumbledore, I think, I just learned about a ritual."

Dumbledore didn't care about the ceremony, he took back his wand with a serious expression, "Your teaching seems to be different from what I thought."

Loren understood that he was concerned about himself, he shook his head, "It's okay."

Compared with the illusion that was directly pulled into another world before, the color in the illusion has not faded completely this time, and Dumbledore can still pull himself out.

I don't know if it's because the book is not with me, or if Dumbledore is powerful enough to influence the mysterious "Book of Abraham".

"Loren, you have to remember that as a student, ensuring your own safety is the most important thing." Dumbledore said solemnly.

"Don't worry, if there is any problem, I will come to you as soon as possible." Loren pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled.

It has been analyzed before, although his interpretation of the "Book of Abraham" is a bit unusual, but there should be no malice on the other side.

"Let's talk about the ceremony." Loren said, "Using the horns of the bicorn as a bond..."

After all, this Philosopher's Stone is Niko's Philosopher's Stone, and its miracles are turning stones into gold and refining elixir of life.As a user rather than a refiner, Loren cannot perform brand new miracles.

The ceremony Mary gave him was a limited use of the Sorcerer's Stone, using the horns of the bicorn as a bond and the two-eared grass to connect Dumbledore with another person.Breaking through the paradox that the restoration of the humanoid spell could not be performed perfectly, and converted the spell cast by Dumbledore to be released by another person.

After listening to Loren's statement, Dumbledore looked at the Philosopher's Stone and said with emotion: "It's really, an incredible ceremony."

From a rough look, this seems to be just a simple ceremony, and its function is also very simple.But a master of magic like Dumbledore understands that this is another kind of miracle that defies the common sense of magic.

Generally speaking, a spell is a collection of will and magic power of a wizard, which is unique and irreplaceable.

The spell conversion not only changes the position where the spell is released, but also changes the initiator of the spell before it is issued, replacing one person's will with another's.

 Cecil Lee's information comes from "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery"

  Dumbledore knew the setting of Lockhart's true face, which was written by Rowling from Pottermore

  
 
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