Wizards of Hogwarts

The dawn is faint, but the mountains are still long and the road is far away.

If it were other magic, Elrohir could slowly learn it by himself, but for Legilimency, there was absolutely no way he could achieve the slightest success by blindly working on it behind closed doors.

According to the book Legilimency: The Open Mind, legilimency is the ability to use magic to study the multi-layered thoughts of others in order to make correct interpretations.

A true master of Legilimency is often able to penetrate a person's mind through eye contact, but in some cases it is easier to simply use the Legilimency spell.If the target does not use Occlumency, the counterspell to Legilimency, a Legilimency master can peer into the person's mind to see if they are lying, and read the rest of their thoughts, emotions, and even memories.

Some wizards with extremely high attainments in Legilimency can not only spy on the other party's thoughts, they can even create illusory illusions in the mind of the invaded to induce the other party to take the desired action.

Elrohir, who is still just a beginner, is still far away from the masters of Legilimency mentioned above. What he needs to do now is to preliminary learn Legilimency and find someone who can help him learn Legilimency. A telepathic wizard.

The practice of Legilimency certainly requires the help of a target

Elrohir was not going to ask Newt for help. Although he had a good relationship with Newt, he knew that Newt had not done much research on the spell Legilimency.

Why can Elrohir make this judgment?

Because Legilimency and Occlumency complement each other, they are like two sides of the same coin. Legilimency is used to invade other people's minds, while Occlumency is used to seal one's own thoughts.

When she was still in New York, Elrohir witnessed Newt's inability to deal with Queenie's Legilimency.That time in the trunk of magical beasts, Queenie almost saw clearly the past experiences of Newt and Miss Leta Lestrange, but Newt, except for a few feeble protests, did not do anything at all. There was no way to resist Queenie's Legilimency.

On the one hand, this is because Queenie is a natural master of Legilimency, and on the other hand, it is also because Newt has no achievements in Occlumency.

Elrohir plans to find a professional Legilimency master outside to help train him in Legilimency.

As the saying goes, money can make the world go round.This is London. Diagon Alley, the largest wizard trading place in the UK, is here. Are you still worried about not finding a professional?

However, Elrohir is not yet at the level where he needs to find someone to help him practice Legilimency. He plans to read through the two books Legilimency: The Open Mind and Occlumency: The Hidden Art. Good basic knowledge preparation.

What I have to mention here is that the original decision to use silver basswood to make the "Elven Wand" was really wise. Silver basswood's characteristics are suitable for legilimens, and it really helps in the current learning process. quite big.

While Elrohir was enthusiastically learning Legilimency and Occlumency, Newt on the other side also handed the book The Hobbit into August's hands.

Frankly speaking, August was not an experienced book company owner, but this did not prevent him from seeing at a glance that The Hobbit, a short fantasy novel, was a classic.

Moreover, the review of fairy tale novels like The Hobbit is not as complicated and professional as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It only needs slight modifications in vocabulary before it can be successfully put on the market.

The cooperation intention was initially reached, and Newt returned home with the contract drawn up by Obscurus Books.

The book is priced at 2 gold galleons each, and the royalties are divided into 20. The copyright of the novel belongs to the author. Elrohir happily signed this simple but generous contract.

At the end of January, The Hobbit officially landed at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, and it attracted a lot of praise as soon as it came out.

In early February, the novel's reputation and popularity continued to spread, and sales continued to rise.

In mid-February, by the time Newt's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released, The Hobbit had already sold nearly [-] copies at Flourish and Blotts.

According to the share ratio, Elrohir can get an income of 160 gold galleons, which can be called a sudden wealth in half a month.

With such a large amount of income, Elrohir has enough funds to hire a professional Legilimency master.

In a white room with no windows and no decoration, Elrohir sat at a table, facing a middle-aged wizard with blond hair wearing black wizard robes.

This room has been cast with powerful magical shielding spells, as many as a dozen in number, all originating from the wizard and the wand in his hand.

Elrohir only knew that the wizard's name was "Mr. Charles" and his surname was unknown. In fact, he couldn't even tell whether the name was true or false.

Mr. Charles was not found by Elrohir himself, but by the goblins of Gringotts in Diagon Alley, for which he paid a high intermediary fee of ten gold galleons.

According to the goblins of Gringotts, Mr. Charles was an excellent Legilimency and willingly agreed to Elrohir's "demanding demands."

These requirements included Mr. Charles signing an unbreakable oath with Elrohir, swearing not to tell anything about anything he saw or heard in this room, and agreeing that after every Legilimency session, Immediately forgotten.

These are Elrohir's methods to ensure that his secrets are not leaked.

For this, Elrohir paid a very high fee, such as this "Mr. Charles", whose hourly salary is 5 Galleons, and the working hours per day are calculated according to Elrohir's ability; outside the room The salary of the memory canceller from the Ministry of Magic is much lower, with a weekly salary of 1 galleons.

Generally speaking, the learning time of Legilimency will not be less than two hours a day, which means that Elrohir must pay at least 71 galleons every week to ensure that the learning continues.

If it weren't for the cash cow of the Hobbit, Elrohir would never be able to afford this high tuition.

"Be prepared," said Mr. Charles in a smooth tone.

Elrohir raised her silver basswood wand and pointed it steadily at Mr. Charles's face.

In the human mind, all that can be seen by Legilimency is the surface. If you don't protect your surface, Legilimency can pass through and reach any part of their mind that their minds can understand. Occlumency is close to A perfect barrier that can resist the invasion of Legilimency, or forge another set of memories when Legilimency invades.

After nearly half a month of hard work, Elrohir not only initially learned Legilimency, but also used the knowledge in the book Occlumency: The Hidden Art to construct a system in his brain. Set up simple illusory memories, and specially made corresponding Occlumency traps for certain techniques of Legilimency.

Now, it's time to test the results.

"Legilimency." Elrohir smiled and twirled her wand.