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I went to Flourish and Blotts to buy a few books I was planning to buy. After wandering around the bookshelves for a while, I couldn't find the books I was looking for and turned to the clerk to ask.
'Excuse me, do you have any books on occlumancy?
'No, sir, books on that subject are rarely bought, so there are not many of them. If you want, there is a second-hand bookshop down the street that sells second-hand books. You can look there.'
After thanking the clerk, I quickly left the place and headed towards the bookshop on the side of the street closer to the knockturn road. After entering the bookshop, I walked towards the cashier's counter opposite the entrance door of the shop. After giving a simple nod to the owner, I spoke.
'Hello, I wonder if you have a book on occlumancy'
'I've got one round here,' the shopkeeper said as he went to the back and took a single book from a shelf. 'Here's 35 galeons.'
'Why is it so expensive? Even first-hand books cost 5-10 galeons at most.'
'Books in this field of magic are very rare. There are also notes on the edges of the pages of this book left by the person I bought this book from. This person later made a name for himself as a great master of occlumancy. In short, take it or leave it, no bargain.'
After thinking for a while, I decided to buy the book. There are sorcerers in this world who can read people's minds and one of them is waiting for me at the school I am going to. Even the possibility of anyone seeing the memories of my past life scares me. After counting the money, I paid the bookstore and left. On the way back, I bought 1 galeon worth of floo powder from a travel agency on Diagon Alley and there was none left at home. After buying the floo powder, since I had nothing else to do, I headed towards the cracked cauldron to return home quickly. After greeting Edmure, I returned home using his fireplace.
15th July 1942
I woke up at 7:00 a.m. After the alarm spell shook the bed and started beeping like crazy, I got up, stretched and changed my clothes. I went for a run around the forest near the hut, as has been my routine since the day I went to Diagon path. After a 30-minute run, I went down to the basement of the hut and headed to the sports area I had prepared for myself. I started various sports training. Nothing too complicated for now, since I don't have various sports equipment at hand. Push-ups, sit-ups, etc. As for why I'm doing this, there are a few reasons.
A strong physical body and mobility are very important in future duels, and I know from the books that Hagrid has a very strong body due to his half-giant nature, even without special training. I want to maximise this advantage. Also, in many fantasy books and fictions I remember, there was a theory that a strong body can cause a stronger magic and I wanted to try my luck. I don't want to look like Hagrid does in the films.
And guys, if my abnormally tall height is not a problem, I can safely say that many witches will be ecstatic when they see my body, looking at the results I got in this week.
After 1 hour of fitness training I went to the bathroom and took a shower. As I was checking myself in the bathroom I realised that my beard had grown back. And I started shaving. Dude, I guess it's because I'm half-giant, but I can't understand how a 13 year old boy can grow so much facial hair. In my old life I always made sure to walk around with a clean face, stubble at most, but in this life if I don't shave my beard for two days it grows almost an inch and it's a nightmare for me.
The same goes for my hair. Thanks to the beard shaving spell and hair straightening spell I came across in a book I found at home thanks to Merlin, I can get a little stylish appearance otherwise I would be walking around like a broomstick. It is not possible for a normal person to keep up with these hair and beards.
After I finished my personal cleaning and grooming, I went to the kitchen to have breakfast. I fried some eggs and potatoes in the kitchen, which is combined with the living room, and then I went to the living room and started to eat my meal. In the meantime, I was thinking about my plans for the next year. Life without television, telephone and internet is very boring. I remembered that in the original timeline I was going to be expelled from school and have my wand broken for the offence Tom Riddle had laid on me. Well, I had no plans to let that happen. My plans for next year were as follows;
1 Go to Hogwarts. Even though I didn't want to go to a school where a basiliksin roamed the corridors, I had no other choice.
2 Prevent the death of Mytrle Warren or any other student if possible and avoid getting caught by Tom Riddle while doing so and even nab him if possible.
3 Learn as much magic as you can.
4 Drop divination as an elective and take arithmansy and ancient runes instead.
Yes, I know it's not that detailed and complicated, but there's not much I can do, I can go and try to kill Tom riddle now.
Firstly I have almost no knowledge of Tom riddle's whereabouts except that he is in an orphanage in london, secondly as far as I remember from the books he is a dangerous wizard who is deeply immersed in the dark arts even when he was in school and I am a 13 year old boy who is only physically strong who cannot do more than 1st and 2nd year spells and thirdly I am an ordinary university student from the 21st century. So I can't just go and kill someone as if I kill someone every day.
After I finished my breakfast, it was 9:30. While I was cleaning and spending some time at home, I realised that it was 11:00 and I went out to the garden to start my daily occlumency session. The first step of occlumency was to meditate to clear your mind. In the first days of meditating, perhaps because of my ability, which I call the voice of nature, I discovered that it was easier to clear my mind outside in an environment surrounded by natural life than to do it in a closed space at home. There is almost no one living around our house and there is a western forest nearby, so it is quite easy to meditate quietly. I have been meditating for exactly one week now and I can say that I have made very good progress in clearing my mind, I can now easily clear my mind in 15 minutes. When I started meditating, I visualised the information about occlumency and legilimency in the book 'Mysteries of the Mind: Secrets of Occlumency'.
In occlumency there are seven built-in layers.
The first layer revolves around the clearing of the mind to achieve clarity of mind, the second layer is the organisation of the mind. These two layers are critical for a keen occlumency practitioner and any mistake or inaccuracy will cause the entire practice of occlumency to go down the drain. In extreme cases, it makes it easier for a reading specialist to enter the mind and extract the information. In such a case, the only thing to do is to break down and rebuild the entire mind defence and development, there is no other solution.
The third stage is the first line of defence and involves the development of the ability to detect the intrusion of the mind. Detection does not mean having the ability to repel the attack. The ability to detect attacks of Legitimacy does not necessarily need to be developed through repeated attacks of Legitimacy and can be built through the individual's own awareness and understanding of his or her mind. Developing the ability to detect intrusions through the second approach allows the individual to develop a passive skill that places less pressure on the mind and requires little strain on the mind.
The fourth and fifth stages are extensions of the third stage; the fourth stage is about building sold defences, the fifth stage is about building more abstract but more powerful and effective defences. In these two stages one can alter memories and create false memories, but these false memories are easily detected by a skilful legilimen.
The sixth stage revolves around the creation of the mind by efficiently and effectively combining all the previous stages. This layered and unifying structuring of the mind is considered the highest level that few can master. It is at this stage that one can create false memories that are inseparable from the real ones and show them to an enemy invading one's mind, convincing them that one has succeeded. This stage is also necessary to resist powerful honesty potions such as veriteserum. Otherwise, a sufficient dose of veriteserum can penetrate any layer of occlumency.
The seventh stage is the strengthening of the mind. Full mastery of the mind results in the individual being able to increase the control of emotions to a high level, increase reflexes, increase the processing power of the mind and much more. The possibilities for a seventh level practitioner may be endless in practice, but it is a very dangerous endeavour as the damage to one's own mind if one makes a mistake is irreparable.
Legitimacy, unlike occlumency, is divided into 6 levels. The first stage is a predominantly subconscious skill that occurs in most magic, the reading of body language, facial expressions and the application of perceptual analysis in general. Once you become a practitioner of Legillimency, this innate skill is honed.
The second stage is the perception of emotions. Emotions are by far much more difficult to control compared to thoughts and memories, because they are biologically encoded in us, because we are emotional and social creatures who depend on the expression of these emotions in society, be it tribe or community, for survival and co-operation. A second level occlumenser must be able to limit the infiltration of emotions, and a second level legilimencer will have difficulty understanding these emotions.
The third stage revolves around active intrusion into the mind. It involves holding onto the mind and initially involves the wand, eye contact and magic. A truly skilled law enforcer is capable of mind intrusion without any of these three. The most effective way to enter another's mind is to follow the emotional signals from the mind you are trespassing on and use it as a gateway.
The fourth and fifth layer mirror its counterpart in Mindbend, where the fourth layer revolves around developing Mentalism attacks that can break through the mind's sturdy defences. It may involve brute force or it may be through finding holes in the defence that can be exploited. The fifth tier involves developing passive Literacy that can exploit weaknesses in other minds without being detected.
The sixth stage involves a deep understanding of the mind and then applying that knowledge to be used in other minds. It involves the manipulation of emotions and thoughts to create desired effects. A skilled sixth level leglimency user will have the ability to evoke fear or joy through manipulations of the mind. Just as a calming potion can be used to calm people down, sixth level Legitimancy can be used to calm people down.
Only occlumancy training is given in this book. Since the 5th layer of Occlumancy and beyond is largely up to one's own creativity and skill, training is only given up to the end of the 4th layer.
The expert legilimens were really scary. I also suspect that there is a 7th layer that is not mentioned in the book, probably deliberately hidden by the Ministry of Magic to avoid panic. while I continue to think, I clear my mind and I am drawn deeper into the sense of peace and calmness that meditation brings. after 2 hours of meditation, I found myself on my way to the basement where I will do spell work. last week I discovered that spell work is more efficient after meditating. so I decided to do my spell work hours after occlumency work.
Last week I went through all the 1st and 2nd class spells. I managed to cast all of them, both wand and verbal, at least at a basic level. This week I will finally start with non-verbal spells. I decided to start with one of the simplest spells. lumos is a simple spell that creates a small light at the tip of the wand. While I was doing the wand movements, I tried to cast the spell by saying lumos in my mind, but nothing happened. In frustration I tried again and again and again, and after half an hour nothing had happened. Now I realised why people find wordless and wandless magic so difficult. It was extremely difficult. Last week I had been able to do every spell with ease, but the wordless spell was incredibly difficult. Merlin knows how difficult wandless magic is. I continued to work with these thoughts.
When it was 17:00 in the evening, I took a break from studying and went to the kitchen to eat. I quickly prepared something practical and ate. Then I went up to my room to read a book and went to sleep after reading a book until late at night.