HP: The Secret Heir.

Ch.52

It has been a few days since we came back home. We spent a week in Paris. After the meeting with the Delacour, Paris had left a foul taste in my mouth, but I still stayed because of others. But after a week it was hard for me to stay there.

After the Delacour meeting, things remained somewhat similar with Coco and Daph as before, but things became a little intense with Alyssa. Whenever it was her time to sleepover, we wouldn't really sleep that much. Today was the first day back home, and I had a lesson with Adorabella.

Right now I was at the Greengrass manor, in the Adorabella's study. I was learning Occlumency under her and since she is the one who taught Daph. I was sitting on the sofa and she had some books on the table and she was explaining to me the concept of Occlumency.

She asked, "So what is Occlumency?"

I looked at her and said, "It is an obscure branch of magic, it helps its users to protect its mind against legilimency."

She looked at me with a plain expression and asked, "And how is it achieved?"

I said, "Essentially, by suppressing your emotions and thoughts deep within your mind and essentially putting up a veil around it to confuse the legilimens."

She said, "You are correct, but how do we form this said veil?"

I didn't have an answer, and I shrugged my shoulders and she stood up and said, "By using legilimency..." I was panicking a little now. I thought that was only for the movies and such, I thought I wouldn't have to endure that. She clearly stated, "Do not fret. I won't see any memories past this week. I promise." That calmed me a little. She said, "Now to make the said veil, I would first need to enter your mind."

She then came and sat next to me and she looked me in the eye and calmly said, "Ease your mind, let go of everything and just focus on my eyes." I nodded, and I looked her in the eyes. Her eyes were the same emerald green as Daph.

As I was looking into her eyes, I felt someone's presence in my mind. I felt cold piercing eyes in my mind. She asked, "Can you feel my presence?"

I nodded, and she said, "Good." She then pulled back and that icy gaze, that piercing feeling, faded away. She then said, "I announced the presence you felt. A skilled legilimens can silently enter your mind and you won't even know that they are there or they can induce pain if they don't care about discretion."

She took a pause and then said, "To defend against it, you would need to make a veil around your mind with your magic. The more proficient you are in controlling your magic, the better you will be, but it also depends upon your mental state. You must always be in control of yourself."

I nodded, and she said, "Now, I will enter your mind again. And you will concentrate on that part of the brain and try to make a veil, starting from that point and envelop your mind completely."

I nodded, and she again entered my mind and I felt that cold piercing gaze in my mind and I tried to make a veil around it. I imagined a thin veil covering my mind as I formed it in my mind. The eyes weren't piercing me anymore, but I could still feel them. She looked a little impressed, and she stopped and said, "Good, you were successful in creating a veil. Now I will try to read your memories. You will need to push me back and try to hold the veil intact. You get it?"

I nodded and sighed and said, "Yeah, I guess." She nodded, and she entered my mind and I could feel her eyes, and the eyes looked at me and I tried to keep the veil together, but the eyes widened and the gaze that they threw at me blew holes in the thin veil.

She saw the memories of the few days, but I started a jargon in my mind about werewolves and she stopped looking. She looked at me and squinted and I said, "So, how much did you see?"