The Will of Gil (Harry Potter)

Chapter 12

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Chapter 12– Perfect PR.

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Molly Weasley is not the prettiest woman in the world, but she certainly isn't the ugliest, though she is a little on the heavier side. She has a head full of bright red hair that pairs well with her pale white skin, but that is as far as I can go with the compliments. Other than that, Molly is a short, slightly wide mother of seven.

However, I am sure she must have been quite the beauty when she was younger, as most magical people are. That is unless they have had a little too much inbreeding, which usually either results in ugliness and deformities or crazy mental issues.

As I hand over the now signed new copy of Assault On The Abominable Snowman over to Molly, I look into her eyes and immediately apply my Leigilimency to read her mind. Except, I do not go full force straight away since I want to test her defences, if she even has any, because I highly doubt that someone who was in Dumbledore's little phoenix force would have an absolutely defenceless mind, as that would be a significant chink in the chainmail.

This was actually one of my worries when I started to learn about the mind arts because if I tried to invade the mind of someone with sufficiently robust Occlumency and they repelled my attack, then I would be pretty screwed, wouldn't I? Gilderoy only ever was proficient with the obliviation charm and interviewed his victims extensively to gain their stories before specifically obliviating those memories.

Thankfully it was pretty simple how to gauge someone's Occlumency level. It was by simply not trying to enter into their mind but by simply skirting along the edges of it and feeling it out, testing its rigidity. It is quite a difficult thing to learn to do correctly, knowing how far to go and when to stop, but I had plenty of practice where there were no consequences if I failed.

The direct eyesight also helps the issue, and as Molly Weasley's eyes meet mine, I dive straight in and touch upon the edge of her mind, completely ready to feel some form of resistance, yet, there is no such barrier. Not believing such a thing since she would come to be such a crucial person in the upcoming years, I continued to poke at her mind and test her defences, but there were none to be seen.

Finally satisfied that I wasn't being lured in or tricked, I dived into her mind, and her entire life became an open book to me, and I saw how incredibly boring it was. I really overestimated just how interesting this woman's life would be just because she would become someone of importance in a few years' time.

But right now, she is just an ordinary housewife and mother dealing with petty squabbles between her children and cleaning up her own weirdly shaped house, and there really is nothing interesting. Thankfully my expert skill in Legilimency and the mind arts, in general, allows me to act much quicker, meaning while I am doing all this, it has still been a split second outside since myself, and Molly made eye contact.

But while time is slower in here, my window will eventually end, so I quickly get to work to try and find something, anything, that could possibly help me. I start by going back to Molly's earliest memories and promptly starting to skim through them to see if there is anything of importance I could glean.