Harry Potter's sister ~~~ Fanfiction

Occlumency lessons part 120

Dumbledore began teaching Harry and Emma immediately. After they said goodbye to Remus, he took them back to Hogwarts and they spent the rest of the day in his office doing Occlumency lessons.

"Occlumency is a very difficult skill to master." Said Dumbledore. "In reality it is more about controlling your mind than defending it. Most people are not aware of the mental control they can establish and act mainly on instinct. They never stop to think how they can make certain body parts move or how the role their mind plays when they interact with magic. Harry you will already have a certain familiarity with mental controls from your use of Non-Verbal Magic."

Harry considered what Dumbledore was saying for a second. "It's really just screaming inside my head." He said lamely. "Well more like…"

"Commanding?" Suggested Dumbledore. "Non-Verbal magic requires the caster to have a distinct level of mental command in order to accomplish. The first few spells are always difficult but after a time, it becomes second nature."

Harry nodded.

"So does that put me at a disadvantage?" Asked Emma.

"It gives your brother a slight advantage." Conceded Dumbledore. "Be that as it is, you are both going to find this training a little bit horrible, especially in the beginning. Now before I teach you anything, the both of you must first, unfortunately, learn what it feels like to have a complete mental infiltration. I promise I will try to be discrete. But I must penetrate your minds."

Harry and Emma looked at each other and nodded.

Dumbledore sighed, then raised his wand. "Legilimens!"

When Harry and Emma got back to Privet Drive, they both collapsed on their beds. Dumbledore had offered to let them stay at Hogwarts, either in their Dormitories or the Hospital Wing. But, as much as they admired and respected him, Harry and Emma both wanted some privacy from him right now.

Dumbledore had kept his word, he had tried to be discrete, but Harry and Emma had a difficult start in life and like all people there age had certain… concerns about both themselves and other people. It was difficult not to feel a little violated.

Harry had gone first. In the years before now, even when Dumbledore first told them after the Chamber of Secrets, Emma had not truly considered her bond with her brother very much. But as Harry's mind was infiltrated, though consensually, she could feel the disturbing feeling in her heart. She could feel her brother's discomfort and she could feel his embarrassment.

Then it was her turn, Dumbledore had kept to his word and tried not to pry into her thoughts and feelings for boys, her historic fear of being hit by her uncle, a few nasty incidents at Primary School that she had not even told Harry about, certain affectionate feelings she gained for Mrs Weasley and Mrs Creevey, and there were certain other embarrassing things that had come up. It was as if she'd written a diary and someone else had read it out to a bunch of people.

"This is going to take some getting used to." She said.

"Yeah." Said Harry. "We're not going to have much time this summer are we."

"I guess not." Said Emma.

Dumbledore arranged Occlumency sessions for Harry and Emma around their extra lessons with Moody and Slughorn. They soon moved onto establishing mental control, what some would call clearing their mind. It was difficult and required a lot of coaching and alternate explanations that had to be repeated and reworded. Dumbledore had spent much of his life teaching though and was very good at passing his knowledge and wisdom to them.