Chapter 53

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The second thing I found out from reading the book is that you don't necessarily need a legilimence to learn occlumency, it's just highly recommended.

The reason for this is that having a legilimence helping you only serves to test your mental shields.

It's like building a wall. You can build the strongest wall in the world or the weakest wall, but you'll only know the answer if someone tries to tear down that wall, and instead of waiting for some enemy to try to break it down, it's better to use the help of a legilimence friend who will do this test for you.

Also, the more your barrier is forced, and the more you try to rebuild and reinforce it, the stronger it gets, like a muscle.

And because I have advanced occlumency skills, which are near eidetic memory, emotional control, and quick thinking, I can only assume that my occlumency is also advanced.

But the weird thing about it is that I didn't have a legilimence helping me, so it should have taken longer. But after thingking a little, I found out why my occlumency is so strong, and why I don't need a legilimence.

The reason is that I had help that is better than a legilimence. And that help came from my special abilities, Beast Power, or more specifically, Empathy and Beast Talk.

As I said before, a legilimence serves to make mental attacks on the user's mind to find out if their shields are strong, which also develops and increases the strength of those shields. But that's just what legilimency is, mind attack, and ever since I was a kid, I've always been suffering from mind attacks, and that would obviously develop my occlumency shields faster than normal.

The mental attacks I received as a child, for those who didn't realize it, were the emotions and thoughts of other humans and animals, which happened because of my lack of control over Empathy and Beast Talk.

I think while I was trying to control these abilities of mine, I was actually suppressing them with the help of occlumency. And probably all my meditation and my good control of magic caused me to skip a few levels.

Heh, good for me...

But I think that's not just why my occlumency developed so quickly, as Queenie Goldstein, who was known as an incredible legilimence, didn't have such strong occlumency, at least that's what movies and fandom say. But when I think about it, I realize that my legilimency isn't as strong as hers, but I make up for it with my other mental abilities.

Maybe all of this has some connection I'm missing...

But well, those were the important points I found in the book. The rest of the chapters talked about hints, famous occlumences from wizarding history, and that incredibly Squibs could also practice occlumency, at least at the beginning levels.

Since the initial levels of occlumency, and the first two forms I talked about don't use magic, squibs can learn them, and there have even been some cases of squibs that have reached the intermediate level of occlumency.

'Hmm, why have I never looked at a squib with my Magic Vision? I don't think it ever crossed my mind to look at them' I thought, scratching my chin, 'But now I'm very curious to know what the difference is between a squib's magic and a wizard's... Maybe I'll do this one test with Filch'

Seeing that there was nothing more interesting in this book, I put it aside and picked up another book that had caught my attention.

The book I took was old, with a worn brown leather cover, hand-embroidered on the end. The book had no title, only the author's initials 'M.C.T.', which were written in golden letters, and only after of a little analysis that I realized was not a book, but a diary. And unlike the other books I chose by title, this diary I chose by magic.

The magic of this diary was thick and smooth, even though it appeared to be an ancient remnant. But that wasn't all that caught my attention. What caught my attention was that I had seen this magic before, more specifically, I had seen this same remnant of magic in one of the many passages in the castle.

The passage in question was on the sixth floor, near Ravenclaw tower, hidden behind the tapestry of Magnus the Treacherous, which would only open if you waved your wand exactly the opposite of the way Magnus was swinging in the tapestry. This shortcut seemed to be one of the few known in the castle, in fact the passage was so dirty and abandoned that I think I was the first one to find it in years, and that's with the help of my magical vision.

This passage had a lot of curves and traps, which I thought was extreme, but we have a basilisk in the castle, so these traps aren't the most dangerous things we have here. The passage led to an empty room in the dungeons, and it was a one-way ticket, no pun intended, so I hadn't found it when I explored the lower floors.

Now back to the diary. After realizing that the magic that was in the diary and the passage was the same, I realized that this could only mean that the creator of the two was the same person.

And I noticed something else. Hogwarts has a lot of protections around the castle, and one of them is obviously to keep the place from being destroyed, so how was it possible for this M.C.T. guy to build a passage?

The only people who can build passages through the castle, at least the ones that would last that long, are the Headmasters, perhaps the teachers, the former castle dwellers before the founders, and wizards strong enough to bypass the wards.

But the magic of this M.C.T. wasn't old enough to be dated a thousand years ago, and since I know he wasn't a director, and I haven't found any information from any teacher with those initials, I could only assume he was a very powerful wizard, which only gave me more reason to read his diary.

And for some reason, my instincts were telling me to read this diary, like it was important to me, and I've always trusted my instincts, and now I'm not going to question them.

Mainly because they're so much more excited than any of the other times. And a tip for future reincarnators... If your powers, cheats, or abilities gained from a superior being start to act strange, listen to them.

And feeling my instincts warn me stronger, I wasted no more time, and quickly opened the diary to start reading it.

And I felt some kind of resistance when I tried to open the diary, but as quickly as it came, that resistance faded, like it wasn't even there at the beginning, and that immediately piqued my interest even more.

End.

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(End AN: Hello my dear readers!

Sorry for the lack of chapters this weekend, but I wasn't home most of the time so I couldn't post anything. But here's the day's chapter and the two late chapters!

I would also like to ask you what is your favorite Hogwarts teacher?

Hope you like the chapter!)