Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 126: Closed Mind, Creative Stick, and Midway Horror!

Hermione and Ron left the Gryffindor common room and looked around, but didn't see anyone.

Having completely given up on finding Dudley and Harry, he began to sneak around the castle furtively.

Meanwhile, Dudley and Harry had already entered the Occlumency training room specially built by the Room of Requirement.

The room was spacious, with several old meditation basins and some broken memory bottles.

It's obvious that no one has been here for a long time.

The reason Dudley had Harry learn Occlumency, such an advanced magical technique, so early was because he didn't want Harry to have his memories and thoughts, which shouldn't be known, discovered by Ecclesia in the future.

Harry is currently unaware of Eckeris's hidden identity, nor of the plan that Dudley and Dumbledore intend to implement and have already begun.

But Harry knew how deep Dudley's suspicions were about Ecclesia, and he also knew that he could sense Voldemort and had even discovered the current state of Voldemort's main soul in his dream.

This information was beyond Eccles's comprehension.

Therefore, Dudley decided that either Harry should learn Occlumency before Ursy recovers and is discharged from the hospital;

Or perhaps Harry should learn from Eckeris's methods and extract some of his confidential memories into a memory bottle, then store it in Dudley's personal storage space, ensuring nothing goes wrong.

"Harry, I've practiced Occlumency, it's easy to learn!"

Perhaps for those simple-minded wizards, this skill might be harder than climbing to heaven, but for those of us who have studied psychological theories and techniques, it's just a slightly challenging little trick!

Dudley boosted Harry's confidence in his studies with a very confident tone, and at the same time, what he said was not too exaggerated.

The wizard's Occlumency technique involves constructing a false memory in the mind to deceive the Legilimency seeker.

The same technique is called self-suggestion and self-hypnosis among Muggles.

Learning this technique can also fool ordinary experts with average micro-expression analysis skills.

Dudley had already helped Harry master some of this skill six months ago.

"Begin, Harry! Try using self-suggestion combined with magic to construct a seemingly plausible false memory in your mind, covering up your real memories and thoughts."

Once you've built up a rough outline, call me. I'll use Mind Control on you to stimulate you to learn this technique faster!

If you encounter any problems along the way, ask me during the breaks when I'm modifying the wand.

"Okay, cousin!"

Dudley methodically arranged a study plan for Harry, who immediately closed his eyes and began to meditate.

Then, Dudley transformed Smetine's cane into a long, narrow worktable, opened his personal storage space, took out the old wand that Ron had given him at noon, and began to modify it.

Strictly speaking, the old wand that Charlie used and then passed on to Ron is not beyond repair; it's just that the tip is broken, revealing the unicorn hair inside.

Dudley could easily use alchemical techniques to incorporate some mild magical materials to close this loophole.

But that would only repair the wand; it wouldn't improve the wand's compatibility with Ron.

A staff made of unicorn hair is still too sentimental and attached to its master.

Dudley sighed inwardly, then used his staff-making skills to pull out the unicorn hair core that had been loyal to Charlie from the broken tip of the staff.

Afterward, he placed the wand on the workbench, took out a new unicorn hair and a dozen or so crimson hairs, and twisted and mixed them together to create a new wand core.

In the original story, after Charlie's old wand broke in two and became completely unusable, Ron went to Ollivander's wand shop and bought a new wand, which also had a unicorn hair core and a willow wood shaft.

Therefore, Dudley still chose unicorn hair for the replacement staff.

As for the dozen or so bright red hairs, they naturally came from Ron's head.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't grabbed or plucked, it was just something I took casually.

A healthy person loses fifty to one hundred hairs every day, which is a normal part of the body's metabolic process.

With Dudley's skill, it would be a piece of cake for him to find some hair on Ron's wizard's robe on his shoulder and on Ron's bed.

By combining Ron's hair with new unicorn fur and then using the power of alchemy to completely fuse the two together, a new wand core will be created, which will greatly enhance the compatibility between the new wand and Ron.

This is Dudley's new discovery when he made a wand from Harry's hair.

If it weren't for the influence of the wand itself, it wouldn't be impossible for a wand made using this method to achieve a 100% initial compatibility with the hair's owner.

Inside the Room of Requirement, Dudley was making a staff, and Harry was meditating.

Meanwhile, Hermione and Ron, driven by their adventurous spirit, wandered aimlessly between the moving staircases and hidden doors, losing their bearings and not knowing which floor they had ended up on.

To make matters worse, after they opened a hidden door, they were confronted with Filch's rough, ugly old face, damn it, right in front of him.

Filch had already faintly heard footsteps and was waiting there with his lantern. He thought it was the Weasley twins who were getting impatient today, their footsteps were all messed up and out of rhythm.

Unexpectedly, two little devils arrived instead.

The teaching assistant said he wasn't allowed to make things difficult for the children.

Now he's suddenly appeared right in front of me late at night. What should I do?

Filch was deep in thought, while Hermione and Ron were quite frightened.

They finally mustered the courage to go out for a night stroll, only to run into Filch, a legendary troublemaker and an epic tormentor. What are they going to do?

Just as the two were looking at each other in bewilderment, Mrs. Lorris, who was patrolling with Filch not far away, meowed, which gave Filch a flash of inspiration.

He carried the lantern, slowly turned around, pretended to have presbyopia, and muttered to himself:

"I'm old and useless now. I can't even see if anyone is there with the lights on. Luckily, I have Lady Loris. Judging from what she said, there must be something going on over there. I have to go and check it out!"

After saying that, the old Filch, with his frail arms and legs, nimbly started jogging, with Mrs. Lorris close behind. In no time, the two of them disappeared from Hermione and Ron's sight.

"Have we become invisible?"

The two exchanged a glance, and Hermione asked in surprise.

"How could that be? You're not Dudley, why would you become invisible? Didn't you hear Filch say he's getting old and his eyesight is failing!"

Ron said without a care in the world that he had truly believed Filch's lies.

Hermione rolled her eyes so hard they seemed to reach the sky, feeling like she was talking to a brick wall. She explained, somewhat angrily:

“What I said just now was an exaggeration. Do you understand what an exaggeration is? Does Filch really mean he didn’t see it clearly just because he said he didn’t? Don’t you think Filch is deliberately letting us off the hook?”

"what?!"

Ron let out a small gasp, then quickly covered his mouth.

He had exhausted his IQ and EQ for the day. After thinking for a moment, he replied to Hermione, "I don't think so."

"Never mind, let's keep shopping!"

"okay!"