Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 54 Like a dream but not a dream
The practice of brain occlumency is very simple, you just need to empty your mind. However, emptying your mind here does not mean not thinking about anything, but completely emptying your mind, abandoning all emotions, and entering an extremely rational state.

The simplicity of the training method does not mean that it is easy to learn. In fact, Occlumency is a spell that requires extremely high talent. A person without any talent will not see any improvement even if he practices for ten years.

When beginners first start practicing, they often confuse emptying their minds with daydreaming. Such practice is useless and will only make the person become a fool.

In theory, as long as the brain can be completely emptied successfully, it means that the brain block technique has been successfully released. But in reality, beginners can only enter this state by meditating for a while in a quiet and comfortable state, and they cannot move.

This level of Occlumency is undoubtedly incapable of serving as a defense against Legilimency. Only the ability to instantly enter Occlumency in any environment can resist Legilimency.

Some masters of Occlumency can even live their daily lives in a closed-brain state, and Snape is one of the best.

Snape kept his brain closed all year round, even when he was teaching students. This can be seen from his cold eyes without any warmth or emotion.

Mike has always been a person who does what he thinks, and after deciding to practice brain occlusion, he immediately began to try to empty his mind. However, he obviously made the mistake that beginners often make, confusing emptying the mind with being in a daze.

So, in the air of Godric's Hollow mixed with the fragrance of flowers, Mike gradually fell asleep on the sofa.

His consciousness slowly sank, and when Mike opened his eyes again, he found himself in that blue sea of ​​light again.

Alarm bells were ringing in my mind. Last night's dream could be explained by the saying "you dream about what you thought about during the day", but now I had the same dream again and there was no way to explain it.

He subconsciously summoned his wand, but found that the wand case that was originally hidden on his forearm was gone. Mike searched his body for a while and found that not only the wand case, but also the dagger hidden at his waist and the greed pendant on his chest were all gone. Now he was only wearing an ordinary plain wizard robe.

After taking two deep breaths to calm himself down, Mike began to observe his surroundings.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but when he saw Mike he was shocked.

Not far from him, the familiar dead tree stood quietly. But unlike the last time, this time there was only a small raven perched on its branches.

The raven saw that Mike had discovered him, so it cried out and flew towards him. Mike turned around and ran away without a second thought. He didn't want to experience the feeling of losing control of his magic and the pain in his heart again.

However, two legs naturally cannot outrun wings. Mike had not run far when he felt his left shoulder sink. He turned his head and found that the raven had landed on his shoulder and was looking at Mike curiously with its dark brown pupils.

Not sensing the raven's ill will, Mike stretched out his right hand to grab it. But just as his hand approached, it was pecked hard by the raven. Feeling the pain, Mike quickly withdrew his hand and checked the injury on his hand, only to find that his hand was completely unharmed.

"quack!"

Mike heard the unpleasant cry of a raven and looked towards the source of the sound. He found that as the cry sounded, the surrounding scenery slowly began to change.

The light blue light around began to dim rapidly, and dark green bricks emerged. In just a moment, they formed a room that Mike was very familiar with.

"This is... the Ravenclaw common room?" Mike couldn't believe it.
It should be night now, and it was dark all around. Mike searched carefully in the faint moonlight. The statue of Ms. Ravenclaw was still standing in the lounge, and the bookshelf was full of various books. The full-length mirror that the seniors put in the lounge because they were vain was still there. This was indeed the Ravenclaw lounge.

Mike walked to the full-length mirror and looked in it, but was surprised to find that the mirror was empty and there was no reflection of himself at all.

There was a sound of wind in his ears, and the raven standing on Mike's left shoulder slapped Mike hard with its wings.

Who can’t endure this?
Angry Mike decided to teach this bad bird a lesson today. But when he turned around, he found that the raven was pointing its wings in the direction of the dormitory, obviously wanting Mike to look that way.

Looking in the direction the raven pointed, I saw a young girl sneaking out of the dormitory like a thief.

Her face was covered by a layer of gray mist, and her features could not be seen at all. Mike could only tell that she was a girl from her exquisite body curves.

The girl was wearing a Hogwarts school robe and a blue tie around her neck. Judging from her attire, she should be a student of Ravenclaw. But her hand holding the wand was emitting a faint blue light. Looking closely, there was a claw mark on the back of the girl's right hand, which was the source of the blue light.

She acted as if she couldn't see Mike. She looked around furtively for a while and then walked to the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw as if no one was around.

Mike became curious and hurried forward to check it out.

The girl was facing the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw, with her hands raised to her chest and clasped together as if praying, while muttering something.

"You are the breeze from the quiet lake, you are the prophet exploring the truth, you are the most beautiful human being in the world, your foolish student here asks you to open the door to wisdom."

As the girl's voice became more and more frenzied, the claw marks on the back of her hand began to emit a dazzling blue light, and a blue light door on the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw slowly opened.

The girl screamed excitedly when she saw the light gate, then quickly covered her mouth as if she was afraid of waking up her classmates.

Watching the girl happily walk into the light gate, Mike on the side was already stunned.

Although he didn't like reading miscellaneous books that couldn't help him improve his abilities, he had read the famous "Hogwarts, A History".

It was clearly recorded in it that Ms. Ravenclaw came from the tranquil lakeside. Combined with the situation just now, the "you" mentioned by the girl was obviously referring to Ms. Ravenclaw.

"So ladies from Ravenclaw are so vain?" Mike muttered to himself.

But I felt relieved when I recalled the spell that Riddle used to summon the basilisk in the original book. Are Slytherins only allowed to be slytherins, but Ravenclaws are not allowed to be beautiful?
And on Mike's shoulder, the raven actually showed a very human look of helplessness after hearing Mike's mumbling.

(End of this chapter)