Head of Teaching at Hogwarts

"I have a magic that can help us achieve spiritual connection and communicate efficiently. If you are confident, we can use this magic to communicate more efficiently." Ghost suggested.

"Come on, more effective communication is always the best." Russell said very calmly and confidently.

The ghost glanced at Russell with a very anthropomorphic look on his body condensed by black mist, and then said: "You are very brave. Are you from Gryffindor House?"

"No, I'm from Slytherin." Russell paused, and continued in the surprised look of the other party: "Let me introduce myself, I'm from Slytherin House, and I am the current principal of Hogwarts."

"It's hard to imagine that a wizard from Slytherin wouldn't admire the great Salazar Slytherin himself," the ghost said in his characteristic strange voice.

"From a certain perspective, I am the one who truly has the spirit of Slytherin. Just like you, would you worship anyone other than yourself? Neither would I," Russell asked rhetorically One sentence.

"Sure enough, you are also an admirer of the great Slytherin!" Ghost gave an ambiguous summary of Russell's words, which made Russell somewhat confused as to how to complain.

"Stop talking, let's start the magic of soul connection." Russell said.

Slytherin's ghost produced an arm made of smoke from his body, and then said: "A spell, speed connection, I think you should be able to understand the meaning of this spell..."

Ghost told Russell a little about this magic spell that can connect the souls of two people to assist efficient communication. Russell quickly judged the principle of this magic spell based on the actions and spells used.

In principle, this spell that assists communication with the soul is equivalent to a combination of the Oblivion Curse and Occlumency, and then used in reverse.

It allows the user to quickly reveal the true thoughts they want to reveal, while the deep memories will continue to be concealed. Two wizards who use this method to communicate can conceal information from each other, but they cannot deceive each other.

It is indeed very effective. It means that two wizards can communicate very smoothly and honestly without any chance of intrigue. It is indeed a curse developed by an old monster like Slytherin who has lived for more than 1000 years. Its practicality is simply too high. .

As for whether the other party, as an old coin who has studied soul magic for more than 1000 years, would set a trap for Russell in this regard and make him suffer a hidden loss, Russell was not worried about this at all.

First of all, he has reached a consensus with Slytherin through threats and communication. To a certain extent, the two have a community of interests. Injuring Russell will only damage the interests of the other party. This is completely outweighing the gains. of.

Russell believed that the other party had lived for more than 1000 years, so he could not see such simple and obvious interests. After all, those who engage in magic research are rational at heart, not the brainless fools like the later madman Voldemort.

Furthermore, Russell also has a secret that can be used to deal with the opponent's sudden attack.

Ever since Russell became more and more proficient in mastering magic involving the soul and memory such as Occlumency, he discovered a secret that was unique to him.

Perhaps because of time travel, he has two souls. One is naturally the soul he uses in daily life, and the other is usually hidden deep in his consciousness and needs to be actively mobilized and searched for to be revealed.

Of course, both souls belong to the same consciousness, the same Russell.

Russell plans to first use the soul hidden deep in his consciousness to connect with the other party. In this way, even if there is an accident, it will not affect the soul that Russell has been using, and it will be completely within the controllable range. , which would not cause Russell to overturn directly.

About 5 minutes later, Russell thought about the memory he wanted to show the other party, and then waved his wand, "Quick Connect!" A white smoke came out from the top of Russell's wand, and the ghost's arm made of smoke quickly Blended together.

In an instant, Russell felt as if he had arrived in a semi-open library. All kinds of magical knowledge in Slytherin's memory were placed in front of him like a book, allowing him to choose, but he could only You can see the title, introduction and table of contents, but the most critical text part is still invisible.

Russell also adopted the same method, showing some knowledge that might be of interest to the Slytherin ghosts.

The first thing Russell noticed was the way Slytherin achieved soul splitting and immortality - this method was completely beyond Russell's expectations.

First of all, Slytherin believes that the soul is a more important part of life than the body. Even if the body is destroyed, as long as the soul still exists, whether as a ghost or finding a new body, it can be considered that the identity comes from the soul. .

Secondly, Slytherin's definition and understanding of the soul is very different. In his definition, the soul is just a collection of memories.

Therefore, in Slytherin's own opinion, as long as the memories of two souls are exactly the same, then the two souls can be considered to be the same soul.

After Slytherin himself discovered that the maximum lifespan of a human soul could hardly exceed 150 years without transforming into a ghost state, he began to extend the life of his soul by constantly copying memories to a brand new soul.

The way to generate new souls is somewhat like making a Horcrux.

From this perspective, making a Horcrux is not splitting a wizard's soul, but copying a wizard's soul as a backup or archive.

However, there is actually not much difference between the two. They will both cause de facto cognitive contradictions and affect their mental state.

As for why Slytherin himself was not affected, Russell didn't know. This was obviously a key point, and Russell needed to see the text of the study to understand.

"You are not Salazar Slytherin!" Russell asked suddenly after reading these contents.

"No, I believe I am, the great Slytherin is me, I am the great Slytherin." Ghost replied firmly without any hesitation. It was obvious that he would not be troubled by this question.

Then he quickly asked: "Is the cloning technology you mentioned really feasible?"

Russell explained: "There should be no problem. The Muggle community's Roslin Institute in Edinburgh is very advanced in this area. It is said that they are trying to clone a sheep and are very close to success. I think from the technical point of view From a perspective, there is not much difference between cloning a sheep and cloning you."