HP: Let professors walk towards the light

Today is my fifth day at Tallos Manor. As for Hermalena's Occlumency practice, the plan I have made for her gives her enough time. She only needs to master one key point every day. Within a month, she will definitely learn something. However, if she wants to do it without leaving any trace and grow to the level of being proficient in Occlumency like me, she still needs a long time of practice. This is something she should strive for.

Of course, my expectations of her are naturally high.

"I gave you three days to free your mind. How do you feel now?"

The basement of the manor is what I think is the most suitable place for teaching and learning. These days, Hermalena has been here alone - in a daze.

"If I just let it go, I think I could do it." She sat in the chair and looked up at me.

I leaned my hands on the chair where she was sitting and looked into her eyes, trying to look directly into her eyes from a close distance. In my opinion, such a gaze would be oppressive enough. If she could face this purposeful gaze, it would help her study.

But she tilted her head to the side and her eyes were avoiding me, obviously not taking my words to heart.

"Look me in the eyes, don't look away."

I turned her head with one hand and forced her to look at me.

"Yes...I'm sorry..."

"If you can't even stand this, then you don't need to learn Occlumency."

I stood up straight.

"I...I need some time to adjust. This is a bit sudden..."

Adapt? Do you need to adapt before you can use Occlumency when someone uses Legilimency on you?

"Some polygraph examiners will use language, body language, eye contact, noise and other methods to disrupt the thoughts of the wizard being tested, so as to find a way to perform Legilimency. Some dark wizards will even use torture directly. In this case, no matter what, you must always remain calm and keep practicing the brain occlusion technique. This is your second lesson."

"Well, let's play a little game."

I gave her a box of colored crystals and asked her to hide one at a time on her body while I used Legilimency to check the color of the crystal at random.

"The best way to crack Legilimency is to avoid the polygraph examiner's gaze, but this is also the easiest way to be discovered. When the other party is determined to cast a spell on you, this method is only as obvious as it is intended, just like Dumbledore. So you should learn two other methods: one is to empty your mind so that the other party can't see anything, and the other is to rewrite your memory so that the other party can see what you want him to see."

"So, in the next few days, I will use Legilimency on you from time to time to read the color of the crystal you hid. What you need to do is to stabilize your emotions and stay calm at all times. When facing me, quickly clear your mind and don't let me check it. Do you understand?"

I waved my wand to open the box, and saw her take out a green gem from it and look at it. It seemed that she liked that color very much. Sure enough, Slytherin children would not refuse beautiful green things.

"In other words, if I don't let you know the color of the crystal in my hand, then I win, right?"

She seems very confident.

"You seem to be determined to win?"

I raised my eyebrows, looking forward to her next performance.

-

night.

Hermalena and I were having dinner in the manor restaurant as usual.

Then, the lights in the entire restaurant suddenly went out.

"Miss——"

This... should be the voice of a house-elf.

I turned on the Lumos and Hermalena stood across the table looking at me. Even the house-elves came out.

"What's going on?" Hermalena frowned and asked the elf named Piss.

"No one was found approaching the manor."

"What about the inside? What's the problem?"

I waved my wand and the lights in the restaurant came back on.

"Right shirt pocket, purple. Looks like some people got off to a bad start."

I took out my notebook and put a check mark under my name.

"What?" She seemed a little out of sorts. "So just now..."

"It's just a light turned off, why are you so nervous?"

"Professor..." She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You've already started. Is this what you call unscrupulous?"

I glanced at her and continued eating the steak on my plate.

"Anything can happen and we can't take it lightly."

"professor--"

"It's no use acting like a baby."

-

The next morning, I stood downstairs waiting for Hermalena.

"Good morning, professor. Why are you up so early today?" She was still sleepy and rubbed her eyes as she walked downstairs.

I forced a smile and waved my wand.

"what!"

She missed a step and fell directly down the stairs. I was standing beside her and I grabbed her and hugged her.

"Miss, are you still sleepy today? You can't even see how many steps are left. Are you planning to give me a gift so early in the morning?" I laughed at her.

“Ah, maybe I didn’t stand firmly…”

She looked at me and our eyes met again.

After a moment, she suddenly shot out of my hand as if she realized something, and turned her head away without looking at me.

It seems that he is not too sleepy yet, but - it is still too slow.

"The blue crystal is on the table in the room, right?"

I smiled and checked my name again.

"Professor, this is so shameless. I just got up and was just thinking of asking you kindly if you want some dessert..." She muttered.

"When you face your enemy, do you think he will give you time to react?"

I hit her on the head with the notebook.

"That's because I don't consider you my enemy." She rubbed her head.

I didn't use much force.

"But you have to treat me as an examiner. You've already failed twice. If you don't learn your lesson, you'll have to wait until you have to write your thesis."

"Oh--"

……

To my surprise, Hermalena has grown so fast. Ever since the prank on the stairs, she has been consciously or unconsciously alert to her surroundings and can react quickly to emergencies.

After I won the fifth time, she was finally able to completely clear her mind in a short period of time. Including the three days of self-study before, it took a total of one week.

During this period, at her request, I also taught her how to prepare the Lucky Potion, a good luck potion that takes half a year to make and does not allow for any mistakes. Of course, if she is lucky enough, the preparation process will go very smoothly.

It was not until then that I realized that she had been deliberately delaying the time and progress in my Potions class. In fact, her potion-making skills were already very skilled.

But that's true. If she is still not proficient in potions after studying it for seven or eight years, then she doesn't need to take potions classes.