Chapter 214: Occlumency

Although the few children had some understanding of the Order of the Phoenix, and even participated.

But in the end, they wouldn't let them come into contact with too much.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have waited until today to know about this through the newspaper.

The school even forbids discussing the Order of the Phoenix.

That's why Harry chose to write back to ask Sirius, instead of finding Professor McGonagall or Dumbledore to ask.

However, it seems the one who replied wasn't Sirius...

There wasn't even a signature; it's estimated it was for fear of Mrs. Weasley knowing who told them...

After all, Mrs. Weasley had always disagreed with these children of theirs coming into contact with these dangerous things.

But this time, besides the Ministry of Magic matter.

They had other serious matters, so they could chat with Dumbledore.

Headmaster's Office.

John and Harry came here together.

This place was the same as the last time they came, with no changes.

The only thing that changed was that the Pensieve hidden in the wall was now placed outside.

The room was still filled with the faint sweet scent of lemon sherbet; the phoenix Fawkes was grooming its wings with its beak, and seeing people enter, it only lazily lifted its eyes.

As a result, after seeing the person was John, it hurriedly flapped its wings a few times and disappeared into the office as a ball of flame.

?

Why does this silly bird run away as soon as it sees people.

I still wanted to swipe a few more feathers to sell...

Seeing Fawkes disappear, John muttered in his heart.

"Harry, John."

At this time, Dumbledore's voice came from the small second floor of the office.

Dumbledore was seen walking down slowly from the spiral staircase, speaking as he did: "Minerva said you were looking for me."

"Yes, Headmaster, you are really hard to find; there's a password, and an appointment."

John familiarly found a chair and sat down to complain.

"No way, I am also very busy, John."

Regarding John's disrespectful words, Dumbledore didn't care and shrugged his shoulders in response.

"Let's talk about serious matters, Harry, Minerva said you were looking for me, because of nightmares?"

"Er... um...."

Hearing Dumbledore mention it actively, Harry felt a little embarrassed instead.

Because he was actually quite worried about whether he was being too sensitive, even coming to trouble Dumbledore for having a nightmare.

But John kept encouraging him to come find Dumbledore, so he came...

"Yes, Professor, I, actually since the summer vacation."

"I have been repeatedly having the same nightmare intermittently... in the dream, I..."

Harry stammered and told Dumbledore about his experience of having nightmares, as well as the scenes in the dream.

After listening, Dumbledore tapped the edge of the Pensieve lightly with his fingers, frowning slightly.

Then, as if remembering something, he waved his hand toward a cabinet in the office.

A commemorative book that looked a bit old flew into his hand.

Dumbledore flipped through a few pages casually, then stopped at a yellowed old photo.

In the photo, it was Fudge when he was young, and a group photo of him.

Of course, this photo was not the point; the point was the location where it was taken.

"Harry, is the place you dreamed of this place?"

Dumbledore pointed to the background in the photo; it was a corridor filled with black light bricks, and one could faintly see at the deepest part of the background, there was a door without a handle.

On the door was a golden sphere.

These were highly consistent with the scenes in Harry's dream.

"That's right! It's this place!"

Sure enough, after Harry saw it, he also nodded hurriedly, his tone full of disbelief.

He didn't expect that the scenes in his dream actually existed.

And Dumbledore found it as soon as he heard it.

"Professor, what place is this?"

"This is the 9th floor of the Ministry of Magic, the entrance to the Department of Mysteries."

Dumbledore said lightly; while saying this, his eyes were already clear, as if he had already locked onto something.

And John and Harry were both stunned when they heard the name Department of Mysteries.

Because just now, the few of them were still analyzing outside whether the place the Death Eaters wanted to break into would be the Department of Mysteries.

They didn't expect that they hadn't even chatted with Dumbledore about this matter yet.

Harry's dream had already mentioned this place again.

It seems there is definitely a problem with this place.

"I think I probably know what Voldemort wants to find."

Combined with Podmore's matter, Dumbledore had already inferred Voldemort's goal.

Dumbledore waved his hand casually, and the commemorative book floated back to the depths of the cabinet.

He then came to the desk and sat down, wrote a few words on a piece of parchment quickly, and threw it out the window.

"But now, there is a more important matter, Harry."

He originally wanted to follow the topic and ask about the Ministry of Magic matter, but Dumbledore spoke again.

"These dreams you have... are actually the same as you being able to dream of Peter Pettigrew last year..."

"In essence, they are all because Voldemort and your spirit have some kind of connection, causing you to be able to see what he sees and thinks through the connection."

Hearing Dumbledore's words, Harry frowned.

He remembered that after he solved the Chamber of Secrets crisis in his second year, Dumbledore had mentioned it to him.

When Voldemort killed him and suffered a backlash, besides leaving a scar on his head, he also left other things.

For example, Parseltongue.

And now, there was an extra spiritual connection.

"I originally thought that this connection would only be accidentally triggered when his emotions fluctuated violently..."

"But now it seems that after his power gradually recovers, this connection has also become increasingly obvious..."

John on the side heard these words, raised his eyebrows and said.

"Isn't that quite good, you can peek at Voldemort's perspective and predict Voldemort's actions in advance."

Harry also thought so, but Dumbledore denied this statement.

"Yes John, but correspondingly."

"Voldemort can also invade Harry's thoughts, and even utilize this connection, conversely creating traps to lure us into stepping on them."

"However, fortunately, Voldemort should not have realized your connection yet, so there is still a chance to remedy it."

While explaining, another figure walked toward the office.

It was Professor Snape in a black robe.

"Headmaster, you were looking for me."

He glanced at Harry and John, then looked at Dumbledore and asked.

The parchment Dumbledore threw out just now was to find Snape.

"Hmm, Severus, there is a favor I must ask you to help with."

"I hope you can teach Harry how to use Occlumency to avoid his thoughts being invaded."

Hearing Dumbledore's arrangement, Harry was stunned, because he had never even heard of this thing.

John understood Dumbledore's meaning.

Occlumency.

As the name suggests, it is a magic, or ability, that closes the brain.

Its function is to counter magic like Legilimency that can read memories and the Imperius Curse.

Cultivated to a high level.

One can even fabricate non-existent memories out of thin air to deceive the Legilimens.

Professor Flitwick once said that Professor Snape seems to be an expert in this area.

If Harry can learn it, it can indeed effectively avoid being inversely invaded in thoughts by Voldemort. ===== CHAPTER 215 =====