Snakes in Hogwarts

Snape quickly left with a calm face, just as he came with a calm face.

This guy with a big hooked nose seems to always have the same stinky face, empty, mechanical, and without emotion.

This is because he maintains Occlumency almost all the time.

This kind of clever magic can close one's mind and prevent others from peeping through spiritual magic such as contemplation.

The spellcaster builds a barrier in his mind by controlling his own spiritual power, that is, magic power, to prevent the invasion of these spells.

However, the role of barriers is often mutual.

Others can't get in, and likewise, they can't get out.

This in itself is a spell that suppresses one's own emotions and thoughts. The caster needs to abandon his feelings and thoughts to prevent others from prying eyes.

Not thinking, not remembering, and not feeling, this is the basic requirement for getting started with Occlumency.

Therefore, rather than being a barrier, it is better to switch to a more apt speech, a wall that surrounds one's heart.

This will naturally have side effects.

Maintaining Occlumency for a long time will make the caster become too rational and a little unkind.

Even maintaining Occlumency for a long period of time may even cause some more serious situations. For example, the spellcaster's cognition of emotions and other feelings may become impaired.

In layman's terms, it means that you no longer feel what love is like.

This is a very dangerous curse. If you do not maintain a high degree of self-discipline in your heart and emotions, then a careless, long-term depressed feeling will rag in your heart like a flood that bursts a bank.

Believe me, no matter how strong the will is, people will fall into madness under that feeling.

Magic has never been a gift from heaven or the goddess of magic that is profitable and harmless.

On the contrary, it has two sides like everything in the world.

What all wizards should know before learning magic is that magic is an extremely dangerous power.

Whenever there is a chance, magic will show people its wildest side.

Occlumency is such a spell.

Powerful and complicated, but very dangerous.

If you are not careful, this barrier that was originally used to defend your soul will be transformed into a sharp knife, and it will easily tear a hole in your heart.

It is hard to imagine what it would be like to maintain Occlumency for a long time.

But maybe only in this way can Snape be able to properly place his emotions, hiding them in his heart and never remembering them, just like his unbearable past.

...

After Snape left, the portraits that were sleeping alive also came alive.

These are all the past principals of Hogwarts. In addition to their portraits hung here as an honor, they are also to help the current principal manage the affairs of the castle.

As the leaders of their respective times, even if the portraits will inevitably suffer from memory loss, they are still a very rare force.

This is the crystallization of wisdom passed down from Hogwarts for nearly a thousand years.

However, it is a pity that the portraits of the Big Four are not in these Hogwarts principal's rooms.

In fact, there is not a single portrait of the Big Four in Hogwarts Castle.

Except for a paragraph of legends and the academy corresponding to the name, they left only a few stone statues.

Perhaps it is because this technology has not been developed in that era.

It is a pity that I have not been able to experience that magnificent era.

.....

"Albus, you bastard! You actually used my masterpiece as a juggling tool?

What do you think this is?Those low-level alchemy toys that make children happy?"

After Snape left, a wizard with thick black hair and dark glasses yelled at Dumbledore angrily.

His eyebrows are sparse, but the black goatee at the corner of his mouth is unusually thick. Like his hair, it is very neat and smooth by his master.

This is definitely a sorcerer who loves to be clean and even makes people think that he is clean.

He was wearing a silver and green Slytherin robe, which was somewhat primitive in style, obviously a style that was popular many years ago.

This is Phineas Nigelus Black, a Hogwarts principal in the late 19th century.

At the same time, he was elected as the most unpopular principal in Hogwarts history by an absolute number of votes. We will talk about the reasons later.

Like his surname, he was born in the Black family, an ancient family even longer than the Malfoy family.

But now, this family has declined.

The only remaining family members are enjoying a luxurious single room package in Azkaban.

In the long river of history, the rise and fall of several families is just an inconspicuous wave.

It is not easy to want long-term prosperity. From this point of view, the Malfoy Patriarch did a good job.

At least the chaotic years that followed ensured the continuation of the Malfoy family.

....

"Your masterpiece? Do you mean this monitoring device you use to monitor Muggle students and peep female students going to the toilet?"

Another portrait not far away mocked with a mocking face. At the same time, he looked at the silver instruments that were constantly misting with contempt.

He has white hair similar to Dumbledore, and his seemingly thin body seems to hide great power.

This is Armando Dippet, the principal of Hogwarts before Dumbledore. He came from Gryffindor College and was very at odds with the principal of the Snake College Black.

"You fart! If you can use this device more when you are the principal, maybe that girl won't die."

Black unceremoniously uncovered the scars of Principal Dippet.

"Do you want to die? I want to fight you!"

"Come on? It sounds like you beat me in a one-on-one duel!"

"Enough! You two, be quiet!" behind Dumbledore, a portrait of a headmistress with long silver hair growled angrily.

This is Dairis Derwent, the only female headmaster of Hogwarts so far, and an excellent therapist who once served as the director of the St. Mungo Hospital for Magical Injuries.

"Don't get excited, Phineas, I just developed another use for the device you made." Dumbledore waved gently.

"So are you, Amangdo, don't get excited. There have been too many unnecessary quarrels between us."

Dumbledore waved his hand gently, and the silverware in front of him spun quickly again, and a cloud of smoke came out of their mouths.

Intertwined in the air into a light curtain composed entirely of mist.

The portraits of the principal soon stopped arguing. They gathered in a picture frame with a good angle of view, watching the effects of the light curtain no matter what.

After stealing the fog, Andros's appearance when he released the iron armor curse in the prize showroom on the fourth floor is clearly displayed in the light curtain. Of course, the hue is black and white without any other colors.

It seems that this may be the correct use of this sophisticated alchemy instrument.

With it, basically without leaving the principal's room, the principal of Hogwarts can also know what happened inside the castle.

"I never thought that an eleven-year-old child could use such an exquisite iron armor curse." Principal Devent praised without disguising.

"Of course, I don't look at which college he is a student."

Headmaster Black straightened his chest proudly, his beard curled up and down, and he looked very satisfied with Andros.

"Perhaps, but let me say that Mr. Lobach is really an interesting person."

Dumbledore blinked playfully.

"I bet that the secrets in him are far beyond your imagination."