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Originally Posted by Roselyn  If she could become any happier, it would've been with that speculation right there. "There are always benefits when it comes with practice, Mister Summers." she started, moving around so her legs were underneath her and she was sitting on her heels. "Nonverbal magic is something all spells have in common but, with legilimency, you're right when it comes to diving deeper into one's mind."
"Naturally, when first attempting this spell, you can only get so far. It doesn't so much matter if you read an entire book on the human mind prior to trying. However, knowledge does play it's part in this. For example, think of an endless maze. As your first journey into it, you no doubt twist and turn into dead ends and round-a-bout circles. BUT, with a little knowledge on where you are and the right tools, you can go to just about anywhere you want to." Letting that sink in for a moment, she smiled and continued. "Though it is not easy. Legilimency takes much time to figure out and understand, but essentially, yes. The more skill you have in the art, the easier it will be for you to dive deeper into the person's memories, thoughts, and emotions."
His theory on being forced to perform legilimency was interesting. "Indeed, it is. Intent does play it's part in the spellwork, though be careful in your wording, Mister Summers. There are quite a few ways one can be forced into doing something, some methods more effective than others when it comes to performing spells and how far we are willing to stretch our limits."
Goodness, she didn't know just which made her happier! All the amazing and CREATIVE ideas being tossed around or the fact that she JUST found Sonya...running into the back wall repeatedly. Well, least the little bird wasn't getting into too much trouble.
"As a recap, I'm sure we can all agree that legilimency has a variety of understandings and key fundamentals that makes it so difficult to achieve. Having a clear mind, focus and intent, and confidence unlike you have ever produced with a spell is needed, and eye contact generally seems to be the best way for the legilimens to gain access to someone's mind. Once you can manage to achieve the spell, it's only a matter of time and building up your skill level to where you can dive into deeper thoughts and memories and deeper emotions that the person may have hidden away."
"What you can do with this kind of magic at the tips of your fingers is quite honestly why legilimency has such a shady reputation though. There is nothing but personal gain with this magic. Information is the main focus most of the time, however, if skilled enough, one can make a person's mind fall into ruins. Slowly. Make them see things. Make them hurt. Make them go crazy or perhaps...detach their mind altogether." Fiddling with her fingers momentarily, Medea took a deep breath and smiiiiiled. "That is truly, terribly advanced magic though."
"Moving on, we touched on the subject of occlumency a few times. As I'm sure you've come to find out, occlumency is the act of preventing your mind from being accessed by the use of legilimency by magical means. When I say magical, I do not mean you need a wand and a spell. This magic is not something you can outwardly produce, so to speak. It's something you focus inside of yourself." Her hands were gesturing eveeerrryyyywhere, trying to make it easy for the students to understand. "Occlumency, in ways, is a bit harder to master than legilimency. It requires a great deal of will power and discipline with your mental and emotional state that is very difficult on it's own to describe. To pull it off flawlessly would be...a tremendous feat."
"We may not be doing practicing legilimency today, but I can let you practice a bit of occlumency. I have an activity set up that we can do towards the end of the lesson. You may not participate if you don't want to. That is entirely up to you. Before we get into that, does anyone know any other details on what occlumency is or how it is performed?" Alec listened intently to Romanos's explanation and thoughts on his answer. And the connection with the maze? That made things a lot easier to remember and understand and so, the boy nodded along to what she was saying. He also couldn't help but feel really happy and slightly proud that he was more or less right. It was like he had just eaten a good amount of ice cream.
... Speaking of ice cream, when was the next break? And when was this ice cream party taking place? GRIN.
The Hufflepuff shook his head and turned his attention back to Romanos, who was talking to the class in general. He pulled out his journal and a quill and started scribbling down some notes as the woman spoke. It was probably one of those things that he needed to think about and say in his own words until he remembered things properly but... it couldn't help to write down what Romanos was saying.
Also... pink elephants?
... Oh! They were going to be practising the art of occlumency? ... Yeah, he wasn't going to do well in that. Too much thinking, way too much! But... question. The boy paused for a couple of minutes before raising his hand in the air. "Professor? If how skilled you are in Legilimency can affect how far you delve into someone's mind, can your skill level with Occlumency also affect how great of an Occlumens you are?" ... Did that... make sense?
"I mean..." Let's answer the question, yeah Summers? "There are different forms, right? You have the one that people have mentioned where you clear all thoughts and emotions but then you also have the type where the Occlumens will suppress the emotions and thoughts that would contradict what they want the Legilimens to believe." ... Or... something.
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