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Roselyn 
Lego-mency.
Precious Hufflepuff! He could stay next to Forrest in her pocket. Forever!
"Legilimency...Mister Tempus." she chuckled quietly, having nooo issues with giving a big ol' smile to the first year. "What makes forcing yourself to think of other things besides the memories the legilimens is seeking, or currently seeing, difficult on the legilimens is not because you make it loud in your head." Preciooouuus. "It's because you're forcing the legilimens to see the exact same thing you want them to. They can break past your wall of a thought however, and see memories that you may not even think of, like you said. They can dive deep into your mind and force things to come up that you may even be suppressing from yourself. It all depends on the skill of the legilimens, and the skill of the occlumens."
Oh dear, he was sorta losing her here. She...got the gist of what he was asking? Maybe? "That...is the whole point of this activity. To not think of the card. Period. If you forget about it, and realize you're trying to remember it, try and stop yourself from succeeding. Keep that card faaaar from your current thoughts."
He got it?
Legilimency?
"Well the world would be a much more peaceful place if there was more lego in it." So y'know. Lego-mency. Buuuuuuuuuut if she insisted.
Mhmm. Mhmm. Mkay.
Tobias was pretty sure he understood what the professor lady was on about and he just nodded and nodded and nodded as she spoke. Right then so he had to remember to forget to remember to forget the card that he was supposed to know but not know. Right.
He rubbed his head again.
"Okay, I think I gotcha," Tobias said, blinking vaguely. No, he did get it, super honestly. But it sounded like one of that was going to be a LOT easier said than don't.
And with that, Tobias did Real Life Actual Skipping over to a station and got the cards and junk ready.
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Roselyn Once everyone was settled at their stations, cards placed in front of the ludegopuff, Medea moved to stand in the middle of the room, turning around as she spoke to the class. "Alright. Remember. You don't want to think of the card that I'm going to call out. These little creatures are fast both physically and mentally, so you have to be quicker. They may not be able to dive into your mind like a legilimens, but they can read your current thought. Remember...you can think of a different object entirely, or try and think of nothing at all."
She gave them a moment to prepare before, "RED SQUARE!"
"Hi little Legopuff!" Tobias waved at the creature in front of him and got all ready to remember to forget.
Okay.
Okay.
He was totally ready.
She called out the name and Tobias suddenly realised that he hadn't thought of something to distract himself with. His eyes went wide and he panicked and immediately searched through his memories to think of something that wasn't this class right now.
And he bounced on his tip toes over and over and over again as he thought...
Of back home and the sea and the pier and the pebble beach and the ice creams there and wow everyone here seemed to love ice cream a lot even though it was always super cold like how did everyone enjoy ice cream THAT MUCH 'cause Tobias was 'eh' about ice cream but here it was kind of like a staple food but then it was better than the other ick in the kitchens though Ella had said something about maybe making a cake oh man that would be awesome Tobias LOVED cake well he liked the icing but he supposed he should catch up on his schoolwork before he let himself have fun like making cakes because he already put things like quidditch practice before everything else wow his mother would have put classes absolutely first and speaking of classes he still had loads of homework to do and he wondered what the homework for this class would be wait this class OH WAIT WAIT WAIT HE WAS DOING IT HE'D FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE RED-
Oh.
Blinking as he pulled away from his thoughts and back to the class Tobias glanced at the creature in front of him just in time to see it just sitting there all confused and stuff for like a split second before it apparently registered Tobias' thought of RED SQUARE (which he now felt like was like a neon sign above his head). At once the thingy started basically charging at the red square card, headbutting the cage it was in.
"No, Bertie, don't do that!" Tobias pleaded in a whisper to the thing. Because YES HE'D NAMED IT. It looked like a Bertie after all. But wait, couldn't they read minds? Tobias decided it was an excellent opportunity to be a legopuff whisperer.
Are you my friend? he beamed his thought across to the creature. There was a pause and then... Tobias GRINNED as he saw that the little thing was NODDING. WOW. FRIEND.
What Toby had neglected to realise was that he was still bouncing up and down on his tip toes and that creature was now simply watching him.
Did that count as not thinking about the square now?