Chapter 665 Harry is in pain and happiness
Chapter 665 Harry is in pain and happiness
During the rest of the holiday, Kyle never saw Umbridge again, as if she was deliberately avoiding him.
This is what Kyle hopes for, after all, he doesn't want to see Umbridge hanging around in front of him during the holidays.
But others were not so lucky. When he was in the castle, Kyle often heard people complaining that they had been scolded by Umbridge for trivial things.
He also said that she was like an enhanced version of Filch, which made the whole castle full of complaints.
Just like that, it was the last day of the holiday. In the evening, all the students who had gone home for Christmas took the Hogwarts Express back to school, and the castle suddenly became lively.
Fred and George conjured up a high platform similar to a table in the Great Hall, and stood on it to demonstrate the latest products from Weasley's Joke Shop.
It was a strangely shaped pointed hat decorated with pink feathers. It looked silly, but when Fred put it on his head, the hat disappeared together with his head.
This made the people in the auditorium scream immediately, and of course, some laughed.
Kyle was also a little surprised. There were not many products that could be invisible.
He initially thought that the Weasley brothers used the fur of an invisible beast, like a common invisibility cloak, but he gave up this idea when George shouted out the price of two galleons.
Two galleons can't buy a piece of invisible animal fur as big as a hat, and ten times that amount will still be about the same.
And there are certain differences between their products and invisibility cloaks.
The invisibility cloak can only hide the covered area. If it is too small, part of the body will be exposed.
But just now Fred's entire head disappeared, including the uncovered areas below his eyebrows. This was completely different from the principle of the invisibility cloak.
Kyle guessed that they should have combined the Disillusionment Curse and the Extended Magic Rune.
"What a good idea." Cedric applauded with the others and said, "If they enhance the effect, maybe they can make the whole body invisible."
"It's not easy," Kyle said. "I don't think they're going to spend a lot of time on it."
"That's true." Cedric shrugged.
Weasley's Joke Shop has just opened, and what they need most is a large number of novel products to fill the store. They certainly won't waste time on things that can be solved with a Disembodiment Spell.
As more and more people filled the auditorium, Fred and George soon received a large number of orders.
It wasn't until Professor McGonagall entered the auditorium that they reluctantly walked down from the high platform.
Snape also came after that, but he did not go to the teachers' table with Professor McGonagall. Instead, he walked straight towards the Hufflepuff table and stopped in front of Kyle.
"Follow me!" he said, and strode out of the auditorium.
"What's wrong?" Cedric asked, "Have you offended Professor Snape again?"
"No," Kyle said, and followed him to the foyer outside the auditorium.
"Today is the last day of vacation, but I don't seem to see Potter, and no one in the whole school has seen him..."
In the foyer, Snape said expressionlessly: "I'm very doubtful now whether you are teaching him to learn Occlumency or sending him out of school.
"I hope it's not the latter, otherwise you can find a way to explain it to the principal."
Harry?
Kyle hesitated for a moment, suddenly slapped his thigh, left a word, turned around and ran upstairs.
"It's bad, why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Snape looked at Kyle's back, his expression getting darker and darker, as if he might curse at any moment.
But Kyle couldn't care about this at this time. No wonder he had just arrived. Hermione and Ron had been looking for something in the auditorium, and they were looking for Harry with them!
Kyle ran all the way and soon reached the eighth floor.
When he opened the door of the Room of Requirement, he happened to see a splash of water on the lake not far away.
Then, Harry, who was soaked all over, staggered to the shore and skillfully used magic to dry his clothes.
I don't know how well Harry learned Occlumency, but he was quite proficient in the Warming Wind Charm. Kyle didn't even hear the sound of the spell.
A few minutes later, Harry fell into the lake again... Still doing the same thing as before, he came to the shore and dried his clothes.
And Fox was standing on a big tree nearby, eating the pods of the pimple vine one by one, glancing casually from time to time.
When it looked up again, it saw Kyle, then spread its wings and flew over.
The movement here naturally aroused Harry's idea. He turned his head without any change in his expression, and just murmured to himself: "Strange, how come I saw Kyle, and there is a phoenix this time, there must be another one." It's a dream.
"That's not right. The blow just now hurt a lot. Could it be that I was knocked unconscious?"
It wasn't until the leopard cat jumped to Kyle's side three or two times that Harry realized that this time Kyle was really here.
Harry was so excited that he almost cried and ran over.
"It's over, isn't it? The teaching is over, isn't it..." He looked at Kyle hopefully and said quickly: "I promise I have learned Occlumency, really!"
Kyle did not doubt his statement;
Although he only watched for a while, he noticed that the cat and leopard hesitated several times before taking action, which meant that it did not fully see clearly.
Cat Leopard also confirmed this statement.
It growled.
"You can still see it, but it's blurry, right?" Kyle asked.
Cat Leopard nodded and glanced at Harry with some disgust.
It's not just Harry, it's also very tiring these days. He has to hit people, but he also has to be careful not to really hurt him. This is a technical job that tests your patience.
So strictly speaking, Cat Leopard actually wanted to end this teaching session more than Harry.
"Thank you for your hard work, Nadali." Kyle opened the box, "I prepared warthog legs and dragon blood steak for you, go and eat."
Cat Leopard jumped in without saying a word...Fox followed it and flew into the box. Kyle would definitely have to leave the Room of Requirement next, and he didn't want to appear in front of other students.
"Kyle... is that a phoenix?" Harry rubbed his eyes and asked uncertainly.
"Well, Fox, you should have seen it in the principal's office." Kyle put away the box and said, "It can be regarded as your overseer, or your therapist at critical moments.
"Okay, let's go out. If you still want to stay here, you can..."
Before Kyle could finish his words, Harry ran towards the door.
He's crazy to want to stay here.
Harry couldn't tell how many times he had been beaten. He only knew that he was being beaten every day, and the water he splashed could fill a new lake.
Compared with what he experienced these days, the ten years he lived with the Dursleys could be said to be warm... At least his aunt and uncle wouldn't whip him with a stick every few minutes, but Cat Leopard would, and It was extremely painful.
Its tail was like an iron rod, lashing out and making a mark, but it didn't hurt any bones, it just hurt, so Harry couldn't even find an excuse to give up.
For a while, Harry even thought it would be good to learn Occlumency from Snape.
"I've been getting beat up pretty much all day!"
On the way back to the auditorium, Harry couldn't help complaining to Kyle: "Even sometimes when I sleep, my bed is overturned inexplicably."
"Then you must have overslept." Kyle said, "Cat Leopard will only enter that room during training time."
"Even so..." Harry curled his lips, "But I always need some rest time, but you threw me into the Room of Requirement and never went there again!"
"This is also a teaching need." Kyle explained: "Practicing Occlumency requires putting aside unnecessary emotions. Although long-term continuous training is very hard, it also prevents you from being disturbed by other things and keeps your brain in a state of mind. A state of complete relaxation.
"Actually, I was just like you. I lived and ate with Cat Leopard. I started getting beaten almost every day when I opened my eyes."
Hearing that Kyle was like this, Harry felt a little better, and now that he thought about it, he had really lived a fulfilling life during this period.
It seems that those troublesome things like Voldemort, Order of the Phoenix, Umbridge, etc. have not appeared in his mind for a long time. Even the quality of his sleep has improved a lot. He can almost fall asleep by touching the pillow without making any mess. It’s a dream, it’s dawn when you open your eyes.
"By the way Kyle, how long did it take you to learn Occlumency?" Harry asked curiously.
"I forgot..." Kyle thought for a while, "It should be about a week or so. Cat Leopard can't read my thoughts at all. What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Harry shook his head, feeling a little happy in his heart.
It took him a week to learn Occlumency, and it took Kyle a week. Doesn't this mean that his talent for this spell is the same as Kyle's?
As a recognized good student at Hogwarts, no one would question Kyle's talent in magic.
Harry never thought that he had the same talent as Kyle. It was like when he found out after the exam that his scores were on par with Hermione... he was very excited.
Thinking of this, Harry didn't seem so angry anymore, and said half-jokingly: "I count the time every day. I thought today was the last day of the holiday, and you would definitely come to pick me up, but I didn't expect you to wait until now." Come on, I thought you had forgotten about this."
<divclass="contentadv"> "Haha... how is that possible?" Kyle laughed dryly. "It's just Umbridge who returned to school early. Didn't you sign on the detention list? If she sees it, It won’t be good if it arrives.”
"Umbridge is back?" Hearing the name again, most of Harry's good mood disappeared.
"You're right. If she found out that I returned to school early, she would definitely jump up with excitement. Fortunately, you didn't come to pick me up in the morning... Compared to being questioned by Umbridge, I would rather be used by Cat and Leopard. Tail twitching.”
"Ah...it's nothing, it's all what I should do." Kyle said, "Let's go faster, the party should start soon."
"Banquet?" Harry's eyes lit up.
Although the house elves delivered food on time every day these days, under the endless torture of the cat and leopard, Harry was not in the mood to taste the food, just to fill his stomach.
Now that it was finally over, and he had caught up with such a happy event as the banquet, he subconsciously speeded up his pace.
……
When the two returned to the auditorium, it was already full of people. Harry subconsciously looked in the direction of the teacher's chair, where Snape was sitting.
Inexplicably, he felt that Snape's eyes were a little strange, as if they were different from usual.
But Harry didn't pay that much attention. He just glanced at it and turned around in a hurry, heading towards the Gryffindor table.
Snape was stunned for a moment, his expression a little surprised. He didn't expect that Harry actually learned Occlumency. Although it only changed from a sieve to a fine gauze, it was enough to resist those messy mental intrusions.
And to achieve this level in one week, the progress is not small.
But the more this happened, the more uncomfortable Snape felt. He taught Harry for so many days, but made no progress at all.
But after changing to Kyle, he took off immediately. Doesn't this mean that he is inferior to Kyle?
As a real professor, he actually lost to a sixth-year student in teaching. Snape couldn't accept it for a while.
Just as he was thinking about it, Snape suddenly noticed that Dumbledore next to him glanced at him and showed an affirmative expression.
Apparently, he also noticed the change in Harry and attributed this change to himself.
This made Snape feel even more uncomfortable... He didn't want to take advantage of Kyle, but he couldn't explain it in front of other professors, especially Umbridge, so he could only keep sulking in his heart.
On the other side, as soon as Harry sat down at the Gryffindor table, Hermione and Ron gathered around him.
"where have you been?"
"We have been looking for you for more than half an hour, but everyone who was detained at the school said they haven't seen you in the past few days."
"I've been living in the Room of Requirement," Harry said in a low voice, "you know, to learn Occlumency."
"How's it going?" Ron asked.
"Hmm... not bad." Harry said, "I feel like I've learned it."
"Have you learned it?" Hermione looked at Harry in disbelief and subconsciously shouted: "So fast!"
"Quickly? Harry has wasted his entire vacation. Isn't it normal to learn a spell?" Ron said without knowing why, "What do you mean, is Occlumency difficult?"
"It's very difficult!" Hermione nodded solemnly, "Or much more difficult than any spell we have come across before, including the Segmented Transfiguration and the Patronus Charm."
In fact, after Harry returned to Hogwarts, Hermione also tried to learn Occlumency. She read many related books, such as "Add a Door to the Brain", "Control Your Thoughts", and "Memory and Thought" , she read all three books recommended by Mr. Weasley, and consulted Bill and Tonks for several days.
But how can I put it, until she went to the station this morning, she had not learned this technique.
Bill said that she had improved a lot from two weeks ago, but Hermione could tell that the other person was just comforting herself.
Hermione originally thought that Harry was similar, but she never expected that he had already learned it... This made Hermione feel a sense of frustration.
"How did you learn it?" She asked eagerly: "What method did you use? Can you tell me?"
Hearing Hermione's question, Harry thought of the six-legged cat leopard and its swishing and whirring tail, and subconsciously shuddered.
"Trust me Hermione, don't ask, you won't like it."
After hearing what Harry said, Hermione was not convinced. Said: "As long as I can learn this technique, I can persevere no matter how difficult it is."
Hermione is qualified to say this. She has always been very perseverant in matters related to study. For example, in the third grade, she studied all twelve subjects... Even in Hogwarts, she could There are only a handful of students who have achieved this.
"It's not difficult..." said Harry.
Seeing Hermione's disbelief, he hesitated for a moment, then pulled back his sleeves and exposed his arms, "See for yourself."
Harry's arms were covered in bruises and bruises, as if someone had spilled paint on him.
"Oh, Merlin's beard!"
"My God!"
Seeing this, Hermione and Ron exclaimed almost simultaneously, instantly attracting the attention of the people around them.
Harry quickly put down his sleeves and pretended to be nonchalant.
"Did Snape do it?"
But Hermione ignored this and said angrily: "It's too much. How could he hit you? This is against school rules... No, it's against wizarding laws. I must tell the principal!"
"Yes, that's right." Ron was also very angry, "A person like him is not qualified to be a professor!"
"Hey, calm down." Harry lowered his voice and said, "Although Snape's actions are also excessive, it has nothing to do with him, it's Kyle."
"Kyle?" Hermione was stunned for a moment, then continued: "Even Kyle can't hit you..."
"No, no, no...it wasn't Kyle who hit me, it was Cat Panther." Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Harry.
At this point, Hermione was completely confused.
It was already a bit unbelievable that Kyle was involved. Why is there another Cat Leopard now?
If she remembered correctly, this was a rare magical animal. There were only a few found in the entire UK. How could it appear in Hogwarts?
Harry quickly explained briefly what happened a few days ago.
Hermione and Ron were astonished and opened their mouths as if they were listening to a story about a troll learning to dance ballet.
Even if they wanted to break their heads, they would never have imagined that Kyle actually found a leopard cat to teach Harry... and even he himself learned Occlumency in this way.
"That's it." Harry said, "These may look scary, but they are actually just skin injuries. Even if you don't care about anything, they will be gone in a day or two. Don't worry."
"So you've been with Cat Leopard these days?" Ron asked, smacking his lips.
"A whole week." Harry said, his tone full of sadness that he couldn't hide.
"That being said, Cat Leopard's eyes do seem to have the ability to legilimens."
Hermione nodded thoughtfully, "But when its eyes turn purple, its ability will also turn into hypnosis. This is also the scariest thing about Cat Leopard, because there are very few known defensive magics. There are those who can resist hypnosis.”
"Huh? Leopard Cat can also hypnotize?" Harry scratched his hair.
"You don't know?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know." Harry said, "The leopard cat I saw always had blue eyes."
"Have you never thought about reading a book?" Hermione looked a little angry, "You should know that the Room of Requirement will add corresponding books to the room according to your needs, which is what we did during the DA party.
"And what I just said are all from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
"Come on Hermione, I'm being chased and beaten all the time, so I don't have time to read!" Harry couldn't help but retort.
"Don't you still have a few hours to sleep?" Hermione frowned and said, "Can't you spare twenty minutes? It's always good to know more about your opponent."
"Twenty minutes?" Harry sighed, "You know? I've fallen asleep directly on the floor by the door several times."
"But……"
Hermione wanted to say something else, but in the end she shook her head, "Let's take you to the school hospital after the dinner. Madam Pomfrey should be able to recover you soon."
"No." Harry refused decisively: "What I long for most now is to be able to go back to the soft bed in the dormitory and have a good sleep... As for these, according to my experience, they will disappear in two days, and they will disappear at all. Do not care."
"But Hermione, if you're not particularly anxious, I think it's better not to learn Occlumency in this way. It really hurts."
Hermione didn't refute this time, because Harry's quick fix didn't really seem to suit her.
