Harry Potter: F*ck Off

Harry thought for a few moments before replying "Well, the scar hurts whenever Voldemort is feeling a strong emotion, usually anger, or when he is near to me. Like when I was in the graveyard with him that night. The pain was so strong that I thought that my head might split apart."

"Anything else?" asked Greengrass "Do his emotions affect you in anyway?"

"Not really," answered Harry "sometimes I get visions of what he's up to, usually when I am sleep. And I have woken up feeling very angry a couple of times, though it goes away very quickly. And I've woken up laughing a few times, though I don't actually feel happy myself."

Greengrass gave him a look of intense interest and asked "How often do these visions occur?"

"Not often," said Harry "like with the scar hurting it only happens when he's feeling a very strong emotion."

"And how do you see things in these visions? Are they from his point of view?"

"Yes. It's like I'm seeing things through his eyes. But I don't think he knows it happens. If he knew, the visions would happen more often, as he would use them to purposefully torture me."

"Then we'd better take steps to make sure he never finds out," said Greengrass "I need to research this subject more intensely, but the very fact that you can and have been influenced by this thing tells me that you need to block its access to your mind."

He went over to the briefcase he had brought with him and opened it up. From within he took a book with a cover that was wrapped in a white fabric. He handed it to Harry, who saw that there were golden letters on the front that read "Basic Occlumency: The Beginner's Guide to Protecting Your Mind."

"Protecting my mind?" asked Harry.

"Yes," replied Greengrass "Usually it is used to protect yourself from those trying to control your mind through the use of the skill known as Legilimency. However, I am sure that it should help in protecting yourself from this thing until we can find a way to rid you of it permanently. Now, I'm not going to suggest that you will be able to completely block it from influencing your mind, but hopefully the use of occlumency should at the very least reduce the effects of that influence."

He zipped up his briefcase again and picked it up "I have everything I need to continue researching this matter. Mr Potter, I want you to read the first two chapters of that book and begin practicing the techniques that are discussed within them. If you are stuck or don't understand something, I'm sure either Madam Bones or Healer Abbott will be able to help you out as their respective professions require the both of them to have some degree of competency in occlumency. In a week's time, I will come back and use a gentle bit legilimency to see how far you have come in protecting your mind. If you have made sufficient progress, we will begin working through the rest of that book in order to build up your levels of protection, okay?"

"That's fine," replied Harry with a nod.

Greengrass left, with Madam Bones following on to show him out. Sarah remained behind.

Out in the hall, Amelia grabbed the man by his arm and said in a low voice "Just after arriving here, Harry told me a little bit about the events at the end of his second year at Hogwarts. He mentioned that a bewitched diary was influencing the mind of a student, causing her to set Slytherin's fabled monster upon the school."

Cyrus frowned "It is highly unusual for an item to possess someone, but what does that have to do with this?"

"Harry claims that the diary belonged to a certain Tom Marvolo Riddle when he was sixteen years old."

Cyrus' eyebrows rose "Now that is interesting. Where is the diary now?"

"Apparently Mr Potter destroyed it with a fang from the Basilisk that was responsible for all those students being petrified," replied Amelia "According to him the diary's hold on the student it was possessing was so strong that an image of Tom was able to emerge from the diary walk around and talk to Harry. The more time passed the more solid the image became."

"Merlin's beard!" exclaimed Greengrass "I guess we were lucky Mr Potter was on hand to destroy the thing before it was too late. I'd have liked to have gotten a good look at the thing though."

"Are the diary and the scar related?"

"Almost certainly."

"And do you have any real idea as to what they might be?"

"Oh, I have an idea alright. And no one is going to like it. But just let me confirm the theory for certain first, alright?"

Amelia nodded and sent Cyrus on his way.

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