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After dinner, while Bella is squirreled away in her and Tony's room reading her History textbook as though it's a fantasy novel (for the two bear significant resemblance)...
Artemis Burberry is in her room, on Patricia Hall, lamenting to her great horned owl about the lack of relatively private fireplaces for Floo calls here, and wondering where her roommate is.
(Who names their daughter "Sherlock", anyway?)
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"You okay?" murmurs Feral.
"Sure," he says, "but there's lots of things people shouldn't be able to do, and they do them all the fucking time."
Feral shrugs.
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Pick pick pick, and then Bella gives up, wraps some brownies in a napkin for later, and scurries away.
Bella goes off to the library.
She looks up memory charms (defenses against).
Bella goes off to the library.
She looks up memory charms (defenses against).
Mainly there's nothing.
One solitary footnote mentions that memory charms may fail 'if the target is a skilled Occlumens'.
One solitary footnote mentions that memory charms may fail 'if the target is a skilled Occlumens'.
Occlumency is apparently the skill of guarding one's mind against intrusion and tampering; an Occlumens, plural Occlumentes, can resist such things as Legilimency (Legilimens, Legilimentes, the art of mindreading) and Veritaserum (a potion that compels the drinker to answer questions truthfully).
The material on Occlumency doesn't seem to have anything about Memory Charms at all.
It is a rare and difficult skill, and not commonly taught at wizarding educational institutions.
The material on Occlumency doesn't seem to have anything about Memory Charms at all.
It is a rare and difficult skill, and not commonly taught at wizarding educational institutions.
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Bella wants to learn it. Memory Charms are bad, Legilmency is also bad. This is her top priority. Only the fact that she doesn't suspect anyone of actively being interested in the contents of her mind will allow her to do homework or anything before she has this mastered. She wants introductory exercises and ways to check her progress that don't involve inviting somebody to point a wand at her; can she have them?
No.
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Rrrgh.
Well, what about just the exercises, then, maybe she doesn't have to benchmark her progress, maybe she can just work like her brain depends on it and get as far as she can -
Well, what about just the exercises, then, maybe she doesn't have to benchmark her progress, maybe she can just work like her brain depends on it and get as far as she can -
Some of the techniques are described, but never in detail; none of the available books on Occlumency are instructional.
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Bella goes up to the librarian. "Excuse me," she says. "Do you know if there's any way to get lessons in Occlumency?"
The librarian blinks.
"Not for a sixth grader."
"Not for a sixth grader."
"I don't think I know of a school that teaches it," she says. "It's almost like a Dark Art."
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"It's defensive," says Bella, puzzled, holding up one of the books she found. "How is that a dark art?"
"Well, I'm not really sure," says the librarian.
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"I really want to learn it. Is there a correspondence course or anybody on the faculty who knows about it? The books aren't - aren't instructional," pleads Bella.
"...I'll look into it," the librarian says reluctantly.
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"Thank you," says Bella. "Do you need my name so you can tell me if you find something?"
"Yes, please."
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"I'm Bella - Isabella - Swan, and I'm in Analisa Hall room four," Bella says. "Thank you so much!"
The librarian writes this down.