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Chapter seven: Into the Snake's eyes
Harry froze at the spot, not making a sound, standing very still, even though he felt his legs would give in. The rest of the room was in complete darkness, with a single candle floating in the air, enough for him to make out the face of a basilisk. It was staring right at him, it's great, yellow eyes narrowed in slits, which made him think why he wasn't dead already.
"Gave you quite a fright, didn't I?" rang out Salazar's deep voice from the darkness, and suddenly the whole place was illuminated. He wasn't in the hut as he had expected, but in a room with just two armchairs in the center. Salazar was sitting in one of them, looking at him. The basilisk disappeared in a wisp of smoke.
Harry looked at Salazar incredulously "What did you do?"
Salazar smiled slightly "I was playing games with your mind,"
"You can't read minds, it's not possible," said Harry
"That fact is true and false"
"How?"
"Take a seat," said Salazar gesturing towards the vacant chair.
Harry sat down in the chair with a mixed feeling of curiosity and anxiety.
"When you came into this room, what did you see?" asked Slytherin
"A basilisk" replied Harry
"Do you think it was real?" Salazar asked
Harry paused
The world rushed past Harry at lightning speed. He gripped the armchair tightly. The speed was increasing every second. Harry was being pushed back in the chair. He was reminded of the speed of the firebolt.
The chair (or the world) stopped and everything came into focus.
"No way"
He was sitting in one of the stands at the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch.
There was a crowd of people yelling and screaming at something. Harry looked up and to his horror saw himself going after Malfoy, who had dived for the snitch.
He was in his own memory.
"Hmmm, you're opponent seems skilled,"
Harry looked sideways to see an interested Salazar looking at Malfoy "You're only saying that because he's a Slytherin," said Harry
"Perhaps, but you cannot deny that he's got talent..... And good looks" added Salazar
"So, you really can read minds?" asked Harry
"I never said that," said Salazar still watching Malfoy, who was closing in.
"What do you do, then?" said Harry.
He had caught the snitch by now and the crowd was cheering madly, he suddenly found himself in the same room again and in the same armchair
"The mind has three inner shields. The first protects the emotions, the second protects the memories the victim recalls-"said Salazar
"But that's mind reading" interrupted Harry
"Yes, but I did not say that I know what the victim is thinking but which memories they recall, if any at all, also the memories which are most active in the brain are the ones which the wizard or witch frequently remembers,"
"The third and final shield is perhaps the most powerful known shield which is impenetrable. It is not lowered when a person has any emotions and remains active at all times. It can be penetrated by a few things but has never been by a witch or a wizard."
"By what?" asked Harry
"I assume you have put the sorting hat on?" asked Slytherin
"Obviously," said Harry
"The sorting hat scans the mind for the person's abilities, state of mind and his memories,"
"Why his memories?" asked Harry curiously
"To find out what things he has done in the past so that it can put that person in the right house," replied Salazar
"What else?" asked Harry impatiently, this subject was more interesting than the way Snape had been teaching him
"All my students were eager the first time, but I warn you, it will get a lot more complicated in the future," said Salazar "The only other thing in my knowledge is a pensieve, which the wizards or witches themselves give their memories of their own will,"
"Wait, are you saying that if I let someone see into my mind, he or she will be able to see the memories he or she likes to?"
"No, the pensieve is a thing, not a person" said Salazar sounding annoyed "Now, there are many ways of performing Legilimency: with a special connection like you and Voldemort share, through a wand, through the eyes and perhaps the most difficult and dangerous one, through the skin. It is difficult because the skin is a protection. Legilimency is very difficult because even if we are able to do it, the victim might become aware, which brings us to our next subject, "How does a person find out that Legilimency is being performed on him or her. It's all a matter of how the person penetrates the mind. If the person slips by the mind shield then the victim will not sense anything. However if he or she tries to go straight through it then the person will have an odd feeling"
"Like being x-rayed" thought Harry remembering all those school years he had felt like that a few times when Dumbledore had looked into his eyes
"Only the most skilled witches or wizards can silently slip by the mind and not let the person know about It." said Salazar
"Sir, what was that Basilisk?"
"That was an image from your mind. At the time you were entering this room you were perhaps thinking that I was going to subject you to some cruel torture like making you face a basilisk.
Harry was embarrassed "Sorry, Sir, but what about its eyes. They weren't in my memory"
"I put those in myself to make you see a perspective of its eyes and don't be sorry, you just gave me the idea for our dark arts class. A live basilisk"
"Damn!" thought Harry and made a mental note to think twice before thinking anything.
The setting of the room changed and he was in the chamber of secrets.
"This should be easy for you, don't worry, it just requires a bit of slyness, a quality I am sure you posses. The basilisk's eyes won't affect you. You have to make him go back through my big mouth, remember this, however, that basilisks don't attack without reason" said Salazar and vanished in a wisp of silver smoke.
The basilisk came out of Salazar's mouth, looking at Harry threateningly.
"Who are you?" asked the basilisk hissing angrily
"My name is Harry Potter" replied Harry not knowing what else to say about himself
"Are you an enemy of the basilisks?" hissed the basilisk
"Not really but I killed a basilisk once," said Harry
At once he realized this was a big mistake because the basilisk lunged forward towards him
Before he knew it he was back in the room and on the arm chair
"Tut-tut, you shouldn't have offended him" said Slytherin who was sitting in front of him
"What happened? I thought it was real" said Harry indignantly
"It did all the things a real basilisk would have done. I'm afraid you did poorly,"
"What? Me? It was you the one who said I should tell the truth," "You offended him deeply by saying you killed one. It thought of you as a basilisk slayer and attacked you,"
"So what should have I said?"
"That you were forced to kill one. That it was on the orders of another Parselmouth to kill you,"
"Thanks, I'll try to keep that in mind the next time a fifty feet creature asks me if I've ever killed one of their species," said Harry sarcastically
"It is not an amusing matter. You are in constant danger of attacks from basilisks now that Voldemort has returned and are liable to be attacked any second in your home or outside it" said Salazar "Now I think it is time for you to go"
Harry hurried outside. Relief swept over Harry after seeing his parents and Sirius.
"How did my son like his first day of school?" asked Lily
"Great, I went almost at the speed of light, got scared to death by a basilisk and your son is the first person alive to look directly into the eyes of a basilisk and survive," said Harry
James and Sirius were in hysterics but Lily looked concerned
"Well, at least Helga's classes are okay" said Lily
Or so she thought.
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