In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 143: The Patronus Charm and The Invisible Sword

Jon was very interested in an advanced defence spell like Patronus Charm.

This spell may seem to be highly limited, only posing a greater threat to creatures like dementors without being able to kill them completely yet, but in fact, in most combat scenarios, a Patronus can be of great help to a wizard.

It is by no means just an illusory entity, but an actual creature that is coalesced by positive emotions.

And in future battles, the Dementors will certainly always be firmly on Voldemort's side, and the sooner he learns this charm, the better it will be.

Lupin did not object to teaching Jon the Patronus Charm, he was just a little surprised that Jon who only entered the third year wanted to learn such an advanced defensive art.

But he also knew that the boy in front of him is far more talented and intelligent than his peers, so he did not refuse, and from the beginning of the summer holiday, he spared time for Jon to come to his office, to teach him about the Patronus Charm.

Lupin's teaching ability is not bad at all, not to mention the Patronus Charm is one of his specialities.

During the three years he spent lurking in Azkaban, he taught more than thirty wizards imprisoned there to successfully summon their Patronus to eventually break out of the prison.

So he has a rigorous teaching system when it comes to this charm.

"In fact, if we have a dementor to cooperate with our teaching, to personally experience that feeling, you should be able to learn this charm at a rapid pace." Lupin's face, which always looked a little pale, had a serious expression, as he always does when teaching, "However, we are not in a situation where we are in the middle of an emergency, so we don't need to rush to speed up the progress so much."

"Come on, show me a demo, Jon, and let me see how well you've practised this charm over the course of this week."

Jon smiled as he took out his wand, and he followed Lupin's words and cast the Patronus Charm.

"Expecto Patronum."

He waved his wand, recited the incantation, all in one go, and it was clear that he had practised frequently.

But the tip of his wand only lightly emitted a silver wisp, there was no more reaction, but Lupin's face already showed surprise at this, and he praised.

"Very standard spell-casting movements and the pronunciation is precise."

Jon, however, frowned at this as he stared at the wand in his hand.

"Then why doesn't the charm work?"

"Because the Patronus Charm is very different from the other magic spells." Lupin explained to him, "This magic requires a very high level of emotion, and even if the casting movements and pronunciation are standard, there is no way for the charm to succeed if the emotion is not enough."

Jon pondered, "How can I make the emotion stronger?"

"That would require you to judge for yourself." Lupin looked at Jon seriously, "You need to learn what truly makes you happy by yourself. Many things can create a happy and joyful feeling, but because everyone's situation is different, they have different requirements for this emotion of happiness."

"For example, for those adult wizards I taught in Azkaban, when I was teaching the Patronus Charm, their happiness at that time was simply the days before they went to Azkaban Island. Every day before their captivity was unbelievably happy for them at the time because the despair the Dementors brought to them was unforgettable for life. That's why I said that learning the Patronus Charm would have been much easier with the assistance of the Dementors when teaching."

"But since we don't have that now, you have to try it yourself, to find out what really makes you happy and pleasant. That's the hard part of learning a Patronus Charm, Jon, because human emotions are not very discernible, especially about yourself, and it's hard to tell how happy you are, and exactly which thing allows you to really gather hope and happiness together."

Jon can understand Lupin's words, the Patronus Charm is a classic magic spell that depends only on the wizard themselves, there is no way for dark wizards with evil and dark hearts to learn this charm because the source of their happiness and pleasure is itself dark.

There is no way to summon the most pure Patronus with emotions that take enjoyment in killing, torturing, and persecuting.

This is not magic that can be learned simply by relying on talent, it mainly depends on Jon's own understanding of himself, depending on when he can figure out what he is truly feeling delighted by.

This whole thing wasn't easy, at least Jon made a lot of attempts.

He recalled how he felt in his previous life when he first entered the university, and also experimented with the feeling of learning Occlumency and ring casting with Slughorn a year before, but all yielded little success, not to mention Patronus, the silver light emerged from the tip of his wand was only a faint three or four stripes.

But although there is not much progress in learning the Patronus Charm, in the other spell The Invisible Sword: Sectumsempra, Jon has made rapid progress.

He has been practising this spell for nearly half a month, Jon experimented with an old school desk, and he was able to use it to leave a half-centimetre-deep scar on the wooden table, which is enough to cause a fatal injury if it is replaced in a key area of the human body.

The effect of the Memory Charm is not visually obvious, this kind of magic spell can not be used freely on the human body, Jon also has no way to test to what extent he has practised it, but when he cast it on the experiment frog, it can make the memory of the dumb frog mistakenly think it is a fish, and sprawl on the ground on all four legs.

The summer holiday passed gradually in this way.

Still, no accidents occurred on the wagon, as if the speculations that Dumbledore had mentioned to Jon before, were all his imagination.

The two professors at Hogwarts, Lily and McGonagall, who were usually in charge of bringing in the new students, left the castle and went to look for all the magically gifted 11-year-olds according to the names and information on the Book of Admittance that Jon had brought back to the wagon.

Their target was only those students of Muggle origin, while students of half-blood and pureblood unless they were from the kind of families in which both parents knew them personally very well, they would not go to initiate contact.

Since Dumbledore was able to get Jon to infiltrate the castle, Voldemort could certainly think of letting children of the right age into the wagon.

This year, Lily and McGonagall's recruitment of students has become extremely smooth, without the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance, it is not an easy task for Hogwarts Castle to even screen the children of the right age from wizarding families to identify whether or not they have magical talent, let alone find a needle in a haystack like a Muggle child.

The fruits of what Jon risked his life to achieve last year are manifesting little by little on the wagon.

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