Chapter 122 My Will

There was not much new in the second week of school.

On Thursday, in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Professor Moody announced that he would cast the Imperius Curse on each student in turn to demonstrate the power of the spell and see if they could resist its influence.

As soon as he said this, there was a bang in the classroom, and all kinds of discussions suddenly surged up like a flood.

Casting an Unforgivable Curse on another wizard would be sentenced to life imprisonment, and the young wizards did not expect Moody to dare to do so.

Moody ignored it, but began to call on the students to take turns to come forward and cast the Imperius Curse on them.

Under the influence of the spell, the students made the most abnormal actions one after another.

Blaise jumped around the classroom three times, Pansy imitated a squirrel, and Neville performed a series of amazing gymnastics moves, which he could never do in his normal state. It seemed that none of them could resist the spell, and they all returned to normal after Moody removed the spell.

"Draco Malfoy," Moody said in a rumbling voice, "it's your turn."

Draco shrugged and walked to the center of the classroom. Moody raised his wand, pointed at Draco, and said, "Soul out of the body!"

Shelling noticed that a second before Moody chanted the spell, a green light flashed in Draco's eyes, and black air began to emerge from his body again. His whole temperament changed drastically and became much more gloomy.

The Imperius Curse had no effect on Draco. Draco stood still, looking at Moody with a smile.

What Shelling saw was that the black air was like a smart magic dragon, flying around Draco's brain. At the moment the Imperius Curse was cast, the black air replaced Draco and was dispersed by the Imperius Curse.

Draco smiled contemptuously, "Professor Moody, it seems that the Imperius Curse is not as difficult to resist as you said!"

The whole audience fell into silence. Moody frowned deeply. To be honest, he never thought that this would be the result.

He thought that Draco might be able to fight the Imperius Curse with willpower, and the two might even wrestle over the will to control the mind, but he never thought that the Imperius Curse would be directly ineffective. He said nothing, waved his hand, motioned Draco to return to his seat, and then called out the next person's name on the list.

The next person was Schelling.

Schelling showed a confident smile and strode to the center of the classroom.

Imperius Curse? Schelling sneered in his heart, let you see my will!

Although Schelling had never actually cast the Imperius Curse, his understanding of the Imperius Curse could beat this fake Moody by dozens of streets.

The real principle of the Imperius Curse is to use magic to paralyze the cerebral cortex and prefrontal lobe of the human brain, so that the recipient loses reason, logic and decision-making ability, and is thus dominated by external factors that affect emotions. Simply put, people who have lost their independent decision-making ability will feel happy about obeying the orders of the outside world, and can't help wanting to continue to indulge in the emotions brought by obedience.

The most effective way to fight the Imperius Curse is not Occlumency. The part that is blocked and hidden by Occlumency is actually human emotions (author: the limbic system of the brain), not cognitive ability, rational ability and logical ability.

Of course, this does not mean that Occlumency is completely ineffective against the Imperius Curse. By practicing Occlumency, people can have a stronger control over their emotions, and emotions are not easily affected by the outside world.

To fight the Imperius Curse, you need stronger emotions and stronger will!

When Moody said "soul out of the body", Sherin first felt that his thoughts and worries were swept away, and in a corner of his mind, a light and pleasant feeling seemed to be growing, but in the next second, Meredith's face flashed through Sherin's mind, and a fiery anger rose up, and extremely cold reason and calmness returned to Sherin, and the small flame representing pleasure was extinguished before it was ignited.

Xie Lin smiled, "Professor Moody, if it is only this level of magic, it doesn't seem as scary as you said! Do we really need to learn to resist this spell in the fourth grade?"

Professor Moody's face was very ugly. He failed twice in a row, so he couldn't continue this teaching method. He had vowed before that it was very important to learn to resist the Imperius Curse. He exaggerated the power of the Imperius Curse to the sky, and even a large number of experienced adult wizards suffered from it. As a result, he was slapped in the face twice in a row. Now it is estimated that the Imperius Curse is just that in the eyes of other young wizards.

He said with difficulty: "In this case, let's learn here today." He continued, "Both Mr. Malfoy successfully resisted the Imperius Curse and completely overcame it! You can ask them for their experience, so that others can't easily control you."

The rest of the class was spent in a weird atmosphere. The classroom was quiet and no one spoke.

Moody sat on a chair next to the podium, his face uncertain, as if he was thinking about something.

The other young wizards didn't dare to ask questions, and they all lowered their heads to take notes on how to resist the Imperius Curse.

It wasn't until the bell rang and Moody announced the end of get out of class and left the classroom that everyone started talking again.

The young wizards of Slytherin surrounded Shaylin and Draco, demanding that they must share the trick. Although the little lions of Gryffindor were envious, they didn't dare to ask them rashly.

Shaylin looked around at the expectant little wizards around him, then looked at the corner where the Gryffindor little wizards gathered, and said lightly: "Since Professor Moody wants us to learn this skill, I don't want to hide it. If the Gryffindor students are interested, they can come and listen. Of course, it's all voluntary and never forced."

The little lions of Gryffindor may not be interested in boring knowledge, but they are quite curious about this kind of magic related to combat. Almost everyone gathered around and they consciously stood behind Slytherin.

Shaylin said loudly: "Let me tell you! There is actually no secret to resisting the Imperius Curse. The main thing is willpower. Can anyone tell me what willpower is?"

Everyone fell into silence. Everyone knows the literal meaning of willpower, but it is not so easy to clearly explain the essence of willpower.

"Thanks--" Hermione said, "Oh, I mean, classmate Malfoy, does willpower mean to use reason to fight against subconscious desires?"

As expected of Hermione, she answered very clearly.

Xielin glanced at Hermione, and Hermione and his eyes briefly exchanged for a few seconds. Hermione was a little scared at first, but she tried her best to cheer herself up in her heart, so she looked at Xielin firmly, without any intention of retreating.

Xielin's mouth corners slightly raised, it seems that he and his group have not grown up in this past summer vacation!

Then he looked at Ron again, well, it seems that there is still no change, still the little brat.

"Mr. Granger is right," Xielin praised, "I personally have another understanding - will is consciousness, it is something that a person is willing to give up for his own goals, such as giving up sleep and play time for good grades, such as..." Xielin's eyes were shining, but his voice suddenly became low, "In order to protect the people around him, he had to give up a friendship..."

Xielin deliberately didn't look in Hermione's direction, but the divine vision of Amaterasu clearly reflected Hermione's red eyes and tightly pursed lips in his mind.

"Before learning to resist the Imperius Curse, the most important thing is to ask yourself - what is the purpose of learning this? How much are you willing to pay for it?"

"When you have your own awareness, you have the foundation to resist the Imperius Curse. The purpose of the Imperius Curse is to paralyze our reason and then use emotions to control us. Our best way to resist is to use stronger emotions to get rid of the other party's control..."

"When someone casts the Imperius Curse, you will feel light and you will feel that as long as you let go of your reason and let go of the control of your body, you will get a kind of liberation. The joy of spiritual freedom. "

"At that time, you just need to think about it. If you are controlled, what will happen to the person or thing you care about most? If you really realize it-" Sherin paused. He couldn't help but think of Meredith's face again. His heart ached, but he still said expressionlessly: "You will be angry, you will be unwilling, you will have a strong, fanatical desire to break free from control..."

"That's how I got rid of the Imperius Curse by relying on my will..."

"When Sherin came back to his senses, he found that the little wizards around him were looking at him with awe.

"Magic is a very idealistic thing," Sherin said lightly, "The real power of a wizard comes from his heart," he glanced at Draco and Hermione, "When you have a real realization and are willing to bet everything for it, I personally think that you are already a qualified wizard."

"After that, he put on the Night Star Cloak in a chic manner and left in the road that the little wizards voluntarily made way for.

"Brain occlusion is definitely not the best way to fight the Imperius Curse." In the original book, Harry did not learn Occlumency until graduation, but he successfully resisted the Imperius Curse cast by Moody for the fourth time.