Chapter 245 Memory Modification
Yes, Schelling altered his memory before meeting Dumbledore.
What Schelling used was not the common forgetting spell or memory modification spell, but the absolute mastery inherited from Slytherin. Although the effects of these three methods are similar, their principles are completely different.
Schelling knows all three kinds of magic spells, and he is quite accomplished. This is how he understands the difference between them——
If memory is described as a fine network with countless nodes linked together, each node represents a piece of original data that cannot be understood. There are countless sockets and plugs on each node, and through these sockets and plugs, they cross nodes. Links organize the original data into a comprehensible information network, and then overlay and cover the information network to form a complete memory system that echoes back and forth and is logically self-consistent.
(Those who study data analysis can better understand this principle. Nodes are raw data. Two or more nodes linked together are information networks. When all information networks are intertwined and layered, they are knowledge systems.)
If the Forgetting Curse is encountered, some nodes on the big network will be directly erased, as if they never existed. This is also the reason why the liar Professor Lockhart can get away with it for so long. After being hit by a complete forgetting spell, the memory is almost irreparable, so almost no one can catch him.
Of course, it's a different matter when you meet a master like Voldemort, who is one of the world's best. The Cruciatus Curse is the only known way in magic that can break the Oblivion Curse, but this requires extremely high skills to be able to inflict pain and torture at the same time. , but it won’t torture people crazy.
Memory modification spells, also known as memory manipulation spells, can be divided into many different types according to their effects and durations. The most common one is that in the seventh book of the original book, Hermione decided to let her parents do it because she wanted to participate in the fight against Voldemort. The kind he used when he forgot his own daughter and went to live in Australia with a new identity——
The principle is to overwrite the new memory on the original memory and seal and hide the original memory nodes. The relevant memory nodes have not disappeared, but have been buried from the main consciousness into the deeper subconscious. The effect of this spell is reversible. As long as the correct unspell is cast, the subject can restore its original memory. At the end of the original book, Hermione successfully went to Australia to retrieve her parents, unlocked the magic, and reunited her family.
The disadvantage of this spell is that it can be cracked as long as someone detects something is wrong. It can even be used by highly skilled telegraphers to bypass these false memories and extract the real memories that are covered up. In the original book, the young Tom Riddle used this magic to modify the memories of his uncle and the house elf Heggie after killing someone, making his uncle bear the blame for the murder of the Riddle family, and Heggie taking the blame. Guilty of manslaughter of his owner, Hepzibah Smith.
Although most of the employees of the Ministry of Magic are not very powerful, that refers to ordinary civilians, and does not include Aurors and other armed forces, nor does it include members of the wizarding court.
The selection of members of the wizarding court is very strict. Even if the pure-blood families have spent great efforts in the past few centuries, it is difficult to penetrate. At least before Schelling appeared, the powerful Malfoy family had never received any seats.
According to some unwritten and unspoken rules that Schelling understood, apart from the easiest shortcut of obtaining the Order of Merlin, the other condition for becoming a member of the Wizarding Court is that you must be able to cast a fully physical Patronus Charm.
Because the Patronus Charm is regarded as a reflection of the soul, and because of the record in the "Book of Spells" about Reztian's attempt to cast the Patronus Charm and his backlash, there is a common common misunderstanding among people that they think they can cast the Patronus Charm. People must be pure in heart.
This is certainly not true, but the wizarding world's impression of the Patronus Curse has become deeply ingrained and difficult to change.
The difficulty of learning the Patronus Charm is well known. Most wizards must master this spell if they want to join the Wizarding Court. It can be seen that none of the wizards in the Wizarding Court are simple people, but these two murders were successful. It was hidden from everyone in the wizarding court at that time.
However, when Sherling was in second grade, after Dumbledore discovered and confirmed the existence of Horcruxes from Tom's diary, because Voldemort's attitude towards the notebook was too dismissive and casual, Dumbledore began to suspect that he had made more than one Horcrux, but that's just a suspicion. After all, there was more than one way to immortality: Horcruxes. He couldn't be sure whether Voldemort had other back-ups that he didn't know about.
After Harry escaped from Little Hangelden Cemetery in the fourth part of the original work, he and Dumbledore recounted Voldemort's resurrection and everything in the cemetery. Dumbledore keenly understood the words from Voldemort's mouth: "I, in the eternal life" Go farther on the road than anyone else. ’ Discovered a fact that he had always been unwilling to believe, or even refused to believe——
Voldemort literally made more than one Horcrux.
This is a very surprising discovery. Throughout the ages, there have been countless dark wizards with great reputations and superb magical powers, but no one has ever accomplished this "feat", or even been willing to try it.
You must know that murder is only responsible for providing the energy to tear apart the soul in the process of making Horcruxes. It can even be said to be the most insignificant part of the entire process. The entire ritual of making Horcruxes is very dark, cruel, disgusting, and perverted. It is the kind of thing that the author would definitely be locked up if he wrote about it.
To create more than one Horcrux for Voldemort, who was enough to corrupt the soul to the most evil level, almost required the creation of a new word to describe his evil.
At this time, Dumbledore was 90% sure that Voldemort had made more than one Horcrux.
Finally, in the fifth part of the original work, Dumbledore listened to Harry describing how he had witnessed the entire attack on Arthur from Nagini's perspective in his sleep. The conclusion of "substantial separation" is fully confirmed, that is, the conclusion that Voldemort's soul has been divided into many fragments, and there are mysterious links between the fragments.
(Note: Dumbledore in the original text said "in essense divided", but the Chinese version of People's Society literally translated it as "in essence divided", which may have caused Chinese readers to misunderstand the true meaning of this passage. Essense means essence, essence, here Lao Deng alludes to the soul)
In this way, Dumbledore recalled the suspicions of the two murders involving young Tom Riddle and reopened the investigation.
Even after so many years, Dumbledore still successfully cracked the memory modification spell, and then used Legilimency to extract the real memories, confirming that Voldemort was the culprit of the two murders. Although Dumbledore and Harry said that this was a very difficult and technically demanding process, he finally did it.
Crouch's situation is completely different from the above two.
That part of his memory network was directly broken down into scattered nodes by Schelling. Although the memory nodes were still there, the links between them were completely severed. The effect of a broken node is similar to that of being hit by a forgetting spell. It truly disappears and cannot be restored by normal means or a breaking spell.
The original data represented by the memory nodes are too fragmented, and even if Dumbledore has super powers, it would be impossible to decipher them.
If he had encountered Voldemort, Schelling had not considered the possibility of being cracked by the Cruciatus Curse. He concluded that using the Cruciatus Curse would most likely restore some of the node links, but there was a greater probability that node links would appear. The wrong situation will eventually lead to memory confusion and drive people crazy.
The only way to restore the memory of the subject is for the caster who knows the structure of the entire memory network to modify the memory again and re-link those nodes according to the original link form.
What Crouch was experiencing at this moment was the "absolute dominance" that Schelling preset in him.
Schelling released the second "Absolute Master" in his body, and at twelve o'clock in the evening, he will be able to reprogram his memory back to the way it was before.
He instantly remembered that night that he could never forget——
He had just finished a busy day at work and returned home from the Ministry of Magic. Since there was no help from the house elf at home, he had to take care of the housework and his unscrupulous son. He was afraid to hire domestic help for fear that his son's existence would be revealed. He could only try his best to arrange both the work of the Ministry of Magic and the household chores.
He had just checked the Imperius Curse cast on his son when he suddenly found that his home had been broken into. The mansion of the sacred 28 pure-blood family naturally has countless warning and defensive magics set up around the mansion. The person who could forcefully break into Crouch's house in such a short time before he could react was definitely not a simple person.
As a hard-line politician in the Ministry of Magic, he was well aware of how many enemies he had made over the years. It didn't surprise him that a dark wizard came seeking revenge, so he quickly grabbed his wand and prepared for a fight.
What he didn't expect at all was that what he would break open the door and walk in would be a scene he would never forget -
An extremely ugly baby. Although it looked very small, the aura on it was very powerful. He could not mistake it. This was the man who could not even be mentioned in the legend. He was back——
He picked up his wand and fought, but was completely no match for the opponent.
Voldemort at this time was not at the same level as when Schelling went to him to ask for Nagini. After a long period of training (the unicorn blood in the ugly body potion can also restore his strength to a certain extent), and he also murdered two people (Bertha Jorkins and the old man guarding Riddle House) Muggle), made one more Horcrux, and his power has become very powerful.
In a short battle, although it is not as good as the level at its true peak, it should be almost the same if it explodes with all its strength. Of course, its physical condition does not allow it to fight for a long time, and it can only burst out its combat power for a short period of time. , and then you need to take a lot of body-destroying medicine to recover afterwards.
In the end, Batty Sr. was subdued.
He was controlled by the Imperius Curse cast by Voldemort himself. Voldemort is naturally very strong, but these days, his physical and mental suffering and exhaustion are also the reasons why he cannot resist the Imperius Curse.
He remembered——
After he was controlled, Voldemort rescued his unworthy son and assigned him to disguise himself as someone and sneak into Hogwarts to take Harry Potter away.
This is the key to Voldemort's resurrection!
I have to go to my mother for a physical examination tomorrow morning. I will try to update in the afternoon, but I can't guarantee it. If I can't make it back, I will resume updating on Tuesday.