Chapter 185: Won't Learn This, Won't Learn That [bonus]
"The Patronus Charm."
The information rose again.
"The purest condensation of positive emotion. Joy, hope, love of life, woven together. It represents the softest, brightest part of you."
It sounded like praise. What followed wasn't.
"But when you summon it, have you considered that you're entrusting your emotions to a phantasmal beast?"
Starlight Kite's image magnified in his awareness. Every feather, every thread of starlight held up for scrutiny.
"It is beautiful. It mirrors one face of your inner self. But a mirror image is still only that. A reflection. Not the thing itself."
"When danger comes, you call it forth. You let it stand between you and harm. You hand the responsibility of protection to an 'other' built from your own feelings."
"That is weakness."