Chapter 236: Aragog's Kingdom [bonus]
Legilimency's magical structure leaned cold and invasive. The Wand-Lighting Charm was the opposite: neutral, diffuse. Forcing the two together produced either structural collapse or meaningless shards of magical residue.
Then he thought of the Patronus.
The Patronus's silver light was condensed positive emotion in its purest form. It could scatter the despair of Dementors, which meant, on some level, it exerted direct influence over the emotional domain. Overrode it.
Its magical properties had an innate capacity to intervene in emotion and consciousness. Could that serve as a bonding agent?
Regulus didn't summon the Patronus outright. Instead, he turned inward and recalled the texture of the silver light when Starlight Kite appeared.
Warm but never scorching. Steady without being rigid. There was a strange quality to it, a kind of resonance, as if it could pass through things and make them hum in reply.
He drew out a thread of that quality, that tonal inclination, and layered it between the Legilimency framework and the modified Lumos as a buffer.
When the new structure ran in mental simulation, the friction and conflict dropped noticeably. Still far from smooth, but at least he could see a viable path.
Several more hours passed before a crude, inefficient initial framework settled into place.