Chapter 37 – Learning Memory Charms
When it came to my first lesson with Lockhart, I approached his 'office' with part excitement and part nervousness. I was thinking if this was a trap or not and what to do if he came at me with his supposed signature spell. To my surprise, he was waiting for me with multiple thick books, parchment, ink, quill, and a big pot of boiling tea he just finished brewing.
"Good timing, my friend!" He smiled, pointing at the desk where I would sit while listening to him.
"Professor." I nodded, looking puzzled, but I sat down and took a cup he presented to me.
"First things first, this is not going to be my usual, fun lessons filled with flair and exciting exercises! Gone the flashy spells and the so easily memorizable experience that I always entertain you little rascals with!"
"Bet..." I whispered under my breath.
"Memory charms are most often used for bewitching muggles and removing certain memories! To keep ourselves secret or nudge them to make decisions that favor us! Of course, this is its most simple and most used... well, primitive part of it, but it can do so much more than that!"
"I see." I looked at him, and seeing him stop, I realized he was waiting for me to start taking notes. What the hell...? Is he now acting like a real professor? Is this a play? I was... not expecting anything like this! Okay... I can play along! So I started taking notes, and he continued with a satisfied smile.
"Do you know what memory is?"
"Um... well... a collection of... things that I remember?"
"Then let me teach you!" He chuckled, walking up and down before my desk and looking down at me, clearly enjoying the fact he could act high and mighty before me. Oh well... "Imagine that your brain is like a complex magic formation! A specially bewitched object! It records, categorizes, labels, and then stores everything it comes in contact with!"
"Everything?"