Chapter 54.2- Doom Days
Added 2025-08-18 06:46:22 +0000 UTC“What? What happened?” She asked, not sure what was going on. Where had all the fire gone?
“Winner: Potter” She heard the referee say. She had lost, her wand was in his possession and she could not even tell what had happened. One second she was in a firestorm, and now she was here. What was going on?
“A simple illusion, my darling Kuznetsova” He sounded impossibly smug. Could that have been an illusion? How? It had all felt so real. No, she knew illusions. Grandma Natasha was adept with them. They didn’t make you feel things like that. The heat against her skin had been real. The sensation of losing her breath had been real. It had been too real.
“You lie” She seethed, feeling her blood boil even as the arena began to transform around them.
“Fair enough. The illusion was far from simple. I used the cover of the blizzard to create something truly fascinating. Thank you for the chance to test it though” He said, tossing something at her. She flinched at the sudden action, only for her wand to land on the floor in front of her.. She could feel her cheeks burning as she reached down to grab it, stretching as it had begun to roll away.
XXXXXX-HARRY J POTTER
In truth, I had the Chinese kid and his sister to thank. Dueling the kid had brought the potential of the mind arts to mind. Verbally sparring with the sister had reinforced it. I knew that there was potential there, and the fact that I had managed to project the pain of the Cruciatus on him had got me thinking. The Cruciatus was based on a real memory, but one of the highest level skills in Occlumency was the creation of false memories. If I created a false memory, could I project it as accurately, I had wondered.
The gap between that realization and focusing on illusions had been a short one. I remembered the illusion that magic sucking creature had subjected me to during the second task. Anya Kuznetsova, with her complete lack of occlumency shielding had been a good test subject for what could happen when legilimency was matched with a basic illusion spell and grounded by a combination of LAGUZ and ANSUZ. It’d worked even better than I could have hoped.
