"The first thing that can be confirmed is that the 'other me' does not know the existence of me and this crystal ball. I deliberately blocked that fragment of consciousness when making the crystal ball, and he has no memory of this. This is a natural information gap."
"But other than that, he has almost all of my memories and personality. However, since it is only a fragment, its mental strength is far weaker than my original body, so it will appear slow when reading these memories, and it will be clumsy when controlling the body, let alone casting spells. So his combat effectiveness is probably not as good as that of an ordinary Auror."
"And what you have to do is to help me set up a magic in this room to extract consciousness, then lure the other me here, defeat him, make him unable to resist, and finally let me return to my body through the magic set up before."
Avada was a little surprised: after experiencing such severe weakening, Professor Baker's body still has the combat effectiveness of an Auror - don't look down on Aurors because of a Dawlish, they are the most combative and strongest wizards selected after the most rigorous selection, and they are truly high-end combat forces in the wizarding world!
"You may think it's a bit outrageous to let two first-year wizards defeat an Auror, but it's not."
Professor Baker continued: "He is almost not wary of you, and I know all his combat habits and weaknesses. In addition, we can set up various traps in advance, as well as the assistance of the space magic controlled by me... With your level, there will be absolutely no problem in defeating him." "
At the same time, in addition to the time for setting up the magic, I will personally teach you how to fight, as well as some techniques specifically targeting my style and weaknesses... You have to keep these techniques secret, it's about my life."
"No problem."
Avada and Baron nodded at the same time.
"Very good." Professor Baker tried to nod, but when he found that he had no body, he could only continue helplessly: "Then next, I will first teach you how to set up the magic of extracting consciousness. It may be a little difficult for you, and there are a lot of magic materials that you need to collect... Just to set up this magic, it will probably take until February or March."
"But it's just right, such plenty of time is enough for you to train your combat skills well."
"Then let's start now... uh, do you bring a notebook?
Avada and Baron looked at each other, and after confirming their eyes, they shook their heads together-they just came to sign the contract, and they never expected Professor Baker's progress to be so fast.
"...Okay, let's start tomorrow."
Professor Baker said helplessly: "You can come to receive my teachings at any time, but try to be discreet and don't let others notice anything unusual. And it's best to come in pairs, otherwise it's a waste of time to repeat the same content twice."
"Okay, let's stop here for today. Remember to bring a notebook and pen when you come tomorrow, because what I'm going to talk about is much more complicated than the first-year homework. Fortunately, those homework are not stressful for you..."
As the black crystal ball returned to silence, Avada and Baron also left the Room of Requirement.
"When will we come tomorrow?"
Avada looked at Baron while walking down the stairs.
"Let's do it after dinner."
Baron thought for a while and then replied, "Let's not meet up after dinner. Let's go to the Room of Requirement separately. This will reduce the chances of being noticed. And if someone has to take an astronomy class, then another person will go to Professor Baker and tell him that the class for that day is cancelled. Anyway, there are only two astronomy classes a week, so it won't affect the progress much."
"As for the weekends..."
Avada followed Baron's train of thought and said, "You can't stay in the Room of Requirement all the time on weekends. You must take out some time to stay in the college, otherwise it will be easy to discover. What's more, we Hufflepuffs have the usual picnic..."
"Then go once on Saturday night, and you can stay in for half a day on Sunday - as for whether to go in the morning or afternoon, decide on Saturday."
Baron clapped his hands and finalized the plan with Avada.
"By the way, I forgot to ask you before, what's the matter with your name?"
After solving his current problem, Baron's mind became active. Somehow, he remembered the real name of Avada that Professor Baker's "consciousness fragment" read out at Christmas.
Avada's face turned green, and he subconsciously wanted to avoid this question, but he also knew in his heart that if someone only knew his real name but didn't know the meaning of this name, it might cause a big mess in the future - for example, when someone cast a killing curse on him, he might be surprised before he died and thought "You also know Avada?"
Besides, Baron and he were friends who shared hardships, so there was nothing to hide just based on this matter.
"Have you heard of the Unforgivable Curse?"
Yes, I have heard of it, the Cruciatus Curse, the Imperius Curse and the Killing Curse."
"My name is the spell of the Killing Curse."
"...Ah?"
Avada sighed and roughly repeated the tricky operation of the Department of Mysteries to Baron. Baron's face changed for a while, and he didn't know what to say in the end.
"...Come on."
In the end, he could only pat Avada's shoulder silently, leaving behind a word that was either encouragement or condolence, and then parted ways with Avada and walked towards the Slytherin common room.
Avada watched Baron's back gradually disappear from sight, paused, turned around and took a step towards the stairs, then stopped again.
In the end, he shook his head secretly and walked silently towards the Hufflepuff common room.
He had considered returning to the Room of Requirement after Baron left, and directly went to Professor Baker to clarify the matter of the Horcruxes and ask the truth of the matter - anyway, there was a contract constraint, and Professor Baker could not do anything to him. At most, he would be shocked at how a first-year wizard knew about the top black magic of Horcruxes.
After all, Professor Baker brought him too many doubts in this regard.
In his understanding, the so-called "soul" should refer to a person's mental power. In the study of mental power, Avada was an expert in any way - apart from anything else, he could get a Merlin First Class Medal just for a talent optimization technology.
But even so, he never found any structure in his mental power that could lead to "splitting after killing". At first, he thought that after the spirit was eroded by black magic, a related structure might be formed, which led to the inference that "only the most evil black wizards whose souls were completely eroded by black magic are qualified to split their souls by killing".
But Professor Baker broke this view: there were indeed traces of erosion by black magic in his mental power, but there was no structure envisioned by Avada.
the "split structure" in the mental power should not disappear with the completion of the split!
All these phenomena indicate a fact, that is, the production of Horcruxes - at least the splitting of the soul, may not be as simple as Avada imagined.
What is the relationship between "killing" and "splitting"? Under what conditions can the soul be split? What is its principle?
Why is there a magic void in the center of the mental power? Why would the magic hole be split when the mental power splits?
If Professor Baker is really willing to answer his questions, then Avada will not only gain a lot of important knowledge about Horcruxes for free, but his understanding of mental power and the progress of Horcrux research will soar at an alarming rate. He can also further confirm the reasons and process of Professor Baker's creation of Horcruxes - if the condition for splitting the soul is really only "killing" and there are no requirements for the soul itself, then it is not a big problem for Professor Baker to make Horcruxes.
He is a famous dark wizard hunter. If he sacrifices a few evil guys to make Horcruxes, he is actually contributing to the magic society.
Even if he is unwilling to answer, it will not affect him. He himself does not want the Horcruxes to be exposed, so how can he reveal Avada's knowledge of Horcruxes to others?
However, after careful consideration, he gave up this seemingly tempting idea.
It is too unsafe to let others know that he is interested in Horcruxes.
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