Chapter 583: Tsundere (Edited)

After confirming that it was indeed the wand that had increased Fish's Legeremancy, Snape handed his wand to Fish.

"Although your wand can greatly increase the power of Legeremancy, it is not appropriate from a practice standpoint." explained Snape.

Naturally, Fish had no problem with this, and looked at Draco, "Draco, have you rested nya?".

(?ω?)

Fish wasn't much interested in other people's memories, but the process of going over them was interesting, a bit like watching television.

Draco pursed his lips and said, "Wait a second."

When Fish had been going over his memories, so had he, and while some were a little awkward, they were generally acceptable.

It was because Fish hadn't been able to control which aspects of his memories he wanted to look at when he was taking in his mind, so the images he was reading were very disorganized, some of which even Draco himself had forgotten.

But the feeling of being completely helpless wasn't pleasant, so Draco wanted to be more prepared... even though Professor Snape had analyzed it as a problem with Fish's wand, he was still wary.

"Well... would it be better nya?"

?(ΦωΦ)?

Fish cast a calming spell on Draco.

Although the spell was essentially designed to calm a dying being, it had some effect on mental recovery, so Draco did feel more comfortable and his foreheads, which had been throbbing, calmed down.

"Okay, I'm ready." Draco let out a long sigh, then nodded and said.

"Legeremancy nya!"

(ΦωΦ)つ━☆*.

Fish used Legeremancy on Draco again, but this time, without the benefit of his own wand, Fish immediately felt a strong hindrance.

"Nyajajajajaja!"

Instead of getting angry at the blocked spell, Fish got even more excited.

Cats, after all, were creatures that, if they weren't hungry, would play with their prey before eating it, and Fish retained that nature, preferring a back-and-forth battle to a predictable crush.

Fish's eyes were fixed on Draco, pupils enlarged to the max, his eyes so black they were barely green.

Draco's lips were pursed and his body was trembling slightly as he struggled to resist Fish's Legeremancy.

"Very well, Draco, stay in your current state and rid yourself of all distractions."

Snape instructed from the side.

He then said to Fish, "Set yourself a goal, Fish, identify where you want to see Draco's memories, which will strengthen the power of Legeremancy. Also, using words to interfere and guide you will make Legeremancy more likely to succeed."

After a moment of contemplation at Snape's teachings, Fish asked, "Draco, why do you hate Harry so much?"

The feud between Malfoy and Harry was something Fish had heard both men talk about, and while their accounts differed slightly, they were generally consistent: Malfoy had gone to Harry to befriend him, but his tone had been a bit offensive, and Harry had turned him down, and the two had fallen out.

But Fish was curious as to why Malfoy had gone to befriend Harry, and why, of all the people in Gryffindor who didn't get along with Malfoy, he had to go after Harry. Even Ron, who was with Harry, was affected.

Fish was fully aware that, although the Malfoy didn't like the Weasleys either, at least half the reason he was addressing Ron as he did was because Harry and he were good friends.

In response to Fish's question, Malfoy was silent, his Occlumency the intrusion of Fish's Legeremancy.

So Fish added, "You wanted to be friends with Harry in the first place nya."

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"Who wants to be friends with Potter!". Malfoy's defenses were instantly broken, and so was his Occlumency.

Draco's memories were activated by the spell, and many images of Harry flashed through his and Fish's minds.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Malfoy shouted in a panic, if there was one memory he didn't want anyone to know about, his complex thoughts of Harry were in the top five.

However, the more panic he felt, the less effective the brain block would be.

"Calm down, Draco, stop thinking about it!"

It was still Snape's low shout that caused Malfoy to regain his composure, he quickly eliminated the distracting thoughts and struggled to use Occlumency.

Soon, Fish was unable to read Draco's memories and emotions. However, Fish had already read almost everything about Harry.

After realizing that Draco had used Occlumency again, Fish's eyes blinked twice before he quirked a strange smile, "So.... Draco, you want so badly to be friends with Harry nya... you're so naive."

(?ω?)

From the memories he had just read, Fish knew that Malfoy, under his father's influence, had always admired, but feared, the Dark Lord, so he actually wanted to be friends with the legendary Harry Potter, who had defeated the Dark Lord.

This was partly due to the Malfoy family tradition of "dealing with people of valor".

In addition, Draco was jealous of the famous Harry, which is why he was more condescending than usual in his conversations with him and quick to hold a grudge when Harry rejected him.

The very reason for his dislike of Ron was that, since the Weasleys had been disowned by the Purebloods, Draco did not recognize him so that he was qualified to be Harry's friend.

Of course, Fish didn't know about Draco's complicated moods, Fish just deduced from Draco's childhood memories and his emotions at the time that he really wanted to be Harry's friend.

"I'm not, I'm not!" Malfoy's defenses snapped back, and he frantically denied it.

Then, the Occlumency failed again....

"All right, Fish, stop." Snape stopped Fish, who was still trying to pry into Draco's memories, "Let Draco rest."

"Oh, sure nya." Fish remembered that reading memories for too long was very taxing on the mind.

∑(ΦДΦ)

Fish hastily stopped the Legeremancy and cast another soothing spell on Draco.

"Sorry, Draco, Fish forgot nya."

"It's okay..." Draco shook his head, wanting to say something.

Noticing the difference, Fish asked curiously, "What's wrong, Draco? What else is wrong?"

With that, he cast another calming spell and, on second thought, added a rejuvenating spell.

"... I'm not sick..." was all Malfoy managed to get out after gasping for a few moments.

He was actually trying to get Fish to keep his attitude towards Harry to himself, but doing so seemed a bit pretentious....

So young Master Draco was now divided.

"Nya?"

?ω?

Fish looked at the hesitant Draco in confusion.