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You imagine yourself walking through the library of the Monster’s mind, and have the curious sensation that you are actually in a building of some sorts. You see in your mind’s eye a series of dusty corridors in an endless and abandoned mansion. | You imagine yourself walking through the library of the Monster’s mind, and have the curious sensation that you are actually in a building of some sorts. You see in your mind’s eye a series of dusty corridors in an endless and abandoned mansion. | ||
''He built this'' you realise to yourself ''he made this place, inside his mind, to store his memories''. The expression ''Memory Palace'' comes to mind. | ''He built this'' you realise to yourself ''he made this place, inside his mind, to store his memories''. The expression ''Memory Palace'' comes to mind. The technique was developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, to store memories for later retrieval. Now, just as the Monster lurks inside your soul and inside your mind, he can’t stop you from wandering inside his mind. Normally, you wouldn’t dare to do so, but with the Monster sleeping for so long, you feel less afraid, and decide to see what you can find. | ||
[[Image:Voldemorts Memory Palace 01.jpeg|center|thumb|500px|The endless abandoned mansion stretches into the distance…]] | [[Image:Voldemorts Memory Palace 01.jpeg|center|thumb|500px|The endless abandoned mansion stretches into the distance…]] | ||
[[Image:Voldemorts Memory Palace 02.jpeg|center|thumb|500px| | Losing track of yourself and your surroundings, you find yourself wandering down dusty empty passageways, long overgrown with weeds and strewn with detritus. The only sound is that of your own heartbeat. You don’t even need to breathe. | ||
The memory palace seems to continue in all directions, stretching on endlessly. You walk down corridors and past abandoned rooms. There is no one and nothing, and the building continues forever. For a terrifying moment, you wonder if it really is infinite, if you could walk these corridors for an eternity and ''never find your way out''. | |||
You are startled by the sound of footsteps. A small child is running along one of the corridors. Your heart jumps into your throat to realise that you are not alone in here. You hear the footsteps getting closer, and suddenly a small child runs out in front of you at a cross section in the corridor, only to vanish as soon as he appeared, running on further into the endless maze. | |||
[[Image:Voldemorts Memory Palace 02.jpeg|center|thumb|500px|Your are horrified to realise that you are not alone in the Monster’s mind]] | |||
You try to follow the footsteps, terrified of what you might find, but also deathly afraid of becoming lost in here, alone for all eternity. | |||
[[Image:Voldemorts Memory Palace 03.jpeg|center|thumb|500px|Text]] | [[Image:Voldemorts Memory Palace 03.jpeg|center|thumb|500px|Text]] | ||
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Your first lesson of the day is a boring lesson on the History of Magic. You came to Hogwarts to learn about using magic, not who discovered a certain spell hundreds of years ago. Lily and some of the other girls are paying attention diligently, but the only person who actually seems to be enjoying the lesson is Hermione Granger. Every time the teacher asks a question, her had shoots up and she gasps in desperation to answer it. The poor girl can’t see that being an insufferable know it all is not endearing her to her fellow students, not even to her fellow Gryffindors, who grumble and roll their eyes every time she answers a question.
Then a strange thing happens. Even though you are bored, the lesson is new to you. You shouldn’t really know many of the answers at all, beyond the most basics of magical history. Whenever the teacher asks a question though, you find the answers just tumbling into your head. Then you realise, you didn’t know these things. You still don’t. The Monster knows them, and whenever the right question is asked, his mind opens up to yours like a library. It’s as though all his memories are like books, filed away on dusty bookshelves. You can’t just find anything you want though, you have to know what books there are, and just like you don’t know every book in Hogwarts library, you don’t know what you might find in the Monster’s mind without knowing the right questions to ask.
You imagine yourself walking through the library of the Monster’s mind, and have the curious sensation that you are actually in a building of some sorts. You see in your mind’s eye a series of dusty corridors in an endless and abandoned mansion.
He built this you realise to yourself he made this place, inside his mind, to store his memories. The expression Memory Palace comes to mind. The technique was developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, to store memories for later retrieval. Now, just as the Monster lurks inside your soul and inside your mind, he can’t stop you from wandering inside his mind. Normally, you wouldn’t dare to do so, but with the Monster sleeping for so long, you feel less afraid, and decide to see what you can find.
Losing track of yourself and your surroundings, you find yourself wandering down dusty empty passageways, long overgrown with weeds and strewn with detritus. The only sound is that of your own heartbeat. You don’t even need to breathe.
The memory palace seems to continue in all directions, stretching on endlessly. You walk down corridors and past abandoned rooms. There is no one and nothing, and the building continues forever. For a terrifying moment, you wonder if it really is infinite, if you could walk these corridors for an eternity and never find your way out.
You are startled by the sound of footsteps. A small child is running along one of the corridors. Your heart jumps into your throat to realise that you are not alone in here. You hear the footsteps getting closer, and suddenly a small child runs out in front of you at a cross section in the corridor, only to vanish as soon as he appeared, running on further into the endless maze.
You try to follow the footsteps, terrified of what you might find, but also deathly afraid of becoming lost in here, alone for all eternity.
Other Soul Fragment?
Inside Extended Luggage Suite
Books Life Magick of the Celts and ancient Britons, Wiccan Blood Rituals, A Primer of Magickes of Imperial China, The Fragmented Soul, Saucy Tricks for Tricky Sorts, Love Potions, Sexus, Serpentes et Magicae Voluptatis, The Daughters of Hecate, A Secret Guide to Hogwarts, The Oneirocritica, Tom Riddle’s Diary (Horcrux).
Magic Items Sofia Lestrange’s Pensieve, Enchanted Tarot, Guardian Statue, Self-Writing Quill, Wizard’s Chess Set, Mother’s Broomstick, several sets of shirts, skirts and underwear with protection from minor charms, jinxes and hexes.
Other Items Clothes, text books, blankets, towels, food, medicines and various supplies
