Harry Potter Breaking Free

Later that evening, after Hermione left to catch the train, Harry was meditating again, in an attempt to reach out for his magical core.

Despite the fact that he hadn't found his core just yet, Harry was still extremely surprised by his current level of improvement. According to all of the books that he'd read so far, his thoughts should already have rudimentary shields in place just because of the meditation practices he'd been performing. Of course the barriers he'd built until now wouldn't be enough to stop a skilled Leglimancer, but they should allow him to feel it when someone is rooting around in his head.

That much wasn't the most dramatic achievement of the last couple of hours however…

At this point, Harry's consciousness was drifting around inside of his spiritual center. He'd managed to reach such a profound state of meditation; he was free floating deep within himself and looking around. There was a problem that was keeping him from advancing however… He was supposed to be on the lookout for what other people claim looks like a light off in the distance. He was wondering just how you'd tell where to go when the whole damned place is blindingly bright...

Ah... shucks...

Harry was suddenly grateful that he was alone within his own spiritual center, because he was feeling pretty damned embarrassed... As it turns out, he'd found his core a long damned time ago, it was just absolutely enormous.

With this new realization, Harry was able to successfully embrace his center and move on to the next step.

Very suddenly, Harry found himself standing in an empty, rock strewn plain, with overcast skies and very little else to catch one's attention. Despite the grimness of his current surroundings, Harry knew not to be upset at what he'd found. This was what he'd been aiming for after all. He'd been meditating for days to clean up all of the trauma and emotional clutter that was waiting for him inside of his head. If he hadn't done all of that ahead of time, he probably would've hated the garbage heap he'd have found in here instead. It probably would've looked like his cupboard back at the Dursleys or something.

Ugh...

So now Harry had found himself in a kind of desolate but relatively clean environment... excellent! A person's Mindscape when they first see it usually has some emotional significance to the person, which is why most people generally build around it as a central figure or a core. Harry had read all of Hogwarts's books on Occlumency and had come to the conclusion that for the best results, you should build from the bottom up.

What Harry really wanted to do first is organize his memories and emotions. Too bad a book called MIND over MATTER said that doing so was a bad idea. According to the book a defenseless and orderly mind is just an easily read and exploitable one. What that meant was that Harry needed to get Hermione to defend her mind as soon as possible. Her brain was like a computer, so she was probably the most easily mind-read person on the face of the planet.

Harry's idea was to start with the very basics, but in new and creative ways. His plan was to make a vast sphere encompassing everything for as far as he can imagine… Since he was muggle-raised, Harry had no problem picturing the world as a sphere and that was what he was going to try and do.

From what Harry had been told, he had an absolutely gigantic magical core so there shouldn't be any harm in aiming for a much larger than normal Mindscape. He wanted his Mindscape to have absolutely enormous shields, under which he'd have a lot of space for further development. Then, as time goes by, he'd add layers of defenses inwards at his leisure.

To start with however, Harry was going to keep things simple. He pictured a rock globe beneath his feet approximately the size of the Earth and with a similar density. About a minute later and for seemingly no reason, Harry knew deep down that the deed was done. It was time to move on... Next, he imagined an unbelievably vast sphere completely encompassing his new world. This sphere was made of five-meter thick stainless steel and was as high as the ozone layer on earth.

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