Looking at the thoughtful faces throughout the Great Hall, Vizet reminded them at just the right moment, "Since fear is an unavoidable first reaction..."
"Then why do we have to fight it? Could we change our approach and try to... use it?"
"Use it?" Vizet's unexpected reminder set off a wave of irrepressible low murmurs.
Vizet raised his voice slightly, his clear words steadily pressing down the discussion. "The magic principles behind the Charm to Repel Weapons came from this kind of thinking and exploration of mine."
"Perhaps we can try a different pathway... no longer avoiding or resisting fear, but calmly acknowledging it, accepting it, and even... turning it to our own use!"
"What we need to accept is not the despair and powerlessness brought by fear, but the natural reactions our bodies make at the instant it appears."
"Just as I said earlier, fear can make our hearts beat faster and our minds become highly focused... That is what we need to seize!"
"Also brought about by fear..." As he spoke, he gently waved his Wand at the blackboard.
The words [Survival Instinct] then appeared beside [Fear], with a clear arrow between them, pointing from [Fear] to [Survival Instinct].
"Perhaps everyone can imagine it this way... Our souls are like a library, and all kinds of emotions, including 'fear,' are the books arranged by category inside that library."
"When we cast magic like the Patronus Charm or the Boggart Banishing Charm, the process is often like opening those books, searching through them, and extracting a suitable way to respond..."
Hearing Vizet's metaphor, a first-year new student could not help murmuring it back. "Like a library... and looking for books inside it?"
Another first-year new student's eyes lit up, and he excitedly chimed in, "No wonder I'm always