March.
Omid Abbott of the Mind Magic Research Group and Hordan of the Spellcraft Research Group came to Murphy together.
"Director, we'd like to apply to recruit a wizard skilled in Legilimency to test a few ideas," Hordan said.
"A wizard proficient in Legilimency?"
That kind of wizard was not easy to find.
Legilimency was not exactly an illegal spell, but casually reading someone's thoughts was obviously an extremely offensive act. Most wizards would never use it, and even among Aurors, who might have occasion to use the spell, not many had reached the level of proficiency.
"It's like this, Director. Didn't you mention memory copying before? After detailed analysis, we believe that if we want to complete memory copying, we first have to solve the problem of memory extraction," Hordan said.
"But the way Legilimency usually works is index-based. It's used to search the subject's brain for answers to specific questions, like looking up a particular entry in an encyclopedia through its table of contents. This method makes it very difficult to extract systematic knowledge," Omid said.
Murphy nodded.
Legilimency was like using a search engine: it could quickly produce a result, but the information obtained was extremely fragmented.
"But we noticed that some records show certain wizards can extract their memories and place them into a Pensieve for storage, and the Pensieve seems able to generate scenes as well, allowing wizards to repeatedly sort through and study their own memories."
"We're very curious about this, and believe the mechanism involved should help with extracting knowledge-based memories."
Murphy understood. "How about this? Tell me what kinds of experiments they are. If they're feasible, I'll try them myself."
Perhaps because the level of magic in the mental dimension was relatively high, Murphy himself was fairly good at Legilimency. Of course,