Easter Holiday + Update Explanation

"Uh... o-okay..." Harry was left dazed by Tierra's shaking.

"Good, good. Keep it up." After receiving Harry's affirmative answer, Tierra slowly took a few steps back and smiled in satisfaction. "Remember, Harry, you don't have much time."

With that, Tierra retreated back through the window and drifted toward the surrounding mirrors like a ghost.

Leaving Harry standing there alone, lost in thought.

"What does he mean, you don't have much time?" Hermione asked in confusion over breakfast the next day. "Couldn't he be more specific? Oh, honestly!"

Hermione sighed in extreme frustration. "I really hate it when Tierra only says half of what he means."

Harry and Ron nodded in agreement.

"Why can't he just tell us everything clearly at once?" Hermione grumbled. "We've known him for six years, and he's still always hiding half of it."

"Ugh, forget it. Let's not talk about him." Hermione shook her head irritably. "I don't understand why Snape stopped teaching you Occlumency."

"Well, because... because..." Harry mumbled, "because Snape thinks I already have some foundation and can learn from the books by myself."

No matter what, Harry could not bring himself to tell anyone—not even Hermione and Ron—that he had been caught snooping in Snape's Pensieve, or about the memories he had seen inside it.

"So that means you can build a false Spiritual Dimension that seals off your own Spiritual Dimension?" Hermione asked skeptically.

"Uh... m-more or less." Harry answered guiltily, not looking at Hermione as his eyes darted everywhere.

"What does it feel like?" Hermione asked eagerly.

"Uh... it's... it's hard to describe," Harry stammered. "It's like a spike is stabbing into your brain, but before it actually pierces it, it runs into a ball of cotton and stops. Your Occlumency is that ball of cotton."

"Oh, I see." Hermione said