"That was more or less what happened..." Neville let out a long breath. "Things went smoothly after I entered the 'Fourteenth Path.' It wasn't like at the beginning, when I felt it was very difficult to get through."
"Mr. Lovegood, what's wrong with Neville?" Alice Longbottom's voice was filled with urgency. "He's already past the age for magical outbursts..."
She recalled the scene she had seen in the "Beauty Prima Materia." "Could it be an Obscurus? I heard that if young wizards reject magic, they develop an Obscurus."
Wizet snapped his fingers, and a large mass of pitch-black, mist-like Obscurus emerged, floating above his palm. "Neville, can you touch it? Or feel its presence?"
Without asking any questions, Neville rolled up his sleeve and reached out, trying to grab the Obscurus in his hand.
His attempt failed. The Obscurus truly behaved like mist, dispersing around his passing hand before gathering together again.
"No..." After trying several more times, he shook his head. "It's like air. I can't feel anything at all..."
Frank Longbottom seemed to realize something, a flicker of surprise appearing in his eyes. "Mr. Lovegood, is that an Obscurus? But it looks..."
"Yes, I am an Obscurial." Wizet closed his hand into a fist, and the Obscurus returned to his body. "However, I have completely tamed my Obscurus, which is why it looks somewhat different."
"Other Obscurials can sense the Obscurus I release this way... Since Neville cannot feel anything at all, it means he is not an Obscurial. Please rest assured."
This was a method of detecting Obscurials that he had developed through studying the embossed mural Newt Scamander had given him;
After the International Statute of Secrecy was enacted, Obscurials had become nearly impossible to find in the wizarding world;
For that reason, he had thought