Astoria Greengrass's case reminded Wizet of something that had happened before.
More than ten years ago, a clash between a Wampus Cat and a Troll in the Forbidden Forest had caught a Hogwarts graduate-Gilderoy Lockhart-in its wake.
By a stroke of chance, Gilderoy Lockhart had pulled a wild mandrake out of the ground, killing the Troll and leaving both the Wampus Cat and himself at death's door.
Godric Gryffindor, who had been hiding in the Merlin Trial Ruins, had appeared. Perhaps out of concern for a former Hogwarts student, he had used ritual magic to save Gilderoy Lockhart.
His method of treatment had been unusual, however. Through ritual magic, Godric Gryffindor had not only kept Gilderoy Lockhart alive but also given him the Wampus Cat's bloodline.
Unfortunately, Gilderoy Lockhart had never learned to channel or develop his bloodline magic. As a result, he had gradually become a "human Wampus Cat," steadily losing a normal wizard's ability to cast spells.
This had left Gilderoy Lockhart able to use only the Wampus Cat's bloodline to cast mental magic of extraordinary potency-namely, the spell he used to steal memories: Obliviate.
Wizet had thought of Gilderoy Lockhart because Astoria Greengrass's current condition bore some similarities to his.
For instance, Astoria Greengrass had little magical talent, yet she needed to wear a magical item imbued with a Silencing Charm to suppress a voice that could rob people of their reason.
There were plenty of differences, too. Although Gilderoy Lockhart could only cast Obliviate, he was in excellent physical health, nothing like the frail Astoria Greengrass.
When teaching at school, even though the experiences Gilderoy Lockhart had written about in his books belonged to other people, he could brazenly arrange for students to come up and act out those scenes without batting an eye.
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