Linked Diary of Emily Riddle

Harry Potter received a diary from Amelia Hurst which has a page linked to the enigmatic Emily Riddle, who possesses great skill in many magical disciplines and is willing and capable of tutoring Harry in Magical Theory and Occlumency.

## **Notable uses:**

**June 20th, 1992:** Emily writes Harry a message claiming that she had got hold of its connecting partner when Hogwarts sold off Professor's Hurst things in order to raise money for the charitable fund. She expresses her willingness to answer Harry's questions regarding magic. A short conversation later ensues in the evening at the end of which Harry is pretty confident that Emily is in fact Emily Riddle.

**June 24th, 1992:** Harry writes to Emily inquiring about magic that can be studied without triggering the Trace. Emily recommends Occlumency and offers to tutor Harry with the help of her advanced techniques.

**July 20th, 1992:** Harry reveals that he has found someone willing to train him in Active Occlumency and in turn Emily regales him with an introductory explanation about the levels of proficiency in the Mind Arts.

**August 21st, 1992:** Harry inquires about Natural Legilimentes — a conversation ensures about them, the nature and Legimency and the origins of the word from Latin.

**September 6th, 1992:** After Harry reveals that his tutor deems him ready to advance to second level Occlumency training as he is able to consistently detect blunt probes, Emily explains to him the advantages of such a teaching method. She also expresses her approval in regards to his tutor's teaching methodology.

**October 4th, 1992:** Harry has a conversation with Emily where he reveals his progress in Occlumency. He discloses that he had taken a peak on the subskills for the second level of Occlumency, but that he has not focused on them as he has been more preoccupied with Ancient Runes and Arithmancy. Hearing that, Emily expresses her willingness to answer any of Harry's future questions in regards to any of these branches of magic, or any magic for that matter. Their conversation continues with Harry asking for a rundown on the level two Occlumency subskills and Emily regaling him with her answers.

**October 24th, 1992:** Harry asks Emily about the nature of 'dark' magic, if it's actually addictive or not. She explains to him that in truth powerful magic is the one that is addictive and that casting 'dark' magic in itself does not constitute a problem. Also, she points out that there are some that cast 'dark' magic the wrong way — instead of basing it on intent as they are supposed to they base it on emotions, and thus they end up plunging themselves into a perpetual paradox of sadness, depression and fury.

**November 1st, 1992:** Harry reveals to Emily that he has a near eidetic memory. She instructs him of a shortcut using his memory to faster master emotion suppression.

**November 9th, 1992:** Harry and Emily talk about ways of determining if someone is a Legilimens, with the later crushing Harry's dreams of ascertaining such a thing before that somebody makes a move. Later on, Harry reveals that he suspects that he might be a Natural Legilimens, with Emily asking him a series of questions that help him confirm his assumption.

**December 16th, 1992:** Harry revels that he was able to learn emotional suppression and manipulation but ends up lying about the source of his breakthrough as he worries about revealing his Parseltongue ability. Luckly for him Emily does not press him for information and instead decides to explain to him the dangers linked to his newly learnt Occlumency subskill.

**December 17th, 1992:** In the aftermath of the Dueling Club the two talk, with Harry telling her what happened during the evening. Emily points out the dangers of learning the Dark Arts the wrong way, by explaing that Charlus most likely ended up learning it that way, thus explaining his weird behaviour during their duel. She then proceeds and tells Harry about Chaos Magic, and the many dangers that its learning poses, both from the Ministry and from the endevour in itself. In the end she urges him not to go looking into Chaos Magic.