Magical Abilities

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[*]Hugo Weasley ([color=#008aff]Occlumency, Leglimency, Memory Manipulation, Non-Verbal Magic, Wandless Magic[/color])

Occlumency
The ancient art of shielding one’s mind from the influence and infiltration of other, prying individuals has been one that Hugo Weasley has been able to do since he was sixteen year’s old. It has only been in recent years, upon learning Leglimency, that he has managed to get Occlumency under his belt more successfully but since his sixth year at Hogwarts he has in some capacity been able to do the magic. After seeking guidance from the career’s counsellor in his fifth year, he was turned into the care of the then Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and from the autumn of his sixth year he was being coached in Occlumency, put through similar vigorous methods that his uncle was at more or less the same age. Unlike his uncle, however, Hugo has never had a problem steeling his emotions and whilst it did go awry for him after the death of his best friend, he has since used the magic to get his feelings and himself as a whole back under his own control. Since using Leglimency, he has been better able to conduct Occlumency and with the two combined has thus become quite proficient.

Leglimency
It wasn’t until his seventh year that Hugo began to learn how to use Leglimency. Struggling to get to grips with Occlumency again after the Christmas break, Hugo was given the opportunity to start learning Leglimency and he took it with both hands. As he began to learn ways of breaking into minds, he got better at the former ability as a result. He was always better at finding his way in than shoving someone out but once he knew the tricks of getting in, keeping anyone and everyone out was a piece of cake. Since joining the Obliviator Squad in the Ministry of Magic, Leglimency had become invaluable to him as it has an immense amount to do with the day to day field tasks that he is required to complete. As with all things, time and experience have changed the way Hugo has been able to use the skill and along with Occlumency has become something of the humble expert – though not entirely, he still has lots to learn.

Memory Manipulation
Being as Hugo Weasley joined the Obliviator Squad straight out of Hogwarts, he had to dabble in Memory Manipulation in order to get on and after twelve weeks of intensive training and messing with Muggles’ minds, it is safe to say that whilst the ability is controlled by all kinds of contracts, Hugo is scarily rather good at changing the way people think and remember things. Leglimency lets him in, as it were, but the ability comes to fruition when he can alter memories, hide some, remove a few completely sometimes, and place entirely new instances in the minds of those he uses it on. It is experimental, this skill, but Hugo has, from the beginning, had clear control over what he is doing as his abilities in Leglimency and Occlumency have given him a clarity of mind that allows him to concentrate. However, being as it is such a dangerous skill, he isn’t allowed to practise it outside of work hours unless supervised.

Non-Verbal and Wandless Magic
Like his mother before him, Hugo was known widely to have been practising both of these disciplines as early as his fifth year but it wasn’t until his sixth year that non-verbal magic became a skill that he was allowed to hone in lesson as well as out of it. The young Gryffindor spend a long time, indeed, getting to grips with these skills. When wandless magic joined the fray, it set into stone what was already clear as day: it was his mother who Hugo took after. These skills have come into use with his job, have become one of his most widely used skill, in fact, and Hugo, while still occasionally struggling with wandless magic, has certainly conquered many spells non-verbally.

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[*]Cronis Yaxley ([color=#008aff]Apparition, Nonverbal Magic[/color])