legilimency

Legilimency is, in the fictional realm of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, a branch of magic involving the practice of extracting emotions and memories from another person's mind, in a manner akin to "mind reading." This neologism was created by joining forms of the Latin words legens (reader) and mens (mind) with -mancy (which means divination). Someone who practices Legilimency is known as a Legilimens. A skilled Legilimens would be easily able to detect truth or deception and would also be able to tell what a person was thinking or remembering. The art of closing one's mind off from magical intrusion is known as Occlumency. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, former Death Eater and Hogwarts Potions Master Severus Snape uses his talent in Legilimency to attempt to teach student Harry Potter to ward off mental intrusion by Lord Voldemort. It has also been hinted that Voldemort excels at Legilimency, as he has on several occasions been able to determine with unerring accuracy whether people are lying.

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