Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Legilimens

Legilimens
Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic
Type	Spell
Features	Initiates Legilimency
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Overview

The Legilimens spell initiates Legilimency, the process of reading thoughts and feelings from a subject.

Extended Description

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Harry first encounters this spell when learning Occlumency from Professor Snape. Legilimency is the process of reading thoughts and feelings from a subject. A wizard or witch may use Legilimency to tell if someone is lying to them. Lord Voldemort is especially skilled at detecting lies using Legilimency. This may be countered by a wizard or witch if he or she is a skilled Occlumens, that is, skilled in Occlumency. Professor Snape appears to be proficient at legilimency and is definitely an accomplished Occlumens, even able to lie to Lord Voldemort.

Analysis

Questions

Study questions are meant to be left for each student to answer; please don't answer them here.

Greater Picture

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