#mind and magic
Legilimency. No one has ever been exactly sure how it works. If you truly read the targets mind, or if you simply receive their memories as you demand them. There have been studies of course, but all have been so vague, and so indistinct in their results.
And so of course, a new set of studies were drawn up, wixes from around the world believed to be experts in the field brought together.
Oddly it started with forays into the studies muggles had made into the workings of the human mind, into the sensation of presences not there, to religious experiences, to tests with supposed psychics.
Once the wixes felt they had a decent base of non-magical information they started probing into the magical ones. The perfect recall of a Jobberknoll. The chilling, fear-inspiring sensation of a Dementor. The existence of Ghosts.Atlantean Octopi.
No wix is entirely certain as to how legilimency works, even now. While certain creatures are known to affect people, while certain creatures are believed to be natural legilimens even after all this study its hard to know what is true.
Poskovitz and Baum are certain that Legilimency causes the targets brain to emit thoughts on a semi-magnetic frequency, and allows the caster to pick up on and understand them, the excess magical requirements for emitting the thoughts being what causes the sensation of pain as someone’s mind is read.
Cohen and Rheon believe that magical creatures with mental effects, such as Atlantean Octopi, and Dementors, emit frequencies that magical minds can pick up on which is why their effects are lessened and often unnoticed by muggles.
Khayyám and Ming believe that the practice of Legilimency constitutes an invasion of privacy and should be made illegal by the ICW.
Of course, none of these brilliant wixes get along any longer.
(Atlantean Octopi the invention of underwater-witchery. Ideas born of Headcanoning between tobermoriansass and myself.)
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