Talk:Mind-reading

Does telepathy even appear in the HP universe? There's Legilimency, and there's the link between Voldemort and Harry, but I don't believe that was ever referred to as telepathic. It was more or less an effect of Harry being a Horcrux. Here is dialogue on the subject from Ch. 33 of Deathly Hallows:


 * “Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord’s mind!”
 * “Voldemort fears that connection,” said Dumbledore. “Not so long ago he had one small taste of what truly sharing Harry’s mind means to him. It was pain such as he has never experienced. He will not try to possess Harry again, I am sure of it.... Lord Voldemort’s soul, maimed as it is, cannot bear close contact with a soul like Harry’s. Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame – ”
 * “Souls? We were talking of minds!”
 * “In the case of Harry and Lord Voldemort, to speak of one is to speak of the other.”

I agree that the nature of the connection includes a kind of telepathy, but is that term ever actually used? Do we have a better way to describe it? Oread 04:04, 30 December 2008 (UTC)