"Legilimens!" Spell & Gift

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 72221

<<<"Steve" wrote:...I think we are actually dealing with two separate 
but intimately related things; the spell of Legilimancy and the gift 
of legilimancy...Those who have the gift are intuitive Legilimense or 
Legilimators or Legilimist or Legilimesizers or whatever the correct 
term is...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Which brings me to something that distracted me at first, and I still 
have to explain it to myself every time I think of it. I was working 
under the assumption that everything one studied at Hogwarts was some 
kind of -mancy, suffix meaning magic (as in Arithmancy); when I saw 
Occlumency and Legilimency, I heard the shrill whistle of the grammar 
police in my head. But then I remembered that mens=mind, so what we 
really have is 'obscuring the mind' and 'reading the mind'.

It seems that every spell is also a gift; that is, anybody with a 
wand can cast the spell, but some people are naturally really, really 
good at it.

--JDR