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== Fan Works ==
* The Weasley Twins
** The ideal is Lampshaded in ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', which features a sections focusing on the Twins, and indicating something magical is at work. They don't actually share one mind, but come to the same conclusions when they have the same information. When one of them thinks differently than the other, they both feel uncomfortable until they share what they know and snap back.
** Subverted in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth]]'': the twins admit it's a gag, where they each just have to be quick-witted enough to come up with a suitable conclusion to a sentence the other started. Since no one ''really'' knows how the first twin would have ended the sentence, anything that the other says which makes sense in context makes it look like they're a [[Hive Mind]]. [[Double Subversion|Double-subverted]] when Doug sees what he's sure is evidence that they ''are'' mutually telepathic.
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s Lapis Lazuli Long and Lorelei Lee Long are clone sisters who do this. They first appear in his novel ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' and show up in his later novels.
* There is a [[James Thurber]] short story about this, called "The Curb in the Sky", where the trope has harrowing consequences.
* Harry and Hermione do this sometimes in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', such as in ''[[Harry Potter and
** In [[Fanon]], [[Single-Minded Twins]] Fred and George Weasley are often written as doing this. In the books it only happened a couple of times and was more like collaborative interrupting. The movies were much more guilty of playing this trope straight with them.
* The twins Beltira and Belkira from the ''[[Belgariad]]'' and prequels.
* This was one of the traits that gave ''[[MASH (novel)|M*A*S*H]]''{{'}}s 'Radar' O'Reilly his nickname, and one of the parts of the book faithfully translated into the subsequent film and television series. (Although it quickly disappeared from the series.)
* [[Dragon Rider|Dragons and their riders]] in ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', notably Oromis and Glaedr in ''Eldest'' and Eragon and Saphira in ''Brisingr.''
* A variant in the ''[[StarCraft]]'' novel ''Liberty's Crusade''. Kerrigan, being a telepath, tends to finish other people's sentences out of habit, which annoys just about everyone else. When she's leaving for her totally-not-a-date with Raynor after the Antiga mission, Liberty's last bit of advice is "remember to let him finish his damn sentences".
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