No Eye in Magic: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', when a wizard looks directly into someone else's eyes, they can see the essence of that person's soul. This ability is called a "soulgaze." Unfortunately, this is an automatic effect, once it's activated it can't be stopped, and since it's eye-to-eye it's very much reciprocal, so the other person sees into the wizard's soul as well. Harry himself spends most of the series avoiding direct eye contact with people, unless he has a good reason for it, or has already soulgazed them, since it can only happen between two people once.

** Which is a bit bizarre, because Names can change, but you only ever get one look at someone's soul.

** In ''[[The Chamber of Secrets]]'' the basilisk can kill someone just by looking at them in the eye -- fortunately, the only people we see who have encountered it in this generation manage to not quite look it in the eye: they see it in a puddle of water, through a camera lens, or in a mirror, so it doesn't ''quite'' kill them, instead stunning them into petrification. One girl fifty years ago wasn't as lucky. {{spoiler|She now haunts the very bathroom she died in, as Moaning Myrtle.}}

*** Weirdest of all, one person was petrified by seeing it ''through a ghost''. The ghost was petrified instead of killed because he was [[Captain Obvious|already dead]].