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.

*** 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]].

** There is also Legilimency, the ability to extract emotions and memories from a person's mind, which usually works via eye-to-eye contact. Dumbledore, Snape and Voldemort are expert Legilimens, and scattered through the series (even before we knew what Legilimency was) we can find instances where Harry felt they could "read his mind". Almost a "missed" example, but once or twice Harry does look away from their gaze; initially the reader would just assume he felt uncomfortable under scrutiny -- [[Foreshadowing|now we know better]].