Far-fetched Magic

22. Legilimens

"Crazy, innit? Reading someone’s mind?” Blaise asked Draco for the fifth time that evening. The blonde couldn’t honestly say that he wasn’t getting slightly bored with their conversation by now, but he did find the topic just as fascinating as his friend.

“Not really,” he replied, trying to sound cool. “I mean, think about all the other things that wizards have come up with. Reading someone’s mind, or even controlling it, doesn’t seem that far-fetched after all,” he declared.

The boys were just reading up on spells which allowed you to control others, and they had stumbled upon Legilimens. They had just decided to try it out, when a shout echoed from the floor below.

“Blaise! We’re leaving!”

The two either-year-olds looked at each other, disappointed.

“Just our luck. I’ll have to try and slip this back into the Library before dad notices it’s gone…” Draco said as he walked Blaise to the door.