The Mind Arts is a Harry Potter Fanfic in which Harry becomes profient in the mind arts.
Unmarked spoilers below.
This Work Has Examples Of The Following Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: The Dursleys, who also do physical abuse.
- Addictive Magic: Harry becomes addicted to legilimency due that he's emotionally color blind.
- Broken Masquerade: Dumbledore is the one to tell Harry he's a wizard and he's very shocked at the way he was treated by his family.
- Fandom-Specific Plot: The existance of Head of Family's rings. Dumbledore gives the Potter family's ring to Harry during the latter's stay at the Leaky Cauldron. Also the existance of a Potter Manor is a subversion as it lays in ruins after Voldemort burned it to the ground during his quest to find Lily and James.
- Playing with Fire: Voldemort is the world's most powerful pyrokinetic. He uses this power to destroy Paris.
- Telepathy: The Mind Arts, which go beyond mere Legilimency.
- Teleportation: Harry masters Apparation before he even goes to Hogwarts.
- Power Incontinence: A burst of accidental magic allows Harry to sense people's emotions.
- The Shut-In: As a result of growing up in a cupboard, Harry suffers from agoraphobia.
- Unmasked World: The prologue reveals that this to be the case.