TL

At Hogwarts, Y/N has learned one very important rule: never look too closely. Her ability to use Legilimency makes it easy to uncover the thoughts people desperately try to hide. Crushes. Lies. Jealousy. Fear. Secrets that were never meant to be discovered. So she keeps her ability hidden and does her best to stay out of other people's minds. Then she gets tangled up with Slytherin's most notorious boys. Draco Malfoy is arrogant, possessive, and far more vulnerable than he would ever allow anyone to see. Theodore Nott is quiet and calculating, his thoughts guarded behind walls that even her Legilimency struggles to break through. Blaise Zabini is effortlessly charming, dangerously observant, and always seems to know more than he lets on. Lorenzo Berkshire hides a surprisingly gentle side beneath his confidence, but there are thoughts in his mind that make her wonder just how well she really knows him. And then there's Mattheo Riddle. Volatile. Reckless. Unpredictable. He is the one mind she knows she shouldn't enter. The one person whose thoughts she is afraid to uncover. Yet somehow, he's also the one she can't seem to stay away from. The closer she gets to them, the harder it becomes to tell where curiosity ends and something far more dangerous begins. Feelings start to surface—some of them hers, some of theirs—and secrets become impossible to keep. Because she can read their minds... But knowing what someone thinks isn't the same as knowing what they feel. And when she begins discovering thoughts none of them are willing to confess, Y/N has to decide whether to respect the walls they've built around themselves—or risk everything by looking inside. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing about knowing someone's deepest thoughts is realizing they might feel the same way about you.