User blog comment:Alyssa5582/What Constitutes OP?/@comment-26164274-20150918145936/@comment-1613839-20150918162705

I think by the rules we have right now these abilities aren't considered special...and anyone can learn them. That being said, those rules haven't been updated for a while. The unspoken rules have always been that to learn these abilities you had to have a good reason in your backstory...or an IC teacher who teaches you. It's a hard line to draw since Occlumency alone has only a small amount of practical use and really isn't OP (save it can be used to resist truth serums and such). Legilimency's a bit more powerful in my opinion since it can be used to attack someone's mind, steal information etc...but again it's hard to really RP that out or determine if the person can resist...has a strong mind or not...etc. I don't know if either of these belong in the same category as Alyssa's "Additional Magical Abilities" above...but they definately should make the character exotic...at least Legilimency should (shrug). All this is just my opinion...but I DO think it's a great point and needs to be decided and the policy updated or not as appropriate.