Psychic link/power revisited

[aprilgc at ivillage.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17413

In message 14896, a. (ok, I admit right away that I'm a. :^) questioned 
the possibility that either Harry or Ron has some kind of psychic/
telepathic (other term) ability.  The examples I used were from the PoA 
when Snape catches Harry after his visit to Hogsmead - when Harry's 
"head" beats up Draco) and the scene in the Shrieking Shack when the 
Trio blasts Snape.  (I'll paste my arguments here so we don't have to 
go back and forth.)  

I wonder if Harry has some kind of "mind control" ability, perhaps also 
"inherited" from V. (as Parseltongue was).  I just got finished 
listening to GoF again, and my feeling got stronger -- except now I've 
narrowed it down to Harry as the power source.

Here's my argument:
For instance, in PoA (I don't have the book with me) after the 
encounter with Draco in Hogsmead (when invisi-Harry was roughing him up  
outside the Shrieking Shack), Harry runs back through the tunnel so 
that he can get back to Hogwarts before he gets caught outside.  Snape 
catches Harry in the hall and they go to Snape's office.  Snape makes 
Harry empty his pockets. Harry says Ron bought the contents for him.  
Ron rushes in and says, paraphrasing, "I bought the stuff for him."
> 1. How did Ron know Harry got caught?
> 2. How did he know they were in Snape's office?
> 3. How did he know Snape had made Harry empty his pockets?
> 4. How did he know Harry had said Ron bought the stuff (and not Hermione)?
> Seems to me that if he had been standing outside the door during the whole inquisition, he wouldn't have burst in "out of breath" as I remember it, to say the he'd gotten the stuff.
> Later, in the shrieking shack, when they all blast Snape - could it have been Ron or Harry unconciously (for some reason I can't spell that today - several typos and it still doesn't look right :) transmitted his intent to the other two, and caused them to have the same response?  I mean, I see Hermione disagreeing with Snape, and trying to reason with him, but I don't really see her facing down a professor with her wand and blasting his wand away.  Maybe that's just me.
> 
I think the link may have been there again, stronger in the compartment 
on the train in GoF when they all blasted Malfoy - either Ron or Harry 
decided to blast him, and transmitted the desire/direction to the rest 
of them, so once again they act as one.
> 
> Could that be something else Harry got from V. (besides snake-speech)?  V. was supposed to be really good at controlling people, wasn't he?

Maybe it's just coincidence, but there seems to be a LOT of coincidence 
of this nature:

GoF - Draco and Harry curse each other at "exactly the same time".
    - Harry and Cedric stun the spider at "exactly the same time".
    - Harry and V. utter their curses at "exactly the same time".
    - The Trio, Fred & George on the train at "exactly the sane time".
   
What made me think of this again is the scene in the graveyard.  When 
V. wants to make Harry bow, I don't think he uttered a curse (correct 
me if I'm wrong).  He ORDERED Harry to bow, and Harry felt is spine 
curve (paraphrased in a big way, but the tape player's being used right 
now :). I think V.'s got "mind control", and Harry has it as well.  I 
think that Harry's unknowingly transmitting commands (as in 
broadcasting his own intent and making the receivers take it as their 
own intent).

Someone else I shared this theory with also pointed out (in the CoS 
Snape's office argument) that Harry never asked Ron why he'd come to 
Snape's office and made that statement.  Why wouldn't Ron have assumed 
that Harry would just stay invisible until he got back to the Fat Lady 
- especially knowing that Draco was running to tell on him?

> Just another crackpot theory.  Any and all opinions welcome.
> a.
Sorry to bring this up again, but if I spend any more time thinking 
about it myself, my head will explode.  Anybody know where I can pick 
up a Pensieve relatively inexpensively?