How to do Legillimency [was: Snape, Legilimency and end of "Prisoner of Azkaban", MD]

[mlle_bienvenu]

No: HPFGUIDX 77988

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Carolin Mönkemeyer 
<shokoono at g...> wrote:
> >
> > AAm wrote:
> > <<< Just one question : why didn't Snape used his Legilimency 
skills
> > at the end of PoA to find out the thuth about Sirius and Peter 
(or to
> > discover what happened after that ?) >>>
> Me:
> It might be off page but didn't anbody realise that you neet to 
mutter under
> aour breath? It's (like) a curse. It's in the book. Shortly before 
Harry
> breaks into Snape's memory he can see him standing there muttering 
under his
> breath!
> It's not said that he did so in PoA and I think Fudge would have 
noticed it.
> I don't even think it's not that legal for it looks like a curse 
and most of
> all: It's one of LV weapons to detect untruthfulness!
> It might be that DD used it when talking to Sirius but it's not 
quoted.
> Legillimency is not something you do without any obvious sing 
everybody
> standing beside you wouldn't see!
> 
> Yours Finchen

Mlle Bienvenu: Also I don't get the impression that Snape is 
particularly good at Legillimency. I don't think LV has to mutter 
anything under his breath, I think he just can 'read' people's minds, 
which is what makes it a powerful weapon for him. But Snape is an 
expert Occlumens, not Legillimens and therefore must use an 
incantation to focus his power.