Snape and legillums (or however you spell it)

[dancegirl4eva58]

No: HPFGUIDX 67091

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enough.

I don't know if anyone has touched on this before but here goes:

After finishing OOTP I started reading SS over again.  I hadn't
remembered a lot of points of GOF and it made OOTP a little tougher. 
I wanted to do them all in order.  Well, anyway I couldn't help but
noticing that in SS Harry gets the feeling several times that Snape
can read his mind.  NO, actually he said Snape sometimes give him the
feeling that he can read MINDS not just his mind.  Harry especially
feels so when hes looking at Snape straight in the EYE.  In OOTP we
learned that Snape is a master Legillums and Occlumence.  I really do
think that this is one of JKR's clues that she tends to drop. 
Throwaway details that later appear to be anything BUT throwaya
details.  Harry also feels in COS after he arrives in the Ford Anglia
and Snape is speaking with him alone that Snape can read minds.  JKR
wouldn't keep on bringing this up if it hadn't been relevant.  I can't
wait to finish COS (for the fourth time!) and see if there are more
references to this.  I am also anxious to see if there are references
to this in POA and GOF.  Also, being a master legillums and occlumence
is probably the reason Snape is such an effective double agent.  We
know that Voldemort usually knows when someone is lieing to him
because he is a supreme legillums.  However, a supremem occlumence
like Snape could block his mind and convince the dark lord that his
loyalties lie with him.  If Dumbledore thought Harry, only 15, could
block his mind from Voldemort, even though theres an unusual
connection there already.  Then Snape is former occlumency teacher can
certainly block his mind from Voldemort especially since there is no
special connection and Voldemort would have to mantain his eye contact
and so on and so forth.  Also, many of the dark lords followers are so
fearful of them I hardly think that the majority of them would dare to
make eye contact with him.  So it would not be unusual for Snape to
hardly ever look Voldemort in the eye.  Just some thoughts.  I just
thought the references to Snape's "mind reading" in the earlier books
were interesting and that this could be why he may be a very
functional double agent.