Reading Minds/ was OOP: Re: Crazy Neville Theory

[marla]

No: HPFGUIDX 64998

K wrote: 

*****Snape and Harry in OoP- *His cold, dark eyes were 
> boring into Harry, who met his gaze unflinchingly, concentrating 
hard 
> on what he had seen in his dream, willing Snape to read it in his 
> mind, to understand...* But Dumbledore says it was the 'cryptic 
> warning' Harry gave to Snape that made Snape realize Harry had had 
a 
> vision of Sirius being trapped. So here we have Harry trying so 
very 
> hard to have Snape read his mind and yet D. say's it was the 
cyrptic 
> warning that alerted Snape. Does that mean Snape couldn't read 
> Harry's mind at the time even though Snape was obviously trying to 
do 
> that? I must admit I'm a bit confused about it. 
> 
> Regardless, Voldemort does have the ability to detect when someone 
is 
> not telling him the truth.  
> 
> "K"********

Hi there, lurker here

Well, first thing would be that in the book it is mentioned that 
Snape is great in Oclumancy not Legilimency. So maybe his abilities 
in this last one are limited and he cant do it without his wand. we 
see Snape reading Harry's thoughts with his wand all the time. I have 
never understood quite well the use of wands in the book. Harry blows 
up his aunt without a wand, Voldemort could tell Harry was saying the 
truth without a wand, etc. I assume that wands are a conductor of 
ones power and a very powerful wizard doesnt need a wand to do 
certain magic. Or when there are very strong emotions like all 
through Harry's childhood where he kept doing "things" without 
realizing it as it is explained in Philosopher's Stone. 

Following this train of thought then one could assume that Snape 
couldnt "read" Harry's mind at that precise moment because he would 
need to do a spell with his wand in order to be able to.

my two cents