Snape the Occlumens

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No: HPFGUIDX 79534

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "yvonne_davies2002" 
<InesitaSimpson at h...> wrote:
> I think that it is entirely possible that Snape was already a 
> profficient Leglimens, and that is why his hatred of James and 
Sirius 
> runs so deep. Imagine knowing all that they were thinking about 
him.  
> It would drive him crazy with bitterness and resentment.

now me:

 Snape wouldn't need to use legilimency to know how James and Sirius 
felt about him.  And if he felt free to invade other people's minds 
without their permission for his own personal reasons, he deserved 
whatever he got.  I can certainly imagine him teaching himself how to 
do it, though, just because he's Snape.  And of course, learning how 
to stop others from doing it to him would go right along.  

Laura, who still thinks Snape was a nasty teenager despite pensieve 2