Legilimency, Occlumency, Snape, Harry

jwcpgh jwcpgh at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 8 01:25:15 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 80159

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> 
> For details, see my published works...
> "Legilimens!" Spell & Gift
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/72153
> 
> Legilimency takes two forms in the book. One is the gift or skill of
> Legilimency and the other is the Legilimens charm.
> 
> It speculate that the Legilimens charm simply causes a cascade of
> random memories to flash before the caster and his victum's eyes. I
> could give you some interesting insight, but it's pretty random,
> subject to interpretation, and not too good for determining specific
> real-time immediate thoughts and intent.
> 
> The gift or skill of Legilimens, on the other hand, is as deep 
strong
> psychic intuitive sense of a persons feelings, thoughts, and 
emotions
> at the moment. If they are lying, you pick up on the sense of
> insecurity, guilt, and worry that are in their mind, and the
> associated feelings of fear in their emotions. 
> 
> Legilimency as a gift is a form of Divination or a psychic skill; 
in a
> sense, the person with this gift is an intuitive Seer.
> So being an intuitive senser or seer is a valid form of psychic
> ability, and this is how I see Legilimency.
> 
> Just a thought.

Laura:


Your theory is interesting and I'm willing to be convinced, but could 
you cite some canon to show which is which?  I don't think JKR 
distinguishes between the 2 in so many words, does she?  If in fact 
there's a difference, the two would seem to have different uses as 
well.  Trying to get an intuitive sense of someone will give you one 
sort of information; looking into someone's mind at specific memories 
would give you another kind, wouldn't it?
> 






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