Legilimency, Occlumency, Snape, Harry

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 80185

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> 
> But the other kind of Legilimency, the spell kind, seems rather 
> pointless.  If all you can see is a bunch of jumbled images, I'm 
not 
> sure what you can learn from using the charm.  I'd think you'd 
need 
> both kinds to make sense of what you see as a result of the 
charm.  
> If you don't have the intuitive ability, why bother to learn the 
> spell?  Just to be able to do it?  I guess there would be people 
like 
> that-Bertha Jorkins comes to mind, not that I'm suggesting she was 
a 
> Legilimens, just that she was nosy.
> 
I think maybe the way Snape was using the Legilimens charm on Harry 
was a bit different from the way Voldemort would use it.  Snape 
wasn't looking for anything in particular; he was just demonstrating 
his ability to get inside Harry's mind, and persisting until Harry 
could throw him out.  Maybe if one is looking for some particular 
information, the wizard doing the spell would have the ability 
to "focus" it in one particular direction, so that the information 
wanted would come out.  I can't imagine Voldemort patiently sitting 
through many sessions of Bertha Jorkins's random memories until 
something useful came out; I figured he zeroed in on particular 
areas of thought until her defences broke down.

Wanda