Legilimency, Occlumency, Snape, Harry

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 80200

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> I don't think this "full powered" legilimency is pointless.  I 
don't 
> think it only brings up jumbled images.  Snape seems to have been 
> bringing up memories that were painful, yes, even the one of 
kissing 
> Cho because she was crying so much.  I think that is at least a 
hint 
> that Snape was able to control the spell; he was trying to give 
> Harry an incentive to succeed at Occlumency.

I would go further than that. I think Snape had control over what
images came in. They all had the common theme of Harry in a helpless,
scary, embarassing or humiliating situations. Notice that we never
see Voldemort in these sessions. Snape avoids memories that can
hurt or affect himself, but I think he pulled especially memories
of schoolmate type humiliation, perhaps subconsciously, perhaps not.
I think he took some pleasure in these, and that is partly why he
was so incensed that Harry saw his memories - he probably assumed
that Harry takes the same pleasure at seeing Snape humiliated as
he did at seeing Harry in a similar situation.

Salit