Occlumency Lessons/ Harry as a Legilimens

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 108901

I wrote:
> > When Harry managed to fight Snape out of his head, he didn't just 
> > push him out, he pushed his way into /Snape's/ head. That's a big 
> > deal. Completely unintentional, yes, but also without a spell, 
> > like DD and LV. 

And Josh answered:
> Um, didn't Harry cast Protego, the reflective shield?

Well:
Protego is a Shield Charm. On p. 553, OotP, it says that the Shield 
Charm is for deflecting minor jinxes back at the attacker. 
"Legilimens" is almost certainly not a jinx, and it doesn't seem very 
minor. That may be the case, but I think there's more to it than 
that. I think JK started setting us up for this with the Parseltongue 
thing, and she's going to do this "Voldemort's powers tranferred" 
thing again in the next book or two. Good point though. And, now that 
I've come out and said it, Harry won't be a Legilimens after all, and 
I will be eating crow once again. JK has a habit of doing that.

~Yb