[HPforGrownups] Re: Looking into Parvati's head (Was:Balance of power)

Iggy McSnurd CoyotesChild at charter.net
Mon Feb 23 14:02:05 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 91477

> If Harry had been able to enter Parvati's mind, he might very well
> have felt her frustration as she struggled with an answer or sensed
> her excitement as she remembered the right answer to a difficult
> question, but he would not have seen (or heard) the answers because
> the legilmens does not read thoughts--unless he could somehow have
> looked through her eyes at the answers she was writing on the paper.
> But from what we've seen so far of legilmency, Pensieves, and memories
> preserved in diaries, the subject of the thought or memory is seen
> from the outside. So to me the scene mostly indicates that he still
> doesn't understand what legilmency is.
> 
> Carol

Iggy here:

Then there's the really important one... Harry has never *learned*
Legilmency.  

Just because he occasionally sees through Voldemort's eyes does not mean
that he knows the same spells, as has been evidenced a number of times.

Besides... if Voldemort were trying to "feed the answers" to Harry,
wouldn't he send wrong answers.  After all, the more Harry fails in
school, the less likely he is to become a greater threat... an Auror.  

Remember... *We* see things in the terms of books 5, 6, etc... they
don't.  While we know that the situation will be resolved within two
years, the characters in the books don't.  Therefore, their plans will
be a lot more long-term.

Iggy McSnurd








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