Looking into Parvati's head (Was:Balance of power)

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 91602

Carol:
> > 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.
> > snip
> 
> 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.  
snip

Sue Responds:

In my original post I really thought of Voldemort in a position of 
having to "hear" from Harry's end the information that was going out 
on his paper, not the other way around.  I don't think Voldemort 
would care in any way how Harry is doing in school, Auror ambitions 
or not.  It only amused me...how boring it would have been for him to 
have to wait through History of Magic for Harry to fall asleep. (I 
write this knowing it is *most* unlikely Voldemort would be hanging 
around waiting for Harry to fall asleep, he most likely planted the 
dream at an earlier time.)

As for the whole legilimency "thing", I am going to play a little bit 
of devil's advocate here.  We really do not know how it works.  We 
know from Snape that you cannot rifle through someone else's mind and 
simply choose what you would like to learn.  I will say, however, 
that Voldemort (who I know is a very powerful legilimens) is able to 
isolate the *exact* thought he wants: "No, Bella, his is not 
lying...I see the truth looking at me from within his worthless 
mind..." (OotP US ed pg.812).  This being said, we do not know what 
Harry would be able to see inside Parvati's mind if, in fact, he is 
able to percieve anything.  It is my contention that, using 
legilimency, one would be able to access actual thoughts, not just 
feelings.  If Parvati was concentrating all of her energy on the test 
in front of her, and the question and its answers were at the 
forefront of her thoughts, Harry would have indeed seen/felt the same 
thing.

So to make a long paragraph more concise, if Harry was (accidentally 
on purpose) using legilimency during the HOM OWL, and it worked (just 
looking at the the back of Parvati's head), he would possibly have 
seen/felt what was most important to her at the time.  That being the 
memories of the facts for the OWL she was taking.

I really do think Harry got more from those Occlumency lessons with 
Snape than we are yet aware.

This also makes me wonder something.  Does Voldemort really think 
that Harry's mind is worthless, or is he just putting him down?  He 
knows about the connection between the two of them and he is about to 
find out that he will not be able to "dwell" there any longer.  It 
makes me think that perhaps we have been given a hint: Harry's 
intellect is "worthless" against Voldemort. Or Voldemort is 
dismissive because he is too arrogant to see the capabilities there.

Sue