[HPforGrownups] Occlumency and Shield Charm

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 89386

At 10:02 22/01/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Sigune wrote:
>I have been wondering lately about what happened in the one before
>last of Harry's Occlumency lessons. There, Harry casts a Shield Charm
>and the result is he gets to see some of Snape's memories. What I
>find strange is that something like a simple (?) Shield Charm should
>permit Harry to get inside Snape's mind. I think that is strangely in
>contradiction with the repeated qualification of Snape as a superb
>Occlumens.
>
>Even if Harry's Shield Charm made Snape's spell bounce off and caused
>him to be hit by his own Legilimenting spell, it still seems to me
>that it should be a piece of cake for Lord Thingy (an expert
>Legilimens, better at it than Snape) to break into his sneaky ex-
>servant's mind. So can Snape really rely on this Occlumency business?
>Or does anyone have an alternative explanation for what happened?
>
>
>Yours severely,
>
>Sigune


Tanya now

Shield charms were used in the Dumbledore/LV duel.  I know they were moving 
around alot.
But the spells deflected didn't get rebounded that I can recall.

I think something else was going on besides the shield charm when Harry 
used it.  However,
I have wondered on this too.  Maybe rebounding spells is not a once time 
occurrence for Harry.

Tanya



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