[HPforGrownups] Occlumency and Shield Charm

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 89475

bboy_mn observed:
>The 'Legilimens' curse is a sustained curse, Snape has to cast it and
>then sustain the intent which in turn sustains the active curse until
>Harry blocks the effect or Snape releases it.

>This is important because the curse has to be in progress in order for
>the Shield to deflect it. If it were an 'event' curse, while the
>effect might linger, the curse itself would have come and gone, and
>there would have been nothing to deflect.

I wonder if there's a case for suggesting that the "Legilimens" _does_ have
some sort of sustained effect.

On my latest tour through the books, I've noticed that there's a single
reference in all three of the earlier ones to the effect that Harry thinks
that Snape can read minds. It's not stressed in any way in the books, in
fact in CoS, our attention is drawn away from it, but just possibly he's had
some ongoing ability there all along which we've been meant to overlook.

But JKR alone knows all

Cheers

Ffred

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