Harry Legilimens (was Re: Kreacher, Buckbeak and Harry's Brain)

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 97689

> Caesian wrote:
> 
> >I've been wondering about the nature of this mental link between
Harry and LV - and the 
> >timing of Kreacher's injury to Buckbeak.

<snip to more Caesian:>
> After rereading that section of OotP on the bus this morning, I
wonder if another 
> permutation isn't possible - I wonder if Harry actually helped to
trigger the vision with his 
> own ability for Legilimency.  Bizzare?  From O.W.L.S beginning page
725 - OotP US HB:
> 
> "* I know this *, Harry thought, though his brain felt torpid and
slack.  He could visualize a 
> heading, in Hermione's handwriting: ... He gazed blankly at the back
of Parvati's head 
> again.  If he could only perform Legilimency and open a window in
the back of her head 
> and see ....  He closed his eyes, trying to see them [Hermione's
notes], trying to remember.  
> ... *Think* he told himself, his face in his hands ...
> 
> And then he has the vision of Sirius.

Annemehr:
You know, you may have something here.  There seems to be no
indication of Harry actually falling asleep, and, tired as he was, I
don't think that during an exam is a likely time to do so.  Trying to
Legilimens Parvati's thoughts seems like it could be an alternate
trigger.  

I've just had a new thought: I think there's now a sixth permutation.
 This Legilimency part, with Harry trying to see into the back of
Parvati's head, and the whole passage really, I've always found
chilling for some reason.  Harry doesn't quite seem like himself to
me.  I'd always tried to put it down to lack of sleep the night
before, but what if Voldemort had made a breakthrough, and didn't have
wait for Harry to fall asleep anymore?  What if, during the exam, LV
was "pushing" his way into Harry's mind and making him feel odd, and
Harry felt the Legilimens-like force of LV's will as his own wish to
read Parvati's mind, until -- boom -- he's in the vision of torturing
Sirius?  Almost like a mini-possession before the big one in the MoM.

Caesian:
> In answer to your comment about the negative correlation between
Kreacher's presence 
> and Sirius's good temper, I ran across the Kreacher poison thread
while searching for 
> precedence with this post, and I admit I am intrigued.

Annemehr:
I feel sure of it.  There's that, and the mentions of calming and
befuddlement draughts.  There doesn't seem to be much hope of anyone
uncovering it now that Sirius is dead, though, unless Dumbledore
decided to make Kreacher talk some more.  Or maybe, these are clues
for us to remember when someone else begins acting cranky.

Come to think of it, certain people did get quite crotchety in OoP
while others seemed to remain their normal, sweet selves.  Let's think:

Testy: Harry, Hermione, Molly, Sirius

Calm:  Ron(?), Arthur, Lupin, Dumbledore, Fred, George, Ginny

These are people (except for DD) who'd stayed at Grimmauld Place. 
Other people (Tonks, for instance) seemed cheerful enough, but we
don't really know them, and Snape seemed pretty normal, given the
circumstances.  Ron, I'm having trouble deciding -- he seemed normal
enough himself, but got irritated by Harry and Hermione.  What about
Mundungus?  Was his abandoning Harry for stolen cauldrons normal for
him or a sign of unusual rashness?

Can't make this mean anything, though -- must be missing something...

> 
> Caesian - who still favors the scenario wherein LV timed his attack
on Harry to the end of 
> exams -  because he's Evil like that.

Annemehr - more power to you -- but you'd think he'd disrupt DADA
instead, though - must not have had an up-to-date schedule.  ;-)