Mind-linked!Snape (Part II)

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Great post(s) Neri, very enlightening, even if it wasn't in the way 
you intended it to be interpreteted. I snipped to what was most 
prominent to me, which is:

Neri terribly snipped:

[12] It is Snape who first explains to Harry that the mind link is
bi-directional. (OotP, Ch. 24): "The important point is that the Dark
Lord is now aware that you are gaining access to his thoughts and
feelings. He has also deduced that the process is likely to work in
reverse; that is to say, he has realised that he might be able to
access your thoughts and feelings in return."

Snow:

Voldemort never was able to realize any of Harry's thoughts or 
feelings in the same respect that Harry was allotted to view his. I 
believe it was Dumbledore who pointed out to Harry that Voldemort, 
realizing that Harry was capable of reading Voldy's emotions, 
obsessed in thinking of the Ministry in his own mind, which Harry 
sensed and was directed by. Voldemort never entered Harry's mind with 
these thoughts but realizing the boy's capabilities purposely caused 
himself to dwell on what he intended Harry to see, such as Sirius 
being tortured. Voldemort knew he couldn't access Harry's mind but 
that Harry could access his. 

If this were as you propose a mind link then it would surely work 
both ways, but it doesn't. As I see it this is one of Harry's 
greatest strengths or abilities that Voldemort does not have and can 
never succeed at, possessing Harry successfully mind or body. It is a 
one-sided link. This link has become significantly stronger since 
Voldy's bodily return as well as Harry's recognition and 
interpretation of the linkage to Voldemort's feelings except where it 
had concerned Sirius. Harry's love for Sirius clouded his true 
interpretive vision. Harry had previously told Ron about each 
instance, where his scar hurt, where he had seen Voldemort interact 
with someone in his minds view and the true circumstances surrounding 
Voldemort's feelings at the time Harry had felt the pain. One of the 
instances is where Harry had suspected that Umbridge might be a death-
eater because she had grabbed him and his scar seared with pain, in 
retrospect Harry realized what Voldemort was feeling at that very 
moment and that it was not ultimately the touch of Umbridge that gave 
Harry that feeling but Voldemort's feeling of happiness. Looking back 
at each instance when Harry's scar had hurt him he was able to 
account for the reason Voldemort felt as he did. Then there was the 
vision of Sirius that was like a dream you awake to that just seemed 
so real that no one could talk you out of it. The evidence as 
submitted by Hermione was conclusive that Voldemort was luring Harry 
but Harry was steadfast in his convictions and proceeded as 
wholeheartedly as he had done during the second task in the Goblet of 
Fire. Harry's profound caring for someone, even those he does not 
personally know; Gabrielle, become intensified in do-or-die 
situations. Harry's steadfastness can be criticized as stupidity or 
realized as one of the remaining attributes that were inherited by 
Lily's sacrifice; unconditional love. There is no right or wrong with 
unconditional love and sacrifice for it because it is unconditional. 
Some people condemn this type of sacrificial attribute as stupidity 
while others admire the selflessness of the act. To become benevolent 
to the degree of others feelings especially when they are not 
reciprocated is taking humility to its highest regard. Only through 
this type of humility will you find everlasting truth. Harry only 
needs to recognize the strengths that are his endurance.  

In conclusion I find that Snape's remark to Harry is nothing more 
than unfounded speculation or misdirection on Snape's behalf as 
usual, as is the statement that it is up to Snape to find out what 
the Dark Lord is saying to his death-eaters. Not what the Dark Lord 
is doing but rather what he is saying to his death-eaters which Snape 
takes pause at before answering smugly; yes, it is. Snape doesn't 
have a special link to Voldy but he does have a link to one of the 
persons that does and that person is standing in front of him; it's 
Harry. So Snape is not lying in this circumstance anymore than 
Dumbledore does with own evasive answering. 

Snow