How much do the DE kids know? (was Crabbe as potential job applicant)

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 116731


Dungrollin, previously:
> Oh - while I'm at it, another thing... Assuming
DoubleAgent!Snape - couldn't a snide comment (which I'm sure
Draco wouldn't be able to resist) to someone about 'that idiot
Potter having *remedial potions* alone with Snape in the
evenings' cause a bit of concern in certain circles?<

Pippin replied:

If you want to give yourself a headache, just try to figure out which
secrets Dumbledore is keeping from Voldemort, as opposed to
which ones he is *pretending* to keep from Voldemort. The
occlumency lessons are bound to be in the second category,
since the Dark Lord would know if he was being blocked. I
imagine Voldie had his own reasons for wanting the lessons to
take place.

" You are to rid your mind of all emotion every night before
sleep--empty it, make it blank and calm, you understand? [...]
And be warned, Potter...*I shall know * if you have not practiced..."
(emphasis mine)


Dungrollin again:

Hang on hang on hang on... 
"I shall know if you have *not* practiced..."
(change of emphasis mine)

That doesn't mean he should automatically know when Harry is 
blocking him.  "Shutting down the thoughts and feelings that 
contradict the lie..." (or something like that) doesn't mean 
sticking up a big pink neon flag saying `I'm not telling you
the whole story'.  That would rather defeat the object of the
exercise, wouldn't it?

Point me to the canon that suggests a Legilimens can *tell* he's
(or she's) trying to read the mind of an Occlumens.

Or perhaps this is yet another conspiracy theory I'm currently 
unaware of... Am I in need of elucidation, or enlightenment?

Dungrollin