FakeMoody, Snape, Legilimency, and Motives

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 132169

bboyminn wrote:

Actually, Occlumency is the ability to block you mind from intrusion.
Legilimency is the ability to 'intrude' into other people's mind.

The problem is that much of fandom has made assumptions about these
things that aren't supported by the books. Many fans take them to be
one and the same, but, of course, they are not. Some fans have leap to
the conclusion that if you have one then you automatically have the
other; again, not true, not supported by the books.

vmonte responds:

Thanks for correcting me. I always get the two confused. And I agree 
with you that Snape's gift is in Occlumency not Legilimency.  

Vivian