Trial of Severus Snape /Harry IS Snape./A cold equation (LONG)

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> Alla:
> 
> LOL! That was really funny the way you put it, Pippin. Snape, 
> ordering out for pizza, I mean. But no, I don't think that it would 
> necessarily be a give away to DE because I am not suggesting that 
> Snape should cast it on the Tower, but while he is being on the 
way. 
> I think he could have figured out that situation is really bad, no? 
> Besides do we know for sure how fast Patronus is? I think it is 
> really fast, personally.
> But this was just one of the options and I think I may come up with 
> some other speculations for Snape having options. :-)

Potioncat:
We've seen a Patronus cast at the beginning of HBP and it appeared to 
take some time to reach Hogwarts. So it is faster than an owl, but 
slower than floo, perhaps?

But, why didn't anyone send a Patronus to the rest of the Order? Not 
Snape from the Tower, but McGonagall, Lupin, Bill, Tonks? No one 
seems to have called for backup. 

Hmmm, you know in OoP, it's considered very, very crucial to some 
readers that Snape didn't contact the Order when Harry was missing. 
Now we have an entire company of "Order" members who fail to contact 
the rest of the Order when Hogwarts is in danger.

> 
> Alla:
> 
> Thanks for the examples. I  think I am with Nora on this one. I 
> don't think we have an example of anybody else receiving dialogs in 
> their head except Harry, and I am not sure that was Legilimency, 
but 
> more like Harry's special connection with Voldie. So, no I am not 
> sure at all that DD would have been able to pull of the same trick, 
> unless of course you are saying that DD has special connection with 
> Snape via Snape's hidden scar ( just kidding of course :-))

Potioncat:
We don't have direct evidence, no. Harry thought Snape could "read" 
his mind as early as SS/PS, but it wasn't as certain to the readers 
that it was happening. Reading GoF after reading OoP, it seems that 
Snape is trying to use Legilimency when he confronted Harry about the 
gillyweed. (The classroom scene when he puts Harry in the desk in 
front of his own desk.)

But in HBP, to me at least, Snape seems to be well aware of Harry's 
thoughts. It starts that very first night at Hogwarts:
>>Harry wondered whether he could slip his IC back on, thereby 
gaining his seat at the long Gryffindor table...withou being noticed. 
As though he had read Harry's mind, however, Snape said, "No cloak. 
You can walk in so that everyone sees you, which is what you wanted, 
I'm sure."<<

I feel certain, that if images can be so clearly seen without intent 
by the subject, that information could be communicated by someone who 
wanted to.