Dumbledore's pleading

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 141504

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:

> One last thought on legilimency, another reason this might be 
> difficult for the plot is how it would come back to Harry. It's hard 
> to imagine Snape telling Harry "then he used legilimency to tell me 
> what I should do in that moment" or something similar.
> 

Pippin:
Priori incantatem. If Snape's AK didn't kill Dumbledore then there won't
be a wand shadow, and Harry will have some questions about that, or
at least Hermione will. If on the other hand, it did, but there's some
mitigating circumstance, then Dumbledore's wand shadow can 
explain it. 

We have canon that you don't need  a brother wand to extract
the shadows -- the ministry was able to prove that Morfin's wand
had killed the Riddles. I  don't suppose they bothered asking the
Riddle wand shadows if Morfin had really done it. But Tom could
have used polyjuice.

The legilimency thing can be explicated by having someone else
communicate with Harry in the same way Dumbledore could have.
And really, if Dumbledore can visualize a book, he can visualize
a page. With writing on it. 

Pippin