Legilimens Snape (Was: Re: Sadistic!Snape?)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 140357

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at i...> 
wrote:
> Marianne:
>  
>> I mean, Snape is a superb Occlumens so he must be able to "read" 
>> Neville.  
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> How does Occlumency enable the practitioner to read another person?

Check out the Bloomsbury glossary:

http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/content.asp?
sec=2&sec2=3&sec3=1&page=1&l=o

Now, it's still open (as far as I can tell) whether JKR had a hand in 
this material (like she did in writing the Chocolate Frog cards), but 
I think it's probable that little tidbits in here are.  And it 
says "Professor Snape is a superb Occlumens and Legilimens."

Not too hard to get that from the books, although his Legilimency 
skills are never stated as point-blank as the Occlumency skills.  He 
can clearly do it, and there are times in the earlier books when with 
our current knowledge, we'd think that's what he was doing.

-Nora adds in the friendly reminder that one-line posts are naughty