Can Harry do Legilimency and Occlumency /Why did Snape take the UV? / Role of th

[sistermagpie]

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> Alla:

> But JKR never said that Harry cannot do Legilimency, or did she?
> 
> **That** I speculate we will see and Harry certainly showed that 
he 
> could attack Snape during the lessons, no?
> 
> Hmmm, maybe Harry will perform Legilimency on Snape during their 
> confrontation and that way will be able to discover some secrets?

Magpie:
I was thinking about that--and they are two different things.  I 
actually don't consider Harry as performing Legilimency on Snape 
during their sessions.  I think his Protego shield was so strong it 
pushed the Legilimency Snape was performing back onto himself and 
into his own head.  At least that's how I read it at the time, since 
Harry slammed into Snape's head doing that charm.  However he *has* 
experienced Legilimency with Voldemort, and some of it might be 
conscious because he did want to see what was going on in his head.  
So yeah, I see no reason that Harry's natural problems with 
Occlumency would effect his ability to do Legilimency one way or the 
other. As to whether he would perform it with Snape in book 7 I can 
think of some automatic reasons storywise I don't think he would, 
but who knows?  JKR might have good reason for him to do it.

Neri:
Wouldn't it be worth to share a bit of glory to save his life
and his family? His own mother wants him to. And Draco does believe
that Snape was on Voldemort's side, and yet even after Snape saves 
his life from the Sectumsempra, he doesn't trust Snape enough to 
share his plan with him. How come? Don't you think that Draco's 
attitude towards Snape in HBP just smacks of teenager hurt feelings? 
Is this because Draco has this uneasy hunch about Snape and his 
mother? Or maybe more than just a hunch?

Magpie:
Personally, I have to admit I find it more interesting to look to 
the answers for this in Draco and Snape rather than an outside twist 
like Snape being in love with Narcissa.  If Snape is the DE Draco 
believes he is, than he'd be a fool to trust him no matter how much 
he's trusted him in the past.  DEs stab each other in the back for 
glory, and DE Snape, if he exists, would want Draco to fail.  Plus, 
if Draco's beginning to have second thoughts about the whole idea of 
working for LV, he'd have lots of emotional reasons to want to run 
from Snape.  Everything from not wanting Snape to see his doubts 
because he's ashamed and considering Snape sort of an enemy as a DE. 
Thematically, of course, I think it's just a matter of Draco growing 
up and needing to do things on his own because he does, and going to 
a grown-up isn't something he feels he can do.  Harry's demonstrated 
this sort of thinking before.   


-m