Dumbledore's Trusting Nature

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 146739

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> Finwitch:
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> I agree -- I think that the only ways for a (born?) Legilimens not to
> use  this skill on people are trust and avoidance of eye-contact. We
> have seen that Dumbledore 'X-rayed' Harry if he had reason to doubt
> (like when he asked about Harry's name in a goblet.) Dumbledore knows
> that the only way he can act normally with people is to trust them.
> 
> Finwitch
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La Gatta Lucianese:

It must be hell to be a Legilimens. Your observation reminds me of a 
science fiction story I read many years ago, of which I cannot 
remember the title or the author, in which a long-suffering telepath 
shouts at some government snooper-pooper, "I don't CARE what you 
think! I am NOT interested in your relationship with your wife and 
your girlfriend! It is a matter of profound INdifference to me that 
your kids have chicken pox and the dog needs washing!" Or words to 
that effect. As I recall, one of the first duties of the organization 
that trained newly discovered telepaths was to teach them to block all 
the subliminal jabber going on around them; if they didn't learn to do 
this, they went mad.

I am still waiting for JKR to introduce little Miss Granger into a 
Legilimency class. The effect on Snape could make for some really 
delicious shipping news.