Dumbledore Does Lie (Re: What turned Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 158982


> Dungrollin:
snip
 - it suggests to me that he's 
> *not* used to all this cloak and dagger stuff yet, he really is 
just 
> a young naive DE) and just as Sybil finishes the prophecy, 
Aberforth 
> flings open the door, revealing Snape to Trelawney and DD.
> 
> DD tells Aberforth to hold onto Snape until his interview with 
> Trelawney is finished, and it is then that DD realises with the 
help 
> of Legilimency that Snape is not lying when he says he only heard 
> the first part of the prophecy, or alternatively DD can tell that 
> Snape *is* lying when he claims to have heard all of it and would 
be 
> rushing off to tell his master directly.

Potioncat:
Yes. I like it.


> Dung:
> A year (or whatever) later, when Snape returns to DD to convince 
him 
> that he's really genuinely not on Voldy's side any more, DD 
says "ok 
> you can spy for me, but first we've got to do something about your 
> appallingly amateurish ability to lie. Now close your eyes and 
empty 
> your mind..."

Potioncat:
The only problem with this part is that Snape would have had to be an 
Occlumens already. I doubt he could have survived while he was 
learning Occlumency from DD. LV would have picked it up just like 
Snape did with Draco.