Severus Snape;a skilled Legilimens

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No: HPFGUIDX 180086

> > Bart:
> > In OOP, Sevvy was VERY specific that Legilimency is NOT reading
> > minds. At best, without actually casting a spell, it can be used
> > to tell if someone is being honest, lying, or evasive.
>
> Mike:
> I'm going to disagree here, Bart. A talented Legilimens does seem
> to be able to find considerably more information. Harry is visiting
> LV's, sorry, Morty's mind when Morty is Legilimencing Gregorovitch
> about the Elder Wand. Harry sees what is essentially a Pensieve
> style replaying of the wand being stolen by a fair haired
> Grindelwald. Obviously, that is the information that Morty is
> getting through Legilimency.

AFN:
Just to be clear, Mike has it per canon with some DH examples. In
OotP, at Harry's first occlumency lesson, Snape made this distinction
clear, ridiculing Harry for using a Muggle concept such as "mind
reading".  Snape says, "The mind is not a book to be opened at will
and examined at leisure. . ." It is, "a complex and many-layered
thing. . . ." He goes on to address detection of lying and honesty and
how normal rules of eye contact peculiarly do not seem to apply to
Harry. <OotP, 530-531 (USA)>