Leglimancy and Voldemort

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 170385

Quick_Silver:

> Yet you overlook the fact that Voldemort and/or 
> Quirral managed to overcome Snape's vaunted logic 
> trap in PS/SS. So either Quirral was another rare 
> logical wizard or Voldemort does possess a grasp of logic.

> I'm always intrigued when people mention the wizard's 
> lack of logic because I have trouble seeing it in the 
> novels. Aside from Hermione mentioning that many great 
> wizards have no logic I really can think of nothing 
> else supporting the concept. So to me it comes across 
> as Hermione making a unsupported statement and then JK 
> using the concept to help the plot along when need be.

> For instance the wizards are implied to be illogical 
> because they have magic instead yet JK then portrays 
> their magic as being a very logical concept almost 
> another branch of science and technology. It becomes 
> very circular in my mind.

houyhnhnm:

I overlooked it because I am not really very interested 
in arguing that point of view.  It's not the way I 
interpret the Potterverse. I don't really think that 
wizards are autistic, that every concealment of a lie 
or detection of a falsehood involves the use of 
Occlumency or Legilimency.  

Still that is the way some see it and, I suppose, it 
is a possibility.

I was asking the question, I guess.  Does every act of 
perspicacity on the part of wizards involve the exercise 
of some kind of magical art or do they sometimes make 
observations and draw conclusions just the same as Muggles do?