The link and Voldemort's Legilimency (WAS Re: Snape as Neville's ...)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 168620

Dana wrote: 
<snip> if Snape has no way of knowing (which I do not believe) when 
> Harry went to the DoM then neither does LV. <snip>

Carol responds:

Are you saying that Snape somehow knew that Harry and his friends
would decide to ride the Thestrals (which only showed up because of
Grawp's blood and which some of the kids can't even see), followed
tthem and watched them take off, and then immediately informed
Voldemort that Harry had left for the MoM? (By owl, presumably, since
the Floo network is closed off and the DEs don't use Patronuses to
communicate?) That seems to me extremely improbable.

Voldemort's mind link with Harry *is* active at this point--Harry
keeps waiting for his scar to hurt more painfully, which would tell
him that Sirius is dead. I think that LV must have been alert to
Harry's emotions, too--for example, elation when he finally found a
means of traveling to the MoM. To me it seems likely that he also
sensed when Harry took the Prophecy orb off the shelf. I'm not saying
that he saw through Harry's eyes, or, as you point out, he'd have
known that Dumbledore had arrived. But the connection does seem to
work both ways, as both Snape and Dumbledore state in your own quotes
upthread, which makes it seem likely that Voldemort can feel or sense
Harry's emotions as Harry can sense his. When he didn't sense pian and
despair from Harry and when, as you said yourself, the DEs didn't
report back, he may have come to check on what was happening--just in
time to discover that the Prophecy orb had been shattered.

Your idea that Snape has something to do with it has no canon support.
He would certainly have mentioned it to Bellatrix in "Spinner's End"
when she accuses him of "slithering out of action" if you were
correct. Instead, he conceals from her that he sent the Order to
rescue the kids and smoothly suggests that it's pointless to assign
blame for the failure of the DE's mission.

Carol, who thinks that the scar connection, which directly links Harry
to Voldemort (in terms of their sensing each other's emotions),
provides the obvious and logical explanation for LV's presence at the MoM