Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181763

a_svirn:
> However it may be, only someone with "a free and open nature", like
> Othello could mistake such a flimsy piece of evidence for an
irrefutable proof. Voldemort's nature is anything but. And why would
Voldemort need any proof if he could use legillemency? <snip>
> 
Carol responds:
Snape's "superb Occlumency" is superior to Voldemort's Legilimency,
formidable though it is, as we see in "The Dark Lord Ascending"  where
Snape is hiding the key piece of information regarding Polyjuice and
multiple Potters. Snape suggests as much to Harry in OoP--only a
person (like Snape) who has mastered Occlumency can lie to the Dark
Lord without detection. (There's a similar quote in "Spinner's End"
where Snape asks Bellatrix whether she thinks that he, Snape, can
outwit the Dark Lord. The answer, though Bellatrix is loath to admit
it, is clearly yes.) Snape would never have survived his return to
Voldemort in GoF had it not been for Occlumency, nor could he have
concealed from Voldemort the real reason that he killed Dumbledore (DD
wanted him to).

Carol, skipping the rest of the post since we've been round and round
on this and I have no idea what DD actually intended when he wanted
Harry to summon Snape