First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 185777

> jkoney:
> I don't remember the part where Voldemort can "see" through Harry's 
> eyes or even read his mind. It seemed to me that he was able to 
plant 
> a thought/vision in Harry's head. If I'm remembering wrong please 
let 
> me know where Voldemort see's through Harry's eyes. The MoM is the 
> only scene I can think of that comes close to this and that seemed 
to 
> require that they were close together.

Zara:
Here you go.

> OotP:
> 'More recently,' said Dumbledore, 'I became concerned that 
Voldemort might realise that this connection between you exists. Sure 
enough, there came a time when you entered so far into his mind and 
thoughts that he sensed your presence. I am speaking, of course, of 
the night when you witnessed the attack on Mr Weasley'

> 'Yeah, Snape told me,' Harry muttered.

> 'Professor Snape, Harry' Dumbledore corrected him quietly. 'But did 
you not wonder why it was not I who explained this to you? Why I did 
not teach you Occlumency? Why I had not so much as looked at you for 
months?'

> Harry looked up. He could see now that Dumbledore looked sad and 
tired.

> 'Yeah,' Harry mumbled. 'Yeah, I wondered.'

> 'You see,' Dumbledore continued, 'I believed it could not be long 
before Voldemort attempted to force his way into your mind, to 
manipulate and misdirect your thoughts, and I was not eager to give 
him more incentives to do so. I was sure that if he realised that our 
relationship was - or had ever been - closer than that of headmaster 
and pupil, he would seize his chance to use you as a means to spy on 
me. I feared the uses to which he would put you, the possibility that 
he might try and possess you. Harry, I believe I was right to think 
that Voldemort would have made use of you in such a way. On those 
rare occasions when we had close con-tact, I thought I saw a shadow 
of him stir behind your eyes . . .'

> Harry remembered the feeling that a dormant snake had risen in him, 
ready to strike, in those moments when he and Dumbledore had made eye-
contact.

> 'Voldemort's aim in possessing you, as he demonstrated tonight, 
would not have been my destruction. It would have been yours. He 
hoped, when he possessed you briefly a short while ago, that I would 
sacrifice you in the hope of killing him. So you see, I have been 
trying, in distancing myself from you, to protect you, Harry. An old 
man s mistake . . ."

> He sighed deeply. Harry was letting the words wash over him. He 
would have been so interested to know all this a few months ago, but 
now it was meaningless compared to the gaping chasm inside him that 
was the loss of Sirius; none of it mattered . . .

> 'Sirius told me you felt Voldemort awake inside you the very night 
that you had the vision of Arthur Weasley's attack. I knew at once 
that my worst fears were correct: Voldemort had realised he could use 
you. In an attempt to arm you against Voldemort s assaults on your 
mind, I arranged Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape.'