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[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 185365

Potioncat: 
> > If Snape did use Legilimency on Quirrell, what would he have seen? 
> 
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> a_svirn:
> But then, wouldn't Voldemort have used occlumency? 


Carol responds:
What I was thinking when I asked the question that Potioncat is
responding to--and perhaps I'm being too literal here--is that
Legilimency normally requires eye contact, just as Occlumency blocks
the Legilimens' view into another person's mind via his eyes.

Since Voldemort was looking out the *back* of Quirrell's head, Snape
would not have encountered his gaze, only Quirrell's, so unless the
"mediocre" Quirrell was a skilled Occlumens, Snape could have read at
least some of his thoughts (those that were uppermost in his mind; cf.
Harry's Potions book in HBP). It's possible that, like Draco, he could
clumsily block Snape's Legilimency (in contrast to Snape's brand of
Occlumency, which can trick a skilled Legilimens by allowing him to
see only what Snape wants him to see).

If I'm correct, Voldemort would not know that Quirrell's thoughts were
being read, only that Quirrell was talking to Snape and what they
said. Though he could *control* Quirrell, he would not himself be able
to use either Legilimency or Occlumency. (Later, when he controlled
Nagini, he was sufficiently in tune with her to read her thoughts as
Harry could also, but she was his Horcrux. He was also, it seems,
seeing through her eyes rather than looking out the back of her head.
Perhaps, being stronger and not relying on Nagini for sustenance as he
did Quirrell, he possessed her in spirit form so it didn't matter
whether he was facing the right direction!)

Carol, wondering how Quirrell transported Vapor1mort to Britain (he
was not yet possessed by him and Baby!mort was three years in the future)