[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapdisc Cos 12/ Dumbledore and Legilimency

[alcuin74 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 189099

Nikkalmati:
> We assume DD can do both skills, because he is an old and
> powerful wizard, but we never are privy to his using either
> one.  I agree that he can, and possibly taught Snape after
> Snape became his spy.


Alcuin74:

We can do more than just assume. DD tells us he's an accomplished Legilimens and used that skill on Kreacher:

"He [Kreacher] did not wish to tell me. But I am a sufficiently accomplished Legilimens myself to know when I am being lied to and I -- persuaded him -- to tell me the full story before I left for the Department of Mysteries." (OotP 832, American ed.)

He also goes on to say that he should have taught Harry Occlumency instead of Snape (ibid. 833). Hence, DD knows both Occlumency and Legilimency.