Chapdisc Cos 12/ Dumbledore and Legilimency

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 189103



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "alcuin74 at ..." <alcuin74 at ...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Alcuin74:
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> We can do more than just assume. DD tells us he's an accomplished Legilimens and used that skill on Kreacher:
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> "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.)
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> 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.
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Nikkalmati

This is why I love this list.  Somebody always knows.  You are quite correct on both points.  So this will be a substantive post, I will observe that no one was at headquarters to tell DD why he had been summoned there.  Everyone had gone to the DOM, Sirius having refused to follow Snape's instruction to stay and give the information to DD.  I wonder if DD would have let Sirius come along?  Snape of course was at Hogwarts.
  I can't see how DD could have taught Harry, because LV was looking through Harry's eyes in DD's office and controlling his emotions. It would havwe been dangerous. 

Nikkalmati