Lying to a Legilimensterri_testingMay 8 2009, 04:43:25 UTC
I'm working on a post codifying my thoughts on the varying forms of Legilimency and Occlumency.
There's the form of Occlumency which consists of outright blocking external penetration, as a Protego protects one from a physical hex.
When Draco employs this against Severus, both parties immediately register that this defense is in use. And that's the form Snape was supposed to teach Harry--to block the Dark Lord's incursions entirely.
But I think there's another form, of holding a feeling/thought/memory at the top of one's mind so as to fool a Legilimens reading one....
Whether, and when, Dumbledore realized the Marauders were, erm, withholding information from him, depends on which form of Occlumency the Msrauders were using, and if Dumbledore ever caught them in it.
Really the important quesion isn't why Dumbledore admitted into his Order people who held secrets from him, it's whether (or when) he realized this was the case.
Re: Lying to a Legilimensoryx_leucoryxMay 8 2009, 05:42:19 UTC
Really the important quesion isn't why Dumbledore admitted into his Order people who held secrets from him, it's whether (or when) he realized this was the case.
I tend to think *when* is the key question.
In any case, once he had a group of people withholding information the presence of one more secret could not be noticed, it was covered by all the others.
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There's the form of Occlumency which consists of outright blocking external penetration, as a Protego protects one from a physical hex.
When Draco employs this against Severus, both parties immediately register that this defense is in use. And that's the form Snape was supposed to teach Harry--to block the Dark Lord's incursions entirely.
But I think there's another form, of holding a feeling/thought/memory at the top of one's mind so as to fool a Legilimens reading one....
Whether, and when, Dumbledore realized the Marauders were, erm, withholding information from him, depends on which form of Occlumency the Msrauders were using, and if Dumbledore ever caught them in it.
Really the important quesion isn't why Dumbledore admitted into his Order people who held secrets from him, it's whether (or when) he realized this was the case.
I'll post the long version soon, I promise.
Thanks for the comments.
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I tend to think *when* is the key question.
In any case, once he had a group of people withholding information the presence of one more secret could not be noticed, it was covered by all the others.
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