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Snape deliberately provoked Harry to better read his mind
While rereading Order of the Phoenix, I put particular focus on the chapter Occlumency, where the mechanics of Legilimency and Occlumency are first described. I found one quote by Snape particularly interesting.
“I told you to empty yourself of emotion”
“Yeah? Well I’m finding that hard at the moment,” Harry snarled.
“Then you will find yourself easy prey for the Dark Lord!” said Snape savagely. “Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and who allow themselves to be provoked this easily -weak people, in other words- they stand no chance against his powers! He will penetrate your mind with absurd ease Potter!”
Now, a lot of people have pointed out how Snape is really talking about himself in that quote. And I agree. But that’s not what I want to focus on. Rather, I would point out how Snape is describing the people whose minds can be easily penetrated. Of particular interest are an inability to control ones emotions and being easy to provoke. I believe that Snape, knowing this, has at times deliberately exploited this to be able to read Harry more easily.
This is very clear, I think, in Goblet of Fire, in chapter 27 Padfoot Returns. Snape suspects Harry of having stolen Boomslang skin and Gillyweed from his stores. So he interrogates Harry to find out the truth.
“All this press attention seems to have inflated your already over large head Potter,” said Snape quietly, once the rest of the class had settled down again.
Harry didn’t answer. He knew that Snape was trying to provoke him. He had done this before (emphasis mine). (…) “You might be laboring under the delusion that the entire wizarding world is impressed with you,” Snape went on, so quietly that no one else could hear (Harry continued to pound his scarab beetles, even though he had already reduced them to a very fine powder), “but I don’t care how many times your picture appears in the papers. To me Potter, you are nothing, but a nasty little boy who considers rules to be beneath him.”
Harry tipped the powdered beetles into his cauldron and started cutting up his ginger roots. His hands were shaking slightly out of anger, but he kept his eyes down, as though he couldn’t hear what Snape was saying to him.
“So I give you fair warning Potter,” Snape continued in a softer and more dangerous tone, “pint-sized celebrity or not -if I catch you breaking into my office one more time-”
“I haven’t been anywhere near your office!” said Harry angrily, forgetting his feigned deafness.
“Don’t lie to me,” Snape hissed, his fathomless black eyes boring into Harry’s. “Boomslang skin, Gillyweed. Both come from my private stores and I know who stole them.”
I highlighted the first segment to show how Snape’s attempts at provocation are deliberate, and not just his standard assholery (according to Harry at least, but I trust him in this). The second and third segments show how Snape has succeeded in provoking Harry, so that he is now in an emotional state, and his mind is easier to penetrate. Finally, Snape attempts to read his mind, which is shown by the final emphasized segment. Eye contact has been established as being important for Legilimency, and though the most skilled (like Voldemort), can make do without, it tends to be necessary and always helps.
Snape is not the only character to covertly use Legilimency in the books of course, and it’s always fun to go back and notice these little details.
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duel.
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found you
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«Merry christmas, Harry.»🎄🎁
After realizing how Harry had grown up among the Dursleys - Snape easily took a notice how much the holidays and gifts chosen for him, with thought and affection, means to Harry.
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#snarry#fanart#happy holidays folks!#harry has chosen a gift specifically for snape as well#(the most painful thing for snape was not sentimentality but wrapping the thing in gryffindor colors-)#snape lightly gritting his teeth lol#harry appreciates it.. a lot!🥰
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Harry Potter
Severus Snape
“Lily…“
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One of my favourite things about Snape is that he hates people openly and takes every opportunity to be downright nasty to them, but he also puts his own life at risk to save those exact same people in a heartbeat.
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"Severus you can’t, it’s too dangerous."
Snape will protect Harry… at any cost (to himself), but Harry has no wish to see him hurt again, to lose him.. again.
Inspired by «Atria».
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#Two reckless men🖤#snarry#fanart#long time no see!#may be back only briefly#but i have been enjoying reading snarry longfics again lately#in particular the latest one had a rly lovely snape#i wasn't thinking about much while i drew this#only wanted to make sth relatively quick#(and to try my hand again at drawing digital from scratch (which i usually never do)#and in the process ended up sth inspired by last read😌#(wish i'd put more thought and effort into it if i knew i was gonna make fic fanart😂😭)#but it was all my energy-reserves could manage ahah#i'm happy w it all in all.. missed the boys🖤🖤👏
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The Bravest Man.
A comic strip in progress.
Chapter 1 of 6.
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“There once lived a man in the house by the river.”
Isn’t that how good stories start?
But this man is no good. He is no hero. Or even a kind man. He is vicious, petty, and broken.
As ugly on the outside as he is on the inside. Many, far more worthy than him, should have survived the war. Or walked away free to live out their days in relative peace.
But life is rarely fair, isn’t it?
And so, in spite of many who wish he was dead, Severus Snape wakes, sneers into his morning cuppa, does his shopping at Tesco on a Friday night, brushes the chimney soot off his shirtsleeves, and hides old scars.
After all, life carries on, even when you least expect it.
Some nights it seems that, after nearly five decades of surviving, he’s still learning how to live it in peace. Free at last.
It doesn’t come easy.
Still, he makes it work. He raises his collar high over the scar on his neck, even in summer, pulls his sleeves down over his wrists, and never, ever greets the neighbours.
When the post arrives, he Incendios every Howler, a routine since the end of the war.
[The Potter Scandal! Will Ginevra change her surname? How will the children cope. More on page 3]
He still reads the Prophet. The ghastly rag.
He makes porridge or eggs, or sometimes empties a tin of beans on toast. Every week, he brews another dose of Dreamless Sleep in the cellar. Every evening he sweeps the coal dust with his mother’s favourite broom. The unridden, Muggle kind.
The flames in the fireplace have never glowed green. There is no floo powder on the mantle.
He keeps a journal, but never writes about the past. He tries not to dream of it. Even though his Secret is Kept well enough, he meticulously checks the iron locks every night and renews his security spells every other Tuesday.
Until, one day. Everything changes.
The ghost of a stag prances right through his carefully honed defenses into the seclusion of his living room and says in Harry-Bloody-Potter’s voice.
“Professor? We need your help!”
#wow that's Gorgeous🥺🥺✨✨#amazing🤧💦🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤#severus snape#comic#comics#art#the prince who lived#snape lives au
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不機嫌な視線
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もしも、の世界。
#!!!👏😭#it's canon now🥺🖤#この世界が欲しいー🤧🖤🖤🖤#素晴らしい...#snape#art#beautiful..🥺👌#my favorite type of snape art🙌😔🖤🖤💓#snape lives au
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Harry Potter AU in which Fred and George are in different houses and they steal and wear each others ties whilst doing stupid things in hope of the others house losing points
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Happy Birthday, Severus Snape! (January 9th 1960)
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Snake print… or just Nagini’s skin.
Drew with reference
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