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[livejournal.com profile] dr_c has just reminded me, in a comment to the previous post, of another point I had noticed but forgotten -- and how could I forget this one, since it immediately generated a massive plot bunny in my brain, I cannot imagine --

  • Harry has a horrible feeling that Snape can read minds.
  • This may just be Harry's youthful paranoia, generated by his fear that Snape is evil and working on behalf of Voldemort, but it did strike me (and obviously [livejournal.com profile] dr_c as well) as an unusual thing for JKR to say.

    Could there be some truth to it? Obviously it can't be as simple as Snape really being a mind-reader or Harry would never get away with anything; but could he have some limited kind of prescience or telepathic ability? If so, where did he get it from?

    And if Snape has some idea -- even a general one -- of what people around him are thinking, might this be part of the reason he's so nasty and bitter all the time?
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    Date: 2003-05-23 10:07 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] firelocks.livejournal.com
    I always thought it was something he learned being a DE, and can still sort of sense things, but doesn't use it, because it's eeeeevil.

    Date: 2003-05-24 11:07 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
    See, this is so interesting (the whole idea of Snape having some kind of extrasensory perception, whether it's eeeeevil or not), I don't know why I haven't seen it in fanfic before. Presumably it's out there somewhere, but not in any of the Snapefics I've read.

    Of course, I've not read any Snape-as-vampire fics either, and I'm sure there are a ton of those.

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