Let us speak plainly, as doing so privately will avoid the vapours certain members of the Order reliably fall into whenever it is suggested that you lot not be wrapped in cotton wool until your twilight years.
The majority of your cohort is learning Occlumency as a talisman to allow them peace of mind; barring utter disaster in the future, the extent to which they are likely to use it is to guard against glancing skimming of their thoughts in passing, and in the event of utter disaster there will be methods other than Legilimency employed against the sanctity of their thoughts.
Given who and what you are, it is vanishingly unlikely you will not be called into the Dark Lord's service, and given the Dark Lord's recent ... erratic whims, that day will no doubt be sooner rather than later. At some point in your future, you will undoubtedly find yourself kneeling before the Dark Lord while he rummages through your mind for whatever scraps might amuse him, and you will need to not only show him the face you wish for him to see, but do so in such a way as to prevent him from suspecting there is anything lurking beneath.
Of all your cohort, I believe you the most likely to play that role successfully, but for all the skill you have learned — and I do not denigrate the skill you have learned — you are not yet ready for that prospect. This year, should you be amenable, we will begin studying the ways in which you can become so.
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Re: Private message to Mr Snape
Date: 2013-09-06 03:42 am (UTC)Let us speak plainly, as doing so privately will avoid the vapours certain members of the Order reliably fall into whenever it is suggested that you lot not be wrapped in cotton wool until your twilight years.
The majority of your cohort is learning Occlumency as a talisman to allow them peace of mind; barring utter disaster in the future, the extent to which they are likely to use it is to guard against glancing skimming of their thoughts in passing, and in the event of utter disaster there will be methods other than Legilimency employed against the sanctity of their thoughts.
Given who and what you are, it is vanishingly unlikely you will not be called into the Dark Lord's service, and given the Dark Lord's recent ... erratic whims, that day will no doubt be sooner rather than later. At some point in your future, you will undoubtedly find yourself kneeling before the Dark Lord while he rummages through your mind for whatever scraps might amuse him, and you will need to not only show him the face you wish for him to see, but do so in such a way as to prevent him from suspecting there is anything lurking beneath.
Of all your cohort, I believe you the most likely to play that role successfully, but for all the skill you have learned — and I do not denigrate the skill you have learned — you are not yet ready for that prospect. This year, should you be amenable, we will begin studying the ways in which you can become so.