When you think about it, it wouldn’t make much sense if canon occlumency didn’t, otherwise Snape could never have gotten away with pretending to be a loyal servant of Voldemort. If he was obviously putting up barriers to keep his mind from being read, Voldemort could just have told him to take them down.
More advanced Occlumency involves suppressing only the thoughts, emotions, and memories that would contradict whatever it is an Occlumens wishes a Legilimens to believe;
I think that this would be enough. Snape only had to hide a few key conversations and actions from Voldemort; most of what he said and did in the Order can be open.
If Snape had been a good Obfuscumens, he could have fed Voldemort positive misinformation, but he didn’t. He only kept secrets.
That might be the case. The wiki article is uncited on that count, so I don’t know where they got the information to indicate that it’s true in canon.
It’s possible that Snape did feed Voldemort misinformation, but the extent to which he could do so would be limited, since he had to be able to convince Voldemort that he was a loyal spy whose true allegiance was not suspected by Dumbledore’s faction.
Suppressing only key parts of ones thoughts and emotions might accomplish the same task, but it seems to me that this would pose difficulties, because the rest of your thoughts might not make sense without the context of the thoughts you’re suppressing, giving anyone reading your mind the impression that it was being selectively edited.
I think that the whole paragraph is supposed to be covered by the citation at the end, but that’s just OotP, and I’m not about to go through the book looking for evidence.
You’re certainly correct that it’s unclear, and that it would be difficult.
Which I believe he is as 63 talks about Harry trying to keep up an fake persona of a surprised and Confused Harry in his mind.
As far as I can tell, Occlumency in MoR works like Obfuscomency from Always and Always.
When you think about it, it wouldn’t make much sense if canon occlumency didn’t, otherwise Snape could never have gotten away with pretending to be a loyal servant of Voldemort. If he was obviously putting up barriers to keep his mind from being read, Voldemort could just have told him to take them down.
From the Wikia:
I think that this would be enough. Snape only had to hide a few key conversations and actions from Voldemort; most of what he said and did in the Order can be open.
If Snape had been a good Obfuscumens, he could have fed Voldemort positive misinformation, but he didn’t. He only kept secrets.
That might be the case. The wiki article is uncited on that count, so I don’t know where they got the information to indicate that it’s true in canon.
It’s possible that Snape did feed Voldemort misinformation, but the extent to which he could do so would be limited, since he had to be able to convince Voldemort that he was a loyal spy whose true allegiance was not suspected by Dumbledore’s faction.
Suppressing only key parts of ones thoughts and emotions might accomplish the same task, but it seems to me that this would pose difficulties, because the rest of your thoughts might not make sense without the context of the thoughts you’re suppressing, giving anyone reading your mind the impression that it was being selectively edited.
I think that the whole paragraph is supposed to be covered by the citation at the end, but that’s just OotP, and I’m not about to go through the book looking for evidence.
You’re certainly correct that it’s unclear, and that it would be difficult.