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At one point the Defense Professor does give a plausible reason why he might have resolved not to use Legilimency.

From Chapter 74:

His head fell back against the chair, lolled to one side, the eyes no longer meeting Harry's. "But these small games hardly hold my interest as they stand. Add Legilimency, and it ceases to be a game at all."

This really confused me until I realised you were referring to a comic book character, not a famous psychiatrist.

...Which is to say that whenever there is (a physical arrangement with) a logical structure that matches (is transitive with) the logical structure of consciousness - then there would be consciousness. It gets more complicated. If you draw a line with a pencil on a piece of paper, so that it encodes a three dimensional trajectory over time of a sentient being's consciousness - you basically have created a "soulful" being. Except there's just a drawn line on a piece of paper.

Assuming this is possible, I would say the line on the paper is a &qu... (read more)

If you have four grains of sand arranged in a tetrahedron, you could conceivably call it a (very small) heap. When you take away one of the grains, you will no longer have a heap, just three grains of sand.

This is assuming that your definition of "heap" includes some of it being on top of the rest of it, which I'm fairly sure is standard.