Whose memory? (was: The Scholastic cover)

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Carol adds:
> Absolutely, it would be great if Harry had some facts for once--and 
> if we readers did, too. And good observation about the sickly green 
> of the light (and the entire cover), SSS. The flash of green light 
> from an AK would explain it perfectly.
> 
> I have a problem with it being Harry's memory, though. The only 
> people who have removed memories so far (Snape and Dumbledore) have 
> done so from their own heads, and both of them were highly skilled 
> Occlumens. Harry certainly has not mastered enough Occlumency to 
> remove a memory from his own head, especially one so dim and 
> distant that all he can recall (with no Dementors present) is green 
> light and a high-pitched laugh. So how could he possibly remove it? 
> And we've seen no evidence so far that anyone, even a skilled 
> Legilimens like Dumbledore, can remove a memory from *someone 
> else's* head.
> 
> That leaves Dumbledore and Snape. But we know that DD wasn't at
> Godric's Hollow, and I don't think Snape was there, either. And even
> if he was, surely he wouldn't remove the memory from his own head
> and place it in a Pensieve for Dumbledore and Harry to examine when 
> he's not even present!
> 
> I'm forced to reluctantly conclude that DD is so skilled in bringing
> the right memory to the surface when he's "legilimencing" that he's
> able to deliberately extract that particular memory from Harry's 
> mind even though it's dim and unformed. I find that prospect scary. 
> If Legilimency can take that extreme form, it's a very dangerous 
> skill and a lot scarier than Voldemort!
> 
> Regardless of whose memory it is, I'm sure SSS is right that it's
> Godric's Hollow. But why are they using someone else's cracked
> Pensieve, and why is it balanced on a Corinthian column? I don't
> recall any such furnishing in Dumbledore's office! (Maybe they're in
> the Department of Mysteries?
 

SSSusan:
I think you're asking the right questions, Carol.  *IF* I'm right 
about that being a Pensieve and about the light representing an AK 
(particularly one at GH), then WHO THE HECK'S memory is being prodded 
and watched?  Here's something I wrote over at main (125833):

>> I like this possibility, Meltowne -- that DD is either showing 
Harry how to access his own memory *or* that DD "extracted" the memory
from Harry when he was a baby and stored it himself and is now going
to show it to him. Granted, Harry still has auditory memory of the
attack, but nothing visual. Maybe DD took it out & stored it so
Harry wouldn't have to grow up replaying it??<<

I'm actually leaning towards the second option -- that DD extracted 
the memory somehow from Harry after the attack -- and that he's now 
decided it's time Harry "got" to see it.  I think it's one of 
those "Dumbledore's the most powerful wizard alive" kind of thing 
which would explain his being able to do this, rather than that it's 
standard fare for a legilimens.


Siriusly Snapey Susan, wondering if she's the only one who NEVER 
seems to be able to click on a Mugglenet link and have it show the 
item it's supposed to show. (It's only with Mugglenet -- what's up 
with that?)