Snape's "Worst" Memory (Was:Snape's Insignificant Question During Occlumenc

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Sydney wrote:

> On the other hand, I can definitely see a case for Snape having
> SUBCONSIOUSLY left the Pensive out, for the reasons you describe, 
and
> also as a... cry for help?  See that big volume of Freud behind
> Rowling in her author's picture?

Um, I was right with you till this bit. It seems to me he left the 
Pensieve out because he got interrupted and had to dash off to handle 
an emergency (sorry, my sister has my copy of OoTP, so I can't check 
this). And Harry being Harry, and just as nosy as he was the last
time he saw the thing and the time he caught poor old Filch doing 
magic by correspondence, he had a look, didn't he? And it moved the 
plot along without exposition. Sometimes, as it's said, "a cigar is 
just a cigar." : - ) . My own question is - if this guy, Snape is so 
crash hot in Occlumency, why does he need the Pensieve at all to hide 
his thoughts from a mere student? Sue B