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

[Nick M.]

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Sue wrote:
> 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?

Melinda:
> From a teenage point of view, everything is done because of the 
> teen.  Maybe Snape didn't use the pensieve to keep Harry from 
seeing 
> those memories - after all he left the other ones Harry did access 
> directly, where he was a child cowering in the corner.  Maybe he 
> removed them to temper his own reaction to Harry.  He knew what he 
> was doing was important, and knew he had to keep cool-headed while 
> working with him.  Perhaps putting the memory in the pensieve 
keeps 
> him for remembering just how much he hated James.
> 
> Of course, when he pulled Harry out, it was no longer a matter of 
> hating Harry for something James did - Harry violated Snapes 
privacy, 
> and in Snapes eyes is probably becoming more like his father.  



Hi everybody, first post here, so please don't AK me if this was 
already answered...

Is there anything in canon which says that once you put a memory 
into a pensieve it is completely removed from your own memories, 
until you view it again (which would create a new memory, sort of 
like opening one box with another, smaller box inside it, and the 
smaller box holds the goods)..

I wouldn't think, logically speaking, that you would lose all 
knowledge of a memory you place in the pensieve, but to think of it 
more like a videocopy of a memory, used for objective viewing of 
it...

-Nick