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

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No: HPFGUIDX 76921

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nick M." <tomcats at b...> wrote:
> 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

To quote Dumbledore (GoF, p519, UK version) "I sometimes find... that
I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind...
At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess
thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them
at one's lesiure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you
understand, when they are in this form."

To me, that suggests that the memories are being removed, otherwise
the mind would still be crammed full.

Ceef
beginning to think she should start keeping the books next to the
computer...