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

serious_schwartz serious_schwartz at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 22 05:48:06 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 78381

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nick M." 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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

<snip>

This gets at something I've been thinking about regarding the 
pensieve.  (I've read through many posts and haven't seen this 
discussed yet, so let me know if I just missed it. ) The pensieve 
doesn't seem to be an objective viewing of a memory, but a 
totally subjective one, as it is taken directly from the person's 
mind.  As we all know, our point of view totally colors how we 
remember things. So what I'm thinking is: 1) Maybe James 
wasn't that much of a jerk, 2) Maybe Lily wasn't that concerned 
with Snape, but did defend him, and 3) Maybe it wasn't all that 
big of a deal to other people at the time, but it loomed large for 
decades in Snapes mind. A lot of us play our humilations over 
and over again, don't we?

serious_schwartz 






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