Pensieve objectivity (was : Looks aren't everything!)

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 86713

"serious_schwartz" wrote:

> Can I add here that the entire pensieve scene is Snape's memory? 
> Harry only sees the scene through Snape's eyes, and as we all know 
> we tend to color our own memories. It is true that Remus and Sirius 
> admit to their personality failings, but it is Snape recalling his 
> view of James and Sirius, the taunts, the hexing, and so forth.  JK 
> is cunning enough to let us think the pensieve scene is an 
> objective view, but it is not. We can't judge everyone there based 
> on it.

Ah ? Has the list finally reached a conclusion then ? Last time I 
read about the objectivity of a Pensieve scene, people agreed to 
disagree : there seemed to be no way to know how objective a memory 
from a Pensieve was.

Personally, considering the degree of precision in MWPP's discussion, 
I'd say it's very unlikely Snape could have remembered that. He was, 
after all, very much engulfed in his exam papers. So *I* am of the 
opinion that a Pensieve scene is perfectly, even *magically*, 
objective. In fact, I think it's one of the *main* point of storing a 
memory in a Pensieve : to be able to have an objective look at it. 
But this is just my opinion, of course.

Del