Pensieve Memories (Was: Re: Harry in NEWT Potions Class? . . . )

[grahadh]

No: HPFGUIDX 87808


> Fred wrote:
> 
> > And just like you mentioned "There are several times in his
memory 
> > that Snape has recorded events that he could not possibly have 
> seen. 
> > Several times he is transfixed with what he is reading yet his 
> memory 
> > has recorded other conversations and events outside his field of 
> > vision and hearing."
<snip>
> 
> Berit replies:
<snip>
> Canon seems to suggests that the person entering the 
> pensieve memory may move about freely; hearing and seeing things 
> quite far away from the owner of the memory as long as he or she 
> doesn't wander out of sight of said person. 
<snip>

Now me:
I'm not sure that canon does suggest that you may be able to hear
everthing 
in the surrounding environment or that MWPP were outside Snape's
range of 
sight and hearing.  IMO, MWPP were within Snape's range of hearing
and that 
if Snape hadn't heard them, Harry wouldn't have been able to either.

When Harry was immersed in Dumbledore's thoughts in GOF, he remained 
seated next to Dumbledore the entire time he was at the hearings. 
And in 
OOP he stayed near Snape the entire time as well.
Although he apperared to be absorbed in his test paper, it is
possible that 
Snape was using that as a guise and that he followed MWPP out to the
lake 
and was eavesdropping on their conversation, though we aren't told
why.   In 
GOF Harry was able to hear Dumbledore's conversations and Mr. Crouch
or 
others speaking with the people on trial, but other than that all
Harry heard 
was general mumuring or outcries from the crowd.  This suggests that
if 
Snape hadn't been able to hear what they were saying Harry wouldn't
have 
been able to either.  (the pensieve pages in GOF are 585-596 US
edition).  So 
IMO the memory we saw was one of Snape eavesdropping on MWPP for 
what ever reason and the humiliating events that followed. 
-Dhyana