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

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 87853

Dhyana wrote:

> 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.

Berit replies:

But you can't know that for sure, can you, at least not based on 
canon? After all; Harry was able to move around and SEE 
things/details Snape possibly couldn't have seen. For instance; in 
the exam-scene, Harry moved over to the front of James's desk and 
looked down at his face; Harry also watched Sirius, Lupin and Peter. 
All through this Snape seems to be busy writing feverishly with his 
nose only an inch from the parchment. Clearly Snape didn't move 
around in the classroom free to look James in the face or watch how 
he scribbled LE on a scrap of parchment like Harry did (Snape was 
seated several rows behind James)... If Harry could see things Snape 
didn't see, then it follows logically that he also could hear things 
Snape didn't hear. I believe that's the whole point of putting one's 
thoughts in a pensieve. I can't prove it canon-wise, but the way the 
scene is described it's a logical deduction.

Berit