[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: Pensieve Speculation

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 67591

In a message dated 7/4/2003 11:46:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kkearney at students.miami.edu writes:

> I disagree.  Not about the only Snape and Dumbledore part, but the 
> use of the pronoun "them".  We've seen Snape and Dumbledore use "it" 
> on themselves.  I think it's a very important distinction.  So far, 
> we've seen only the one.  And it is my personal, non-canon supported 
> (but non-canon contradicted) opinion that this is the only one that 
> exists, and that it is an invention of Dumbledore's

Are we SURE it's the same one?  After all, Harry had only seen the one prior 
to this - he'd not have been equipped to identify whether this was the same or 
different.  He merely assumes that this is the same one.  How rare ARE the 
things?  When I first read this scene, I thought, "Now how does the little 
urchin KNOW it's Dumbledore's?  No nametag on it, is there?"

OTOH, if it IS the same Penseive, IMHO it's another illustration of the trust 
between Dumbledore & Snape.  It would seem (to me, at least) that the shared 
use of a Penseive would allow each user full access to the memories placed in 
it by the other user(s).  Good, bad, or indifferent.

Sherrie


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