OOP: It is Snape's fault!!!! + Accuracy of Pensieve

[professor_monkshood]

No: HPFGUIDX 67762

Interestingly, we never contest the accuracy of the Pensieve before 
OoP ...

Anyway, there are several points I want to make:

1. If Snape never expects that to leave the Pensieve in the room 
alone with Harry, then he would have no reason to hide it from him.  

2. Like someone said, no evidence that Snape knew Harry knew what a 
Pensieve is.

3. Non-Snapologists are forgetting what a prideful, vain git Snape 
is.  He *hates* being seen as a victim and he's running the risk of 
Harry telling the whole school how pathetic when he was at school.  
If he was setting up Harry, then he would have put something else in 
the Pensieve or else catch him earlier on.

Accuracy of Pensieve
1. The facts themselves were never contested by Sirius and Lupin, 
who were working very hard to find excuses for James but the best 
they came up with was 'He was fifteen and he grown out of it'.  This 
also counters the argument that the memory was 'edited' because 
Sirius and Lupin would have said something if it was 'biased'.

2. Just like in Dumbledore's memories, Harry was free to look around 
as long as he stuck close to Snape, which casts doubt as to the 
events being shaded by Snape's PoV.

3. And wouldn't it just point to how callous James and Sirius were 
if the memory 'looked' worse from Snape's perspective?

Prof. Monkshood -- who on the fifth reading of OoP finally 
understood why JKR said don't think Snape is 'too nice'.