[HPforGrownups]Pensieve was Re: Snape and the Nicknames

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 68065


>> It makes me wonder who does that Pensieve belong to-Dumbledore or
> does Snape also have one? Maybe they're like cars and you can rent
> one for the day. Hehe. 'Cause if Snape borrowed it, where did
> Dumbledore leave his memories? In there? This is my mis-directed
> point, if Snape owned one or even had access to one for long
> intervals, he could go back through that memory and find those
> details. Why would he go back through a hated memory? Well, being the
> masochist that I am, I do give myself the guilty pleasure of
> remembering horrid events. It's very awful, but sometimes I can't
> help myself.
> Likewise, the incident could be so awful that Snape would never want
> to remember it and thus, never 'study' it.
> Yeah, I guess I am pretty wishy-washy, but either thing is possible.
> (Sorry, again).
> -Sephora

The Pensieve Snape was using belonged to Dumbledore.  I just finished
rereading the book, and it said in two different places that it was
Dumbledore's Pensieve.  The book does not say one way or the other, but I
would think Dumbledore cleaned his thoughts out of it before letting Snape
borrow it.  I think he only had those thoughts in the Pensieve for a limited
time, to help him make some connections with things related to the trials we
saw and the people involved.  Which does make me wonder if you can only put
thoughts in there for a limited time.  Otherwise why wouldn't Snape just go
buy his own Pensieve and leave those thoughts he keeps taking out in there
permanently?

Kelly Grosskreutz
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