Musings on discrepancies/anomalies (?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 69000

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." <dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:
> These are both brief, so I'll stick 'em in the same post (if 
that's 
> okay) --
> 
> 1.  I'm very surprised that entering someone's private memories 
via a 
> Penseive isn't a very serious violation, punishable by expulsion.  
> Dumbledore didn't even PRETEND that Harry had done anything wrong 
> when Harry plunged into his memories, and even Snape kicked Harry 
out 
> of his office rather than threaten to discipline him (granted that 
> since Snape had been charged with tutoring Harry, he might not 
have 
> been able to carry out that threat.
> 
>      All in all, it seems that plunging into a Penseive and 
observing 
> someone else's private memories is not a punishable offense, or at 
> least has never been defined as one.  Isn't this rather strange?
> 
> 2.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding somethinng -- but according to 
Snape's 
> own memories, he took his exam parchment out of the classroom and 
> continued perusing it underneath a tree, as his classmates hung 
> around nearby.  How could this be?  I thought all parchments were 
> collected after the exam time was over.

Snape was looking over the exam paper itself...it appears that the 
students were allowed to keep those, while their answers were put on 
seperate pieces of parchment which were collected.  I noticed that 
when Harry and the others were taking their OWLS.  It confused me at 
first too :-)

My guess is..about looking in the Pensieve...it's actually 
Dumbledore's, and is not laying around for students to randomly jump 
into and peek at his thoughts...that is probably why it didn't 
bother him that Harry saw the trials.  And Snape was just humiliated 
and enraged at what Harry saw in it and acted accordingly...

just my humble opinions :-)

Tess