OOP - If Snape wanted Harry to see and other Snape stuff.

[Sue4419]

No: HPFGUIDX 69894

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "frumenta" <p_yanna at h...> wrote:
> >  
> > Then again, memories are a funny thing.  After years of hatred 
and 
> > humiliation, Snape may have actually made things out worse in the 
> > memory than really happened.  This is not a fresh memory being 
> > plucked out of his head but one 20 years in the making.
> > 
> > Harry on the other hand, we know since the CoS, has a very 
> > curious nature.  In AD's office he didn't know what a pensive 
was, 
> > and thus was pulled in by mistake.  In this case he knew fully 
> well 
> > what he was peering into.  I think that Harry was just so fed up 
> > about being kept in the dark about everything, and this was one 
> way 
> > to get some information about what was going on.  He thought that 
> > Snape might have been taking out the memories of things AD did 
not 
> > want him, Harry, to know about.  This is just my 2 knuts.
> >  
> > Crissy
> 
> If Harry simply wanted to get some information about what was going 
> on then upon seeing that the memory involved had to do with Snape's 
> OWLs shouldn't he have gotten out of the Pensieve? Who knows what 
he 
> could have seen in there... But the moment he saw his father, that 
> was it. 
> 
> As for the memory possibly being doctored or changed by Snape's 
> perspective, doesn't anyone find it odd that Snape has a memory of 
> Lupin joking about being a werewolf when everything indicates that 
> the Shrieking Shack incident didn't happen until their sixth year? 
> the memory seems to involve not only what Snape had witnessed 
> firsthand but also perhaps what was going on in the background 
> whether he conscioulsy heard it or not. I like to think that's the 
> reason and not some continuity mess up on the part of JKR.
> 
> For that reason I take it that it is not possible to tamper with a 
> memory or have it change in the years that you dwell on it. Add in 
> the fact that Sirius and Remus didn't contradict Harry who 
> apparently told them all that happened and didn't tell him 
something 
> in particular that Snape may have done that day to deserve what 
> happened to him, I have to believe that the memory is genuine and 
> objective.
> 
> Mim

What I don't understand is when Snape caught Harry in the Pensieve 
and pulled him out, he(Snape)knew that Harry had seen his father in 
there.  If Snape pulled the memory out of his head so Harry wouldn't 
be able to access it during the lesson, how could Snape have any idea 
what it was Harry had just seen??  It would seem to me Snape wouldn't 
really know what Harry had seen until he put the memory back into his 
head.

Sue