Use of the Pensieve in Legilimency

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 72800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lori <scooting2win at y...> wrote:
> What gets me about the Pensieve is that Dumbledore tells Harry that 
sometimes we have too many thoughts. So if Dumbledore was really 
trying to stop Lord Voldemort from accessing Harry's mind, would 
Dumbledore not have given Harry a Pensieve of his own to use before 
sleep. therefore emptying his mind of thought. But I guess that won't 
have made such a good story now would it. Lori

Perhaps because it is not Harry's thoughts that are the problem.  I 
also don't think there's a pensieve big enough to hold all of Harry's 
thoughts - remember DD uses it to examine the thoughts, which would 
only require 1 or 2 at a time, and Snape only put three strands in 
himself.  I thinks he would have put more in if there was room.

What Snape tells Harry to do is clear his mind of emotion - he wants 
him to sleep deeply enough that he won't dream much.  Harry has not 
had much deep sleep.

Now in hindsight, I don't think the dreams even from the earlier 
books are memories of his - Harry didn't have many of the green light 
dreams before he returned to Hogwarts, the same time that LV hooked 
up with Quirrel.  Maybe even those dreams were due to LV dwelling on 
what went wrong that night.