Use of the Pensieve in Legilimency

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 72978

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ten_cent_deposit" wrote:> 
> Presumably Snape was removing memories from his mind so that Harry
> wouldn't be able to see them. But he obviously knows what it is that
> Harry saw in the pensive, before returning the thoughts to his mind.
> This indicates that there is still a memory in his mind. But, 
> clearly, those memories were inaccessable to Harry during the
> lessons (else what would the point be)?
> So the question to me is, what does the pensive DO? It doesn't seem
> to REMOVE memories from a persons mind, but it makes those memories
> inaccessable via Legilimency.

Me:
Good point.  I also wonder what Harry *looks like* to DD and Snape 
when they come back into the room and find him snooping around in the 
pensieve.  Is he standing there with his head in the bowl or has his 
whole body really "gone into" the memory?  In either case all Snape 
would have to do is look into the pensieve (as Harry did at first in 
DD's office) and see what memory Harry is spying on.  I think perhaps 
the pensieve is a way of organizing memories, and Snape is using it 
to make certain embarassing thoughts less accessible to Harry 
(probably ones that involve Harry's father that likely would be in 
the forefront of his mind when dealing with the son that resembles 
him so strongly.)  Elle