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[Trish]

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AF wrote:
The real Sirius is the one we saw in the pensive and the one Lupin 
and others have long tried to "rein in.",  just as the real James was 
different than we'd imagined."

(This is my first post so bear with me)
My big question is--is the pensieve 'reality' or is it the way that 
things are remembered from the person's pespective who 'deposits' the 
memory into the penseive. My point is, in grade school I was often 
teased on by a group of bully-girls and this is really caught in my 
memory as these girls being terrible and making me cry. Years later, 
one of these girls was in a class I was taking in college and we 
became friends. I confronted her with my memories of grade-school and 
she had no reccolection of it being like this at all! She didn't even 
remember that she teased me!


I know that Serius admits to Harry that the Snape thing did happen 
but maybe it wasn't the way it seemed, maybe Snape wasn't innocently 
sitting there as *he*, Snape, remembers it. It's a simple POV issue. 
Events vary dramatically from one persons interpretation to anothers 
don't they. So my question is does the Penseive take into account 
Perspective or does it somehow filter Perspective into the actual 
reality?


Once again first timer who hasn't thought about stuff like this since 
I was an English Major 15 years ago. Trish.