OOP: Snape's Memory

[rane_ab]

No: HPFGUIDX 61998

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "professor_monkshood" 
<professor_monkshood at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gregory Lynn" 
> <gregorylynn at a...> wrote:
> > I just wanted to make a point about Snape's memory.  Memory is 
not 
> an absolutely accurate recording device.  Memory is subjective.  So 
> what we saw in Snape's memory is filtered through Snape's 
> personality.  As such I imagine he cleaned up his own actions and 
> made those of James and Sirius worse.
> > ___________
> > Gregory Lynn
> 
> I would also like to add that the story was confirmed by Lupin and 
> Sirius themselves and that seals it for me that Snape's version of 
> events was accurate and beyond doubt.
> 

Yes, and I also wonder about that "memory is subjective" thing. If 
this is true, then we should only be able to see exactly what Snape 
remembers. But... it seems that we actually see more. Snape is 
completely immersed in his exam paper, and yet Harry can hear 
everything MWPP say. While it actually sounds as though Snape's 
paying to attention at all to what they are saying. But I suppose he 
could have stored that in his subconscious. BUT... When they are all 
walking out of the Great Hall, Harry stands right in between MWPP and 
Snape (who is walking ahead) - and he has to STRAIN his ears (or sth 
like that) to hear what MWPP say. So it's almost impossible that 
Snape could actually hear what was being said. Which makes me wonder 
how, exactly, a Pensieve works. *Does* it only store what a person 
remembers? Or does it store the actual event someone remembers as it 
really was? The latter sounds a bit far-fetched to me, but I can't 
get over the fact that we could literally hear what MWPP were saying. 

Cheerful greetings,
Rane.