OOP: The Penseive

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No: HPFGUIDX 62523

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RhianynTheCat at a... wrote:
> Rhianyn mewses:
> 
> Much has been made about whether or not Snape's memory in the 
Penseive is 
> slanted.  I'm wondering if a stored memory really takes the 
person's point of 
> view or if it is omniscient.  I mean, if it is limited to the 
person's point of 
> view, then how would we even hear the conversation between James 
and Sirius?  
> How would we see what is being doodled on the note pad?  
> 
> If a memory someohow becomes truthfully omniscient when put into 
the Pensieve 
> then that makes the Pensieve quite a more valuable tool.  If, 
however, it 
> reflects only what the memory holder has imagined in order to fill 
in the gaps, 
> it becomes very suspect indeed.  



Good points, Rhianyn... I think it's important to remember that this 
isn't Muggle regression therapy, or a CrimeStoppers video based on 
eye-witness accounts, it's *magic*!!!  Notwithstanding our 
assumptions about the way the human brain works, I don't see it 
being in any way unlikely that the pensieve renders truthful and 
unbiased scenarios.  I also always imagined the pensieve memories to 
be much more than just what happened from one person's POV - it 
seems to me (from GoF and now OotP) that it's almost like an 
omniscient recording device that keeps track of everything that 
happens within a certain range of the subject.

MC