OOP: Flints?

dbonaker dbonaker at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 24 05:46:52 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 62729

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:

> Two other Flintish things concerned the Pensieve.  Harry was able 
to detect far too much that was going on amongst the MWPP crowd, 
> considering that this was supposed to be Snape's memory.  While one 
> could argue that a Pensieve could be a little bit like hypnosis and 
> you might be able to examine a memory at leisure in a Pensieve and 
> pick out a number of details that you might not have noticed 
> consiously when you were actually living it the first time, this 
> doesn't explain how Snape knew things he couldn't have known.  It 
> doesn't sound like he could possibly have seen James writing the 
> initials L.E. on his parchment.  It also seems highly unlikely that 
> he could have 'sub-consciously' heard the conversation about Remus 
> answering the werewolf question on the exam.  (I think that if he 
> had any inkling about the werewolf thing he would never have risked 
> his neck and almost been killed.)  


You've obviously got a different idea of what is possible to see in 
the Pensieve than JKR does.  But after all, it's her book, and I 
think it's much more interesting her way!


"dbonaker" 





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