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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