OOP: Pensieve as biased as true mind?

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No: HPFGUIDX 63062

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ersatz Harry" 
<ersatzharry at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cornflower_o_shea"
> <tenpinkpiggies at h...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
> > <psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > No, I don't.  She had Dumbledore say that it contains thoughts 
and 
> > > memories.  You can't remember what you never knew in the first 
> > > place.
> >
> > If the Pensieve holds thoughts, than it 
> > holds what we believe we see, what we thought existed, which may 
not 
> > really be what trully existed at all? The pensieve exists to let 
you 
> > examine your thoughts...prejudice, misinterpretation, and all 
> > perhaps?
> 
> I think Cornflower is on the right track here.  I certainly have 
some
> "memories" that I really don't recall directly, but I do recall
> looking at, say, photographs of the particular event.  Such a
> pseudo-memory might well be the sort of think I could drop into a
> pensieve.  Further, I think "thoughts" might well be construed to
> include "imaginings", and Snape could well have imagined much of 
what
> was in the pensieve.  Finally, if Snape was reasonably good at 
reading
> minds (to use the muggle term) when he was young, then he might 
well
> have other people's thoughts (OPT) as part of his genuine memories.
> 
> Ersatz Harry

Except for a few things.  How does Snape know about James putting 
Lily's initials on his paper?  Harry was halfway between Snape and 
James and could still barely hear James; how could Snape hear him?  

I think that if it were biased, we would see it through Snape's eyes 
instead of as an observer and we would probably feel his emotions of 
the time as well.

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