[HPforGrownups] On childhoods, pensieves, Sirius and Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 63256

In an email dated Tue, 24 Jun 2003 9:45:28 pm GMT, Marianna Lvovsky <mariannayus at yahoo.com> writes:

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>>ON BULLYING AND JAMES:
>And as to the event itself: this is how Snape
>remembers it. Is it how it really was? We don't know.
>All we know is this is how he percieved it. This fits
>in with my above theory of filling in the blanks in
>the pensieve world from the author's opinion of the
>others' plausible behavior. Look at James' remark:
>"Because he exists." Whether James really said it or
>not, this is what his reason and behavior would seem
>like to Snape: being picked on for no reason. Snape
>remembers James as being utterly loathsome, and so he
>*is* utterly loathsome in his memories (whether or not
>he was such in fact).
>


That only works if your hypothesis about how a Pensive works is true.  Don't forget that Harry talks to both Remus and Sirius who confirm what he saw in the pensive.

>From the way Dumbledore describes the pensive in Gof and from the way  he uses it, I actually think the pensive is a divice which, amoung other things, helps people examine and decipher the 'truth' of their perceptions.

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