OOP: Re: [HPforGrownups] Snapes View of events

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 64901

Added the OOP to my reply - it was missing in the first post.

Anyways, several people have commented on this but because it's been brought
up by 3 recent posts, I thought I'd mention it again:  the pensieve appears
to given an movie-camera-view of the events taking place within the memory.
If you'll look back at GoF when Harry looks into Dumbledore's pensieve,
Harry is seeing things that Dumbledore can't see from where he is sitting
(Moody sitting behind him, making faces, for example).  In Snape's memory,
we see and hear things that Snape can't have been aware of - James scrawling
on his parchment, the Marauders looking around at each other during the test
(Snape's nose is practically on his paper so he can't see that), the
comments about Lupin being a werewolf (this was a year before the Shack
incident, so Snape can't know about Lupin being a werewolf yet).  So more
than likely, this is an objective view of the events.

Diana Williams

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rth_adidas" <rth_adidas at hotmail.com>


> Everybody views events differently than anybody else. So since Harry
> was looking at Snapes memory, what he was seeing would be what Snape
> viewed the event as. Snape obviusly has intense dislike for James
> and Sirius, so that right their would make his view obviously
> biased. So his view of what happened would change to make himself
> seem the complete victim because nobody wants to see themselves in a
> bad way. While James and Sirius obvioulsy werent acting mature or
> anything like what Harry had pictured them as. I believe that this
> memory was somewhat skewed by Snapes dislike for James and Sirius.
> So while Harry viewed somewhat of what his father was like, I
> believe that the memory actually made him seem worse than he
> actually was because it was Snapes point of view.
>
>
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