OOP: Re: [HPforGrownups] Snapes View of events

[Matthew Huston]

No: HPFGUIDX 64912

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana Williams" <diana at s...> wrote:

>>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<<


There wouldn't be much advantage to a device that only stored pure
memory, I say. Since humans tend to modify their beliefs and memorys
to best fit their own self-image, a pensive wouldn't be any good
except maybe as a ego booster for certain memories...lol.

I believe the pensive, being magical and all, constructs a reality
from a base memory. If it's Dumbledore's memory of say a trial, the
pensive takes that, and actually reaches back in time, and forms a
fully interactive "real" replay of the events. I also think, like it
says above, that it presents the events as they occured. Harry saw his
father pick on Snape. And I think that Harry's first visit into the
pensive convinced him that what he saw was objective, hence his
troubled thoughts for a few days after seeing Snape's worst memory.