OOP - If Snape wanted Harry to see and other Snape stuff.

[frumenta]

No: HPFGUIDX 65364

>  
> Then again, memories are a funny thing.  After years of hatred and 
> humiliation, Snape may have actually made things out worse in the 
> memory than really happened.  This is not a fresh memory being 
> plucked out of his head but one 20 years in the making.
> 
> Harry on the other hand, we know since the CoS, has a very 
> curious nature.  In AD's office he didn't know what a pensive was, 
> and thus was pulled in by mistake.  In this case he knew fully 
well 
> what he was peering into.  I think that Harry was just so fed up 
> about being kept in the dark about everything, and this was one 
way 
> to get some information about what was going on.  He thought that 
> Snape might have been taking out the memories of things AD did not 
> want him, Harry, to know about.  This is just my 2 knuts.
>  
> Crissy

If Harry simply wanted to get some information about what was going 
on then upon seeing that the memory involved had to do with Snape's 
OWLs shouldn't he have gotten out of the Pensieve? Who knows what he 
could have seen in there... But the moment he saw his father, that 
was it. 

As for the memory possibly being doctored or changed by Snape's 
perspective, doesn't anyone find it odd that Snape has a memory of 
Lupin joking about being a werewolf when everything indicates that 
the Shrieking Shack incident didn't happen until their sixth year? 
the memory seems to involve not only what Snape had witnessed 
firsthand but also perhaps what was going on in the background 
whether he conscioulsy heard it or not. I like to think that's the 
reason and not some continuity mess up on the part of JKR.

For that reason I take it that it is not possible to tamper with a 
memory or have it change in the years that you dwell on it. Add in 
the fact that Sirius and Remus didn't contradict Harry who 
apparently told them all that happened and didn't tell him something 
in particular that Snape may have done that day to deserve what 
happened to him, I have to believe that the memory is genuine and 
objective.

Mim