OOP: Thoughts on the pensieve and a bit of Snape

[Ximena Valdivia]

No: HPFGUIDX 65493

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Heather Gauen 
<miss_dumblydore at y...> wrote:
 
> b) A pensieve will show an *entire* situation,
> including details that the person may have forgotten
> or had no way to know in the first place. [This could
> provide an answer to those complaining that Harry saw
> things that Snape couldn't have seen. Perhaps that's
> one of the perks of a pensieve. Remember, if Harry can
> dive in and hear MWPP talking about Lupin's werewolf
> status, Snape could do the same thing.]

I do think that the pensieve show the entire situation, especially if 
you go back to book 4 to the part of where Harry sees that the 
differents trials, if I remember correctly, he was able to see 
everything around him before he realized that Dumbledore was next to 
him.

> I think it that at least one of these must be true;
> otherwise, what's the point of a pensieve?

I think the point of a penseive is to have memories clear, I don't 
think that after Snape put a though in the pensieve, he erased it 
from his head but maybe just a bit so it remains like a vague memory 
of something

> Going back to Snape for a second- Why was he using a
> pensieve in the first place? 

Beisdes what you said, I think he was tryng to erase/fade the 
memories of him being a death eater so Harry could not what was those 
times likes or erasing the mission that Snape is doing.

Ximena