OOP: Dumbledore Fessing Up / Pensieve Objectivity (Was: ADMIN OOP: READ THIS FIRST)

[M. J. Pascual]

No: HPFGUIDX 65600

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "idlerat" wrote:

> two other questions that might be on it:
> 
> - why is it safe for DD to talk to Harry at the end? is the 
> possession over?

It's not so much that it's "safe", as Dumbledore finally realizing 
that what he was doing -- keeping Harry in the dark for the sake of 
his so-called happiness -- was the wrong thing to do.  Harry was 
feeling frustrated and angry much of the book because of it, and 
Dumbledore realizes this now.  If Harry is to be miserable as a
"marked man" anyways, better than he be armed with the whole truth.

It is somewhat funny that the character who, just in the previous 
book, states that the truth is generally preferable, adopts an 
"Ignorance Is Bliss" policy with Harry.

> - is the pensieve objective?

It could be argued that it is "objective", in the sense that a
third party going through the thoughts do not seem to be affected 
by the biases and prejudices of the wizard who put them in.  We've
seen Harry go through twice and experienced what Dumbledore, and
later Snape, had seen and heard.  Yet Harry is free to come to his
own conclusions and form his own opinions on what he had seen.

--Mark