[HPforGrownups] Snape & Harry's Memory Perspective Question

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 83986

Marianne: 

> What I'm curious about is the nature of perspective.  When breaking 
> into another's mind, does the one breaking in see the memories with 
> the same perspective that the memories' owner sees?  Or does the 
> Legilimens see the memory as if it were like thoughts trapped in a 
> Pensieve, where the perspective is that of an outside observer?  When 
> Snape sees Harry's memories, is he seeing all the action from the 
> outside, or is he looking through Harry's eyes? Is he seeing the dog 
> barking and snapping at his own heels (as Harry would), looking down 
> from his perch into the upraised faces of the laughing Dursleys, or 
> is his point of view from off to the side?
> 
> Since we're dealing with magic, perhaps a Legilimens does see 
> another's memories from the position of outside observer, rather 
> seeing these events the way the person who experienced remembers 
> them.  But, if a Legilimens is gaining access to the memories exactly 
> as their target remembers them, then they would see it from the 
> target's perspective.  If that's the case, then the memories Harry 
> got from Snape would also have been as seen through Snape's eyes.  
> And, that would mean that what Harry saw were events that Snape 
> himself had observed. Harry assumes he's seeing Snape, but maybe 
> that's not the case.  Maybe Snape was neither the shouting man or the 
> frightened child, but someone who had just walked into the room to 
> see that.  Snape could have been a sibling of the child in the 
> memory, for instance.

I've never thought of that.  My next question would be:  If it wasn't Snape 
Harry saw in 'Snapes memories', wouldn't he have recognized that it was a 
different boy after actually seeing teenage-Snape in the pensieve?   
Unless Severus and said possible sibling looked extremely alike?  

~Cassie~ 


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