Penseive, Slytherin, Lily's Parents and Time Travel

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 108687

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Harry 'immerses' himself in the Pensieve, a bit more than 
skimming the surface. No, I think which memory is accessed is 
a random event."<

This is kind of slap-yourself-on-the-forehead obvious, but what if 
the memories are in chronological order ? The trial memories in 
Dumbledore's pensieve were. Dumbledore stirs the pensieve 
and an earlier memory, that of schoolgirl!Bertha emerges, but 
that's *after* Dumbledore has added more thoughts.


Snape presumably has many more dangerous or painful 
memories, but  maybe Harry happened on this one first because 
it was the oldest of those that Snape had stored. And it may be 
'worst' because of all his memories, it was the one Snape least 
wanted Harry to see.

Pippin