[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's choice of memories for the pensieve

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 109013

In a message dated 8/5/04 10:43:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hpfanmatt at gmx.net writes:
>The narrator also refers to the Pensieve at least once more as
"Dumbledore's," without explicit reference to Harry's perspective (ch.
28).  Finally, when Dumbledore takes out the Pensieve to show Harry
his memory of the prophecy (ch. 37), Harry again recognizes it:

"Dumbledore got to his feet and walked past Harry to the black cabinet
that stood beside Fawkes's perch.  He bent down, slid back a catch and
took from inside it the shallow stone basin, carved with runes around
the edges, in which Harry had seen his father tormenting Snape."

While of course it is possible that Harry could be mistaken about the
identity of the Pensieve in Snape's office, those passages certainly
are not written in a way that allows for much doubt....


-- Matt<

While it is possible that Snape borrowed Dumbledore's Pensieve, IMHO, Snape 
could have his own. I ask you how many Pensieves has Harry seen before he has 
Occlumency lessons? We don't know how many Pensieves there are nor if they are 
rare items. Until I am told differently by JKR in an interview or in the 
books, I will think that there could be more than one Pensieve at Hogwarts.

Batchevra


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