Using the Piensive by eye Witnesses

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 91483

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sawsan_issa" 
<sawsan_issa at e...> wrote:
>>This has probably been brought up, but in PoA, the eye 
witnesses to Peter Pettigrew being scabbers were HRH, 
Werewolf Lupin, and Convict Black, who were all considered 
weak witnesses. Well, we know from later books that the 
Piensive can withdraw thoughts, memories, etc as they are for 
further analysis. So why couldn't Dumbledore use the piensive of 
all of the eye witnesses before Fudge to prove Sirius's 
innocence and Pettigrew's treason? In fact, why couldn't DD use 
it on Harry in GoF to prove as an eye witness account that Moldy 
Voldy was back?<<

Snape had already told Fudge that Harry, Hermione and Ron 
were  bewitched by the Confundus Curse.  Without 
Scabbers/Pettigrew, there was no way to prove that their 
memories hadn't been altered--the Pensieve viewer might 
behold an  objective third party view of  events that never took 
place.  By the time Lupin was available to give testimony, Black 
would have been kissed, anyway.   And the Pensieve would also 
have shown Harry, Ron and Hermione attacking Snape--if they 
were allowed to be in their right minds, they'd have been 
expelled.

In GoF, Fudge believed that Harry was deranged--so his 
memories of events would also have been dismissed as 
delusory. 

It is also very probable that the Pensieve is a "one of a kind" 
object and not acceptable as evidence.

Pippin