Questions about Pensieves

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 89305

abbet wrote:
If you remove a memory and put it into a Pensieve, afterwards you 
shouldn't be able to know what that memory was about until you 
either look into the pensieve or put the memory back into your 
head.  Otherwise what's the point in Snape taking out his worst 
memory if he could still remember what it was about.  That means 
when Snape grabbed Harry and threw him out of his office, Snape 
didn't know what the memory was of, just that he didn't want Harry 
to see it.

Berit replies:

Just one thing: It sounds logical that once a person has put his 
thought into the pensieve, he is unable to "think it" in his head 
till he has replaced it again. But I think you're wrong that Snape 
didn't know what memory Harry had seen, on the simple grounds that 
Snape himself dived into that particular memory to retrieve Harry. 
I'm sure he noticed which memory he and Harry was in... Snape is 
usually a very acute observer :-)

Berit
http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html