Would a pensieve be classified as a "dark" object?

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 89358

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "malaprop2000"
<malaprop2000 at y...> 
wrote:
> Or is it just a "high-galleon item?"
> 
> What I think I know:
> 
> As far as I can tell from the books, there is only one pensieve at
> Hogwarts. It belongs to Dumbledore and is loaned to Snape for
Harry's
> Occlumency lessons. Of course, the latter half of the sentence is
> based on Harry's assumption that it is the same pensieve - OOP, page
> 529 (US edition) - and, as we all know, Harry's assumptions are not
> always correct. At no point are we told by JKR that it is the only
> one. IMHO, it would be an indispensable item for a spy: Buy this NOW
> and get those traitorous memories out of your head BEFORE you
apparate
> to a meeting. Malfoy would find it useful, too.

If it is the same pensieve, aside from the fact that both are
continually referred to as Dumbledore's pensieve in the 
narration, we don't really know who owns it, either. It could 
very well be that it is Snapes pensieve, and that Dumbledore 
was borrowing it, or it could be for use of any of the Hogwarts 
staff, at need.

It strikes me that it would be more useful for Snape then DD, both
for the reason you just mentioned (traitorous memories), and for
after DE meetings (Snape could put the memory of the meeting into
the pensieve, and go over it with DD...

--Arcum