[HPforGrownups] Leaving a Memory

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 100056

| From: Samantha Thomas [mailto:flyingmybroomstick at yahoo.com]
| Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:38 AM
| Both times when Harry goes into the pensieve, he is drawn back
| out by both DD and Snape.  Did anyone else wonder how he was
| going to get out of there when he was first sitting in on the
| trial of the Death Eaters?  <snip>  But if they hadn't come to
| take Harry out of their memory, would he be forced to stay there?
|  In CoS, Riddle ends the memory and therefore I suppose Harry was
| expelled, his little silver strand had reached its end.  Would
| that be what happened in both the instances of the end of the
| trial and the end of the day of school in Snape's memory?  Or
| would Harry be trapped there for X amount of time, perhaps
| indefinitely?  <snip>


[Lee]:
Interesting question...and the thought of being permanently entrapped in
someone's memory is most unsettling!

I would hope that once the strand has finished, the person would be released
from the memory.  But, as in Dd's memory (or memories), there were three
trials, and obviously time had elapsed between each one.  Now, is it that
all were part of one strand of memory or that the strands were forming a
pattern into which Harry had fallen?

I postulate this because of what Dd said about using the Pensieve to help
find patterns in events.  So, assuming this is the work of the Pensieve and
a pattern was being set, Harry, IMHO, would have followed the strands
through the pattern if Dd hadn't pulled him out.  Same can be said,
possibly, for Snape.

Do dat make sense?

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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