[HPforGrownups] Pensieve in Court & Magic Eye

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 102335

> (1) How reliable is the use of Pensieve in wizarding court/trials?  I
> was wondering the possibility of HArry reserving his memories of
> Dementors attack in Privet Drive and showing that at his hearing.
> Maybe it is reliable when proving the Hear-Say type of evidence?
> What skills does it take to be able to use Pensieve?  Also, can a
> wizard alter his/her memories before reserving them in Pensieve?
> Bren
>

Actually, I think that the Pensieve wouldn't be reliable enough. It seems to
me of the family of magic to which Occlumency and Legilimency also belong.
Now we know that Voldemort was able to "fabricate" a memory and let somebody
else access it (or force it on somebody else) through a kind of
Legilimency/Occlumency over distance bond. So, I suspect, that it's actually
possible to feed fake and fabricated memories into the Pensieve as well.

By the way, to me that also means that it's possible the memories Harry saw
in Snape and in his pensieve weren't a hundred percent true either.

alina.