Pensieve in Court & Magic Eye

[mnaper2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 102369

Alina:

> 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.

Ally:

Well, the impression I get is that the pensieve shows everything, 
even the things you may not conciously be aware of your memory 
recording.  So, if I walk into a room to get a book, I might be 
focused only on the book and remember only the book, but in fact, my 
senses would be taking in a lot more that I mentally discard b/c its 
not important to me at the time.  The pensieve allows you to see 
everything that happened, even the things you weren't aware you saw.  
Why would DD use it as a tool to gain better insights into events if 
it was an unreliable recording?  I think it brings your memories into 
clearer and more accurate focus. 

And remember, Sirius and Lupin admit that the Marauders were the 
aggressors in Snape's pensieve scene when Harry confronts them about 
it.  If I remember correctly, Sirius makes light of it, which kind of 
peeves Harry, but they basically explain that they were young and 
foolish.