Pensieve = Security Camera? / the prank

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 102818

Vivian <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> notice that Harry noticed that Lupin was looking strange, and he 
> wondered whether the full moon was approaching? I think that the 
> prank happened that night, after the OWL examinations.


8D I totally read it that way too!!!

I just know we are going to find that out in the next books as well.



"alice_loves_cats" <hypercolor99 at h...> wrote:
> 
> Alice:
> But this would mean that having a Pensieve would be like having 360
> vision and senses all the time - albeit only in retrospect. 
> Wouldn't people USE that a lot more? Just one idea: the examiner could 
> look into his Pensieve after the exam and check whether anybody had 
> been cheating, talking etc. 


This is a boon for the argument that the pensieve is not objective. 

Truly if it were so would the Wizard World use it for these things.

Perhaps the memories are only veiwed in the way Harry viewed them by 
an outsider and therefore uses like these are just not practicable 
for the penseives owner, and so saying perhaps a pensieves owner 
would not like some outsider prying into their own memories making 
it not practicable at all. 

The latter consideration to me implies, if it is so, that there is 
some subjective recollection contained in a penseive memory and 
maybe that is the reason why it is not ordinarily used in these ways.

Valky