Snape's reporting methods

[mnaper2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 97633

Tanya Swaine <swaine.t at x> wrote:
> While I was reading GOF, yet again.  Something registered with me, 
for the
> first time about Snape's reporting methods.  First, here is the 
segment in
> the book
> 
<<snip GoF quote from pensieve chapter>>

> Right, reading this, it had me wondering.  I have heard often that 
Snape is
> likely to report regularly to Dumbledore, and as these are 
Dumbledore's
> personal memories.  I wonder if the fact that Snape is not looking 
at
> Dumbledore while talking, whether that actually helps him with
> occulumcy.  If he doesn't have a visual 
memory........................
> 
> Thoughts anyone?
> 
> Tanya
> h

Ally

I thought Snape was speaking to the ceiling because his face 
was "floating" in the surface of the pensieve like a reflection, not 
because he was looking up at it instead of at Dumbledore.  His voice 
is "echoing slightly" so it makes sense that his physical appearance 
might also be off-kilter, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the 
only time Harry sees everything in the pensieve as if he were there 
when he actually submerges his head in it?