Is Dumbledore Swiping Harry's Memories?

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No: HPFGUIDX 97996

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...>
wrote:
> :: Entropy :: wrote:
> <snips>
> > Is it possible that Dumbledore made a point
> > of placing Harry's memories of that night into his pensieve while
> > Harry was unconscious, taking a look, and then put the memory back  
> Now Eustace_Scrubb:
<snip>  Two questions, though:  first, it doesn't seem that DD could
have kept  Harry's memories of Godric Hollow in the pensieve, for
Harry does in  fact have memories of his parents' deaths that
apparently began coming back into his consciousness during his early
years with the Dursleys
(the green flash that he assumed must have been the car crash), come a
 bit more to the surface after he gets his Hogwarts letter and Hagrid
 explains his background and by POA are brought fully into his mind by
the dementors.


Entropy again:

I thought about this, too.  Dumbledore might only have asked for
everything that happened leading up to Voldemort's AK curse (this
would be the most crucial information), so the green flash would be
where Harry's *remaining* memories actually begin.

As for the memories of his parents' deaths (particularly his mother's
screaming), I 'm not sure if Harry really hears this as a result of
his own memory, or as a result of something "generated" by the
dementors. I don't recall him actually remembering any screaming
before the dementors came along.

> The other question:  how many people know about the pensieve and
what  it does?  We know that Snape and Harry do, but did Harry tell
anyone?  Could Hagrid "collect" Harry's memories without the actual
pensieve  vessel?

And Entropy again:

I don't think Dumbledore has tried to keep the pensieve a secret.
Dumbledore keeps it among his various office "instruments", never
really hiding it.  I've always assumed that Harry, being raised as a
muggle would never have heard of pensieves, but someone like Arthur
and Molly Weasley probably would have.  And IIRC, the only thing
needed for the actual collection of  memories is a wand; the pensieve
is really a means of  storing and accessing these memories later on.

:: Entropy ::