Is Dumbledore Swiping Harry's Memories?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 98289

Entropy wrote:
> 
> 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.

Carol:
I think one other thing is needed, and badly--skill at legilmency or
occlumency. I'm not even sure that Dumbledore (or Voldemort) could
remove a memory from someone else's mind with a wand. We've only seen
Dumbledore and Snape do it to their own minds. I think you'd have to
be reading the person's mind (or rather, seeing a particular memory)
either using a spell or with the person's consent. 

The mind, as Snape tells us, is not a book to be opened up and read at
will. I think it would be extremely difficult to access a particular
memory in someone else's mind and even if you could do so, it would
take great skill to remove it and would be a very dangerous--and
invasive--procedure. I have a feeling that Dumbledore uses his skill
as a Legilmens as little as possible for that very reason.

I also don't think that the memories are stored in the Pensieve;
they're only put there to be studied and then put back in the owner's
head. They might even escape or evaporate if left around too long; and
Snape doesn't want his memories mixed with Dumbledore's or vice versa.

Carol, who doubts that we'll see Harry's own memories in the Pensieve