[HPforGrownups] Re: What is with the "Prank" ?

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 99585

In a message dated 5/27/2004 7:30:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
phil_hp7 at yahoo.co.uk writes:

> 
> Mind you, it would appear that everyone within earshot would have
> known also, and Lupin's secret would there not have been any more.
> 
> As far as I can tell the number of people who knew Lupin's secret
> remained strictly minimal. This remark must have been too quiet to be
> generally overheard. So unless Snape was so much closer than anybody
> else to MWPP at this point that only he overheard (unlikely :-), the
> Pensieve must have interjected this into the "recovered memory".
> 
> It would appear therefore that the Pensieve *does* "boost reception".
> 
> However it does mean that this sequence can *not* be used as evidence
> that Snape pre-knew.
> 
> I think :-)
> -- 
> Phil
> 
I wasn't actually thinking about Snape overhearing them then, or that you 
have to hear and see things to put them in the pensieve.  Harry sees Sirius and 
James's expressions while Snape's attention is focused on his essay.

I was merely putting forward the point that MWPP talk about Lupin's 
lycanthropy *openly*  which in any case is a very dangerous thing to do.

Amber


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